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Linkronicity
Linkronicity
Published by Swampy Meadows
07-14-2015
Linkronicity

BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- The term "Synchronicity" wasn't just the title of the 1983 smash album by The Police. It is an actual word that means "the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection." The term "Linkronicity" is not a real word, but it means the exact same thing, except, you know...with links.

-- Who doesn't like Flyer highlight reels? Answer: nobody!

Dyshawn Pierre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAuXvUno78I

Darrell Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFNX-_weTOc

Kyle Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk0k07u7cd8

Dayton's favorite A-10 moments: http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticl...CLID=210211605

-- Former Flyer Jim Paxson talks about how winning matters when drafting college kids into the NBA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma2n...ature=youtu.be

-- UD recently announced a new partnership with APM Music to provide digital music for various athletic contests:

http://www.daytonflyers.com/news/201...710151032.aspx

-- The first of many early season NCAA Men's Hoops predictions has UD as a #7 seed in The Big Dance next March:

http://basketballpredictions.blogspot.com/

-- If these new rules enacted by the SEC regarding crowds running onto the floor are enacted nationwide, the website RushtheCourt.net will have to change its name to SitonYourButt.com:

http://www.gamecocksonline.com/genrel/070215aab.html

-- Rivals.com released their latest ratings for the next two classes of hoop prospects:

Class of 2016:

https://rivals.yahoo.com/basketballr...rank-3375/2016

Class of 2017:

https://rivals.yahoo.com/basketballr...rank-3574/2017

-- I can't decide if Ken Pomeroy is blowing large volumes of smoke up our collective tailpipes by attempting to quantify "Free Throw Defense" or if he is actually serious. You tell me:

http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/web...row_percentage

-- I was wearing my Flyer garb when I was hooping at the Birmingham YMCA last week. Went to get a drink and a young man stopped me and asked if I went to UD. When I answered in the affirmative he said "So did I." Turns out it was former Flyer footballer Robert Washington:

http://www.daytonflyers.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=114

-- A couple of articles on the stipends that will now be paid to scholarship college athletes to help them defray living expenses.

The DDN details how the local schools will handle them:

http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/new...3964926.735785

The Washington Post looks at it from a national POV:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/s...t-to-spend-on/

-- Andy Kennedy goes full Rob Lowe in a humorous attempt to sell Old Miss basketball tickets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMDq8dyuYA

-- If you have wondered what the heck the "Triangle Offense" that Phil Jackson's teams always ran is all about, here is a primer on it, courtesy of The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/sp...-nba.html?_r=0

-- The Wall Street Journal looks at how ESPN has had to tighten the old belt buckle due to competition from a variety of fronts:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/espn-tig...nts-1436485852

-- Speaking of the World Wide Leader, Dana O'Neil takes a look at the life of a college basketball student manager:

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...tudent-manager

-- Sit back, relax and enjoy all 3:42 of the Star Wars Comic Con video courtesy of Director J.J. Abrams:

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/sdcc-star-wars-bts-video/

-- From the "Things you didn't know until the emergence of digital radio department" we have this item:

The 1969 Guess Who hit song "(She's Come) Undone" is actually spelled "Undun." Who knew?

-- The coolest video tour of the Great Barrier Reef courtesy of a sea turtle with a GoPro attached to it that you will see all day:

http://www.wimp.com/turtle-reef/

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
You can email me at: swampy@udpride.com
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