I've been working a lot recently, including late on Friday (yes, I spent my St. Patrick's night writing and uploading documents for a conference). I took the opportunity to sleep in Saturday until 2:30, much later than I've slept in years. And then I promptly got back to work while listening to the NCAA tournament (in a related story, Carl Krauser is dead to me). And so it is only now that I'm seeing this.
Posted by Roy at March 19, 2006 04:59 PMI was buying liquor at the grocery store, so the guy asked for my ID...he saw it was Maryland, I told him that's where I went to school, and he was like, "Yeah, bro, I'm from Hawaii, we always root for Maryland."
I'm like, "really? why?"
The other Safeway guy goes, "You guys are like known for good basketball, holmes"
And I went, "well, we used to be."
That shut them down. Their shoulders slumped and their smiles faded. It was like they found out Santa Claus was fake. So, for some reason, a large, underinformed part of Hawaii believes UMD is the great basketball powerhouse we wish it were. They don't get NIT coverage there.
Posted by: Chris at March 19, 2006 05:27 PM