Basketball Push Begins

The second half of the high school basketball season takes off starting tonight.

The Gryphons have two big games in the next twenty four hours.

Tonight a trip to Fike and they follow that up with a Pinetops ride Saturday Night.

We will know a lot about the direction of the conference standing by midnight Saturday Night.

The next home game is set for Tuesday when Nash Central comes calling.

Yours truly will be working the PA for the Nash Central games as Wayne Wallace has a PA night at NC Wesleyan that night. This is the only conflict the entire season of NCW and a Gryphon home basketball game.

The conference swim meet is today at 4pm at Harrison Family YMCA.

Next Thursday night is the football banquet. It is being held separate this year from the other fall sports due to the fact the fall sports awards night was the Tueday before the Eastern Final football game.

The conference has a rule that they will not vote on any sports awards like all conference until after all teams have finished their seasons. Sounds to me like a good rule maybe the NFL needs to follow. Since the Gryphon football team was still playing when the fall sports awards were scheduled the football team needed to have their awards night.


Is it just me:


Has anybody noticed that Wake Forest basketball player Al-Faroud Aminu looks like Former Greensboro basketball player and Kansas player Danny Manning. I know Deacon fans hope they he can win the Deacs a National Championship like Manning did at KU.

There is still hope for the Deacs. I heard the other night that the last six years that the last undefeated team in the NCAA had all at least made it to the National Championship game. After the Wake loss there is no undefeated college basketball teams.

The Super bowl has a lot of potential to be one of the greatest games ever or one of the most lopsided ones.

During the regular season the super bowl teams played five like opponents with Pittsburgh winning three while Arizona was 1-4.

JJ Arrington right now is a question mark whether he will be ready to play by Super Bowl Sunday. Arrington hurt his knee is Sunday's win over Philadelphia. Yesterday was the first practice for Arizona for the Super Bowl and Arrington did not practice.

North Carolina women's basketball team was suffering a hang over from their thrashing that they received Monday night from U Conn. Last night in a conference game at Georgia Tech they suffered their second straight loss.

Basketball is a sport where in college you play at least twice a week. Whenever you get on a roll and finally lose a game, the Carolina Women had won 16 straight until the U Conn loss,
sometimes you lose a couple of games before you get back on track.

Hope to see you at th YMCA at the swim meet!