TBT The Basketball Tournament
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@rockchalkjayhawk Thanks! We were busy finalizing the contract to sell our house (closes Aug 17, then Vegas, baby!!!). Had no idea game was on!
(Yes, Vegas...just to live closer to our 2 kids who live in Hawaii. Won't be clubbing...)
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So I had read early in the announcement for the TBT that Lagerald Vick was one of the first ones to be announced! How they came back from being down 16 was a trip down memory lane, thinking of BIFM and D'tae and Svi. #RCJH There's a couple of players we had to look up. Didn't remember them ever being on a team.
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@mayjay said in TBT The Basketball Tournament:
@rockchalkjayhawk Thanks! We were busy finalizing the contract to sell our house (closes Aug 17, then Vegas, baby!!!). Had no idea game was on!
(Yes, Vegas...just to live closer to our 2 kids who live in Hawaii. Won't be clubbing...)
Vegas! I guess that means the party and spare beds are available at the @mayjay household come November and the Players Era 8 tourney!
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JHX team wins 62 - 55!!! BIFM
made the winning shot for the second game in a row. The target was 61. Zeke had 25. RCJH#RCJH GO KU
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Ha, i was just looking at the boxscore ... always happy for a win, and to see former Jayhawks do well!
But how is it possible for the 6-foot-10 Billy Preston to be 1 for 14 shooting??? crazy. I imagine the margin would have been better if he had an average shooting night.
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 Wowsers ya crazy that we won without Billy doing much but Zeke also had that huge game. I remember Zeke being that way the one year he was here would look like a stud for a game them disappear for 6 or 7 games. Great for him he’s a really good kid, a friend of friend of mine knows his family very well. I’m personally shocked we won this series. I thought when they added Beasley they’d get us but he seemed it be more concerned with putting on a show than winning.
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@rockchalkjayhawk said in TBT The Basketball Tournament:
Vegas! I guess that means the party and spare beds are available at the @mayjay household come November and the Players Era 8 tourney!
You might be surprised how many people whose houses we have never been invited to have told us they'll come see us when they go to LV for something! Fortunately, we will be living near Red Rock Canyon pretty far west of the arenas. Maybe we will just happen to be camping...
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@mayjay said in TBT The Basketball Tournament:
@rockchalkjayhawk said in TBT The Basketball Tournament:
Vegas! I guess that means the party and spare beds are available at the @mayjay household come November and the Players Era 8 tourney!
You might be surprised how many people whose houses we have never been invited to have told us they'll come see us when they go to LV for something! Fortunately, we will be living near Red Rock Canyon pretty far west of the arenas. Maybe we will just happen to be camping...
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@mayjay I’ve never been to Vegas not sure from what I’ve heard of I’d ever like to go. I’d probably enjoy camping with y’all more than the city lol.
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Been to Vegas several times, once with Mike on our way to Palm Springs to hang out with my older brother. Went to Tahoe with my other brother and we saw BB King under the influence of a powdery substance and hit the casinos. Flew into Tahoe from Salt Lake after seeing an old friend of my brothers', who was an international student from Tehran. They met in high school. Zia was the son of an elite class in Iran and his family owned a shipping company. His parents fled to Switzerland in 1973 and he and his sister came here as students. He became part of the family, joining dinners, birthdays, holidays, and always was an intriguing figure because of our cultural difference. Had the body of an Andy Reid. We learned alot about his culture. I still have a gold coin he game me pre IRG and a couple of old stone marbles. Imagine a family table with parents, 7 kids, and he just always was there. When he starged classes at KU, we were surrounded by the Iranian students in Lawrence, doing to the Eldridge, drinking champagne, and no shortage of funds for anything they wanted. It was a growing community there in Lawrence. Zia took a job in Salt Lake and then moved to Los Angeles, and when I graduated high school, I and my littlest sister flew to LA to see Zia (and her first flight), and he dropped us off at Disneyland, then we flew to Palm Springs to see my older brother, who by then had done well with his hot tar roofing company (yes he worked 6 months doing roofs in Palm Springs), apply named JAYHAWK ROOFING. His motto was, Here For A Reason. Not Just A Season. I have one of his cards. He bartendered at a bar during the other 6 months. Something called ............Parrot. He had bought a house and had a pool. He gave me a pink matchbook with Gerald R. Ford inscribed on it. He was the one who turned me onto Bob Marley. He traveled with a friend extensively to Bogata prior to moving in with me in Leavenworth in 1977 for a year before he went off to Palm Springs. I still have his antique bedroom suite he was so proud of and didn't want to risk it being shipped. I lost him when he returned home from work and entered the back sliding door and when he opened the door, the air ignited the flames that were inside the walls, and he was found at the front door, died from smoke inhalation. That happend in 1981. Just 30 years old.
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@kjayhawks2.0 Vegas is a good base for a lot of national parks in the region like Zion, Bryce Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Mojave, Joshua Tree, etc.
