Dribblings 11/15/2004 (Backscratching Edition)

This site has been open for business no more than six days, and it is already being lit up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Most gratifying, however, are the wonderful things that others are saying about The Mid-Majority elsewhere in the b-ball blogosphere. I am touched and slightly overcome by the kind responses, and I'd like to take this opportunity to begin returning serve.

College Basketball Blog (shout), the undisputed original and still champeen, has been my 1 bookmark for almost a year now (the RSS feed is excellent for phone-based hoops fixes, too). It's updated more often than the wire services, and is spiced with informed opinion and hilarious commentary that's highly preferable to what the teevee suits are bringing. And If anyone is going to crack the mystery of Jay Bilas' film career, it's Yoni.

Big Ten Wonk, a/k/a John Gasaway (shout), is a new blog dedicated to covering the Mid-Majority's favorite power conference - and does so with impeccable paragraph turns, a kindly conversational tone, and excellent use of Person Three. He's simply the greatest thing to hit the Minneapolis sports blogging scene since Batgirl.

And there's Hoops Junkie (shout). This is a blog I only discovered last spring, but it has already provided me an invaluable service - the in-depth coverage provided therein allowed me to follow the 2004 NBA playoffs without actually having to watch them. Mid-Major Monday helped provide the spark in my mind that blogging about small colleges was a realistic pursuit, and signaled that I will have to defer to H.J.'s knowledge on a regular basis. Make sure you check out the red state/blue state preview.

(Please note that I am as inefficient with e-mail responses as I am with properly Swiffering my apartment. My excuse is that I try to do the right thing, and offer proper and careful responses to all.)

The 100 Games Project This Week (tentative):
Tue 11/16: Quinnipiac at Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Thu 11/18: Coaches vs. Cancer semifinal doubleheader (New York, NY)
Fri 11/19: Auburn at Temple (Philadelphia, PA)

Sports Illustrated lists their ten most "rootable" teams and are nice enough to include some actual mid-majors: Vermont and Coppin State.

The Salt Lake Tribune opines about the final Big West season for Utah State.

Kimberly Renee Craft, a star point guard for the Division III Curry College women's team, was killed in a drunk driving accident Sunday morning. The drunk driver was her boyfriend. Horrible.

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