Earl Watson sighting
 

Earl is working the MSU/Purdue quaterfinal with Valentine and Steretore.

Channel?

Big10 Channel. He just made a call against Purdue and coach is looking to Valentine for an explanation.

Is that channel streamed to Canada anywhere?

Yes - but you have to have a metric conversion television. ;)

I've got one. It's next to my left-handed hammer!

Don't you mean "hammour"? :p

I was 90% of the way to convincing myself to include a u somewhere. lol

Spoken with the right accent, hammour can sound French, which is an official language on Canada, you know.

OASN, I read somewhere that Steratore will go far in the tourney this year. :D

Considering a Big East outcast is working a Big Ten quarter, I was wondering what would you say are the "conference prestige rankings" for officials to work? [Yes, yes, working is prestige enough.]

Big East
SEC
ACC
Big 12
Big 10
Pac 10
A10
Mountain West
C-USA

I thought they did a poor job tonight, They could not get on the same page

I knew it would come to this. They have gone to 4 officials
Officials:
Ted Valentine, Gene Steratore, Earl Walton, Earl Watson

I prefer the Triangle and One when doing 4 men, other opinions?

Four corners.

Playground Ball ???
 

Four square.

Not the right way to look at it, IMO.

Doesn't really have anything to do with it. For all we know, he was already scheduled to work the Big Ten Tournament.

Tim Clougherty worked DePaul-UConn on Tuesday and Marquette-WVU on Wednesday in NYC and then, PSU-Wisconsin on Friday in Indy.

It's not unusual for officials to work more than one conference tournament.

French and Eskimo?

And whatinthehell did you do here to get yourself put in the corner? I see you're in "time out". Did those pictures of you and the polar bear get out? :D

When did Earl Watson start officiating? :confused:

Statsheet.com has him listed as Carl Walton. Wonder if he had the scorer change his name after the game? :rolleyes:

My bad. Earl Walton is working the Ivy League Championship on ESPN3.com

As part of being re-instated, I'm not allowed to talk about the polar bear incident any longer.

That's what I heard.

Are you sure that isn't Rut?

Likely my fault, and I apologize. I was busy deleting lots of spam, and you probably got caught in the cross-fire. Did you respond to any spam posts?

No worries. I did respond, yes. It's my fault!

So if that happened to anyone else, email me at jenkins robert L at att dot net and I'll work to reinstate.

Then, don't respond to those posts anymore.

Next time you do it to BillyMac, can we have a poll before you reinstate him? :)

I Thought You Hated Polls ???
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH-B6A04iK0

"I'm Back Baby!" Sound Clip and Quote

And He Believed Me ...
 

Many years ago, while coaching Little League, I told a kid that he would be a better hitter if he would use a right handed bat instead of a left handed bat.

Yep, they won't let him on an IVY campus! :D