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No better reason to root
against BYUSTRANGE days, indeed:
» Please forgive me.
Yes, it's true that I wrote "This BYU team is just too darn lovable."
I don't know quite how that happened.
I don't know what got into me.
At the very least, heavy sedation must have been involved.
BYU? Lovable?
But I'm better now. The old feelings started returning later, after I'd filed my story from Thursday night's NCAA men's volleyball final four, in the third game of that BYU-Lewis match. It was strange. I had started out having been won over by their charm as individuals, but then, just watching those guys out there in blue and white, I could feel the waves of acrimony washing over me.
It was, as I think a country song once said, bad in a real good way.
A lady in the corner stood and held up a small green hand towel with the old rainbow on it. It read: BEAT BYU!
The old spirit was still alive.
But then, BYU won.
And here it is, ladies and gentlemen: The Cougars stand poised to win a national championship on Hawaii's home floor.
If that isn't enough to get you out to the NCAA final tonight I don't know what would.
BYU is in town.
You know what to do.
» Dear sports columnist:
(Re: UTEP leaving the WAC)
"Backup plan?
"Hire an Iraqi general.
"At this point, our only options are 1) stay the course and 2) none."
COMMENT: Those seem to be the same thing.
» Dear sports columnist:
"Do you really believe that UH football fans' happiest dream is to have high draft picks from UH rather than a WAC championship or a bowl win?"
COMMENT: Sometimes.
» I liked Dave Reardon's Sunday piece about UH football players and coaches watching film (or, as Dave wrote, more accurately, "tape").
I liked even more the picture of June Jones in his video library, because it shows there is somebody out there who has as many videos as my wife.
(Though it's unlikely his collection can be broken down into "Julia Roberts," "Sandra Bullock" and "Jasmine Trias on American Idol.")
» Strange story: It seems that former Islanders play-by-play voice and local radio and TV guy Ken Wilson was fired as broadcaster for the NHL's St. Louis Blues this week and immediately announced that he's probably headed back to Hawaii ... where he may run for governor.
"I'd like to be governor, I really would," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I know that will be very, very difficult to attain. But you have to have goals. If you don't, why bother?"
It was a bizarre read, including the tidbit that Wilson may have applied for the UH athletic-director job when it was open a few years ago. But it appears he's set on politics now, which means, "I need a personality changeover," he told the Post-Dispatch. "I've got to lie, stretch the truth and tell people I believe things that aren't true to be in politics, right?"
I would go for a slogan that would fit on a bumper sticker.
He was joking. I think.
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Kalani Simpson can be reached at ksimpson@starbulletin.com