Now that the site has evolved from All Baseball All the Time to multi-sports, I'm looking for my Huskies basketball fix... and, not seeing it here. C'mon, people! All these column inches devoted to a Women's team that plays for a few weeks in Spring and Summer; How 'bout some lurv for the most exciting, highest-potential sports team in the city, the seven freshmen who withstood a tremendous onslaught from Bryce Alford and co to defeat the vaunted (perhaps slightly less-vaunted than back in my day, but still "vaunted") UCLA Bruins, in 2x-overtime, 96-93? How 'bout the deliciously-named Andrew Andrews, leader of the newest "brat pack", who poured in 35 points last night while encouraging his fellow guards to avoid foul trouble and the serial disqualifications experienced by all the front-line players? How 'bout a team that wins against national-caliber competition (Texas, UCLA) and competes against the likes of Gonzaga while playing four (or even five) guards for long stretches? Not to mention that those guards all come from Western Washington- pretty much all from in and around Seattle- except for one who grew up just across the river in NW Oregon? (The big men, by contrast, come from all over the world- California, Florida, Africa, and- next year, believe it or not- New Zealand!)
If we can have a section of the SSI site devoted to "Basketball"- then, surely we can devote an article or two to the "best follow" in town, these days- the new Cardiac Kids, playing at Hec Ed/AAA/UofW, to not-nearly-full-enough houses! Go check 'em out- tomorrow (Sunday) they're playing the hated Trojans of USC, at home and then, come back to the site and write about them!