Andre Riddick was playing in Belgium as recent as 2011.
Good little (and recent) read on the Rejecter, including his thoughts on the UNC game:
http://www.aseaofblue.com/2016/7/6/12104718/andre-riddick-father-legend-friend
* Dunk. Kick legs out. Spin off rim. Block shots. Shoot sub-40% from the FT line. Worship. Favorite player ever. Thanks for pushing the BKH alarm.
* CMD's idea was cool. Who's bailing Tony Harris out of prison for it?
* Hope there's some jabroni in New Jersey who got "DUKE UNDEFEATED 40-0 NATIONAL CHAMPS" tattooed on his leg. Have fun bearing that cross with no point guard.
* As a lifelong Chicago baseball fan, I am happy to say that the White Sox won it last and this is the 99th year of the White Sox having won it last. That's little brother as all get out, yes. It is also true. And I can't wait for it to still be true a month for now.
* Have you ever been to hell? Have you ever designated driven a group of unruly drunk co-workers home from a wedding while they sing "Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthews Band at the top of their lungs? The answers to these questions are identical.
* Question for the college basketballs out there: Is this the worst potential SEC year you can remember? Because it is for me. Kentucky will be just fine. As a matter of fact,
they better hurry up and beat us. But I've looked at what every other team in the league has coming back and they all seem either a year away (Auburn) or just outright awful (most of them).
* I consult the funniest group of people I know for some creative advice I need on two fronts.
1: Centre is going to try to put on a College Gameday show on Nov. 12 for our last home game. The opponent is Berry. They're in Georgia, they're nicknamed the Vikings, they're pretty good at football and I would love some sign ideas. The best ones I've got thus far are "OBLIGATORY HARAMBE REFERENCE" and "BERRY COLLEGE MORE LIKE BARELY COLLEGE LOL". This isn't really my thing.
2: My first basketball color commentary webcast is on Nov. 15 (at 7 PM, damn you, Division III scheduling and not putting Kentucky/Michigan State on 2nd in the Champions Classic!). I'm open to trying out catchphrases. Just to give you an idea of what I'm working with, in 6 years on the job working with the Centre basketball team, I've seen 6 losses and 8 dunks.
* Anybody else have to miss work because you can't get to your office after they shut down the elevator in your building to lay down new carpet due to somebody peeing on the old carpet? Just me? K.
* The Minnesota Vikings are better than I deserve them to be. Shew. There's the football take.
* Randomly awesome fast food item: The Arby's salted caramel chocolate chip cookie. You'd never see that coming.
* Slice: You're doing what I wanted to do at that age and never really did, so I waited until I turned 30 to enter the broadcast journalism field. You keep doing your thing, bud.
* At the end of the day, if you have great guards and a competent frontcourt, you can win it all. With that in mind, I like my team. Let's go win the national championship.