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No. Speaking of which, why don't you just come to Humphrey's before the next game and tell me this to my face. Hiding behind the veil of an internet Web message board is pretty sad.

Three words to sum that up: Nice work, Brad.

I interned under this guy from Aug. 06- Jan. 07 and he is absolutely hilarious. Was featured in the RFT a few months back. He'd appreciate any and all questions from our fellow mustached Billikens. http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=24479 It's going on at 11 am CST.

That was Soderberg's M.O. the entire time he was here. He took Kenny Roger's "the Gambler" to heart and folded every time the big boys came to the table.

e-bone thugs-and harmony actually. but close!

What about Randy Pulley?

I love sarcasm and clean linens.

I'd buy you a round if you weren't such a d***.

I'll be at Iggy's hopefully watching the Bradley-ISU game tonight if anyone wants to join me. Good times and great MVC action to be had by all.

And then that was stolen by the Yankees when Mariano enters in the 9th!!!!!! Damn Yanks.

Boy, if you can't get more than 4 pts against the mighty Hawks...

By JOHN SUPINIE of GateHouse News Service Posted Dec 22, 2008 @ 09:03 PM CHAMPAIGN — Trent Meacham and Theresa Lisch, a pair of college basketball guards, spent their first date in — where else — a gymnasium. They shot baskets, played one on one and talked for three hours. Meacham, an Illinois senior, admitted he might have lost the first game of Horse to Lisch. The Saint Louis University junior leads her team in scoring (17.6 points per game) and was third-team all-Atlantic 10 Conference last season. A daughter of former NFL and Notre Dame quarterback Rusty Lisch, Theresa Lisch was Illinois' Miss Basketball as a Belleville Althoff senior. But this was a match made in heaven, not at the 3-point line. Meacham and Lisch share a strong religious faith that plays a key role in their behavior off the court. After meeting a year ago, Meacham popped the question in September. Lisch only takes off her engagement ring for safekeeping before she steps onto the court. 'Basketball is a bond that we have and a big part of our lives,'' Meacham said. 'It's important to us, and we've grown up playing. It's not why we love each other.'' When Illinois meets Missouri in the Braggin' Rights game tonight at Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Lisch will get a rare opportunity to watch her fiance play for his team. The only time she saw him play last season came during Illinois' run in the Big Ten tournament. Meacham sat in the stands for one of Lisch's games for the first time last week during the Illini's semester break. Lisch will return to St. Louis today following her team's two-game road trip to Wyoming and Colorado. The star of a struggling program was A-10 player of the week earlier this season after she had 32 points, eight rebounds and eight assists against Morehead State. 'Take those numbers, divide by two and I'd be happy,'' Meacham said. They met after Meacham shared the backcourt during an Athletes in Action tour through France in the summer of 2007 with Lisch's older brother, Kevin, a Saint Louis guard and former Illinois recruit. Instead of proposing on a basketball court — 'I thought about that,'' Meacham said — he got on one knee on the Illinois quadrangle, at the Eternal Flame. In a sport that creates so much notoriety, it's rare for a college basketball player to be engaged or married. Meacham will have three more classes after the spring semester to finish a master's degree in human resource management. Lisch will graduate in speech pathology after the spring semester. Meacham would like to play pro basketball anywhere in the world. Their plans aren't set beyond that, and they haven't set a wedding date. 'I wouldn't say it was love at first sight, but it didn't take me long,'' Meacham said. 'I told my mom last Christmas that I was going to marry this girl. She said, ‘I know.' 'We have a lot of questions of where we'll be or what we'll do, but the biggest thing for me is that I know who will I spend it with. I'm pretty young to figure that out. I feel really blessed.'' A long-distance relationship isn't ideal, but the couple's faith makes things easier. 'I want somebody who can help me spiritually,'' Lisch said. 'If you both have that solid Christian foundation of faith, it makes it a lot easier when tough times come up.'' Meacham must love Lisch, considering he's worn a Saint Louis women's basketball T-shirt to the Ubben Basketball Complex court. For now, the couple makes the most of living apart. Lisch and Meacham burn minutes on the cell phone and see a game every now and then. 'We realize that's how it is right now,'' Lisch said. 'We're both doing things we love in playing college basketball. We make the most of it.''

Somebody is a Georgia Tech fan...

I don't think people have a hardon for Notre Dame, but "Rudy" gives me a chub.

Better than playing them in Ft. Wayne in a "neutral green-clad site" game, ala the NIT in 2004. I know how everyone loved Josh Fischer for what he did to D-Wade in college, but ND's Chris Thomas had the game of his life against us.

I too can echo Pistol's sentiments. After the epic Boston College win, a win that should be savored by the BillikeNation, hundreds of fans joined a Sea of Blue from 1 South Compton to Humphrey's to partake in an epic celebration of legendary proportions. For the next hour, Billiken fans old and young raised their glasses to what little tradition we have --- then it came crashing down upon us like the Hindenburg -- the mural. Yes, the so-called "Billiken Traditions" mural located on the eastern facing side of Humphrey's, a mural that people waited 20 minutes outside in the cold to see fell tragically short of expectations. The poor band, the poor athletic director and the poor Mangelsdorf family stood outside while some doofus proclaimed that Humphrey's is a great tradition (and probably our only one at SLU), as well as joining in the Relay-For-Life, something that is done from every corner of America from Wasilia, AK to the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Relay-For-Life is not a SLU tradition, sorry Blue Crew. This was the most epic of epic failures in recent history. This was the 2004 Yankees times 100; this was a punch in the face more violent than Kermit Washington on Rudy Tomjanovich; this was a failure larger than a copy editor proclaiming Dewey would be our next president. It is now an eyesore of a campus. If college pranks are alive and well, I hope that the frat boys of SLU make it a point to remove the Billiken Tradition mural and make it the epicenter of our very own Burning Man event. Blue Crew needs to go.

That is neat!!! I'd love to see a book published of all the old views of campus.

Wow. It is kind of a shame it seems that the Holy Cross Cemetery is being lost in the shadows of all the construction on the SE side of campus where the Bookstore/adidas shrine is, plus I think IU-SB has a medical building across the street on Juniper. Is that where your relatives are buried, Bonwich?

Well, how many Catholics do you know who sat around the TV on Saturday as a kid to watch SLU basketball? I rest my case. I have two cousins who attended Notre Dame, so I have been on campus and absorbed a lot of the traditions and jargon that is synonymous with such a great institution. Jealousy is a stinky cologne, so be fortunate to be affiliated with SLU, an institution that is proud in her own right.

Harangody is an absolute beast. I remember watching him in an open practice before the ND-UNC football game in 2006 and he looked really raw as a freshman, so to the no-tie wearing Mike Brey, hats off to you and your staff. Besides having one of the best coaches in the country, ND also has some of the cream of the strength and conditioning crop tending to the student-athletes of Our Lady's University. I think Luke is heading to the NBA after this year.

Interesting blog; I do not claim ownership! If anyone has set up Google Alerts to get any SLU news, you would have seen this.

From a Sporting News blog back in July... Chicago & KC to host SLU, Notre Dame Filed under: MikeBrey NotreDame RickMajerus SLU SaintLouis Sporting News - Email this blog E-MAIL Sporting News - Print this article PRINT COMMENTS Sporting News - User Comments Jul 24, 2008 11:31 AM | [report abuse] Expect a Chicago/Kansas City neutral-site slate for the Notre Dame series St. Louis – A source within the Saint Louis athletic dept. told me that when Notre Dame and Saint Louis come to the table on a basketball series for the 2010-2011 season, game sites would alternate from Chicago to Kansas City annually. The first year’s game will be played at the United Center in Chicago, which would attract current students and alums from both institutions, presumably more for Notre Dame, since South Bend is but a 90 minute drive from the city. Saint Louis draws heavily from the Chicagoland/central Illinois area, and will hopefully hold their own against the rabid fans of the Fightin’ Irish. Hopefully this will be a terrific series and will intensify the academic and athletic rivalry between the Holy Cross school and Saint Louis, the second oldest Catholic and Jesuit school (behind Georgetown) in the country. Saint Louis coach Rick Majerus and former Irish coach Digger Phelps are good friends and according to sources within the Saint Louis athletic department, Phelps even offered up the idea of the Irish opening Chaifetz Arena in November. Saint Louis officials countered the Chicago offer with the next year’s game to be played at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, which according to sources, is a done deal, with both schools having a large alumni presence in the City of Fountains. ------------------------------------------------------------- the site of the games may be wrong, but someone knew about this months ago! Well done, Carmen San Diego.

Blue Crew, Due to some misunderstanding between the President and the Athletic Department there will be NO extra tickets for winter break games available. We apologize for any inconvience [sic] this may have caused but we hope to see some of you at the games over break anyway. Finally due to so many people being busy this time of year attendance points for the women basketball games will not be counted toward end of the year points. We hope that you all have an enjoyable break and we will see you at the next game. Your Exec Board If there are any questions please email [email protected]. I'm sure it went down like this yesterday: BCPrez: Hey, Athletic Dept. guy, we need a bunch of extra tickets for people over Christmas. ADGuy: No. BCPrez: Oh, ok. Better send out an e-mail. ADGuy: You do that.

Do you think Ian is over there protesting? The Greek God of Bricks.

Are people just realizing this now? Where have you been? This site and Sporting News and other interWeb sites have way better SLU hoops coverage than the P-D. The only way the P-D could be any better would be to deliver it in the form of a urinal cake so we could read it while taking a piss and on the crapper.