SPORT SHORTS

Travelling the Court

ADAM HUSSEIN
SPORTS COLUMNIST

The NFL scason has come to an

end, and as I promised, a little too long.

ago, it is time for some basketball.

Before I get this going I have to
admit that I have not really been much
of a basketball fan for the last four or
five years. The last time I really cared
about the NBA I was in grade cight,
and Kobe Bryant was still quite lik-
able,. not to mention women loved
him. Now most women would like to
be near him about as much as a young
kid would want to be alone with
Michael Jackson.

“Minnesota is especially
strange, how you can
possibly go from first to
possibly missing the
playoffs without losing
any“of your main play-
ers is beyond me. Only
the sudden rise of -
Ashlee Simpson has me
more perplexed...”

Lets be honest here, the years of the
Lakers dynasty werc slightly dull.
Now we have an influx of absolutely
great players beginning their carecrs.
From Lebron James to Dwyanc Wade
and Carmelo Anthony, the NBA is on
the verge of resurgence.

Now I know plenty of people who
have been basketball fans throughout
the Lakers dynasty, but in general the
NBA was suffering. Shaq and Kobe
was just not the same as Jordan’s Bulls.

My personal NBA comeback story
started last season. For a couple of
years I kept track of basketball with no
real team to follow. Then Carmelo
Anthony stepped onto the scence.

Iam now a Denver Nuggets fan. It
is rather troublesome that I am cheer-
ing for a team called the Nuggcts, and
that cach time I-wear my only NBA
jerscy I hear McDonalds jokes, but we
just have to lcarn to live with certain
things. I mean, sure he should have
been dratted by Detroit and my
favorite team would be NBA champi-

ons right now, and I would have a
much better jersey, but I am moving
on.

Coming back to basketball is excit-
ing, but there are certain things that I
necd to get uscd to.

Firstly, I have to get used to teams
like Chicago and Washington no
longer being the Fredo Corleones of
the NBA and actually being
respectable. I still look at a schedule
and assume whocver is playing
Washington will win that game, but
that is no longer the case.

Secondly, even people who have
stuck with the NBA have to get used to
the Lakers now paying for their three-
peat. I mean, there is no possible way
for a team to sclf-destruct any. faster.
Shaq and Phil are gonc, and the
Jackson replacement, Rudy-T, lasted
about half a season. If this had hap-
pened to the post-dynasty Yankces
than you would be more likely to find
me in an insane asylum than a univer-
sity right now.

Now how about those Denver
Nuggets? They are onc of a few teams
that have talent, but are inexplicably
doing terrible. Minnesota is also onc
of those teams. Minnesota is especial-
ly strange, how you can possibly go
from first to possibly missing the play-
offs without losing any of your main
players is beyond me. Only the sudden
rise of Ashlec Simpson has me more
perplexed.

The problem with Denver has
been inexplicable inconsistency. They
have had a complete linc up for a
game about as often as my friend, who
refuses to be named, actually sends me
a good song, and I cannot even begin
to explain how infrequently that hap-
pens.

Carmelo Anthony has been
injured. (I am worried that hc may be
developing a Vince Carter type carccr:
the bad side of that carecr.) Camby

“has said he would like to go back to the

Knicks (which is one of the most frus-
trating things a player can say in the
middle of a scason) and suspensions
have hurt them as well.

With the hiring of George Karl, I
have high hopes for the rest of the sca-
son. The playoffs may be tough for
them to make in the Western
Conference, but if they can get in,
whomever they play could be in for
the toughest first round series of this
years playoffs.

THOMPSON

BC’s New University in Kamloops

www.tru.ca

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FEBRUARY 23, 2005

PHOTO BY CAROLINNE BURKHOLDER
Justin Earl Hooper skis in for a great finish at the Prince George Iceman held on February 11.
Many UNBC students and professors participated in the event, which is held annually.

News from the Planet of Gimple

Br TILER CLARKE
SPORTS AND CLUBS EDITOR

Attention members of the Gimpic
Club, we have finally maintained a
steady contact with our home planct
of Gimple!

After months of toiling away in his
garage, our cxulted leader, The Great
Onc, had constructed a radio send-
ing/recciving device that has provid-
cd us a constant means of communi-
cation between our two races for the
past week. As such, we have learned
a great deal about their whereabouts
and culture. They reside on an carth-

like moon off of Saturn. Scicntists
have been unable to locate or study
this particular moon because of a
clocking device the Gimpinians had
installed millennia ago.

and happiness where everyone is
acecpted and treasured. They refused
to state more, as we would not even
become close to comprehending the
undying happiness they experience
every day of their lives. Instead, they
have invited @velve humans up to
their home planct.

Their race is that of eternal peace

In order to do this. The Great One

theater
interested.

must construct a space travel device
to the specifications the Gimpinians
have given him.
cheap: so all those interested in an
eternity of happiness must pledge
$10,000 a bead. There is to be a
meccting at midnight in the Canfor
on March

This does not come

17th for those

By the way, for those of you insane
cnough to believe this article, it was. a
joke. It sure clid a nice job of filling
up space, though!

IW your club has any news, please
and it to over-the-edge@unbe-ca.

Christians vs. Environmentalists: Death of Religion?

By THER CLARKE
SPORTS AND CLUBS EDITOR

Are you like many and interested
in the correlation and contradictions
between the science world and the
religious world?

Perhaps the lecture, entitled “The
Death of Religion: Greatly
Exaggerated Reports trom the

RIVERS @@ UNIVERSITY

4

Science/Religion Wars.” could help
answer some of your questions or
doubts.

Dr. Del Ratzsch,
Philosophy at Calvin College, on
Thursday. February 24 at 7pm in the
Weldwood- Theater, care of the Inter-
Varsity Christian Fellowship.

The lecture is being presented by
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