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StumblePublished Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 | 3:47 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 | 3:47 p.m.
NOW
Top 10 reasons the Rebels almost lost an exhibition game to a team from Kansas called the Washburn Ichabods on Tuesday night:
10. Got caught looking ahead to Pittsburg State game.
9. "Stripper Mobile" cruising the Thomas & Mack Center parking lot made it difficult to concentrate on blocking out and getting back on defense.
8. Prepared for the Ichabods from Sleepy Hollow instead of the ones from Topeka.
7. Too famished to press after Rebel standouts of yesteryear ate their team meal.
6. Remember, this was only an exhibition, it was not a competition ... please no wagering.
5. No. 5 on Washburn looked a lot like Ollie from "Hoosiers" so Rebels cut him some slack.
4. Shaq and LeBron not yet meshing.
3. Rebels not familiar with Washburn's "Yellow Brick Road" half-court offense.
2. New uniforms from Nike did not allow Rebels to run faster and jump higher as advertised.
1. Larry Johnson never phoned home.
THEN
Say this about the teams from the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletic conference: They sure have great nicknames.
Washburn is the Ichabods.
Pittsburg State, the Rebels' opponent on Saturday night, is the Gorillas.
Central Missouri is the Mules.
Missouri Western is the Griffons.
Truman State is the Give 'em Hell Harrys.
Actually, Truman State is the Bulldogs. They blew it.
Goodness, I'm glad UNLV didn't play Emporia St. Nickname the hornets.
burritobandit,
why? something with lj on the hornets?
Washburn University is a Congregational College but has not been to the congrete church for years. The City of Topeka has the Mayor sitting as a Board member. The Science Department is the most antiquated department in any college.
However the research that is done by the majors in biology and premed on fruit flys teacher a Dr. Wolf who reads his books upside down on bus trips is amazing. Dr. O'Connor has retired. Dr. O'Connor was the Perry Como of biology. The head of the biology department, Dr. Johnson has retired to Bella Vista in Arkansas. He was capable of putting together final exams that consisted of 30 or 40 pages of questions all asked in several different languages but he could not see that manganese is more important in metabolism of the cell than magnesium so most of the graduates in biology who were taught by Dr. Johnson probably are dealers in the Steve Wynn Emporium.
The hospice on the old Menninger facility is an exact replica of a student's semester paper for Health Information Technology back in 1984-85. The only problem here is that they will not admit, although constantly dressed in black, that the hospice originated in the monasteries many years ago when the Medicis ruled the banking world and ultimately the Vatican in Rome.
And of course, speaking of mascots, the Cloud County Community College mascot is a Thunderbird disguised as an eagle. Actually the emblem is a powercat version of the old Thunderbird Hotel-Casino thunderbird marquee which is the goodwill justice of the Mid-West mindset and provides jobs for all the Mid-West and several overseas manufacturing and marketing companies for all the stuff that is inspired by such goodwill justice of the mindsets that it is our right to be here and do as we please.
Star:
I wanna meet the Perry Como of biology.
hmmmm - I wonder if they have ever heard of Larry Kehres out there in the Washburn of Kansas.