https://x.com/HarryRafferty5/status/1901998893979578695
Some Michigan Women’s Coaching Staff/Duncan Robinson’s best friend adjacent news.
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Yeah I learned the news because Mo Wagner posted about it on instagram
Gerald Ford should have tried show-biz, I guess.
Edit - wow, very late to the game…
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHn6Tt7xheu/?igsh=d2lmNXY3ZjExd3Vr
It was fun watching highlights from Walton’s dominant stretch in 2017.
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So smooth and effortlessly in control. Watching those highlights, it’s a wonder he ever missed a shot.
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So fun to watch. That layup to clinch it against Louisville started the trend of guards making tough shots in the paint to seal Round of 32 games.
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Walton randomly turning into Trey Burke is still the craziest turnaround I’ve ever seen
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don’t know where to put this (the likely answer is “on another website,” but I don’t go on other websites and this is not a topic that usually needs heavy moderation), but I went to an aussie rules football game today and discovered that this fascinating guy was on one of the teams:
standing at 211 cm (6 ft 11 in), is the tallest player to ever be measured at an AFL Draft Combine.
Cox studied engineering at Oklahoma State University, graduating in 2014. While studying, he started playing basketball as a hobby. He initially joined the Oklahoma State Cowgirls’ “scout team” to simulate Brittney Griner, former Baylor University basketball player. After being noticed by former head coach Travis Ford, he was asked to join the university’s men’s basketball team as a walk-on. He played a total of 57 minutes for the Cowboys in 24 games over three seasons between 2011 and 2014, scoring seven points.
Cox was invited to attend the 2014 US International Combine for potential Australian rules footballers, in Los Angeles in April 2014 despite knowing very little at all about the sport. After impressive performances in the skills testing, he travelled to Australia for a second combine and on May 30, 2014, was signed by the Collingwood Football Club. AFL teams Port Adelaide, North Melbourne, Richmond, and Fremantle were also reported as having shown interest in recruiting Cox.
Collingwood selected Cox at pick 60 in the 2015 AFL rookie draft and he joined the club’s list as an international rookie.
He’s still playing for Collingwood all these years later!
tl;dr: 6’11 guy is studying at Ok State, starts hooping as a hobby, ends up on the women’s scout team, gets scouted onto the men’s team as a walk-on, hardly plays, then becomes a ten-year vet in a sport he’d basically never played. crazy
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Dylan when he reads your post
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philo-australiansportsfactsforboutrousandbilldotcom.au
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That’s what living at 3x speed does to you.
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Adrien Nunez endorsing Sana Tigers shirts. (Last pic)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIB7NDhOCzn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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Maybe he just didn’t want to deal with college stuff, but I am surprised he couldn’t land a D1 assistant gig somewhere
Maybe not have to move wife and 3 kids?
I remember when people unironically wanted Yaklich to take over after Beilein
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DIqoUaotf0P/?igsh=MWwyc2Y4aDNkam93eQ==
Forward of the Year in the Swedish Basketball League
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Wow…good for him. I don’t know anything about Swedish basketball but that’s still an accomplishment. And there are far worse places to be living than Sweden!
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Can’t open the link for some reason - curious who this is!?