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minervacat at 10:23am on 02/02/2009 under cities:sweet sunny south:a.m.c-h, personal:photos, sports:college basketball
minervacat at 10:23am on 02/02/2009 under cities:sweet sunny south:a.m.c-h, personal:photos, sports:college basketball- ( photooooooooooography: two show sets, some general chatter about the local record labels, and the photography process & the product & the community )
- 50 Amazing Flickr Photostreams.
- I haven't posted about this to LJ, but the passing of NC State women's basketball coach Kay Yow last week has really hit me hard. Coach Yow was a fantastic woman, smart and talented and brave and optimistic, and it seems horrible and incomprehensible that State has now lost two great people to cancer, between Coach Yow two Saturdays ago and Jim Valvano in 1993. As with Jim Valvano's "Don't give up, don't ever give up" ESPY speech from a few weeks before his death and any clips of Wake Forest's Skip Prosser, who passed away unexpectedly two years ago, the coverage of Kay Yow's legacy and death has moved me immensely, and will likely continue to forever, and the reaching out to the NC State community by the rest of the college basketball world has been almost too much to take. Sylvia Hatchell's UNC women's team wore pink uniforms against Maryland two Sundays ago; Pat Summitt had her Tennessee team and opposing Auburn in Kay Yow tribute warm-up jerseys the same night. Saturday, the NC State fans were almost all in pink, not their traditional red, for the game against Carolina, and Roy Williams wore a pink ribbon on his coat and pink laces in his sneakers, and I sniffled all afternoon.
Kay Yow was a one of a kind woman, a brilliant coach, the sort of person I want to grow up to be. - I cooked all weekend; I made up a batch of black beans for burritos yesterday, I cooked a six-pound pork butt in the crock pot and turned it into eastern Carolina style barbecue, I made an om nom nom delicious white bean and roasted red peppers dip for the eating with pita chips. We also went grocery shopping on Friday, so our fridge is currently full to bursting with delicious foods.
- The new Lily Allen leaked, and, for a trashy dance pop album, it's surprisingly delightful and well-produced. There's no way this week can be crap now.
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