{"id":797,"date":"2006-11-08T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T08:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/08\/big-victory\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T08:43:32","slug":"big-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/08\/big-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The college basketball season started off well last night, with <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/ncb\/recap?gameId=263110120\">Maryland defeating Hampton<\/a> in the first game of the &#8220;Coaches v. Cancer Classic&#8221; pre-season tournament. Or possibly the &#8220;2K Sports College Hoops Classic&#8221;&#8211; I&#8217;ve heard both, and don&#8217;t really care. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Big deal,&#8221; you say, &#8220;it&#8217;s another meaningless game where a big school beats up hapless competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, they had previously barely squeaked past Easterbrook favorite California of Pennsylvania, in an effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/terrapins.mostvaluablenetwork.com\/general\/california-university-of-pennsylvania-are-you-kidding-me\/\">make Jeremy Gold&#8217;s head explode<\/a>. So, it&#8217;s actually nice to see them soundly beat a team that they ought to soundly beat.<\/p>\n<p>The game wasn&#8217;t on tv, but post-game reports make it sound like the new guys played well, which is good to hear. They get to face Vermont tonight, which may or may not be more of a test, but also won&#8217;t be on tv.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, and there was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/08elect.html?hp&#038;ex=1163048400&#038;en=9b09bde103e26bde&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">some sort of election yesterday<\/a>, that has some people <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/008158.html#008158\">doing the Happy Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college basketball season started off well last night, with Maryland defeating Hampton in the first game of the &#8220;Coaches v. Cancer Classic&#8221; pre-season tournament. Or possibly the &#8220;2K Sports College Hoops Classic&#8221;&#8211; I&#8217;ve heard both, and don&#8217;t really care. &#8220;Big deal,&#8221; you say, &#8220;it&#8217;s another meaningless game where a big school beats up hapless&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/08\/big-victory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Victory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}