Womhoops Guru

Mel Greenberg covered college and professional women’s basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he worked for 40 plus years. Greenberg pioneered national coverage of the game, including the original Top 25 women's college poll. His knowledge has earned him nicknames such as "The Guru" and "The Godfather," as well as induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Friday, November 05, 2010

Guru's Here and There

By Mel Greenberg

Hello there folks. Well, one week before the season opens the Guru took a major leap following a summer of iPad love and went over to the Jobs side, which is to say a MacBook is now in his possession.

Other than the type size appearing on this input in the current Guru blog template post would make an ant look like something on steroids if it crawled on the screen against this copy, so far it appears that this fills the gap of the trickier writing here with the iPad. But this will be resolved.

Actually the other two posts were filed on the return from Maryland at the revamped ritzy rest stop near the exit leading to the University of Delaware and you know who.

Secondly, forgot to mention that on the trip to College Park, Md., which the Guru will return Sunday he renewed acquaintances with the Terrapins new athletic director Kevin Anderson, who succeeds Debbie Yow and somehow the Guru missed the announcement.

The Guru met him back in 2006 when Anderson was the athletic director at Army and the Guru was at West Point for that sad day when former Army coach Maggie Dixon's burial took place.

Thirdly, the Guru did not attend the UConn exhibition game -- as noted -- because of the weather in Philadelphia and probably along the seaboard that didn't seem to make the trip necessary as to what amounted to a lopsided rout.

Looking at the horde coverage one can only imagine how they would have handled Italy vs. Ethiopia prior to World War II, though the Guru guesses they got the Italy part Thursday night considering the Huskies' head coach's native land.

Well, there's always Hartford next Wednesday night.

Well that's enough to put something up and see if the Guru is ready to begin leaving the Microsoft scene. The next test will be to see if he can continue to keep the AP Poll history files over here, but it seems likely.

Will be back with regular topics you all have been busy looking here. That's it till the next one.

-- Mel

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