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Thursday, September 25, 2008 --- 106 days ago http://www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth/archives/2008/09/all-that-hoop-a.html
 That, of course, is a photo of the Marathon Brewery Wee Willy basketball team -- brothers Joe, Wally, Alex and Frank Szymanski in the first row, brothers Ray and Ed Szymanski in the second row along with Larence Wenzel, Bob Uekert and Bill Fischer. They won more than 500 games during the 1940s and '50s representing Marathon City, Wisc. If only ESPN could schedule them for their upcoming "Tip-Off Marathon." Along with the guarantee of a few extra kegs in the deal. ESPN, which can pretty much dictate to any school when its basketball games will be played, has decided to turn it up to 11 and give eveyrone a spinal tap of roundball that may only make Dick Vitale's heath situation go from mellow yellow to code red on the color-bar chart. The world wide leader announced today that its "Tip-Off Marathon" will air over 23 hours live starting at 9 p.m. on Nov. 17 (after a Cleveland-Buffalo "Monday Night Football" telecast) and end ... well ... 23 hours later, of course. With 33 total hours covered. You know, it's just crazy enough to work. And you know someone with a blog and too much time on their hands will try to watch the whole thing and document it minute by minute (sorry, boss, it ain't happening on this end). The whole kabootle will include 14 games -- none involving USC, UCLA, Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, Cal State Fullerton, Biola, Azusa Pacific, Cal Poly Pomona, San Diego State, UC San Diego, the Univ ... |
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