Celebrating the 10-Year Anniversary of Phil Martelli Asking a Hipster Reporter if He Can Buy Weed in Spokane

St. Joe’s

I’ve been digging into the Crossing Broad archives just lately, in search of quirky stuff which may make for good anniversary-type posts on the web site or social media.

Sure sufficient, 10 years in the past at the moment, St. Joe’s traveled to Spokane for the NCAA match, seeded eighth in the West, and after beating Cincy in the first spherical Phil Martelli had a great exchange with a reporter who had his feet up on a chair:

Here it’s in written type, which can be funnier. I don’t know the place the Maestro pulled this from, however it’s sitting in the picture gallery:

“I’m just naturally comfortable.”

Sadly, St. Joe’s has not been again to the match since this second. That was a good workforce that went 24-7 in the common season and 13-5 in the Atlantic 10, ending fourth. But they ripped off victories towards George Washington, Dayton, and VCU to win the convention match and earn their 2nd March Madness bid in three seasons. They knocked off Mick Cronin’s Cincinnati in a thriller after which battled #1 Oregon fairly powerful, shedding by 5 regardless of enjoying in the Ducks’ again yard, kind of.

The Hawks had DeAndre Bembry, who went into the NBA as a 1st spherical decide. They had Isaiah Miles, who scored 18.1 PPG whereas capturing 38.5% from three. He went on to have a good profession in Europe and remains to be enjoying. They additionally had Shavar Newkirk, Aaron Brown, and a few first rate function gamers.

Checking up on the reporter, Sean Kramer, he’s actually living in Taiwan now and teaching English. LinkedIn says he had a stint with the Seattle Times as a sports activities desk clerk after which he did some freelance work with a rugby publication earlier than heading abroad to carve out a new life. Good for him, for actual. Do they promote Marijuana in Taiwan?

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports activities since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports activities division and began with the Union throughout the workforce’s 2010 inaugural season. He went to the educational powers of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. e-mail – okay.kinkead@sportradar.com