The young Mr. F. is not a terrorist, but he and his team are terrors, wreaking havoc on the nations’ moneyed basketball monoliths.
Witness the destruction of UNLV. CBS is not sharing this videos so you will have to hit the link:
Link to CBS video of Ali delivering final blow to UNLV
Here is a video by the local news on Mr. F.
Now witness the final annihilation of top-seeded Kansas. CBS is sharing this videos:
Here is a Kansan in defeat begging for either mercy or forgiveness; Sharky&Sharky cannot tell which. He cannot be praying for victory since his destruction is over.
Whoever has heard of the Northern Iowa University Panthers? (There are no panthers in Northern Illinois.) How did this team get to the Sweet Sixteen? This team is so poor that their names are not on the backs of their jerseys.
This little sports sharkbite is not really about Mr. F., but more about that he serves as a protagonist for people of stereotyped backgrounds, the press' reenforcement of stereotypes, and the heart of marginally funded teams, in general the underdog. This bite is about where opportunity can lead when there is an undergirding of liberty. Let us congratulate The Panthers, an unheard of small moneyed team that has earned their chance for victory. And lets us appreciate the young Mr. F. for reminding us that stereotypes are often wrong when it comes to judging people that want to leap past any preconceived images and notions that attempt to entrap them.
Ali Farokhmanesh mom is an Iowan, his dad an Iranian who played on Iran’s 1980 Olympic volleyball team. Another surprise winning team is St Mary’s with Omar Samhan. Samhan put in 32-points against Villanova, in "what stood as the weekend's biggest shocker until Northern Iowa trumped it". Samhan, is of Egyptian descent and was named for the actor Omar Sharif.
Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/03/20/1182832/northern-iowas-farokhmanesh-and.html#ixzz0ityzZF8V
Sharky&Sharky always say “Ain’t liberty grand”.
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I'm not sure why there's a white guy named Ali Farokhmanesh, but he's a great basketball player. More power to him until he's called up for his SB training. You figure it out.
ReplyDeleteI'm deeply disturbed that more folks weren't disturbed about the very small He Ping Ping dying last week while it Itly. I don't normally keep up with who's the shortest guy in the world and who's the tallest guy in the world. I just assumed that most of the short guys worked for Disney and played Umpa Lumpas in the Johnny Depp Version of Willie Wonka. Umpa Lumpas are very short people. But evidently not as short as Ping because he held the title of "World's Shortest Man" at 2'5". He was from Mongolia. The guy who inherited Ping's title is also from Mongolia, which would lead you to believe, something's in the water over there.
Now they say Ping "suffered" from "primordial dwarfism." Really? That seems redundant to say a guy that's 2'5" is a dwarf, I knew that already. And how do we know he "suffered" from it? He looked happy and they have a picture of him in Itly standing under this supermodel wearing a dress. One look up and BOOM! Heaven, staring you right in the face.
The article goes on to say that they realized that Ping had a problem when he stopped growing at age 18. What? If you're 2'5" and are older than 4, then you've got a growing problem, but I guess if you're from a country where the average height is 3'7", they probably wouldn't notice, at least until your 18. I think the only thing he suffered from was permanent "face in the crotch" syndrome. He was 2'5" and the average height from the ground to an adult crotch is..............you guessed it..2'5". He was only 21 and that's sad, but he was working around Italian supermodels for any lenght of time, it may have led to his early demise. I wonder if he was looking up one of those dresses and "OH mY GOD....she's a Tranny!" and keeled over from a heart attack. I guess we'll never know. Besides their's the new shortest guy now and he says he's even shorter than He Ping was. That's funny huh? In America we pride ourselves on size and in Mongolia they challenge each other to see who's the shortest. To each their own. King Umpa Loompa is dead, long live King Umpa Loompa.
To answer your first question about a white guy named Ali; For the same logical reason that this Finnish black guy is named Gerald. http://www.zimbio.com/Gerald+Lee.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how the rest of your comment addresses liberty, the democratic process or abuse of the normal American taxpayer but S&S commisserate's with your lost.