Associate AD Donnie Cox passed along this link, which includes former NSU basketball player Lee Arthur Smith, best known nationally as major league record-setting relief pitcher Lee Smith, a member of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
There's got to be a path to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame in his future. When he gets there, they'll never find a more personable or funnier member.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1155150/3/10/index.htm
Friday, May 01, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Good cause, good Jim Wells humor
Any of Jim Wells' classmates at Northwestern in the late 1970s know the college baseball coaching icon (none of them saw that coming, either) has a great sense of humor. That might be a little far-fetched to some of his players when he was coaching the Demons to unprecedented heights from 1990-94, but it is true.
Jim is one funny cat. Deadpan, irreverent, and sublime humor are in his bag of tricks. Some of that is on display in a promotional TV spot he did for a local prostate cancer benefit in the Tuscaloosa area (since 1994, he's been head baseball coach at Alabama).
Jim channels Chevy Chase in this spot, passed along by wife Lisa (Breazele) Wells to a circle of his friends such as former NSU golfer Tom Brassell, who shared it with a larger loop of buddies including Demon golfers David Thompson, David Goldstein, former track and field competitors Kelvin Fee and Tommy Swacker, and Demon basketball standout and Ohio native and resident Jim Hoops.
Jim is one funny cat. Deadpan, irreverent, and sublime humor are in his bag of tricks. Some of that is on display in a promotional TV spot he did for a local prostate cancer benefit in the Tuscaloosa area (since 1994, he's been head baseball coach at Alabama).
Jim channels Chevy Chase in this spot, passed along by wife Lisa (Breazele) Wells to a circle of his friends such as former NSU golfer Tom Brassell, who shared it with a larger loop of buddies including Demon golfers David Thompson, David Goldstein, former track and field competitors Kelvin Fee and Tommy Swacker, and Demon basketball standout and Ohio native and resident Jim Hoops.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Cooking team
Coaches from different sports work together at NSU as well as family comes together in many cases.
This afternoon, coaches from men's basketball and soccer were working hard at the grill behind Prather Coliseum as Lady Demon basketball and volleyball staffs were pulling together supplies and other key ingredients for their annual Crawfish Boil and Awards Dinner tonight at 6:30 in Prather.
On the grill were big quarters of pork along with chicken quarters in another section of the cooker. Helping with the food prep and cooking: basketball staff members Mike McConathy, Bob Austin, Jeff Moore, Mark Slessinger and Rodney Kirschner, along with soccer coaches Jimmy Mitchell and Mike Baker.
Coach McConathy got toasted lightly. The gas on one of the burners didn't ignite and when he checked, it did, taking some hair off his arm. I hope he got in front of a mirror before he started believing that one of his eyebrows was gone. He did have a little red on his forehead, but in typical Coach Mike fashion, he wasn't slowing down and he wasn't complaining.
New football coach Bradley Dale Peveto, and the all-sports czar Coach Black, stopped by to check on the cooking out back. Peveto is unlikely to sample any of the meat, as he is a crawfish-eating machine and is eagerly awaiting that portion of the evening's feast.
Like the rest of us. It did not prevent Peveto from punishing a bowl of chicken and sausage gumbo at lunch downtown today. Some people have orange juice in the morning, but for Coach Peve, it's chicken and sausage gumbo for lunch!
This afternoon, coaches from men's basketball and soccer were working hard at the grill behind Prather Coliseum as Lady Demon basketball and volleyball staffs were pulling together supplies and other key ingredients for their annual Crawfish Boil and Awards Dinner tonight at 6:30 in Prather.
On the grill were big quarters of pork along with chicken quarters in another section of the cooker. Helping with the food prep and cooking: basketball staff members Mike McConathy, Bob Austin, Jeff Moore, Mark Slessinger and Rodney Kirschner, along with soccer coaches Jimmy Mitchell and Mike Baker.
Coach McConathy got toasted lightly. The gas on one of the burners didn't ignite and when he checked, it did, taking some hair off his arm. I hope he got in front of a mirror before he started believing that one of his eyebrows was gone. He did have a little red on his forehead, but in typical Coach Mike fashion, he wasn't slowing down and he wasn't complaining.
New football coach Bradley Dale Peveto, and the all-sports czar Coach Black, stopped by to check on the cooking out back. Peveto is unlikely to sample any of the meat, as he is a crawfish-eating machine and is eagerly awaiting that portion of the evening's feast.
Like the rest of us. It did not prevent Peveto from punishing a bowl of chicken and sausage gumbo at lunch downtown today. Some people have orange juice in the morning, but for Coach Peve, it's chicken and sausage gumbo for lunch!
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