D3 Championship Belt

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Since we've got a full poem now I'll do an entire one myself

A belt with lore that's beyond belief
It won't be stolen by a damn thief
The trademark is sacred
Without it it's naked
Having The Belt^TM is such a relief

Edit: Made a couple slight alterations suggested by magicman

[magicman]

Good one Grizz, all the right elements, plus k.

Check your messages I sent you a PM.

[Greek Tragedy]

 I would like to publicly apologize for my lack of poetic knowledge.  . I don't do well in the MWC board when they have their annual Haiku rants.  I've never been mistaken for...oh heck, I don't even know any poets!      Literature isn't one of my strong points.   

[KnightSlappy]

A The Belt^TM haiku:

Poets have The Belt^TM
Will Pomona reclaim it?
We'll find out tonight

[smedindy]

The Belt^TM
is
a wonderous glorious sight
to have hold
cherish
love
you cannot imagine
yet you
can dream
dream
dream of The Belt^TM
dream
and it will follow you

[Greek Tragedy]

From the "movie" COURT OF DREAMS:

"If you hold it, they will come!"

[magicman]

From the "movie" COURT OF DREAMS:

"If you hold it, they will come!"

And come they did, those Sagehens, and took which they felt was rightfully theirs. The Belt^TM goes back to Claremont and once again takes up residence in the Rains Center as Pomona-Pitzer defeats Whittier 66-57 last night. I think The Belt^TM was unhappy with the turnout last night for the Poets first title defense. After 2450 fans showed up when Claremont-Mudd-Scripps battled the Sagehens for The Belt^TM last week, The Belt^TM was taken aback at the pitiful turnout last night in Whittier. Slightly more than 300 people was all the Poets could muster for their first (and only) defense of The Belt^TM. When interviewed after the game, the Sagehen's leading scorer wth 23 points, Michael Cohen stated, "we knew The Belt^TM would be ours again when we took the court for warmups and saw how empty the Graham Athlectic Center was. That turnout was downright disrespectful".

The Sagehens become the first team this year to hold The Belt^TM for a second time. Their next defense will come on Saturday Jan. 28th when they travel to Occidental and show off The Belt^TM to the multitudes of Angelenos that will be seeing this treasured artifact for the first time.   

[sac]

Somewhere a future particle physicist is weeping at the thought of having to wait another 4 days for Cal Tech's chances at the belt.


P-P schedule

@ Occidental
@ Cal Tech

[magicman]

I think NBC has been reading our board. A story tonight on the evening news featured a boat that was caught in a storm on a fishing trip to Nantucket, in August of 2008. The 2 men on the boat had to jump overboard and swim to shore as the huge waves capsized their vessal. Nearly 3 and a half years later the boat has washed up on the coast of Spain looking pretty roughed up but fully intact. Apparently it rode the gulfstream all the way across the Atlantic. The boat was named the Queen Bee but did have Nantucket printed on the boat in large letters. It prompted Brian Williams to say this: (or something similar as I'm doing this from memory)

There once was a boat from Nantucket
that rode 'cross the sea like a bucket
Through some wind and some rain
It ended up in Spain
And now must decide if they'll chuck it.

The question was posed: Will the boat  end up back in the U S. It appears the Spanish government says no. Legally the boat is theirs now.

Here's a link to an NBC story, but not the one that was on the news tonight:

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nbc-news/46148998/#46148998 

[Ralph Turner]

Respectfully,

we can get 5 syllables in line #4 with

"It landed in Spain."

[Gregory Sager]

Respectfully,

we can get 5 syllables in line #4 with

"It landed in Spain."

Pffft. Network talking heads. They can't even do limericks properly.

From the "movie" COURT OF DREAMS:

"If you hold it, they will come!"

And come they did, those Sagehens, and took which they felt was rightfully theirs. The Belt^TM goes back to Claremont and once again takes up residence in the Rains Center as Pomona-Pitzer defeats Whittier 66-57 last night. I think The Belt^TM was unhappy with the turnout last night for the Poets first title defense. After 2450 fans showed up when Claremont-Mudd-Scripps battled the Sagehens for The Belt^TM last week, The Belt^TM was taken aback at the pitiful turnout last night in Whittier. Slightly more than 300 people was all the Poets could muster for their first (and only) defense of The Belt^TM. When interviewed after the game, the Sagehen's leading scorer wth 23 points, Michael Cohen stated, "we knew The Belt^TM would be ours again when we took the court for warmups and saw how empty the Graham Athlectic Center was. That turnout was downright disrespectful".

The Sagehens become the first team this year to hold The Belt^TM for a second time. Their next defense will come on Saturday Jan. 28th when they travel to Occidental and show off The Belt^TM to the multitudes of Angelenos that will be seeing this treasured artifact for the first time.   

I love how The Belt^TM has now acquired intelligent life-form characteristics* and can now take umbrage at low turnouts for basketball games involving It^TM.

* Unlike network talking heads

[KnightSlappy]

Respectfully,

we can get 5 syllables in line #4 with

"It landed in Spain."

Pffft. Network talking heads. They can't even do limericks properly.

From the "movie" COURT OF DREAMS:

"If you hold it, they will come!"

And come they did, those Sagehens, and took which they felt was rightfully theirs. The Belt^TM goes back to Claremont and once again takes up residence in the Rains Center as Pomona-Pitzer defeats Whittier 66-57 last night. I think The Belt^TM was unhappy with the turnout last night for the Poets first title defense. After 2450 fans showed up when Claremont-Mudd-Scripps battled the Sagehens for The Belt^TM last week, The Belt^TM was taken aback at the pitiful turnout last night in Whittier. Slightly more than 300 people was all the Poets could muster for their first (and only) defense of The Belt^TM. When interviewed after the game, the Sagehen's leading scorer wth 23 points, Michael Cohen stated, "we knew The Belt^TM would be ours again when we took the court for warmups and saw how empty the Graham Athlectic Center was. That turnout was downright disrespectful".

The Sagehens become the first team this year to hold The Belt^TM for a second time. Their next defense will come on Saturday Jan. 28th when they travel to Occidental and show off The Belt^TM to the multitudes of Angelenos that will be seeing this treasured artifact for the first time.   

I love how The Belt^TM has now acquired intelligent life-form characteristics* and can now take umbrage at low turnouts for basketball games involving It^TM.

* Unlike network talking heads

The Belt^TM chooses the winner. That much has always been clear.

[magicman]

Is this a Sign of the Apocalypse?  Occidental wins The Belt^TM as they defeat Pomona-Pitzer 64-56.
Apparently no one in the SCIAC wants to keep possession of The Belt^TM. It must be a California feel good thing. The Belt^TM is such a wondrous and treasured artifact that once a team possesses it, they want another league team to experience the sensation. How else to explain The Belt^TM being passed from team to team with barely a defense being rendered. The 5th SCIAC team has now been the recipient of The Belt^TM as it changes hands for the sixth time, since Redlands first acquired it. In its 38 day visit to California there have been just two title defenses. One by Redlands and one by Pomona-Pitzer the first time they acquired The Belt.^TMJust Bill would need to verify this but I don't believe The Belt^TM has traveled so much, to so many, in such a short time span, in it's storied history. And to think, a number of people hoped that Caltech might win The Belt^TM but this is even stranger. The team that Caltech BEAT has won The Belt^TM. OxyBob is rolling over in clover.

The Belt^TM will now travel back to Redlands on Tuesday, Feb. 1st as the Bulldogs hope to welcome back an old friend and try once again to recapture that, which they first brought forth, to the Golden State. Such is fate, such may be the power of The Belt.^TM

[sac]

For the 3rd(?) straight time, Cal Tech's inevitable date with destiny will have to wait.

Occidental's schedule

Feb 1 @ Redlands
Feb 4 @ Cal Tech

[Just Bill]

There was a season in which 7 of the 8 UAA teams held the Belt^TM, and with their Friday-Sunday schedule, it would often change hands fast. In fact, at times, the Friday winner would act as a courier, winning the Belt^TM on Friday on the road, taking the Belt^TM to the Sunday opponent and promptly losing it.