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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 4231491, member: 16"] A couple of stories. Back in the day I was in the Syracuse media and was just a year out of school. Ended up playing in the media vs. football team game that was done for charity. I am pretty sure I am the reason they stopped playing this game. I was a pretty decent player but the football team was obviously more athletic. I had the bright idea as I was guarding Moe Jackson to slide to the baseline and take the charge. He lifted off, and I got there before him. He crashed into me and went down in a heap. He was on the ground for a little bit, and then limped off the court. The other football players were staring daggers at me. I got the charge and then asked our "coach" to take me out for the rest of the game. I didn't want to see what the retribution was going to be. Moe was okay, and it was a lot of fun getting to play with Rosie Bouie (he was a ringer for the media). The second story, while I was in school we always played at Archbold and often played with guys on the basketball team. I was reporting on the team so a lot of the guys knew me from the locker room. Used to play with and against Allen Griffin, Damone Brown, and Preston Shumpert a lot. I once stole the ball from the Griff man, and I also threw an alley-oop to Damone. Those guys played pretty much the way I would play against my 8-year-old. They barely tried and still dominated. That was the first time I truly realized the gigantic difference between D-1 level players and good high school players. There is a gigantic gap that is difficult to explain until you play with guys at that level. EDIT: OH! Just thought of one more. Played against JR Johnson in baseball in high school. We had a pretty good team and our main pitcher pretty much always mowed down the opposition. He was pretty amazing. Anyways, he threw in the high 80s, and Johnson comes up and crushes an absolute rocket that left the park in like two seconds. It felt like that ball was still rising as it disappeared into the ether. I have never played against a faster, bigger player than him. Absolute athletic stud. [/QUOTE]

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