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By Craig Degel
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 22, 1997

Thoughts on a roadtrip gone awry

Random observations from a lost weekend in Los Angeles...

Southern Cal men's basketball coach Henry Bibby isn't that bad of a guy. If you can forget the fact that he left his family high and dry, he seems like a very nice person ...

Jason Terry is rapidly turning into a go-to guy for the Wildcats. His performance against the L.A. schools proved that UA will be just fine if Mike Bibby goes early to the NBA ...

Never ask a friend to hold your beer for just a second ...

Bennett Davison is a monster basketball player. He brings a physical game to the court. If only he could get it to rub off on A.J. Bramlett and Donnell Harris ...

You'd be surprised just who you'll see in seedy pool halls at 3 a.m. Don't believe me? How many of you have ever gotten tips on your billiards game from Gary "What you talkin' about, Willis?" Coleman ...

UCLA fans have a short memory. The team that started the season ranked in the top five in the country and is now unranked after a string of losses that includes a 48-point disaster at Stanford - a team that just lost to Oregon State - has fans that chant "Overrated! Overrated!" Where's a tape of that Princeton game when you need it ...

Never - I repeat, never - take a taxicab in Los Angeles ...

The Wildcats seem to have forgotten everything that got them to a top 10 ranking in the first place. They can't shoot, they're getting outrebounded and they're having trouble putting in the easy baskets. This team was supposed to have gotten better with Miles Simon. Don't get me wrong, they are. I think some of the intensity was lost by people going, "Miles is back, he'll take care of everything." Guess what, he can't ...

The UA administration could take a big lesson from the way the ticket offices at the L.A. schools work. On at least one side of each arena, there wasn't a gray hair in the first 10 rows ...

The people who publish those rankings on everything from dorm food to quality of professors are right. UC-Santa Barbara is a great party school.

UA could learn a few things ...

Don't worry about the state of the basketball team just yet. They're still a good team, they just need to get back to doing what it is they do best - shoot the ball and run circles around everybody.

If you've ever eaten at Tommy's in California you'll know that eating it after midnight is a big mistake. Now I know, too ...

Note to Michael Dickerson: You're just in a slump, keep shooting until they fall ...

Sports editor Craig Degel shares his thoughts on sports and life every Wednesday in the Wildcat.


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