Sanders gives BC 67-66 win over Virginia Tech

Boston College's Tyrese Rice, right, drives past Virginia Tech's Malcolm Delaney (23) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, in Boston.

By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer 27 minutes ago

BOSTON (AP)—Rakim Sanders scored the go-ahead basket on a putback with 0.4 seconds left and Boston College beat Virginia Tech on Saturday night for its fourth straight victory.

Virginia Tech, which trailed most of the game before going ahead in the final minute, took its final lead on A.D. Vassallo’s free throws with 14.5 seconds to play. But Tyrese Rice brought the ball downcourt and drove to the basket; his floater bounced off the back of the rim, and Sanders leaped to lay it back in.

Tech’s desperation inbounds pass was knocked harmlessly away as the buzzer sounded.

Rice scored 16 for Boston College (17-6, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference).

Jeff Allen had 23 points and 11 rebounds for the Hokies (14-7, 4-3).

great players make the adjustment

yo how's it going. it's a beautiful day outside! i think we've melted the ice on the sidewalk with that ice stuff, so that's good

i found this collection of wallpapers. i think i'm gonna start posting some of them, cause they're really cool. excuse the lack of ingenuity, but i'll find some good ones in there to put up

also, it's annoying how blogger compresses the photo. if you click on any of these photos you'll see that they're really big. but it's frustrating how they look small on the page. blast!

oh yeah i still have some work to do on the site. in case you didnt notice, the "home" "about" "contact" and "rss" links don't work. yeah i still gotta figure that one out haha. and i gotta put the google analytics code back in there. i'll get to that soon. and i don't really like how it's timestamping stuff, but whatever

well, celtics play detroit tonight. BIG GAME. i'm sure you're amped. haha maybe not. but yeah, good times, video games and dvds and sports, what else do you need in life? uhhh all sorts of other things, shoot

like, i need some outdoorsiness. i'm blowin it not makin at least a couple outdoorsy adventures. it's been forever since i even hiked a mountain! man. too much pavement, not enough dirt

k, adios.

new template

so i got this new template. pretty cool huh? cept i've gotta code it now. still working on it of course. i got it from this blogger templates site

i wouldn't recommend changing your template though. it's a hack and a cut and paste job, and you might have to redo stuff like your links section

also, it's hard to see that i'm linking to something, but that was a link above. i might have to deal with that, figure out the style sheets or something or get jeff to look at it

i added the image above to the top right, which is a random crop of an image below.

the splat on the top left came with the template! the template is nicknamed Black splat. you can find the person who wrote it, girly blogger, here. that's the page dedicated to this template

photos from 6blocc.com

go check out the new 6blocc.com , look at the gallery. tons of photos.

straight up! watched the celtics game tonight, it was awesome.

watched the bc game too, but that's for a whole nother post. i also just saw wake beat duke.

went to the gym today. i'm so out of shape it's not even funny. i got winded just slipping on the ice on the way there.

it's really hot in australia! boy am i glad i'm not there.

wow terrible weather. it's an icey slushy rainy mess. there was literally a lake on a street by my house. like, you had to wade through it. pretty bad. sunshine tomorrow.

baraka

baraka


the barack post isn't much.

actually, it's just this photo and a link. i had a quote but on second glance it wasn't as sweet. about service to others. that kind of thing. good stuff. but here are some cool photos.

creepin the obamas

yooo big up

yooo big up

hey what's up. there's another storm a comin! uhoh, worried about this one. perhaps this will be a BLIZZARD. let's hope not tho, i don't think there's any room left on the streets and sidewalks for more snow!

i was supposed to go to the gym yesterday, but unfortunately i talk a big game and ended up not going. i was deflated after doing errands in central sq, and lost motivation.

also, call of duty 5 is a wonderful game. we play it a lot now. it is nice! it makes you not want to do other things lol

these photos are of the reebok shoes that the bb basketball team wears. apparently they're the only division 1 team sponsored by reebok. from Reebok Question: Boston College Special Makeup

i found this via bcinterruption or bcaccess. they're both .com addresses....fine i'll link to them bc all access bc interruption

it's good i haven't been reading these for a long time (i already crush one bc blog every day), but now i like reading them. i'm a junkie for this stuff!

hrm, i knew i'd just be rambling. it's all good tho. bc plays maryland tonight (can you tell what's on my mind? haha). so i'm excited for that game

i'll have to catch ya later, adios

let's get caught up

let's get caught up

aright, this isn't gonna be enough, but i gotta get something up here before the celtics game starts

i'm still sleepin on a couple of things, including a music post, an obama post, and some links and a new blog to put up. but fear not, i will get them up, maybe even today

i got this new vacuum cleaner, actually a used one from a neighbor that moved, and it's awesome! my old one didn't work very well, but this one cleans carpets and floors and everything! yeehaw!

so i've had a good couple of days. friday i caught up with shane, i'm gonna call him soon cause gchat doesn't do justice to old friendships, ya know?

friday i tried to go out, specifically to ben selznicks birthday party. but we were thwarted -- i first forgot that there was a bu hockey game, so i got destroyed in traffic along comm ave for a while. then i forgot that you can't park in boston -- anywhere -- so i got destroyed looking for parking

so i gave up and went back to central and got mexican food. which was good. and then i felt a lot better :)

yesterday was rad. first, matt and i went to the bc nc state game. bc won! it was a good game, bc did a lot of things right, and we were pleased. i'm glad matt got to come see a game, fun times

then, kate and i went to see the dartmouth harvard game. i know i've been talking about these games all week, but they did turn out to be so much fun! dartmouth won in overtime! yahhhh!!! good turnout of dartmouth fans, and then i bumped into sam beattie and his family, and sam and i are finally gonna hang out after missing each other at head of the charles

that's a brief update for now, gotta go watch celtics, laters

more foolish

more foolish

hi. well, waking up after a night of strange dreams makes me wanna do something to ground myself a lil, and writing's gonna help. i have some quotes and maybe photos and new blog links and stuff to put up, but i'll do that later

last night kate and i went to dante, and the food was outstanding. i got ice cream instead of cake for dessert, which i didnt really know when i was ordering, but it was still really good.

inauguration was fun but i still need to go back and listen to parts of it again. wasn't it inspiring?

rena has asked me to write a music-centric post to be linked to from the paddock music library blog, so i'm looking forward to doing that

skies were clear yesterday finally, nice sunsets and everything. i've gotta watch the celtics game on tape

i think i've realized how relatively short my posts are, compared with other people who invest more time and effort. but you know what, that's ok. i really like reading other ppls long posts, and it's just less stressful for me to keep my posts short. so it's a good thing

i got a gift for andy for when i go out to LA next month. don't tell him what it is! haha, k.

hmmm. so much stuff to remember every day. i guess i realized that after snapping out of my dream -- in my dream i was someone else, in a different life, in different situations, surrounded by different people

it actually felt like it took a while for me to remember who i was and assure myself that the dream self was not me! like, it took a while to come down to earth.

hrm. my pagoda flower plant is 90 percent dead. my cactus is 90 percent dead. well, i'm gonna keep them til the bitter end

whew. peace. -d

make a bird noise

make a bird noise

hey how's it goin. i shoveled our sidewalk for like the 3rd time in the last 24 hours today, i like shovelling cause who knows if they're actually gonna send someone to do it this time. cept i didnt really wear gloves, so now my hands are a lil beat up, but i could use that anyway! at least they're not like crew hands

happy mlk day! it's a beautiful day, if a little cloudy. i'm listening to some supposedly instrumental hiphop, but why is this guy rapping then? haha. oh, it's aesop rock. i guess that's still cool he's still rapping

hmmmm. this saturday i'm going to both the bc basketball game and the dartmouth basketball game. bc plays nc state at 2pm, then dartmouth plays harvard at 7 i think. wow it's gonna be a great long day of watching some good basketball from great seats! i can't wait

tmrw bc plays georgia tech. im amped for the game even though bc has lost 4 in a row. cmon eagles!

just been hanging out with matt and clynton at home. everyone's been kinda snowed in.

i think i gotta rally and go to the gym, which i think should be open today.

saw all the 9 fulk regulars last night, sup fools, and jamdunn, balloon fields are sweet.

there's nba on tv all day today, including the marquee game, celts suns at 8! aright! let's go celtics!

yup. k i gotta eat that banana and get one foot in front of the other, even if other ppls sidewalks are still treacherous with mountains of snow cascading

tide you over

tide you over

just a lil post.

wow it's really cold outside huh? it's much colder where jeff is. it's much colder where rena is.

it's much colder in minnesota and wisconsin. i guess we don't have it so bad right?

matt came home yesterday, Welcome Back Matt! we hung out, and paul and kate came over and we watched some 30 rock and talked and it was fun.

wow that's really good writing. and this and that, do this do that, was this was that, haha. ohhhhh boy

so what are y'all up to this weekend?

well, i guess it's been a while since i posted. in that time bc bball lost to wake forest, and the celtics beat the nets, which was awesome. my mom got the sierra club wilderness calendar in the mail, and i'm sure it's up in the kitchen now.

oh yeah and yesterday a plane crashed in the hudson river, yikes! k i'll cya soon, bye

the sierra club wilderness calendar

the sierra club wilderness calendar

is pretty cool. still waiting for it in the mail.

i think this is a photo of rusko.

celtics game was awesome tonight, what a game! celtics won in overtime! nice. paul pierce was huge. scalabrine got 11 points. apparently we've never lost a game that scal started. not a bad streak!

was gonna write more yesterday but then got sidetracked. got caught up on blog reading today. i need to dl netnewswire and get all my feeds entered back in.

so yeah saturday night was fun. good music. he was still djing at like 1 15 am when we left. i got some photos too that i'll post. not great photos but whatevs

gonna go to the gym tomorrow so that i can increase my vertical leap and get in shape.

oh yeah so perk's injury is just like what i had, his shoulder keeps on dislocating. he had it surgically repaired so he's just really messing it up at this point, it's painful for me to watch

i wish i was in the florida keys or aruba right now. i'm seriously aching for a beach and some blue water and warmth and sunshine. boston, you're a bastid!

i got a car wash to get some of the salt and stuff off the car, which was probably a good call.

and now i'm tired, cya!

the sounds of martyn

the sounds of martyn

went and saw martyn last night. he was AWESOME.

bc lost to harvard

bc lost to harvard

i can't believe it dude. bc lost to harvard. by TWELVE. after beating the number 1 team. needless to say, i'm devastated. now i don't even know if bc will be in the big dance. crushing defeat

also, jags is gone. oh well.

chris lost power tonight, so we went to r.f. o'sullivans with kate and rob. i forgot that i feel sick when i eat a burger. so i ate a burger (way too fast) a while ago, and now i still feel kinda sick.

buffalo is better. why can't i get buffalo at more places.

ok. i was just gonna write "bc lost to harvard", but then i wrote the rest of this. and i guess the writing helps.

trying to move on...

-splatman

peppermint bark

peppermint bark

i got these 2008 album covers from some other website, cokemachine glow or something

still fired up about bc beating unc, bummed about the jags thing

still fired up about bc beating unc, bummed about the jags thing

one of the stranger days to be a bc sports fan

well, for once i'm gonna go to bed on time tonight, but how weird a day was it? it sounds like jags is done. the bc athletic director said that he "was" good, so that means he's gone for good. just too weird, surprising, and unbelievable a story

of course the worst is for the actual players. a lot of alums are pretty depressed about it right now. it's not a good sign for anything, but let's hope that they can find a head coach and have another good season.

so the ice was crazy this morning! i talked to a doc who said that he saw 6 people for broken wrists today. so terrible, there was just a coating of ice everywhere, i guess it was some freezing rain, but boy was it hard to walk down the sidewalk. ppl were walking in the streets it was so bad. i'm glad i didn't fall

also turns out i can't go skiing this winter because i might reinjure the old shoulder. but it's cool, i think it's the right idea, and it's better than going out skiing and being super paranoid about falling, even though i don't think i fell once last year

lemme know how the ohio st goes, i'm gonna be in bed!

also, Sylvia -- have you heard the album of unreleased animal collective stuff? here's the tracklisting -- polly (nirvana cover), the purple bottle (stevie wonder version), the kite, forest children risen, safer, judy biworker

cool. i guess now they're predicting that there's gonna be a storm tuesday night/wednesday morning. lame.

oh yeah the north carolina game, as is one of the most exciting things ever that's totally overshadowed by something stupid. the north carolina game was terrific. the three big scorers were incredible -- tyrese rice, reggie jackson, and rakim sanders. the supporting cast was good too -- josh southern, joe trapani, courtney dunn.

also, al skinner had a good game and roy williams did not have a good game. which was fine by me!

k, night

BOSTON COLLEGE UPSETS TOP-RANKED NORTH CAROLINA

BOSTON COLLEGE UPSETS TOP-RANKED NORTH CAROLINA

“I don' t think anybody's really out-physicalled us – and I don't know if that's even a word – until today in the first half,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. “But I thought we were just standing, and they were going after it.”

game recap 1


game recap 2

what a great game. i'll talk about it more tmrw

also it looks like jeff jags days might be ending at bc because the athletic director spazzed out and told him that jags would be fired if he interviewed for the jets job, uhoh

also jeff -- i went home and got the case for the laptop and it fits and it's awesome, thx mang

"it's a heavy bass and a big snare"

"it's a heavy bass and a big snare"

i'm gonna start posting some album art, i've got some good stuff saved, so i'll share it

been hanging out, time sure has flown by since i last blogged. been trying to watch movies and listen to music and relax and hang out and see ppl.

in case you didn't know, boston college lost its first bowl game in 9 years and its first non conference game in 5 years this week. it was very sad, but we're moving on

i like this song called lake erie by nat baldwin, it's pretty good. query -- haven't the non bcs games been better than the bcs bowl games so far?

Sylvia thinks that the new animal collective album is their BEST ALBUM EVER. i think this is a possibility. sung tongs will forever be my fave, but i've got a feeling that this new album might take the cake

i'm trying to watch some documentaries on my computer. i downloaded dub files, which is a poorly edited, too long documentary with extended interviews with a ton of dubsteppers and original rudebwoys haha. it's pretty cool. maybe i'll write about it or do a full review when i'm done

i also got this movie called musically mad, which is about reggae soundsystems and the technicians that set them up, i still need to watch it, but it just looks like interviews with rastas about these giant speaker setups.

did i link to this already? it's the calendar of what's going on at enormous room and it ACTUALLY WORKS unlike the enormous room page, which you've prob heard me complain about before. Enormous Room

i think it should be updated soon. i wanna go there on sunday for dubwise, first one of 2009!

tonight i'm just laying low and staying warm, boy was it cold on new years! went to hungry mother for dinner, then partied in cambridge. i'm glad i wasn't freezing outside somewhere.

i just wanna watch: celtics, soccer, falcons game, bc bball game, and any other football games. should be fun

oh yeah maybe my new years resolution should be to spend more time READING BOOKS and WATCHING MOVIES and actually listening to ALL THE MUSIC I HAVE. haha. k, not sure how entertaining or informative i'm being, but hey, better late than never, and better something than nothing.

happy 2009!

-d