Excuse me as a I brush a little dust off the workspace here…much better. This isn’t going to be an easy week. The week before and the week after the Fourth of July is, in every summer, the slowest and most frustrating time. No one’s around. No one returns calls. No stories can be found in the places you typicaly find stories. In addition this week, I’ll be somewhat sidetracked by two days at Pete Dye Golf Club covering the Nationwide Tour.  

There are other things that drive you crazy and to segue into that story, I’ll highlight a comment from yesterday’s as-good-as-expected contributions.

Kneeb0ne said:

Mike,

Any word on how WVU’s incoming freshmen are fairing in the Pittsburgh Basketball Club Pro-Am? I heard Jones and Ebanks are both going to play. Who coaches those teams anyhow? How do they avoid breaking any NCAA rules?

Ah, the Pro-Am League. Funny you should mention that. There is word that Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks are scoring prolifically and that Truck Bryant is proving himself both mentally and physically against some really good guards up there. That Roscoe Davis isn’t there says a lot. As for the upperclassmen, a bigger Alex Ruoff isn’t missing many shots and Joe Mazzulla has picked up where he left off in winning MVP honors last summer. Everything sounds good.

How’s it look? Beats me. A friend and I headed up there Wednesday to catch the games and I had with me a notepad, a recorder, a camera and my MotoQ, which buzzed around 6:15 as Mazzulla delivered a text message that no one from WVU was going to play that day. The Mountaineers had worked out twice and, more importantly, no one could afford gas.

I’ll keep trying.