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Well, it's not like I wasn't already looking forward to this exciting match tonight betweenUVA and Syracuse on ESPNU, ever since I got a good look two weekends ago during their Lacrosse Preview show and saw the schedule of televised matches this Spring. http://espn.go.com/lacrosse/
That schedule will, apparently, include two Womens matches. Last year I saw a lot of Northwestern's matches, but when Marylandcame back to beat Northwestern in the title game at Towson, that was easily one of the most exciting things I saw all year.
Frankly, to me, it was MUCH more exciting than the Auburn-Oregon BCS Title Game in Phoenix this past January.
----- Baltimore Sun Syracuse, UVa. gear up for 'game of the year' By Edward Lee, The Baltimore Sun 5:44 p.m. EST, March 3, 2011
It doesn't have the levels of hysteria generated when the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers clash or when the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees meet, but the series between Syracuse and Virginia has been gaining steam in the sport of lacrosse.
That's why Friday night's contest at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., is already being called the game of the 2011 season, and it's only early March.
Read the rest of the article at: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/lacrosse/bs-sp-lax-feature-0304-20110303,0,4756447.story
But, the Internet being what it is, more than a few people who say they are fans of Syracuse student Lacey Myers, the subject of my July 21st, 2010 post, one of my most popular posts here ever -at one point earlier this week, 13 consecutive people from around the world came by the blog to look at that story on her and her well-publicized media forays on MTV and Channel 4in England, which I had the links to- sent me emails asking a question I can't possibly answer. Say hello to Lacey Myers, one of "The World's Richest Teenagers" as seen on Channel 4 (U.K.) and MTV's Lacey Land. C'est la vie. http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/say-hello-to-lacey-myers-one-of-worlds.html
I honestly have no idea one way or the other whether or not she will be at the Carrier Dome Friday night, rooting on her team.
But I will definitely know if she gets shown on TV, since even if I wasn't going to be watching the match anyway, some of you have pledged to let me know. Again, as I've already written some of you, I appreciate it, but I'll be able to see for myself, so please save yourself an email and just watch the action on the field.
FYI: The Maryland at Duke Mens match on Saturday at 1 pm will be streaming LIVE onESPN3. I caught some of the Georgetown at Maryland match over the weekend. http://espn.go.com/espn3/index/_/sport/lacrosse
Back in mid-February, on my birthday actually, I heard the news from some friends in the Mid-Atlantic thatUVA was planning to retire Yeardley Love's number before their home game against Penn State. Well, that emotional day for her family and friends is fast approaching.
Friday night, #5 UVA hosts defending NCAA champion and #1 Maryland, and Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Klockner Stadium, the ceremony takes place, so you can pretty well expect to see some media coverage of that event on Sunday and Monday, esp. onESPN, which for a change, actually covered that tragedy and the weeks of following the team with a certain amount of class, instead of their usual pomposity. Yeardley Love was #1.
As some of you may recall me having mentioned previously, I saw UVA's game in Evanston at Northwestern on The BigTenNetwork the same weekend that the Northwestern home match against the first-year FloridaGators was also supposed to be telecast, but instead, the Gators match wound-up being an online P-P-V. That was the very same weekend before Yeardley Love was murdered once she and the rest of her teammates got back to Charlottesville.
For whatever reason, once the news about that tragedy became public, The BigTenNetwork pulled the encore showing they has scheduled for that UVA-Northwesternmatch, and instead, showed some meaningless softball game.
The CBS-owned network collectively put their head in the sand rather than utilize their "experts" and resources to actually bring some perspective to fans on the tragedy. I really expected much better from them.
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The Baltimore Sun'sLacrosse blog: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/lacrosse/blog/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwWulWyLLXE Mark Dolan embarks on a quest to find the world's richest teenagers. Is the silver-spoon life such a wonderful thing after all?
Above, Dolan with the then-17-year old Lacey Myers, of Ashland, Ohio, who as you'll see from the clip's I've assembled here, is living EXTRA LARGE, as a result of how much Americans spend annually on their pets via Pet Brands, Inc., an American company with excellent products, great client services and a very good reputation. Lacey's father, Martin "Marty" Myers, is the company CEO.
Just further proof, as if needed, that if you give people a quality product they need at a price they can afford, you can make some money, too. There's nothing mysterious about it and certainly no need to apologize for that success.
And really, is Lacey's ability to genuinely enjoy herself, as a result of her father's hard work, really all that different than depictions of how the rich lived in turn-of-the-century New York in real life, or as depicted in well-known novels by novelist Edith Wharton, with extravagant yachts, summers in old castles in Europe with royalty...and no personal income tax? There just wasn't any incriminating video, 24/7 Internet or TMZ back then, is all. C'est la vie. The World's Richest Teenager | Who's to Blame? More with Lacey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYrzurRisY
For more information on this TV show, see: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-and-meand http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-and-me/pictures/richest-teenager/6a986ac8-d7c6-42d2-8666-837c527f4962
Here's an earlier story on Lacey from a few years ago getting the MTVMy Super Sweet 16 treatment. Her only regret was that "she couldn't keep the party going." http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/3204672
She was only 16 then, and to my mind, at least, sounds like about a million or so teenage girls in cities all across the country,ESPECIALLY here in South Florida, so what are you going to do, put her on trial for enjoying herself, rather than being frugal or a bookworm?
Or am I the only person still alive who remembers the many over-the-top stories on local Miami TV stations in the 1970's and '80's, with giddy TV reporters going on-and-on about well-to-do South Florida parents renting out the Orange Bowl for their son's bar mitzvah?
Frankly, it was actually starting to become a fairly regular thing, and while I remember thinking at the time as as a kid growing-up down here that it seemed a bit over-the-top, and not something anyone I knew might do, I suppose if I'd been a friend of the birthday boy and been invited, I'd have have been pretty psyched, so who's to judge these things, anyhow?
Besides, it wasn't my money, after all, so why should I begrudge someone else doing what they want to do, or what their parents want to do, and enjoy vicariously?
If any part of the country should understand Lacey Myers, it's here in South Florida. Older versions of fun-loving Lacey keep its hotels and night clubs busy and turning a profit in very uncertain economic times.
Welcome to the full episode of the Lacey Land fantasy bash from January 28, 2008. http://www.mtv.com/videos/my-super-sweet-16-season-6-ep-8-lacey-lacey-land-party/1580256/playlist.jhtml
When I last watched it, this video featured the recent Cotton Fabric of Our Lives TV ads I recently posted about featuring singers Leona Lewis and Colbie Caillat, but it may change by the time you watch it.
See other Fabric of Our Lives commercials from the series at: http://www.youtube.com/user/CottonFabricOfMyLife The World's Richest Teenager - High Flyer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neZ65AKMrZE
http://www.channel4.com/news/
Last I heard, Lacey had left for Syracuse University, alma mater of one of my former housemates in Arlington, Peter Gaudioso, who was then an intern for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and a future Seton Hall Law School grad.
Peter, a devout fan of the Orange, was one of my housemates in Arlington when my IU Hoosiers beat Syracuse on a last-second Keith Smart shot in the 1991 NCAA Basketball title game, and is now a practicing attorney in New Jersey, and can no doubt still weave a Thomas Jefferson quote or anecdote into a conversation better than anyone north of Charlottesville and UVA.
From a distance, I suppose it would be too much to hope that Lacey turns out to be a Syracuse Lacrosse fan, and will actually be showing-up for their games that will be televised by ESPNU in the spring. Still, it would be nice to see her up in the stands showing her support during a telecast. Unless that happens, though, I suspect that we've all seen the last of Lacey for a while, as she'll probably be living a more below-the-radar existence, living the college life she's probably looked forward to enjoying for years while growing-up in Ohio, just like I and all my friends did as well here in South Florida once upon a time, eager to leave the Sunshine State in the rear view mirror and get on with our lives. In my case, the beautiful rolling hills ofBloomington, Indiana.
