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KellyDwyer Let the record show that Scoop Jackson, ESPN NBA analyst, thought the Chicago Bulls should select Pittsnogle with a mid-first round selection in the 2006 Draft.
Where is Kevin Pittsnogle?
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
The New York Times finds the former West Virginia star as a middle school teacher in Martinsburg, West Virginia. From the piece: He is also an unpaid assistant coach for a high school basketball team. He bowls in leagues three nights a week and occasionally plays bingo at Big Bucks Bingo. His wife, Heather, is a bank teller. They have two children and live in a double-wide trailer.
On a different kind of activity, Vince Carter tells the Newark Star-Ledger he witnessed the Hudson River plane crash from his apartment.
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First Cup: Friday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... John Branch of The New York Times: "Less than three years ago, Kevin Pittsnogle was an all-American senior averaging 19.3 points who led West Virginia to the 2006 regional semifinals. He expected to be chosen in the N.B.A draft. He was not. Now, at 24, he is a middle school teacher in his hometown. He is also an unpaid assistant coach for a high school basketball team. He bowls in leagues three nights a week and occasionally plays bingo at Big Bucks Bingo. His wife, Heather, is a bank teller. They have two children and live in a double-wide ...
Kevin Pittsnogle: From NCAA Tourney Hero to Middle School Teacher Living in a Trailer
The Big Lead —
... Even if you’re not a college hoops junkie, it’s a great read. For instance: “In December, while shopping with his mother, he saw Reebok shoes on sale. He bought a pair for each of his students.” You mean to tell me this guy can’t make anyone’s roster? There has to be a team that mixes in a zone every now and then. ...
Pittsnogle Lives In A Trailer, Teaches Middle School, Still Wants To Go Pro [Morning Blogdome]
Deadspin —
• Nobody puts Pittsnogle in the corner: The former West Virginia tattooed big man still has professional basketball dreams. [The Big Lead via NYT] • Cheerleaders on parade: Not quite sure what the "evaluation" entails. Maybe it's their posture? [FanIQ] • Jerry Jones is a terrible general manager: You know it's bad when an ex-player, Marcellus Wiley, openly admits that he had "nothing left in the tank" when J.J. signed him to a big contract. [LewP] • This could come in ...
Friday Links
UM Hoops.com —
Lure of Pro Ball Still Tugs at Pittsnogle
Great read from the NY Times on Kevin Pittsnogle
Interview: Pete Tiernan of bracketscience.com
Greg Dooley talks NCAA tournament and Michigan with Pete Tiernan
…Is This Thing On?
A new U-M blog on the radar, ThoseWhoStay.com. Be sure to check out articles on Greg Robinson and The Barwis Beach.
Escape from Evanston
Purdue has their IU/Savannah State moment
Uggggh! Cats Collapse, Fall to Purdue-63-61
The Northwestern ...
College Hoops Journal — Remember Kevin Pittsnogle, the WVU kid who seemed to hit so many big shots in 2005? He’s now a a teacher, making 25k/year. Quick, interesting read on how he missed out on the NBA. {New York Times}
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... John Branch of The New York Times: “Less than three years ago, Pittsnogle was an all-American senior averaging 19.3 points who led West Virginia to the 2006 regional semifinals. He expected to be chosen in the N.B.A draft. He was not. Now, at 24, he is a middle school teacher in his hometown. He is also an unpaid assistant coach for a high school basketball team. He bowls in leagues three nights a week and occasionally plays bingo at Big Bucks Bingo. His wife, Heather, is a bank teller. They have two children and live in a double-wide trailer, and together they wonder how ...
Morning Link Dump - Minka, Irvin, Feherty, Pittsnogle, RBI Baseball, Star Wars
TheScore.com Blog —
Obligatory Sports Babe I'll own up to not ever having watched the show Friday Night Lights, but I do know that it's about football, and that according to the preamble to their gallery of 32 girls from the show, COED Magazine-- and they'd know-- says it's "the show to watch for up-and-coming hotties." Minka Kelly here, then, will do just fine. She may also be nailing Derek Jeter, but why would you care about that? Holes in the Michael Irvin Carjacking Story? Deadspin has a pretty thorough post on some curious details that may lead one to believe that the Michael Irvin carjacking story ...
Finally, an answer to 'Whatever happened to Kevin Pittsnogle?'
The Dagger —
Former West Virginia forward Kevin Pittsnogle is, it's safe to say, one
of the more colorful and memorable college athletes of recent years.
His slow-big-man-with-outside-game routine was, in its own weird way,
spectacular to watch. Better than that, it was effective; West Virginia
was rarely as successful before Pittsnogle, and they've yet to regain
the tournament mojo they had in the big man's years there. He was a
special dude. ...
Finally, an answer to "Whatever happened to Kevin Pittsnogle?"
The Dagger —
... So, of course, we want to know what happened to him. Is he playing
semi-pro ball? In Europe? Is he ... a middle-school teacher in West
Virginia that coaches high school basketball for free? The New York Times found the Pittsnogler, and has the answer: ...
You Have Been Pittsnogled
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
Back when TrueHoop was brand new, a lot of e-mailers couldn't understand why West Virginia's Kevin Pittsnogle wouldn't be the first pick in the NBA draft. John Branch recently caught up with the big man in his new life for the New York Times: There is a middle school up the hill from the McDonald's here, and behind it are several classroom trailers, the type that are added when space gets tight and are never taken away. Inside one of the trailers last Friday stood a tall man with a familiar face. He wore a Bugs Bunny tie and a gray dress shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows. Tattoos spilled to his wrists. He spoke kindly to two of his ...
Pittsnoggled Takes on a New Meaning
mass hysteria —
[image] There have been many Celtic-for-a-moments (Kevinn Pinkney anyone?), but my alltime favorite has to be Kevin Pittsnogle, the former West Virginia sharpshooter who led his team to an NCAA Tourney victory over 2 seed Wake Forest. Pittsnogle entertained us with his awesome name, tattoos, country livin', and three-point range, and it was a sad day for all of us when he was waived by the C's. But I didn't expect that, less than three years later, West Virginia's Finest would be teaching middle school and living in a double-wide. Yes, in today's New York Times , it's revealed that Pittsnogle, after playing in France, Puerto Rico and the D-League for a few years, ...
Hey wha' happened to... Kevin Pittsnogle?
Top Cheddar: sports, pop culture, and halfers —
[image] If you always enter a March Madness pool every year or you are just a college basketball fan, then you remember Kevin Pittsnogle. He's the super tall white guy who played for West Virginia and it seemed like he was throwing it in the hoop from almost half court. At the very least I thought he was going to be a poor man's Dirk when he got to the league. Well, he never made it in the NBA and bounced around a few other places as well. The New York Times did a piece on him and how he is working as a middle school teacher and volunteering as high school basketball coach. You think that you would feel sorry for him, but it is actually a pretty nice story about ...
Yahoo & NY Times just got Pittsnoggled!
WVMountaineerSports.com —
My wife was on Yahoo this morning and started reading an article about Kevin Pittsnogle. I asked here where the hell she was reading this and she said, “It’s on the front page of Yahoo, check it out.”
“WHOA!, Holy Shit!” is all I could muster when I saw this: ...
Searching For: Kevin Pittsnogle
Searching for Billy Edelin —
Only two full seasons removed from the college basketball spotlight, Kevin Pittsnogle has returned to his hometown of Martinsburg. He’s a regular guy– a middle school teacher and unpaid assistant basketball coach. T he New York Times’ John Branch updates us on the former WVU oddity , who is living in a double wide (cue the “trailer trash” chants) with his wife contemplating his next attempt at professional basketball. Frankly we couldn’t stand Pittsnogle during his glory days. This is due in large part to his atrocious last name and the fact he looked more like a ratly mountaineer than a basketball player. The article portrays Pittsnogle as a ...
01.21.09 Fast Breaks
Rush The Court —
We have a pretty nice set of links for you today.
Thayer Evans and Pete Thamel of the New York Times with a great piece about the influence of Skip Prosser on the current Wake Forest team. Many people don’t realize that Prosser was actually the architect of this team as he recruited all of the current players. However, a great deal ...
Wide World of Sports
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville —
Here are some Wednesday morning links for your reading pleasure….muchas cosas interesantes aqui. Jerry talks…sort of … The Cowboys' owner and general manager said Tuesday he is more disappointed about the ending of the 2008 season than what happened the previous year. And with all the problems the Cowboys have inside their locker room, Jones is determined to solve them and get his team back to the postseason. "We can look up here and see a 9-7 team [Arizona] that has a chance to win the world championship," Jones said following practice for college players preparing for Saturday's Senior Bowl. "That's not much ...
Friday's Starting Five
What Would Oakley Do? —
1. The Reigning Champs. It was business as usual for the two squads who faced off in the NBA Finals last night. Both played on national television and both won. The Lakers rolled in a laugher over the visiting Wizards and the Celtics won convincingly on the road in Orlando. After coming out the gates red-hot this season, both teams have cooled slightly. But not too much. You'd be hard pressed not to slot either into the conference championships right now. 2. Jeff Kent. Renowned as much for his surliness as his unprecedented power at second base, Kent announced his retirement yesterday after 17 seasons in the Big Leagues. The Californian broke into the Majors ...
Friday Links
Sean's Ramblings —
There is a sighting of Ramblings favorite Kevin Pittsnogle. (New York Times) The Sports Guy’s "One final toss for The Dooze." Warning: It may get a bit dusty at your desk/home near the end. (ESPN). Mike Tomlin’s 2-year anniversary as the Steelers coach was yesterday. (PSAMP) Chuck Noll was a great coach and is the rare great coach who didn't promote himself after retiring. (ESPN) At some point today, I'll be part of Meeting People is Easy. (One For The Other Thumb) I received an e-mail from Bodog with ...
Where Are They Now, 2009; Part 40
ShamSports.com: NBA News That Doesn't Really Matter —
- Let's start this off with a bang; I have absolutely nothing to report on Wesley Person. Nothing whatsoever. - Continuing that sizzling opener, Brent Petway is in the D-League, averaging 10.5 points, 3.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocked shots a game for the Idaho Stampede. Strangely, those numbers were somehow enough to make him a D-League All Star, and you can see the boxscore for the D-League All Star game here. (That minutes distribution is first class. I'd love to know what Richard Hendrix did to merit those extra 5 seconds.) Petway also lost his D-League Slam Dunk Champion title to James White, so it's not ...
Erin Andrews at West Virginia
Erin Andrews Tracker —
Well its the last College Gameday weekend of the season. What better place to spend it than Morgantown, WV? Hmmm I don’t know , but based on this video, I’m sure Erin can’t wait to spend the weekend there. All that aside, here’s to hoping she is able to track down one of the most memorable college bball players in a long time. Who am I talking about?…the one and only Kevin Pittsnogle: the 6′11″ country-bumpkin badass with a “baby-soft 3 point shot.” And just in case EA isn’t able to track down his trailer in the backwoods of WV, here’s a story to catch you up on the life and times of big ...
Where Are They Now: Mike Gansey & Kevin Pittsnogle
Dime Magazine —
Mike Gansey Led by a transfer from St. Bonaventure and a hometown 6-11 three-point shooter, the West Virginia Mountaineers were something special from 2004-06 . The school that the Logo himself put on the map was so surprisingly dominant that they reached consecutive Sweet 16’s, including an appearance in the Elite Eight in ‘05. Surprising, because they held a 46-22 record during those two seasons. And they were led by even two more surprising candidates: Mike Gansey and Kevin Pittsnogle . Remember Jay Bilas going loco over Gansey on Draft night in 2006? Gansey was projected to go as high as the mid-first round by many analyst’s mock boards, but we all know how mock ...
