Running 2019-2020 college hoops thread

When we first moved from Houston to Birmingham, we were visiting my in-laws. As we were leaving, my wife mentioned that we were going by the Galleria on the way home.

"The Galleria? Why, that's way across town!"

"Yeah, and on a weekend at this time of day, we'll be there in maybe twenty minutes. I'm used to it taking twenty minutes just to get on the interstate a couple of days a week."

 

Used to live in Kingsport and did that drive many times.

 

Pittsburgh hoops - the unofficial all time list
Maravich
Twyman
Marin
Brad Davis
Mo Lucas
Gilliam
Pat Cummings - no shit, this is how far down you need to go.
Billy Knight
Fortson
Van Lier
Blair

That's it.

Pittsburgh football
Montana
Marino
Unitas
Dorsett
Ham
Kelly
Namath
Ditka
Curtis Martin
Revis
Aaron Donald
Brandon Marshall
Jason Taylor
Law
Covert
Posluszny
Arrington
Randy White
Blanda
Fralic
Gilbert

Gronk did a little high school here as well.

That's an insane load of talent on one side.

 

My fiancee works in the energy corridor. We live about 8 miles away in Katy, via I-10. Usually takes her 30 to 45 minutes in, and out, and she leaves the house at 6 a.m. I made the mistake of attempting an errand at 8 a.m. once, and I just turned around and went home and waited until the traffic cleared at 11.

 

And now you know why she gets out on the slab at 6 a.m.

We were in Spring Branch, and I usually got on at Blaylock or Bingle, and yes, a couple of mornings a week things would be so backed up that it took twenty minutes to make it up the on ramp.

 

That is one of my favorite geographical facts. Big Stone Gap is closer to Indianaoplace than it is to its own state's capital.

 

830 road miles and about 12.5 hours separate Pensacola and Key West.

I “went away” to school in the same state, but that was a five-hour drive from my home on the Space Coast. Still that was shorter than at least half the in-state residents who attend school in Tallahassee.

 

You couldn't pay me enough to live in Houston.

 

But it's walking distance from Mexico.

 

It appears our longest trip in Virginia is 613 miles or 10-plus hours from Greenbackville on the Eastern Shore at the Maryland border to the Cumberland Gap.

 

Good idea. I think I see a couple of ballers.

Fortunately, the interstate mile markers I usually see on my trips to Tennessee run from 451 to 369. Really hope I never have to see "1" again.