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Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basketball. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Monday, April 07, 2008
We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.
In honor of the Jayhawk's visit to the NCAA title game tonight ... a little history of Rock Chalk Jayhawk ...
"Rock Chalk, Jayhawk" (a.k.a. the "Rock Chalk" chant) is a chant used at University of Kansas Jayhawks sporting events and is well known throughout the nation by sports fans, particularly those who have heard it loudly chanted at a basketball game at Allen Fieldhouse or Memorial Stadium. (Listen to the chant.) Its lyrics are a refrain of "Rock chalk... Jay-Hawk... KU," repeated twice slowly, and then three times quickly. It is usually preceded by the Kansas alma mater "Crimson and the Blue", and followed by the fight song, "I'm a Jayhawk".
The chant was first adopted by the university's science club in 1886. Chemistry professor E.H.S. Bailey and his colleagues were returning by train to Lawrence after a conference. During their travel, they discussed a need of a rousing yell. They came up with "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU", repeated three times. "Rock Chalk"—a transposition of chalk rock, a mineral that exists in western Kansas and similar to the coccolith found in the white cliffs of Dover—later replaced the two "rahs", after an English professor's suggestion.[1]
U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he had ever heard. Kansas troops have used it in the Philippine-American War in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion, and World War II. In the 1920 Summer Olympics, Albert I of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell, and gathered athletes replied with the chant.[2]
The chant was first adopted by the university's science club in 1886. Chemistry professor E.H.S. Bailey and his colleagues were returning by train to Lawrence after a conference. During their travel, they discussed a need of a rousing yell. They came up with "Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU", repeated three times. "Rock Chalk"—a transposition of chalk rock, a mineral that exists in western Kansas and similar to the coccolith found in the white cliffs of Dover—later replaced the two "rahs", after an English professor's suggestion.[1]
U.S. president Teddy Roosevelt called it the greatest college chant he had ever heard. Kansas troops have used it in the Philippine-American War in 1899, the Boxer Rebellion, and World War II. In the 1920 Summer Olympics, Albert I of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell, and gathered athletes replied with the chant.[2]
borrowed from Wikipedia ...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Let your Madness run with mine
It’s the time. March Madness. Love me some March Madness. Which is weird, because I’m not a basketball fan on the whole, but I do love college basketball, and when it gets to tournament time … wooo whee! I’m in the pool at work. Which is not for money. Just bragging rights. Hoping I win this year. Last year I came in second. Again this year, I am the only girl. And all I have to say to you people is Rock Chalk.