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RE: ACC selected by the Barclays Center over the B1G for Tournament
(12-18-2013 05:30 PM)billyjack Wrote:  
(12-18-2013 05:15 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  
(12-18-2013 04:41 PM)billyjack Wrote:  Hey, St. John's last week beat the "The Georgia Institute of Technology". I say we all refer to the Yellow Jackets as "The Georgia Institute of Technology" from now on... I mean, it's on their diplomas...!

Very good point. So would a person be wrong for referring to Georgia Tech as the Georgia Institute of Technology? Wouldn't both terms be correct? YES

A person could also refer to Syracuse's coach as "James Boeheim" and Duke's as "Michael Krzyzewski", and both would be correct, but since we're sports fans, and this is a sports message board, it wouldn't make sense to do that. So a person could do that, and they'd be correct as a person, but they'd sound like Richard Simmons or Martha Stewart... not a sports fan.

John Wooden always called Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Lewis". Pat Riley often calls Magic Johnson "Earvin". I hope you're not going to say they know nothing about basketball.
12-18-2013 06:01 PM
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