I’m not gonna bore you to death with details of my Thanksgiving Weekend, mostly because a) I barely remember anything and b) unlike Slam’s Farmer Jones, I did not have the pleasure of staying at the Steve Alford All-American Inn while driving between Indiana and Ohio.
I was psyched. My wife was not; instead of some little independent motel in the middle of nowhere, she was hoping we™d stay at a Holiday Inn or Motel 6 or some other vaguely reputable chain, since those seem less likely to end with Anthony Perkins interrupting your shower. I wanted to explain that Steve Alford would never allow a psycho-killer night manager at his hotel, but we were both tired, and she wouldn™t have appreciated the explanation. I told her just to trust me.
The Steve Alford All-American Inn is not unlike its namesake: Physically unremarkable. No frills. Unfancy. Gets the job done. It was pretty comparable to a Holiday Inn or Motel 6, except that those places generally don™t have Big Ten MVP trophies sitting on a shelf behind the check-in desk.
Here is what else it had:
-A bunch of Alford™s jerseys, from high school, college, the Olympics and the pros, displayed in frames on the lobby wall.
-A workout room with white wallpaper that has basketball-related words on it: œPost-Up, œRebound, and, yes, œSlam.
-Two hoops”height adjustable, with glass backboards and everything”in the parking lot. I would have gone out and shot on one, except we got there at 1 a.m. and left at 8 a.m., and it was freezing, and I didn™t have a ball. But otherwise.
-A giant inflatable basketball shoe in the front. About 6 feet tall, to scale, looking vaguely like a Reebok Pump. And yes, it says œLobos on the back.
While Alford’s New Mexico squad are off to a 6-0 start this year, alma mater Indiana beat Georgia Tech earlier tonight, 83-79 in Bloomington, with Hoosier freshman Eric Gordon led all scorers with 29
Does anyone else using Firefox have huge gray blocks appear in front of certain articles, but which disappear once you click on the actual article link? This sucks, I want my subscription fee back.
I’ve got the MVN.com support team working overtime on this, Michael.
It’s New Mexico NOT New Mexico State