RIP Norman Dale, Woj sells his tools, and how much does a crosscheck cost?

America lost his favorite high school basketball coach this week when Gene Hackman died at the age of 95.

Hackman performed memorably at Lex Luthor, Jimmy Doyle, Royal Tenbaum, Little Bill and Harry Zimm, among many others.

But it was Norman Dale, the trouble basketball coach looking for a new start in Tiny Hickory, Indiana.

“Hoosiers” is based on a real story, but the version of the film became the legend. Each time a small school of any sport begins to do a post -season, it is a fictional hickory, not from Milan Real, Indiana to remember.

All this is because of Hackman. Dennis Hopper won the only Oscar nomination for the best support actor. But it is awards, this was Hackman’s movie.

Changed forever the standard to play an inspirational coach. There is some Norman Dale in the performance of Kurt Russell by Herb Brooks and Herman Boone by Denzel Washington. Jimmy McGinty of Hackman in “The replacements” is almost a parody of his Norman Dale.

Hackman was one of the most convincing and lovely screen presences of the last 60 years. He infused these features so effectively to Norman Dale that it was easy to lose -Dale was not actually a very good basketball coach. A good motivator and a credible leader maybe, but in terms of basketball strategy, maybe those angry boys in the barber shop had a point.

It is okay to ignore that the four -step rule before Dale, before, was tactically foolish because it made an effective story.

But Hickory had the ball in a tie game and the opportunity to win the state championship in the last shot with Farmtown Steph Curry on his team. Instead, in the waiting time makes Jimmy Chitwood a decoration so that Merl could make the last shot?

If Jimmy had not joined the half -season team, Norman Dale would have been fired. If Jimmy does not talk about this absurd final play, Hickory loses the game.

Jimmy Chitwood is the hero of the story. But Hackman is that that is why we love the movie.

That is why we drown when saying “I love you guys” in the dressing room at halftime. His trademark smiled and the brightness in his eyes forced you to forget everything else.

Hackman played the role with these gravitas that dramatic high school coaches across the country have spent the last 30 years re -being measured on the plant, the measure that was raised from the scene before the great games.

He was as good as a coach that people bought tickets to see “replacements” in the theater, at least partially to see him play a coach.

How much is a junction in the head?

Few things that better illustrate the difference in payment between the NHL and the Pwhl than fines.

Scott Laughton, from Philadelphia, was fined for $ 5,000 for a junction on January 17. On Tuesday, the PWHL announced:

)The players’ security committee determined that Brandt delivered a dangerous cross check on the head of the opponent Brooke Hobson, which was left unpacking during the game. … After a review of the PWHL Player Security Committee, Hannah Brandt, the Boston fleet, has been fined $ 250.“”

Real Jeopardy! Respond

Sports plants of the favorite test program of the real editions of America. As always, keep in mind the date:

Sports Dating for $ 500 (January 15, 1986): “Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser,” said this legendary Boston Celtics coach

Someone will score when in ice

After registering a -4 to Thursday’s loss in St. Louis, Alex Ovechkin is +63 in his career. He is also the leader of all NHL times in empty goals with 63.

In other words, when it is in the ice, someone will go to mark.

War Bomb War?

To raise money for your alma mater/employer, Retired Hoop Scooper Adrian Wojnarowski sells his old iphones and some of his media credentials. From this week on, the iPhone used to break Paul George in clippers news has a $ 2,500 offer. If the phones still have their contacts, that’s a bargain. If not, it’s just an iPhone used.

Related, if you want to bid my credential from last month Northastern Hockey Game Or my Android 2017, Click here.

The top 5

5 best names of the MILB team

5 – Emperors of Rome

4 – Land Space Cowboys Sugar – If the “love gangsters” were made their alternative name, they would be # 1. And it is criminal that the pet is not called Maurice.

3 —Binghamton Rumble Ponies

– 2 Rocket City garbage pandas

1 – Albuquerque isotopes

Honorable Mention: It Binghamton Bathtub Rucswhich are the rebellious alternative identity of Rumble Ponies in honor of a New York law that said donkeys cannot sleep in the horns.

Does this column need a name?

I will do more, if not every Friday in a similar format. I hate the names excessively or excited, but because it is a little different from my usual things …

I was thinking of Friday slides, like mini-burgers, but I thought it confused people who thought of the pitch or maybe a collection of things that suffer down.

I am considering outings on Friday, but I am looking for something better.

Submit any good suggestion. If I use your suggestion, I will send you something from Weird Swag’s random collection that is overflowing with my desktop drawer.