Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Books Greenpoint Nerds Set Up Nerd-Friendly Basketball League for Nerds
Posted by Jonny Diamond on Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:22 PM
First of all, how come I wasn't told about this? Apparently there's been a book-lovers basketball league happening in Greenpoint all summer. Set up by the WORD bookstore, games have been taking place at the courts across the street, with teams like the "Virginia Wolves" playing "Mrs. Balloway" (and no, it's not all Virginia Woolf related, i.e. "The Purple Pros"). Apparently it's all booked up, BUT I REALLY WANT TO JOIN IN THESE NERD GAMES, so please, if there's any need for alternates, I can answer all of the league-required literary questions (damn it, I host a literary trivia contest).
Other possible team names: "The Real Life of Sebastian Telfair", "The Moby Dunks", "A Confederacy of Dunks", "The Count Dunkulas", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Thunder", "The Traveling of Marco Polo", "The Ice Man George Gervin Cometh to the Hoop"... There are thousands of them, but I have to work on my jump shot. Please, fellow nerds, add your own in the comments.
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"Darius Miles City, Montana."
"If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" actually kinda works fine as is. As does "Valparaiso." And "The Glass Key."
The worse your win-loss record, the more ping-pong balls you get in "The Lottery."
Jonathan Safran Free-Throwers?
The Slaughterhouse Five?
ooh, ooh, The 3-Second Count of Monte Cristo
Basket at Tiffany's, A Shotclock Orange, Dunk Quixote, Gulliver Travels.
cyrano de goes-to-the-rack
doctor J.faustus
she hoops to conquer
I'm in the league... and just so you know, some awesome names like Fortress of Ballitude and Invisible Man on Man got shut down, so... it's a tough crowd. But tons of f'in fun! Get in on next year! Alternates are key.
This thread, and its terrible puns, has made me inordinately happy. (The King James Bibles, The Crying of Foul 49, Hardaway Times...)
How about "The Brooklyn Follies"?
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