Watching NCAA Basketball in Ireland
It’s old news at this stage but it appears that I was not the only person in Ireland wondering how KU were getting on in the NCAA earlier this month.
Thorsonette was in Ireland and finding out that nobody knew nor cared of what sporting competition she was speaking:
The game wasn’t broadcast in any pub (and Ireland has more than its fair share of those) or on any radio station, and nobody I asked had ever heard of “final 4″ or “NCAA”. And thanks, genius, but I was nowhere near an internet café. The next day there were two guys wearing Kansas sweatshirts walking around the Cliffs of Moher – I have no idea how they got there – and I practically attacked them trying to find out who won
A big bonus of her search though was discovering Gaelic games, and she’s included a rather impressive photo from a hurling game.
And to answer the question that she titles her piece with - they hurl a ball, it being a stick and ball game, a ball called a “sliothar”.
I myself however, being in multi-channel land, got to watch that little bit of history - at some strange hour of the night. There just wasn’t anybody to talk with about it.
See Also:
• Their Hooligans Have Nothing On Our Hooligans
• San Marino v Ireland: No results within 100 mile radius
• Yank Abroad: A KC Wizard in Ireland
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