Tag: sports

The Fishstick That Saved Westview

Jimmy
January 25, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Just skip to the end where Anal takes over as the head coach and Bull goes back to being full-time AD. Never mind the fact that the goats had to hold a raffle to save sports. Apparently the realistically sold-out gym gives them enough revenue to expand.

John
January 25, 2012 at 2:21 pm
The question of Fishstick Annie’s precise status is an interesting one…Would Bull take this kind of guff from a mere volunteer that he requested? Unlikely. So it suggests she’s been given authority over him. But by who? And how, if the school’s finances are so bad that a failed levy lead to the entire sporting program being almost canceled a week afterwards?

Well, it’s official: the cash-strapped sports program has made room on the payroll for a new assistant girls’ basketball coach. I suppose his position as athletic director (albeit a completely inept one) gives Bull carte blanche to hire an assistant on the spot. If Ann had been given that title before the game, surely Bull wouldn’t have saved this fact for a post-game surprise. And to Jimmy’s point,  yeah, it would make more sense just to appoint her as girls’ coach rather than creating an assistant position, especially with only seven girls on the team.

Pass-ketball

“Coach” Fairgood has really had an effect on the heretofore hapless She-Goats: watch today as they flawlessly execute a complex play that Ann has pulled out of nowhere, and which they have never run in practice. And check out how #31’s hair color changes from blonde to brown to blonde again! How the hell do you defend against that?

Merry Pookster
January 24, 2012 at 12:58 am
…The real story is how Sum-mor, a girl (?) can jump so high as to rest the backside of her hand 10 feet at the rim…. or do girls HS girls in Ohio play with 8 foot rims like we had in grade school?

If not, there must be a trampoline beneath the hoop! Girls from both teams are getting some serious air in that last panel.

Two Points

sourbelly
January 21, 2012 at 3:06 am
Weave screen? That’s pretty basic stuff. Wouldn’t exactly call it Old School, or any “school” really. Merry Pookster called it: It will work a couple of times before the other team figures it out, and yes, it’s only an offensive play.

I leave it to the more hoops-savvy snarkers (and there are quite a few among you!) to determine if the play happening here is a weave-screen (it could be the Old Dipsy Doodle). But I reckon it is, based on a.) the confident expressions on Kei$ha’s and Summer’s faces in panel 1, and b.) it results in a basket. Ann was right when she said the opponents wouldn’t be “coaching to defend it“: in fact, it looks like they have the same hapless blond player defending both Keisha and Summer.

Excite-a-Bull

TheDiva
January 22, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Bull shows more genuine passion than anyone in Funkytown has expressed for anything since the Blessed Saint Lisa ascended into the heavens. This, of course, makes him an object of ridicule and derision.

What happened to Owen’s goatee?


It also invites a very public dressing-down from Fishstick Annie (greatest character nickname since Station Wagon Susan!), whose plan to regain control of “her” team seems to be progressing swiftly. Meanwhile, TB, who had been making some strides in his struggle to depict African Americans in a flattering manner, takes a couple steps backwards in panel 2.