{"id":2517,"date":"2012-03-14T22:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T20:18:22","slug":"hoop-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=2517","title":{"rendered":"Hoop Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><object data=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/sif-slides\/bbbl\/soundslider.swf?size=2&amp;format=xml&amp;embed_width=400&amp;embed_height=300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"soundslider\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/sif-slides\/bbbl\/soundslider.swf?size=2&amp;format=xml&amp;embed_width=400&amp;embed_height=300\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><br \/>\nA week before the Big Dance, \u00a0we got to see two action-packed games during the\u00a0BBBL (Baby Boomers Basketball League) Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>The league is going strong after 15 years, and now includes about dozen teams.<\/p>\n<p>We asked\u00a0one of the\u00a0players after the\u00a0first semi-final game, which went down to the final possession (his team was favored), Why didn&#8217;t you guys\u00a0pull that one out?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes it just wasn&#8217;t meant to be,&#8221; he said. \u00a0&#8220;That&#8217;s why they call it\u00a0March Madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s Finals showcases team Tighten Up with Bernard Blunt (formerly of St. Joseph&#8217;s&#8211;PA) versus \u00a0B&amp;B Lounge with (former SU point guard) Lazarus Sims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before the Big Dance, \u00a0we got to see two action-packed games during the\u00a0BBBL (Baby Boomers Basketball League) Final Four. The league is going strong after 15 years, and now includes about dozen teams. We asked\u00a0one of the\u00a0players after the\u00a0first semi-final game, which went down to the final possession (his team was favored), Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[1786,1883,160,189,1885,1888,1884,1886,188,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23719,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/23719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}