“It hurts right now, it hurts a lot right now… I’m ultimately leaving UConn at a better place right now than where I started. I gave it everything I got… All I thought about was UConn basketball every single day.”
An emotional Alex Karaban after his last game for UConn.
Byron Scott with an all-time classic MJ story:
“So they’re getting off the bus, we’re done with shootaround, and we’re walking out and MJ says,
‘B Scott, what’s going on?’ He said, ‘Man, I hear that you’re not playing tonight.’ I said, ‘No, I sprained my ankle.’ He said, ‘Who’s guarding me?’
I said, ‘Anthony Peeler.’ He’s like, ‘Oh. 50.’ So I told Anthony, ‘Listen, MJ is probably going to go for about 50 tonight. So just don’t piss him off. Just be cool.’”
He ended up with 54.
MAJOR LEAGUE was released 37 years ago today.
Charlie Sheen trained with real pitchers and could throw close to 85 mph on set, giving Ricky Vaughn’s fastball a rare level of authenticity for a baseball film.
Jason Alexander as George Costanza in Seinfeld (1989–1998) is one of those performances that just took over, the neurosis, the timing, the physical comedy, it’s so specific that George is the first thing you think of every time.