Smalnice

Dad/husband. Newish MD and @acemonline registrar. Was military, kind of mediocre at it. @ASU 🏈 🏀 Immigrant in 🇦🇺. Politics/planes/history nerd. he/him

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

Yes but also let’s not forget that the chicken was really good. Like, really really good.

[Chris Karpman @ChrisKarpman]

Serge Angounou (@sergeangounou) is an ELITE Sun Devil. Allow me to explain.

Angounou was the 2002 New Mexico Gatorade Player of the Year. He was long, athletic and skilled with the ball. I got to see him in person in 2001 at one of the first grassroots basketball events I ever covered and he was damn impressive.

Ike Diogu, who went on to become ASU’s best big man this century, was in the same recruiting class. Everyone in the burgeoning recruiting industry raved about the highly ranked Diogu, who thereafter earned P12 Freshman of the Year honors and two seasons later was named P12 POY.

But the team’s coaches couldn’t stop gushing about Angounou. He was going to be a star, they privately said. Even Doug Tammaro thought he might be a pretty good player (you can interpret this in multiple ways. I’ll let you decide).

Late in an exhibition game as a true freshman, Angounou took a nasty spill, injuring his knee in a manner that was much less easy to surgically repair 20+ years ago than today. He had an early version of microfracture to try to stimulate cartilage growth. He redshirted and then only played in 15 games the following year.

I never saw him without a smile on his face the entire time. The young man, a native of Yaound��, Cameroon, would tell you how blessed he felt, and he could do it in five different languages.

Did he leave ASU to pursue more playing time elsewhere? Of course not. He wasn’t going out like that. He spent three more seasons as a glue guy, even staying through a coaching transition, starting 76 more games and earning a degree in Spanish before his final season. That’s right, a five-year Sun Devil player.

In the years since, I’ve seen Angounou around the ASU basketball program about as much as any other former players except Kyle Dodd (who played with Angounou and Diogu and is a halfway decent fledgling commercial actor) and the legendary Joe Caldwell. Offering support and encouragement while wearing a smile, always.

Serge Angounou is an ELITE Sun Devil who co-owns a Nashville Hot Chicken restaurant franchise at 1628 E. Southern Ave. in Tempe, which is giving 15% off to teachers this week — which is sweetly ironic to me because we can all learn lessons on humility, persistency and perspective from him.

Please note: This is an unpaid and unsolicited endorsement.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@sergeangounou It was the 2 fire one, second least spiciest. Gotta up my game lol

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

Went earlier today, food was really good, huge serves, will have try it even spicier next time (wimped out and got the level two).

[Serge Angounou @sergeangounou]

Hi all! I just wanted to introduce myself and invite you guys my restaurant call Nasville Hot chicken Tempe. It’s located at 1628 E SOUTHERN AVE, TEMPE, AZ 85282. Please come support.I am Serge Salomon Angounou. Former ASU Basketball player and now owner of NHC.Thank you

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@Qantas What a joke. Virtually every flight with Qantas in the last two months has been delayed or cancelled. If I doctored like these people ran an airline half my patients would be dead.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@qantas remains an absolute incompetent mess of an airline. Both flights delayed today. Again. Just like a week ago, the before that, week before that etc. Not an Alan Joyce fan but this has actually worsened since Vanessa Hudson took over.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

Hi @Qantas it’s great that both my flights today with you are delayed (again). And it’s nice you bumped me from the seat I selected at the front of the plane for one all the way in the back. Really feels like you appreciate my business.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@ChrisKarpman Just some absolutely befuddling coaching decisions tonight

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@nathan_warner Fancy boi in business?

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

Lol logging onto Twitter (sorry “X”) just to move who I’m following to thhreads. Same name over there if anyone wants to follow for some reason.

[gamerEMdoc @GamerEMDoc]

ED workstation when “dizziness” is the next case up on the board to be seen…

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@sassybibrarian @merelyjwright @bunniferated Though again, even if she didn’t lie and he had in fact whistled at her, literally still just as bad.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@OrthopodReg @RACSurgeons Welcome back to Australia mate, now enjoy our bureaucracy!

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

The brutality seen here is a visceral,
unmistakable demonstration of how the occupation — its tactics, lack of accountability and inherent hostility to human dignity — has come home to roost as an existential threat to Israel’s democracy and future.

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@MeshawnMaddock

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@sarah_aslannnn Me when I pick up a locum: 🤑💰🤑💰

Me when it’s time to work the locum:

[Revolution-ZERO @RevolutionZERO1]

🔥Tuesday broke Monday's world's hottest human temp records by 0.17C globally🔥

🔥It's happening - let's knuckle down further - with some urgency🔥

🔥 https://t.co/hICh4EHFAv 🔥

#GreenNHS #TogetherWeCan 🙏🌍⚕️

@alexiskeech @ClareNash20 @enviromentalist @Rozdavies3 @ICUdocX

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@Janabw81 @cwebbonline Who in their right mind would voluntarily go to Florida these days?

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@FPWellman No way April, Evangeline and that very cute looking Jared aren’t just genuinely interested in me as a person.

[Dr Marian Dover @DoverMarian]

Australia’s coming Referendum is literally a question of whether we can listen to people who were victims of colonisation and trauma.

Literally just listen.

Someone explain to me why this has caused any debate?

#VoteYesAustralia #Referendum #auspol
https://t.co/9aJZz0kNoo

[Smalnice @SMalnice]

@MAGTravF @iAmTheWarax Everyone knows that. This picture hangs in every American classroom.