Jim Souhan analyzes the local sports scene and advises you to never take his betting advice. He likes old guitars and old music, never eats press box hot dogs, and can be heard on 1500ESPN at 2:05 p.m. weekdays, and Sundays from 10 a.m.-noon.
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Posted by: Jim Souhan under Gophers players, Tubby Smith Updated: March 19, 2010 - 10:17 AM
I have to tell this story on myself. I rented one of those cars that has the push-button starter. So yesterday, I park outside Bradley Center, get out, and lock up my car with the key fob (actually, the key-less fob.)
That's what we do, right? We take our keys with us, and worry only about avoiding locking ourselves out of our cars.
So...10 hours later, I return to the parking lot, and as I near my car...you guessed it...it's still running. And the doors are unlocked, apparently because the car doesn't allow itself to be locked while it's still running.
So anybody who wanted a white Nissan Sentra yesterday could have walked up, opened the door and driven off. Maybe thieves thought it was a Toyota, and were afraid to take it.
Music notes: My new favorite TV show is Elvis Costello's Spectacle. While I certainly love a good journalist-driven interview, there is nothing like hearing Costello talk about songwriting and the power of music with everyone from Lyle Lovett to Bono to Springsteen.
Somehow, Elvis and I developed pretty much exactly the same musical tastes - everything from Sam & Dave to Lucinda Williams to The Clash.
Also: I caught a couple of cool shows on PBS last night - a Roy Orbison retrospective and the TAMI Show, which features spectacular sets from James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and the Beach Boys.
Know what band interests me less the more I watch it? The Rolling Stones. I watched the documentary ``Let's Spend The Night Together'' and I got no sense of love for the music, only that for this group, rock-n-roll was a great way to make a lot of money.
I'm at Bradley Center this morning with Myron Medcalf, getting ready for the Gophers-Xavier game.
We've heard the rumors about Tubby Smith leaving for Auburn, and I can tell you on good authority that I have no idea what he's going to do.
I'll also say this: In the era of instantaneous rumor-mongering, I don't care who has the story first, who tweets or blogs or facebooks or writes it before everyone else. I'm very happy to wait for someone I trust to write something definitive.
I don't think Tubby is going to stay in Minneapolis until his retirement, and I do expect him to end up with a Southern school in a power conference. But I don't know if Auburn is a good fit.
Who knows what Tubby thinks? He's not going to tell us.
It was interesting, though, that he was so effusive in his praise of Minnesota as a school and a place to live and work in yesterday's press conference. Again, I don't know how to read that.
Upcoming: I'll be blogging and tweeting from Bradley Center today. Myron and I shot a video yesterday for startribune.com, and we'll shoot another this afternoon.
Sunday Sports Talk will feature Fay Vincent, Bloomington native and former Sports Illustrated star Steve Rush (who has written a new book, Pint Man) and his buddy and mine, FSN basketball analyst and friend of Bill Self Mike McCollow.
We'll start with the Ron Gardenhire show at 9:30, then go into SunSportsTalk.
Also, you can follow me on Twitter at SouhanStrib.
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