Charlotte goes to New York

  

    The Charlotte 49ers play Fordham at Fordham Saturday. Although there are two major stories coming up the next two weeks -- the Super Bowl this Sunday and Daytona 500 festivities this week and next -- the 49ers are becoming a good story.

   I loved watching their last two games, close victories against Temple and George Washington, at Halton Arena. In the former it was the virtuoso Derrio Green lifting Charlotte. In the latter it was junior forward Shamari Spears.

   I've heard Spears invoke Charles Barkley. But his game reminded me of Larry Johnson. He doesn't have Johnson's quickness; few big men do. He's powerful, though. And his spin moves inside work against opponents six inches taller. He also hit fadeaways and added two three-pointers. And when a skinny George Washington forward tried to throw him off his game with a cheap shot, Spears ignored him.

   DiJuan Harris runs the show, Phil Jones hits clutch shots and Charles Dewhurst apparently is the world's best rebounding guard. 

   I don't yet know, in the grand scheme, how good the 49ers are. But they look good to me. I like their poise and their bravado, and, man, they are fun to watch. 

Comments

[KevinMc]

Keep rolling Niners, don't let up on Fordham!!!!

[Bill]

Tom, you are the man! Go Niners!

[Big Apple]

Just curious when they started calling Fordham as "New York"?

[mcgeex]

Uh, the subhead under the Fordham name on their website is "The Jesuit University of New York". The slogan for the residence program is "New York is my Campus, Fordham is my School".

The campus is located is the Bronx (one of the five boroughs, remember) with a satellite campus at Lincol Center. So I'm pretty sure Fordham has ALWAYS been a New York school.

[New York Rams]

So Fordham uses the city name of New York where it is located as its sports nickname too?
The Fordham Rams are the New York Rams?

That one must have slipped thru the crack. Maybe UNCC sports are not so stupid afterall.