Wednesday, August 27, 2008

LR 1, nWa 0: Goodbye Real Deal on the Hill

I was so dismayed to read in Wally's column that northwest Arkansas could not support the Real Deal on the Hill basketball tournament and that it was moving to Little Rock. It was no surprise that 123 of the 141 volunteers for the tournament were from Central Arkansas, or that many teams had to fly into Little Rock and rent a van to drive to Fayetteville.

To summarize:

2 comments:

Scott said...

Whatever happened to the King Cotton Classic?

And, frankly, who cares about AAU ball other than Ron Crawford?

Jeremy Peppas said...

Oh crap, does that mean the half dozen Real Deal on the Hill shirts are now collector items?
One of my buddies, not Ron Crawford, helps run the tournament and I get as much free stuff as I want.
Next year it will be be Real Deal in the Rock t-shirts.
I like to wear them. The big ass Tyson logo always had people asking if I worked at Tyson.
I told them I was actually Tyson Gay.