CIVL’s Aaron Levy is as stoked for the start of the Canada West basketball season as anyone, even though only a game or two on the schedule will include teams from outside B.C. That’s because, thrillingly, next semester will see UFV play host to the MacEwan Griffins, who are notable if only because at the time of writing, they haven’t won a regular season league game since winter semester 2020. They also haven’t won a league game in which they’ve scored more points than their opponent since January 2019. Don’t ask.
Theme to NBC’s Hang Time (1995)
Growing up in the city during the 90s, the most exciting things about weekends was this enthralling addition to the teen sitcom programming of American daytime television, featuring now well-known actor Anthony Anderson as Teddy, the 3-point shooting savant, on a team led by an elite female point guard.
Barry White and Chris Rock – “Basketball Jones”
From the Space Jam (1996) soundtrack, famously employed to demonstrate sir Charles Barkley’s wayward descent into madness following the theft of his basketball skill and abilities at the hands of the evil villains known as the Monstars, in an attempt to enslave Toons in their intergalactic theme park with MJ.
Drake ft. Rick Ross – “Money In The Grave”
The more popular of the two “dip” songs that Drake chipped into the ether on account of the 2019 Toronto Raptors’ merciless dismantling of the championship Golden State Warriors’ injury riddled mid-era legacy run, featuring former O City ring wearer Patrick McCaw, who, despite riding the pine, won another ring.
Queen – “We Are the Champions”
Does anyone else revel in the irony of usages applied to this song within the macho, sometimes even misogynistic world of competitive athletics, despite the pervasiveness of the subtle and insidious homophobia which often comes along with such “arenas,” given the fact that Queen’s Freddie Mercury was out and proud?”
