Friday, need a pie....

Picked up G-Man in New Haven during today's 'blizzard' and decided it was cause for a noontime Pepe's tomato pie over on Wooster Street.  Ordered a large (for leftovers) bacon & peppers and a small pitcher of Genesee.  Governor-to-be (if she's deemed qualified) Susan Bysewicz cruises in talking on her cell.

Saw Vin-Dave this past week and was shocked to find him looking like he'd been slashed across the forehead by a couple of cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling Canadian women hockey players.  Rumor has it that he actually was attending the UConn-West Virginia game at the Hartford Civic Center, when a deranged Mountaineer mistook him for departed football coach Rich Rodriquez and slammed him head-first into the curb.  Undaunted, Vin-Dave took his place in the student section as a bare-chested "N" in UCONN for the nationally televised contest.  The blue painted 'N' mixed with the bright red blood for great college hoops.

Westie Punk Gus reports:
STORRS - UConn senior center Jonathan Mandeldove, who has not played this season because of academic issues, will redshirt and return for the 2010-11 season.  "I lost focus in a couple classes, which basically put me in a hole," said Mandeldove, from Stone Mountain, Ga. "Being a political science major, those classes are really hard and once you fall behind you're just trying to dig out of a hole. I am going to prove vocally and on the court that I am the guy they wanted to keep. Because if I don't do that, be the person they wanted, they'll look at me as just another failed experiment."  Mandeldove, a 7-footer who averaged 0.5 points and 0.7 rebounds his first three seasons, has practiced all season sitting on the bench in street clothes at home games..  (Gus wonders why he needed to practice sitting on the bench - was it the street clothes?)