<p>wibw tv has video on their website already…celebration on mass st. in lawrence.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wibw.com/[/url]”>http://www.wibw.com/</a></p>
<p>woo hoo ! ku wins NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP !</p>
<p>Congrats to KU! What a game and what a great season.</p>
<p>Must be fun to go to KU today. Classes canceled. Too much partying last night anyway. Nice of the administration to let the students sleep in, or just now go to bed…</p>
<p>Congrats to KU!</p>
<p>Regarding the chant, from the KU website:</p>
<p>*KU’s world famous Rock Chalk Chant evolved from a cheer that a chemistry professor, E.H.S. Bailey, created for the KU science club in 1886. Bailey’s version was “Rah, Rah, Jayhawk, KU” repeated three times. The rahs were later replaced by “Rock Chalk,” a transposition of chalk rock, the name for the limestone outcropping found on Mount Oread, site of the Lawrence campus.
The cheer became known worldwide. Teddy Roosevelt pronounced it the greatest college chant he’d ever heard. Legend has it that troops used the chant when fighting in the Philippines in 1899, in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and in World War II. At the Olympic games in 1920, the King of Belgium asked for a typical American college yell. The assembled athletes agreed on KU’s Rock Chalk and rendered it for His Majesty.
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<p>Of course the non-KU fans have “alternate words” for the Rock Chalk chant that get their message across about KU and it’s fans.</p>
<p>Thanks to Iderochi for setting this up for CC fans. Was fun- congrats to the winners!!</p>
<p>Thanks Iderochi ! fun thread !</p>
<p>i’ll be pulling for Stanford ladies tonight. it should be a good game !</p>
<p>I’d like to say that my last-place finish was the worst I’ve ever done in any pool, but unfortunately I seem to recall an amazingly bad Masters pool the last year that Jack Nicklaus won. At least this one didn’t involve a lot of $$</p>
<p>Thanks Iderochi. I enjoyed being in a pool–gave me teams to root for that otherwise I probably wouldn’t have watched. And since my placing was not very good, I’m glad there was no money involved, lol.</p>
<p>Thanks again, lderochi, for setting up the pool! </p>
<p>Congratulations to Kansas–the team played some really amazing basketball! But what a real heart-breaker for Memphis, and for everyone who picked Memphis to win the championship!</p>
<p>In case you’re wondering, our group is definitely above average! I finished exactly in the middle of the CC group, but in the 67th percentile overall. (Still, as they say over in the SAT/ACT forum, I will “definately retake!” next year.)</p>
<p>Also, I hope tej is enjoying the trophy! See post #20 for why I’m so rough on tej. ;)</p>
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Jeez, Peabodie… when I look at the cc pool, I find myself Solidly in Last Place. By a mile. Although I would be glad to cede the dis-honor :o.</p>
<p>Oh, now I get it. I was just looking at the “top 10” and then me below them. I guess I did cede the honor to peabodie. No problema, I’ll buy you a drink over in Sinner’s Alley.</p>
<p>P.S. I forgot to tune in my Stanford gals last night. I guess it was a good thing.</p>
<p>I like how not a single person in our CC pool chose Kansas to win the championship…</p>