Bill Sproat, tour guide

Bill has retired but hasn't gone far:

Monday's WAC report (so far)

Here's hoping the Bill Sproat fundraiser was very successful.

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The Save Mart Center basketball MB at the BarkBoard site is on fire with the hopes of 5-foot-11 point Ryan Harrow (supposedly departing North Carolina State) heading to the San Joaquin. For what it's worth, the general consensus has Harrow interested in Kentucky and possibly Georgia, considering he is from that state.

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At the Warriors Sports Network site MB, it's southern Cali prep backcourter Darnell Taylor who has the fans excited although there are no indications in what direction the young man is leaning.

Be thanful for BillS

Let's say an amen for having Bill Sproat bringing attention to Uath State and WAC basketball because some of the alternatives look like stars out of a Wes Craven film fest. 

Such as this: 

More on BillS

Jim Weber at Rivals writes more about Wild Bill Sproat.

Channeling our inner psychic (no, not psycho, you peanut gallery-ers), we see "Dancing With The Stars" on the horizon for Bill.

Let's start the push.

Wednesday's WAC-itude

Host San Jose State University got by Montana State last night -- head here for a writeup.

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Brian McInnis features the status of Hiram Thompson in his article today -- is there any other candidate in the WAC for having the worst luck than the Hawaii senior?.

With a hat tip to Sam Wasson for spotting it, Dave Reardon offers some "blather" about the change in fortune of UH hoops.

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Montana Western enters the Colosseum, er, make that The Spectrum, tonight and Shawn Harrison and Kraig Williams tell readers what they need to know while Tony Jones reports that Tai Wesley and Bill Sproat have a bromance.

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Daniel Lyght writes about the Fresno State matchup at Cal State Bakersfield tonight -- the Bulldogs 'coyote-d' the Roadrunners by 30 earlier this month.

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It's Louisiana Tech up in Grand Forks to take on North Dakota this evening and Ethan Conley has the preview.  

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Josh Wright covers Coach Don Verlin eyeing the second seed in the WAC tourney and talking about controlling one's destiny.

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Tyler Huskinson offers his WAC team basketball rankings.

Two more USU - Nevada game links

BillsS and his closest buddies are all over the interwebs today -- for no particular reason we'll post this one. The crowd definitely came through last night.

This kind of stuff fascinates us and Eli Lucero deserves the credit.

Some Monday p.m. WAC links

Pesky Utah State fans? That's what Chris Murray is calling the denizens of The Spectrum so we're putting the onus on The Refractioners and Bill Sproat to respond to being labeled pestiferous.

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ESPN's Mark Adams leads off with a Brian Green photo and kudos to Utah State -- later on, he goes psychic and sees Stew Morrill's induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield.

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Tony Jones goes with Brian Green as the best shooter in the WAC.

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Gary Wilkinson is called the best import talent in the ANBL.

A Mr. Bill sighting

Thanks to the commenters who answered the query about Bill Sproat's getup at the New Mexico State game. Photo #24 in this group of shots looks like the outfit was captured on film.

A Bill Sproat update

Thanks to Joe for tipping us off on Bill Sproat's update about how he spent his summer.

Go here for a shocking read -- we hereby request that BillS wear a medical gown to a Spectrum game this season -- you know the kind:

With John Prine's assistance, we hear Bill singing out to the doctors and nurses:

Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
First check and see
If there's a BYU grad layin' around...

Your early Monday WAC report

Jared Eborn offers an update on Bill Sproat's medical condition -- go here. It's even odds that one of Bill's 'uniforms' next season in The Spectrum will be medical-related.

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Tom Ziller's latest mock drat at the Fanhouse site has Paul George going off the board at #13 and Luke Babbitt hearing his name called 18th -- go here.

All we have so far today is...

Wild Bill Sproat is laid up. With a tip o' the hat to Kraig Williams at Twitter, here is an article on Bill's situation. A little birdie told us that a visit from the Utah State cheerleaders/dance team would be just what the doctor ordered.

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Hey, UC Riverside of the Big West Conference is offering this as part of the package for purchasing a season ticket on Scholarship Row: complimentary drink service. PTE hereby offers this as a recommendation to every WAC team: complimentary drink service for those on press row. PTW and Captain Morgan -- he, of course, of such military valor -- make up quite the team. The game writeups would be, um, more interesting.

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Some additional Tuesday WAC links and items

Juan López of The Nevada Sagebrush forsees a short run for the Wolf Pack in the upcoming WAC tourney.

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Chris Murray has been a-bloggin': he covers does momentum matter here, offers his final WAC rankings here and updates the season of three ex-Nevada basketballers here.

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Ferd Lewis' latest column on Coach Bob Nash and UH basketball is here.

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Is the a Sproat youth movement in the making? Tom Smart of the Deseret News has some evidence of just this here.

The Sproat portfolio can be found here. Amazingly, Germany is now aware of the Logan phenomenon.

By the way, please excuse our cultural ignorance but who or what is Mr. Bill dressed as in Tom Smart's photo?

Additional Sunday notes and links

Jack Nixon -- think about this -- did his 900th radio broadcast of New Mexico State sports action last night. That's a lot of memories and certainly some great, great stories and anecdotes. Hopefully, those will be put in book form at some point. We bet the Pekingese had a special cake ablaze with 90 x 10 candles waiting for him when he returned home.

Jason Groves talks to the voice of the Aggies here and congratulations to Jack for his accomplishment. We're not quite sure if we should wish him 900 more but we will -- if that's his desire.

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Chris Murray blogs about how to get more cheeks in the seats for Nevada.

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Daniel Lyght blogs about the contributions of Jerry Brown last night.

He also has an entry on Bulldog backcourt recruit Tyler Johnson.

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Jeff Portnoy has an article about a basketball poll regarding UH hoops here.

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Basketball Prospectus' Joe Sheehan says here Utah State can afford a stumble (however unlikely) and still get a bid to the Big Dance but he hedges on Louisiana Tech.

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Bill Sproat-mania continues unabated. A Speedo? Uh, we think not for the Aggie point man in the stands. Does anyone know if William will be in Reno for the tourney?

More Thursday links

The Cache Valley Daily has a ton of photos from last night's game here.

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Bill Sproat seemingly has some competition for King of the Aggie fan-dom here.

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Is it Armon and Ramon or Ramon and Armon? Chris Murray provides the evidence here.

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Diamond Leung offers an interview with SJSU's Adrian Oliver here.

Bill Sproat reaches feature status on ESPN

Cassidy Creech, Bill Sproat's defacto agent (not really), has pointed out to us an ESPN feature on none other than Mr. Bill himself.

It begins:

When It Comes To The Art of Free Throw Distraction, Utah State's Shirtless Bill Sproat Is Without Peers
ESPN
February 13, 2010

As we learned in this past week's Not Top Ten, teams that come into Stew Morrill's House at Utah State have a whole lot more to bargain for than your typical "hostile" home crowd environment. That's because the Aggies (19-6, 9-2) have a not-so-secret (or discrete) weapon in Shirtless Bill Sproat, the undisputed King of Free Throw Distraction. Over the past two seasons, Shirtless Bill has taken the art of Free Throw Distraction to unprecedented heights. In fact, Shirtless Bill's constantly-evolving methods of diversion have proven so successful that the man has become a legitimate threat to opponents during the second-half of games (the time when Bill changes (or should we say “unchanges”) into the Shirtless Wonder...

Go here for the remainder (great photo of Bill in all his glory included).

So what will be next for Sproat?

American Idol?

He already is one in Logan.

Utah State's secret weapon

Well, the secret is out. By now, we've all heard about the vaunted student section in The Spectrum during Utah State basketball games but the X-factor has been kept under wraps from us.

Not any more.

Bill Sproat got all duded up versus visiting Hawaii -- gotta love his version of a bro. No wonder UH never had a chance.

Go here for the photo -- it's #22 in a series of 23. Credit it to AP Photo/The Herald Journal, Eli Lucero.

* We displayed the photo of Sproat in this post but we were 'requested' to link to it instead so do go to the link. It is a marvelous series of photos but #22 takes the cake.