Earl Clark: prince of the Interwebs
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 14, 2009 2:30 PM EST
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When Earl Clark started his drive to the bucket against Luke Harangody late in the first half of Louisville's eventual victory over Notre Dame, him dunking the ball seemed to be about the 17th or 18th most likely finale to the sequence. When the play ended, I think we all immediately realized that we'd just seen something pretty special.
Well, almost all of us.
The lady friend I took in the game with was ultra-focused on an undoubtedly earth-shattering phone call with another lady friend and remarked: "(Mike Rutherford, proprietor of CardChronicle.com) just turned around to get my reaction to something, so I guess something big must have just happened."
Something big, indeed. Since Monday night, Clark's dunk has been covered extensively by print an online media alike. It was immediately lauded by the announcing trio of McDonough, Bilas and Raftery, anointed as the top play of the night by Monday evening's SportsCenter, and featured on the front page of Yahoo! Sports nearly all day Tuesday.
In less than two days, the video of Clark dunking on Harangody has been viewed 242,592 times on YouTube.com, making it currently the site's seventh most popular video. Not the seventh most popular sports video, the seventh most popular video in the world.
What up, Miley Cyrus? You just got virtually crammed on.
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you gotta know that...
seeing this video get 247k hits on Youtube makes me want to throw my hunk of junk PC out the window….
by jerb2 on Jan 14, 2009 2:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
It was really frickin sweet, thats for sure...
..but Im not holding my breath on a repeat against DeJuan Blair. Hope Im wrong cause Im real high on E5.
by twistedwedge on Jan 14, 2009 2:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
p.s.
The man turns 21 on Saturday.
by Mike Rutherford on Jan 14, 2009 3:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
And to top it off,
the Notre Dame kid fouled the hell out of Earl. Of course, everybody was fouling the hell out of everybody else in that, the most selectively called game in modern history. Honestly, I know the Big East is rough, but those three guys (“see how they run; see how they run”) were most incompetent or unprofessional or whatever. Really bad, is what I’m trying to say.
theoldman
by theoldman on Jan 14, 2009 4:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
The officials dictated the pace of the game not the players.
That’s the mark of a really bad officiating crew.
"You win some, You lose some but you never stop trying to do your best" Denny Crum
by DANCARD on Jan 14, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I believe I am responsible for about 20 of the views.
Each time I expect a bank shot.
by 83fan on Jan 15, 2009 7:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
i'm probably 50+ too
and i expect the same thing…
by davidson07 on Jan 15, 2009 10:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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