This is the Stuff Dreams are Made Of

This is the Stuff Dreams are Made Of

I had been waiting for news to break like an unemployed private eye.  Sitting behind my desk, surrounded by half empty coffee cups and unfiltered cigarette butts.  Finally the phone rang.  Well, not really rang, but notified me.  Via twitter.  Jeff Capel had landed a commit.  I’d been staking out Oakland for nearly a week, waiting to see who would break first.  Capel, Pitt basketball’s golden boy, who can do no wrong no matter how many four stars slip through is fingers, or Narduzzi, who’s been around Oakland longer than most short order cooks at the O, and is twice as greasy.  His stock and trade is transfers and three stars “with potential”, but the only potential we saw since last Friday’s Pat Signal was a little purple devil.  Still no word on that one.  Oh sure, some guys down at the local dive known as the “Panther Lair” claim to have a line on it, but in this business it’s all rumors until it ain’t.

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