Random thoughts as we begin the final week of January:
Expect Super Bowl hype to get into full swing today when the Giants arrive in Arizona. It’s amazing how many people think the Giants will win Sunday’s matchup with undefeated New England, who remains at least a two touchdown favorite. I’ll hold off my thoughts on the game until later in the week.
In case you didn’t notice Seton Hall has won four straight basketball games and is in a four-way tie for third place in the Big East…the highest they have been this late in the season in more than five years. Meanwhile Rutgers is coming off back to back impressive wins over Villanova and Pittsburgh and will host Seton Hall Wednesday at the RAC.
Things are looking up for Joe Scott in his first season as the head coach at the University of Denver. The Pelican Island native and former Toms River East standout is 8-11 with the Pioneers, including a 4-4 record in the Sun Belt Conference. That’s already a big improvement over last year when Denver won only four games and had a 3-15 conference record.
Scott was the head coach at Princeton before taking the Denver job last spring.
On an unrelated note, I read with interest today a story in the Asbury Park Press about Community Medical Center’s latest attempt to expand its cardiac services. The hospital has applied to the state to be able to perform elective angioplasties, a procedure which they can now do only on an emergency basis. Community as you might expect handles a large number of cardiac cases and many patients have to be transported to another hospital
when an angioplasty is needed, which can make things difficult for patients and their families. I know from first-hand experience as just last spring my father had to go from Community to Jersey Shore University for what has become a relatively routine procedure. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on this but it seems logical that local residents would be better served if they had the choice on whether to have an angioplasty done at Community
or somewhere else.
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