About MB and the Authors
This site is dedicated to the Xavier Men’s Basketball team. It is written by two [awesome] dudes that graduated from Xavier University in May, 2007. These dudes are Golfitup and Ledgewood. Golfitup and Ledgewood were simply huge XU BBall fans that lived to go to games and cheer on our Muskies. Donning funny hats and blue painted-on mustaches, they sat in the front row for almost every home game and gave it their all as fans. Now that they are old people, they must watch games from their respective hometowns miles away. These are their insights, opinions, findings, etc., and they encourage all XU fans to join the discussion.
Golfitup
Hometown: New Albany, IN
XU Class of ‘07
Major: History
Ledgewood
Hometown: North Olmsted, OH
XU Class of ‘07
Major: Beer Pong
Minor: Public Relations
January 30, 2008 at 7:34 am |
You guys are my freaking heroes! Awesome blogs…great reads…and I’m pumped to see my website getting a little loving over there on the links side. Keep up the great work bitches…later!
-Sherm
March 6, 2008 at 7:30 am |
June 27, 2008 at 10:52 pm |
Thought you all might be interested in this, the first book on Xavier basketball … due out in late August, I hope.
June 27, 2008 at 10:53 pm |
Oops. Check out http://www.xaviertales.com.
June 27, 2008 at 11:10 pm |
I have already pre-ordered the book. I think it said the book will be shipped out on September 30th. Either way, I shall plow through the book.
June 28, 2008 at 9:46 am |
Hmmm, i just realized you are the author of the book so id imagine you know when the book will be for sale. Anyways, thanks for writing the book and i’m sure it’ll be great given the number of interviews with former Xavier players and coaches.
August 19, 2008 at 11:01 pm |
“Xavier Tales” is in early. I am working on sending out to all who ordered it. … The book should be available at the Xavier bookstore and at The Enquirer (312 Elm) right now. If you order online, I’ll send out as soon as I can. … There are fewer than 4,000 copies available. Once those are gone, that will be it. … I have an Oct. 11 book signing set up at Joseph-Beth (with Ralph Lee and Steve Wolf) and Dec. 13 at Borders in Tri-County (Gary Lumpkin so far). More will follow. Michael Perry
August 30, 2008 at 6:25 pm |
“Xavier Tales” is now available at:
– Xavier University bookstore
– Enquirer Customer Service Center, 312 Elm, downtown
– Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Rookwood
– Borders-Tri-County
– Borders-Mason
– Borders-Northgate
– Borders-Eastgate
– Borders-Crestview Hills
And online at http://www.xaviertales.com. I am pretty much sending out books the morning after I receive online orders. Those who want the pick-up option can get books at the Xavier Ticket office.
I am close to being able to announce several signings (which players will be with me where) that will start Oct. 11 and run through December. Stay tuned. Thanks, Michael
October 19, 2008 at 6:50 am |
The next “Xavier Tales” book signings are this coming weekend.
Michael Davenport, former XU player and coach, will join me at 6 p.m. Friday (Oct. 24) before the Blue-White scrimmage at Cintas Center. We’ll be near the front entrance outside the bookstore.
Byron Larkin and Walt McBride will be with me from 1-3 p.m. Saturday (Oct. 25) at the Borders in Eastgate (4530 Eastgate Boulevard, 513.943.0068).
Davenport started three straight years for Pete Gillen, including on the Xavier team that upset Georgetown in the 1990 NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time. Davenport finished his career with 1,172 points and was 15th on the school’s all-time scoring list when he graduated. He was later a member of Skip Prosser’s coaching staff in the late 1990s.
Larkin, a four-year starter for Bob Staak and Gillen, is Xavier’s all-time leading scorer (2,696 points). He led the Musketeers in scoring four consecutive years and holds school records for most field goals, most field goals attempted, most games scoring in double figures and most career 20-point games. A Moeller High School graduate, he is now the analyst on Xavier radio broadcasts. (Not that Byron needs any introduction.)
McBride, Xavier’s leading rebounder in 1985, was a starter in the mid-1980s for Staak and Gillen. He is a former XU radio analyst and currently is the boys basketball coach at Purcell Marian High School. McBride is a graduate of Summit Country Day.
“Xavier Tales” came out two months ago and can also be ordered online at http://www.xaviertales.com.
Thanks, Michael Perry
February 19, 2009 at 11:07 pm |
Shawn Siegel at CollegeHoops.net checking. I was hoping we could exchange links.
Please include a link to
text: CollegeHoops.net
url: http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/
or if you prefer NCAA Tournament focused stuff
text: NCAA Tournament on CHN
url: http://www.collegehoopsnet.com/ncaatournament/
Let me know when you get our link up, and I’ll add yours to both our links page and our blogs page. (Both are top 5 on Google for “college basketball links” and “college basketball blogs”.)
Thanks,
Shawn Siegel
shawn@collegehoops.net
PS – Let me know if there’s other sites/pages you want to trade links for.
February 20, 2009 at 7:02 pm |
It’s been added Shawn.