8 December 1914: The Battle of the Falkland Islands—the annihilation of the German East Asia Squadron by a British Royal Navy squadron just off of Port Stanley; British casualties: ten fatalities & a score wounded; German casualties: almost nineteen hundred souls lost, four ships sunk—S.M.S. Scharnhorst, S.M.S. Gneisenau, S.M.S. Leipzig, & S.M.S. Nürnberg—& two ships captured, & later scuttled.
Lest we forget.
Commentary: The British battlecruiser squadron was dispatched in response to the German victory in the Battle of Coronel on 1 November 1914, the subject of "The Explorers' Club" episode № CDXVI: Wayback Machine.
The Victors | Project OSPREY
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
(№ 17) Michigan 68-65 Syracuse
6-1, B1G 0-0
As suspected, I didn't have the chance to see any of Tuesday's game, part of the successful A.C.C./B1G Challenge. Apparently the valiant Wolverines show under forty per cent for the night, but prevailed through strong (for us) rebounding & forcing plenty of turnovers: propaganda-link.
Saturday, 6 December 2014
N.J.I.T. 72-70 Michigan (№ 17)
6-2, B1G 0-0
One can only hope yesterday's well-earned defeat serves as a wake-up call to an unexpectedly, baselessly arrogant & lazy valiant Wolverines' squad & will thus be remembered as the ugliest chapter in the 2014-2015 season, not as the first harbinger of a disastrous year for the program. Sure, the epithetless Highlanders shot extraordinarily well, but that is in part because we played such lackluster defense. We truly deserved to lose yesterday's game, so on some level I'm glad we did.
Next Game
The epithetless Eagles of Eastern Michigan in the friendly confines of the Crisler Center. How many persons who aren't ardent Maize & Blue fans do you suspect have heard of the Crisler Center, but never having seen it written out (or, having seen it having not paid attention), presume that because of Ann Arbor's location & the erstwhile "Big Three's" statute in sacred Michigan, that the building is called the "Chrysler Center," after the American half of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles? Of course, who outside of the Michigan Nation is all that familiar with "Fritz" Crisler, namesake of Fritz Kreisler? But I digress.
On the following Saturday, the valiant Wolverines play their first true road game of the season—as visitor's to another club's home court, not as fellow sojourners on a neutral court—against the (№ 3) epithetless Wildcats of Arizona, of the ancient enemy, the Pac-12. This will be our conqu'ring heroes sternest challenge of the still-young season.
Go Blue!
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