Stu’s Hunt Down: Mark Randall
Posted on June 12th, 2008 – 2:46 PMBy Michael Rand
Name: Mark Randall
Claim to Fame, Minnesota: he was born in Edina! He’s one of us! Also played a bit for the T’wolves in the early ‘90s before being traded to Detroit along with Gerald Glass for the immortal Brad Sellers, the immortal-er Lance Blanks, and a draft pick.
Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: led the Kansas Jayhawks to the Final Four in 1991. Made the cover of SI and everything. They eventually lost to the Duke Blue Devils in the title game, which doesn’t make Duke stink any less. He would go on to the prototypical journeyman career, with stops in La Crosse, Rapid City, Fort Wayne, and Milan, Italy.
Where They Are Now: as the journeyman link above notes, he caught on with the Denver Nuggets staff. He’s currently a community ambassador for the franchise and runs a summer basketball camp in the Denver area. Also, he likes Grey’s Anatomy and Peter Forsberg.
Glorious Randomness: if the only time you’ve been in Minnesota is when you drove through it with your parents when you were a 3-year-old, WCCO Radio will issue you a laminated “One of Us!” card should you become famous later in life. This valuable card entitles you to a 5% discount at all metro area Lunds and Byerly’s stores, one free appetizer at Murray’s, and a built-to-scale model of Dark Star’s studio crafted entirely from toothpicks, gum, and Don Shelby’s tears. This card can and will be rescinded if your child is a prep football or basketball star and does not attend the University of Minnesota.
*Thanks to RandBall reader Michael Rand for passing along the Randall suggestion from whoever it was that sent it in the first place. [Proprietor note: it was Ramon.]
22 Responses to "Stu’s Hunt Down: Mark Randall"
Also, he likes Grey’s Anatomy and Peter Forsberg.
So he’s a fan of whiners…
Another Kansas basketball great to flop in the NBA*
*See also:
Jacque Vaughn
Raef LaFrentz
Greg Ostertag
Scott Pollard
Nick Collison
Wilt Chamberlain**
**May or may not be true.
Which one is Forsberg? McFloppy?
SCH +1
Joker
Greg Ostertag was the flag-bearer for the Utah Jazz. No one better represented their fan base/surroundings than Ostertag.
True Dave. Also, no one better represented extreme whiteness and awesomely bad crew cuts* than Ostertag.
*After Chris Mullins’ retirement.
Chris Mullins didn’t have the oafish qualities of Ostertag though. That’s a big part of the Utah Jazz “look”.
Juan - Gone
Ok, Roughkat, this is just getting weird.
Celebratory beer? [Opens desk drawer] Check.
If we were all meeting at the RBHQ tonight, I would worry that Stu and Roughkat would be wearing the same thing.
I’d say something about great minds but there’s no way that’s correct.
Dave MN
They must be sleeping together. Women that are around each other long enough usually end up on the same Menstrual Cycle. Next thing you know they’ll be playing with each other’s hair, and going to the bathroom at the same time.
Jealousy is a stinky cologne, Joker.
The award for largest logical leap goes to…. Joker!
And look at the faces of all of his exes here in the crowd this evening.
“Daggers” just doesn’t quite do it justice…
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3439835
Funny, I don’t hear the Vikings’ Adrian Peterson making these excuses.
He apparently ate the jagged metal Krusty-O
Re: Mark Randall
Randall played out of his mind his senior year. He just wasn’t that good. FWIW, he lived in(/went to) Cherry Creek (High School), which has been the butt of a South Park joke or two hundred.
Re: Greg Ostertag
Four years of KU-OSU games matched Ostertag and Big Country Reeves. Good times.
Four years of KU-OSU games matched Ostertag and Big Country Reeves
I remember them well. They could have broadcast the games in black-and-white and there would have been no noticeable difference.
Stu, applause is in order for the Glorious Randomness. As an eighteen year resident of this state I am still frequently treated as an alien, until I point out that my grandmother is from Minneapolis and my grandfather from St Paul; they left in the early 1920’s!
Your kind words are appreciated, Matthew.
