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Memphis Tigers: the NCAA's Rumpselstilzkin Story

By wt

A hilarious Onion article about the fact that there is no Cindarella story team in the final four this year. But there is a Rumpelstilzkin story team in the Memphis Tigers.

"Okay, now, pay attention, because this is pretty complicated," point guard Derrick Rose said upon opening what was to be a three-hour marathon of explanations, questions, and folkloric interpretation held in a conference room at the at the team's hotel.

"Okay, we can't be Cinderella, because we're a No. 1 seed, right? But of all the No. 1 seeds, we were the one people expected to lose. So we're like the girl in the story who starts out as a miller's daughter but right away she becomes a princess.

And she?we?only got this far because we can spin straw into gold, but it really isn't us, it's this magic dwarf. Okay, then, is everybody following so far?"

The whole thing is hilarious. Read it all.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).