Getting us started

Hello all! This is Jim Wagner (Wags to most). I serve as the Sports Information Director here at Ursinus College.

I thought I would get this blog started. I will be not be going on the trip, as my pre-season starts today with football and continues for the next two weeks. I'll be making the trip to Las Vegas over the XMas break. However, two of our players (Scott Niewiadomski and Ryan Adams) will be blogging/video casting during their ten-day trip to Italy.

There is a page which explains the entire background of the trip, but, I have a few updates to the schedule. On Wednesday, the Bears will be playing Favaro Basket at 19:30 Italy Time (1:30 on the east coast as Italy is six hours ahead of us). Game number two takes place on Thursday, August 18 at 5 p.m. Italy as the Bears will take on the US Military in Pisa. I think this is the base that Bill Murray and Harold Ramis were shipped to in the movie Stripes, but, I'm not so sure.

Game number three will take place on Monday, August 22 against Palestrina Basket at 6 p.m. in Rome. Game number four is on Tuesday, August 23 against Pamphili Basket with a time to be determined.

Scotty and Ryan will provide more of the trip starting with Monday, as they leave from Philadelphia at 6:15 on Monday headed for a stop over in London. The Bears then land in Milan at 10:45 am on Tuesday.

That's all from me. Keep checking back for updates from Italy!