Joey Dorsey
Overview
United States
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professional basketball
Basketball
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player who plays for Caja Laboral
Saski Baskonia
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. He played college basketball for the University of Memphis
University of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
Tigers
Memphis Tigers
The Memphis Tigers represent the University of Memphis in Division I of the NCAA. They are members of C-USA and currently feature nine women's sports and nine men's sports...
, where he was an interdisciplinary studies major. He is most famous for leading the Memphis Tigers
Memphis Tigers basketball
The Memphis Tigers men's basketball team represents the University of Memphis in NCAA Division I men's college basketball. The Tigers compete in Conference USA, in which they have won six regular season and four conference tournament championships. As of 2011, the Tigers have the 29th highest...
to the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2007–08 basketball season...
championship game with Derrick Rose
Derrick Rose
Derrick Martell Rose is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association ....
and Chris Douglas-Roberts
Chris Douglas-Roberts
Chris Douglas-Roberts, also known as CDR is an American basketball player who plays for Virtus Bologna. He played college basketball for the Memphis Tigers.-High school:...
during his senior year.
During both his sophomore and junior years on the team, the Tigers went to the NCAA tournament's Elite Eight
Elite Eight
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.
During the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 65 NCAA schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season...
, Dorsey famously called Ohio State center Greg Oden
Greg Oden
Gregory Wayne Oden, Jr. is an American basketball player at the center position. Oden is a member of the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA....
"overrated as a big man", said that Oden "might be as good as Joey Dorsey", and labeled himself "Goliath" and Oden "the little man".
Quotations
Nor bigots who but one way see,Through blinkers of authority.
The Grotto, l. 165. (1732)
To cure the mind's wrong bias, Spleen,Some recommend the bowling green;Some, hilly walks; all, exercise;Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Line 89.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Line 93.
Avarice, sphincter of the heart.
Line 697.
Thus I steer my bark, and sailOn even keel, with gentle gale.
Though pleased to see the dolphins play,I mind my compass and my way.