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2/17/2011 4:00:15 PM

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"poor grammar/sentence structure doesn't really exist in the realm of poetry"

Just because it's a poem doesn't give him the excuse to not capitalize "i" does it? I don't really care, but it's pretty obvious that he proof read his poem exactly zero times.

[Edited on February 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM. Reason : ]

2/17/2011 4:03:08 PM

JesusHChrist, it's poetry. Maybe he was using a lower case "i" to symbolize how small he felt after initially being rejected by the girl. Maybe?

[Edited on February 17, 2011 at 4:06 PM. Reason : ]

2/17/2011 4:05:52 PM

haha. Yeah, I'm sure that reasoning sincerely went through his mind.

2/17/2011 4:06:52 PM

as somebody mentioned earlier, how do we even know this or the vandenburg stuff was real?

2/17/2011 4:09:53 PM

yea Emily Dickinson used to get punked by major publishers because they said she used too many hyphens, fuck publishers

2/17/2011 4:12:14 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/17/995278/lowe-turning-to-youth.html#ixzz1EF1BaUfp

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"Leslie has been "great" since the one-game suspension, Lowe said. Leslie impressed the coach when he apologized to his teammates for letting them down, and Lowe said Leslie has been on time for practice and refocused in his game preparation."

2/17/2011 4:39:39 PM

thank god

2/17/2011 5:08:34 PM

^^Good. Now we can win the National Championship

2/17/2011 5:18:38 PM

^pretty lame comment

2/17/2011 5:18:58 PM

^pretty lame commenter

2/17/2011 5:22:53 PM

oh snap

2/17/2011 5:23:49 PM

internet slap fight

2/17/2011 5:33:47 PM

I thought CJL's poem was pretty dayum funny. Sounded like a bullshit assignment they did on Valentine's Day, it didn't have glaring spelling issues like THE BIG DANDY VANDY'S dumb ass assignment he submitted last year and at least we know our student athletes do their own school work.

2/17/2011 5:43:14 PM

clearly, CJL is a student of cummings

in both style and substance

2/17/2011 6:14:51 PM

this poem turned my opinion of CJL from to

for the first time this basketball season, i'm absolutely proud to be an nc state fan. and no, i didn't capitalize the "i" in "i'm".

2/17/2011 6:33:38 PM

that guy looks absolutely nothing like me

2/17/2011 6:41:26 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/basketball/ncaa/02/16/redick.poems/

2/17/2011 6:58:50 PM

Double post



Awesome

2/17/2011 7:58:08 PM

It wasn't a Valentines Day assignment just a poem that we have to write and turn in to everyone in the class to critique it.

2/17/2011 8:04:54 PM

boys will be boys

2/17/2011 8:06:33 PM

Leslie just needed to express himself through poetry.


Now that he doesn't have his deep emotions bottled up he's free to dominate.

2/17/2011 8:52:58 PM

thanks for showing up tonight

2/17/2011 8:56:05 PM

I wonder if the old ass faggots on pack pride are going to continue to criticize leslie for not trying hard, not having the right facial expressions, and writing bad poetry?

2/17/2011 9:03:45 PM

keep writing poetry CJ, it's working!

2/17/2011 9:13:57 PM

11.1 ppg, 8th in the acc in rbs and 10th in blocked shots. not bad for a freshman averaging 24 mpg.

2/17/2011 9:35:58 PM

lol @ JJ Redick poems. At least CJ isn't gayer than a bowl of dicks.

2/17/2011 9:40:13 PM

condors

2/17/2011 9:45:20 PM

L O L

Wolfpackhoops headline after tonight's game :

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"Leslie, Pack Poetic In Win Over Clemson 69-61"

http://packinsider.com/2011/02/leslie-pack-poetic-in-win-over-clemson-69-61/

2/17/2011 10:26:06 PM

JJ:

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"I meet him in an empty field on the high plains He throws temptations my way to inflict internal pain Life and death matters, this ain't no game It's mind over matter, the power of my brain He thinks I'll give in if my muscles start to strain He believes I'll submit to the evil of society's frame And benefit from notoriety's gain He says I don't have to properly train and that he'll give me all the fame and everyone will know my name But I think he's insane 'Cause I know the truth- to gain is to give To have pain is to live So I call on my heavenly Father's name And slowly watch the thunder and rain subside I'm finally able to push the temptations aside I went blow for blow, I went face to face Now the devil knows, I'm able to escape Not by a back door or an alternate route I saw the middle high ground and I ran right through"

2/17/2011 11:10:59 PM

CJ played AWESOME tonight. GO PACK!

2/17/2011 11:20:06 PM

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"MIDDLE HIGH GROUND"

2/18/2011 12:31:00 AM

ITT, V0LC0M commits a federal felony (alliteration, to go with the theme of the page). I don't know who got a hold of that poem first, but the shit just may hit the fan...

2/18/2011 9:30:22 AM

Except for Hickson, Leslie is the best true freshman since....?

Powell, Hodge, and Simmons and close, but Leslie is statistically faring better than them at this point I think...

2/18/2011 9:38:47 AM

Paul Cousins is on it

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"RALEIGH -- N.C. State is looking into how a writing assignment by C.J. Leslie ended up on a popular sports website. Deadspin, a humor website that touches on the juvenile side of sports, posted a poem written by Leslie for an English class on Thursday. Chris Kingston, N.C. State's senior associate athletic director, said the school is trying to determine the recourse for what he called a violation of Leslie's federal privacy laws. "Our concern is the student's privacy," Kingston said. "How does that get out?" Kingston said Carrie Leger, the associate athletic director for academics and student services, and Paul Cousins, director of the university's office of student conduct, are investigating the matter. The site attached a copy of the 28-line, sexually themed poem under the headline of "C.J. Leslie's poem about hooking up is awfully romantic." The Deadspin article begins: "Don't ask how but we got our hands on one of NCSU freshman star forward C.J. Leslie's class assignments." Kingston said the school has not contacted the website."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/18/997752/leslies-poem-for-class-leaked.html

2/18/2011 9:43:48 AM

^^hodge averaged 17 as a frosh

http://statsheet.com/mcb/players/player/north-carolina-state/julius-hodge

2/18/2011 9:45:48 AM

Did you look at the years next to the stats you are citing?

I think you may be confusing his freshman year for his senior year.

2/18/2011 9:59:53 AM

I just reposted the deadspin article pic.


YOU GOT NOTHIN ON ME COPPERS!!

2/18/2011 10:29:21 AM

^^^



[Edited on February 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM. Reason : .]

2/18/2011 10:34:16 AM

cjl's poem has made me a cjl supporter. that shit is funny

2/18/2011 10:36:13 AM

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"Except for Hickson, Leslie is the best true freshman since....? Powell, Hodge, and Simmons and close, but Leslie is statistically faring better than them at this point I think... "

Don't forget Brandon Costner.

BTW, as a freshman Ced Simmons averaged only 10 minutes and 3.5 points.

2/18/2011 11:30:11 AM

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"^^hodge averaged 17 as a frosh"

nah, he averaged 10.7.

costner averaged 16.8 his rs freshman year (after averaging 2.8 in 5 games in his true freshman year)

2/18/2011 11:36:32 AM

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"Chris Kingston, N.C. State's senior associate athletic director, said the school is trying to determine the recourse for what he called a violation of Leslie's federal privacy laws."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/18/997752/leslies-poem-for-class-leaked.html

2/18/2011 11:47:21 AM

Good thing I had nothing to do with it. I'll let you guys know what happens in class on Tuesday.

2/18/2011 11:50:23 AM

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"Good thing I had nothing to do with it."

DENY DENY DENY

2/18/2011 11:58:50 AM

that's a pretty good poem, IMO.

better than anything i could write. i suck at creative writing.

2/18/2011 12:05:13 PM

I would put that poem on my refrigerator

2/18/2011 12:09:09 PM

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"that's a pretty good poem, IMO. better than anything i could write. i suck at creative writing."

That was my first thought as well. The only possible issue with it is the subject matter...granted, I've never taken a creative writing class so I do not know what is considered appropriate and what is inappropriate. And some people have said in their creative writing classes that much worse was turned in.

The bigger issue is who is sending that poem around...that shouldn't happen.

2/18/2011 12:17:50 PM

That poem is nothing. I once wrote a poem where I seduced a homeless woman, banged her, killed her, banged her, brought her back to life, banged her, killed her for a second time, banged her, threw her in a dumpster, she comes back to life again, kills me, then sodomizes me with a pool cue. Got an A-.

2/18/2011 12:21:24 PM

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"Good thing I had nothing to do with it. I'll let you guys know what happens in class on Tuesday."

take note of who's absent tuesday.

2/18/2011 1:01:47 PM