{"id":112866,"date":"2019-02-04T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=112866"},"modified":"2019-02-04T06:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:52:32","slug":"monday-mailbag-february-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/02\/04\/monday-mailbag-february-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mailbag: February 4, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s Monday Mailbag features questions about Crestview basketball, tournament draws, the Patriots and All-Star basketball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: How far can Crestview\u2019s basketball team go in the tournament? Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: First things first, the rest of the season is ahead, including a possible share or more of the Northwest Conference championship.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As far as the tournament, if this team plays like it did this past weekend, a nice deep tournament run is very possible.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: When are basketball tournament draws going to be held? Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: Pairings for girls sectional matchups were announced yesterday (see local results), and boys pairings will be released this Sunday. As a rule of thumb, girls tournament pairings are almost always on Super Bowl Sunday, with the boys pairings coming a week later. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: Why is there so much hate out there for the Patriots? Name withheld upon request<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: Hate might be a strong word in this case, but I understand what you\u2019re saying. I suppose people are afraid of seeing Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl seemingly every year. In many ways, it is an amazing thing.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>When I was a boy, lots of people grumbled about the Steelers and the Cowboys playing in the Super Bowl more often than not. Same thing I suppose. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Q: You named a local All-Star team after the 2018 high school football season. Any chance you\u2019ll do the same for basketball? Name withheld upon request.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A: All I\u2019ll say right now is stay tuned for an announcement!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a question for next week\u2019s Monday Mailbag, email it to <a href=\"mailto:sports@thevwindependent.com\">sports@thevwindependent.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor This week\u2019s Monday Mailbag features questions about Crestview basketball, tournament draws, the Patriots and All-Star basketball. Q: How far can Crestview\u2019s basketball team go in the tournament? Name withheld upon request A: First things first, the rest of the season is ahead, including a possible share or more of the Northwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 02:04:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}