ESPN story outlining the DCC of old...

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Ky Boy

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Having taken in all the christmas festivities with my family and eating enough delicious food to feel as though I am bordering on gluttony, I sit down in the recliner to relax and surf the net for anything involving pool.:embarrassed2:

While many have envisioned sugar plums dancing in their head to dreaming of a white christmas, I have been dreaming and completely enthralled about the upcoming Derby City Classic!! Having been to DCC for, I guess, 9-10 years now, it never gets old to me. I love being around all things pool for says on end! Although it has become transplanted from Ex. West in Louisville to the Horseshoe Casino in Elizabeth, IN, it is still a tournament that offers a fun time for anyone. For those of you who have never been, I can't recommend highly enough you make the trip at least once.

I know many here never had the opportunity to attend DCC at the Ex. West. And for those of you who didn't, I can't begin to tell you how badly you missed out!! It was an amazing experience that I can not begin to describe and even more, feel lucky and privileged to have been a part of it for several years. I miss the pleasing aroma of the peanut stand, the confined quarters that spawned so many action games, and the ability to sit in 1 wingback chair, elevated from the floor just outside of the bar, and sweat as many as 5-6 tables at once. It was a pool player's heaven!!:joyful:

So, after searching the net for anything pool I stumbled upon an ESPN article that does give some hint of what DCC was all about at Ex. West...

Merry Christmas and Enjoy!:thumbup:


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/10/31/kid.delicious/1.html

Gary
 
wrickyb

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SI Sports Illistrated NOT ESPN

Just a note the article is by SI - Sports Illustrated NOT ESPN big difference. Nice article but not exactly fact checked but colorful writing.
 
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Ky Boy

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not sure why I put ESPN...wishful thinking, maybe? :confused:

Thanks for pointing it out though...having attended that DCC, I do know most of what was mentioned happened albeit amount of the bet on some gambling endeavors mentioned may not be 100% factual...

Gary
 
sjm

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Nice article, but Derby City is so much more than it used to be.

The idea that you can go to one place and see or participate in a nine ball event, a ten ball event, a one pocket event, a bank pool event, and a straight pool event in a nine day span is really quite amazing. In every discipline, you get to see or compete against the superstars of that discipline. If you don't draw them, you may have the chance to gamble with them if you want it bad enough.

Derby City is a) the best opportunity for a student of the game to learn how the very best go about their business in all major pool disciplines, b) the true proving ground of all around pool skill, and c) with its fields numbering in the hundreds, the greatest gathering of talent on the American pool calendar.

For those who've yet to see this great show, find a way!
 
JB Cases

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I really really really wish that all the people who have filmed the DCC and taken pix would do a documentary on it. The event at the Executive West was simply magical. It's so hard to explain how freaking awesome it was on so many levels. But at least a documentary would possibly preserve some of that. I have a $100 bill waiting to pay the person who makes a good documentary of the DCC's Executive West era.
 
Black-Balled

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JB Cases said:
I really really really wish that all the people who have filmed the DCC and taken pix would do a documentary on it. The event at the Executive West was simply magical. It's so hard to explain how freaking awesome it was on so many levels. But at least a documentary would possibly preserve some of that. I have a $100 bill waiting to pay the person who makes a good documentary of the DCC's Executive West era.
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But there are so many people walkiing around there with cameras, many who come many years...surely it must be possible to put out a call to visually fund a book or DVD?

There was a pretty famous live-music nightclub in DC, The Bayou, and som rocumentarians made a DVD using other people's footage.
A great watch...Bayou: DC's Killer Joint Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIR0uuHh-DU

Where there's a will, there's a way? And the DCC is coming up soon too. Time for an enterprising individudal to get some business cards printed up and start handing 'em out.

There's my idea, out there and I only claim 12% of gross...:thumbup:
 
Cornerman

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JB Cases said:
I really really really wish that all the people who have filmed the DCC and taken pix would do a documentary on it. The event at the Executive West was simply magical. It's so hard to explain how freaking awesome it was on so many levels. But at least a documentary would possibly preserve some of that. I have a $100 bill waiting to pay the person who makes a good documentary of the DCC's Executive West era.
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Sigh... I have a feeling much of my photos and videos are simply lost, but hopefully I can find some stuff (from my ex) and add to whoever else has a lot of videos and photos.
 
Ktown D

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Cornerman said:
Sigh... I have a feeling much of my photos and videos are simply lost, but hopefully I can find some stuff (from my ex) and add to whoever else has a lot of videos and photos.
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I know you had some good photos and footage from the first year we met, too bad some of them may be gone.

I know you posted the arm-rasslin' on youtube, is it still there?
 
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