Donatas Zavacas lives. And for some reason he is playing in Columbus, Ohio.
If you are an Ohio State fan, more specifically, an Ohio State basketball fan, tonight was your night in the Worthington Summer League.
Buckeye Corner squared off with Union Savings Bank in the semi-finals of the league tournament tonight. The combined starting lineups had Tony Stockman, Sylvester Mayes, Ron Lewis, J. J. Sullinger, Scoonie Penn, Brayden Bell, Matt Marinchick, Je’Kell Foster and Terence Dials on the floor. The lone starter without an OSU connection was Donatas Zavacas from Pitt.
Apparently he does this, well I don’t know why he does this, but it isn’t a full-time thing.
Buckeye Corner has played with a total roster of five all season, but baseline player Donatas Zavacas could not be on hand for tonight’s game. Zavacas plays professional ball in Europe and has left the country to join his team. Zavacas, a power forward/center, was replaced on the roster by a guard who has played sparingly this season.
Understand, that these stories were one day apart on datelines — July 20 and 21. Any insight into this would be appreciated.
Yogi Roth went home and spoke at the University of Scranton (who knew?) for the Shamus Foundation (I have no idea).
Former Pitt QB, David Priestley just got married and admits he probably won’t get another job in the NFL. He’s now living in New Jersey.
While not an alumn, he was a graduate assistant for Pitt and Walt Harris and he’s from Mt. Lebanon. Brian Lowe is the guy behind the company that will be providing the replay system used by the Big East and other conferences this fall.
Eventually he landed at Pitt, where he served as a graduate assistant under Walt Harris in 1997. It was in that position, while editing tapes, that he realized most of the technology and videotaping systems available for coaches were not well suited for producing coaching tapes.
“I was at a coaches conference and talked with a rep from Avid Sports, which was the company that was producing the system we were using at Pitt,” Lowe said, “and I gave him some ideas on how I thought it could be made a little more coach-friendly. They must have liked my ideas because I was hired and I worked as a liaison between the company and coaches. That’s really how I got my start.”
Avid Sports became Pinnacle Sports and Lowe continued to work for the company until 2001, when he decided to try to produce his own digital video editing and game analysis software for coaches.
He started DVSport that year and the company has grown since. Today, the company has 10 employees and has its technology being used by Central Catholic and Mt. Lebanon high schools as well as colleges such as Pitt, West Virginia, Westminster, Washington & Jefferson and Thiel.
Interesting.
