St. Mary’s Sweet-16 game with Baylor is about five minutes in as a write this, and the Gaels are down 10, so I’d better get this out of the way. St. Mary’s 6-foot-11 center, Omar Samhan, may not totally have his head in the game. Consider this quote from Wednesday’s media session, as reported by Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Are those cameras on?” he asked. “I love you, Taylor, you should call me.”
He was speaking of singer Taylor Swift, of course.
“I’m a huge Taylor Swift fan,” Samhan said. “I listen to her before games. People think it’s weird. But there is so much emotion and excitement before these games, it just kind of slows you down, and it keeps me mellow, because I’m just like a time bomb waiting to go off.”
Does he have a shot? From The Boot :
Turns out, his feelings just might be reciprocated, because Taylor has a thing for lanky lads. “The bad thing about being tall,” the 5’11″ singer explains, “is the majority of people are at a different eye level than you and so you feel like you’re looking down to talk to people, which is kind of unnatural.”
Previously linked to Joe Jonas and Taylor Lautner, Taylor was recently spotted enjoying time with Glee star Cory Monteith. Finishing up her worldwide Fearless tour next week, the singer will be at the ACM Awards on April 18, where she is nominated for four awards, including Entertainer of the Year.
And from NCAA Fanhouse, on which team is the most overlooked basketball program, Saint Mary’s or Baylor:
“Tell Baylor that Omar Samhan said this, ‘I had to get my own ice after practice, half the guys on my team don’t have cars, we go to Saint Mary’s College,’” he said. “They can’t even start this argument. We live in Moraga. Come on, let’s be real Baylor, you don’t know my pain.
“Tell Baylor Omar says you don’t know his pain.”
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Basketball Star Omar Samhan Swift-ly Proclaims His Crush [The Boot]
Samhan is touney’s ‘Love Story’ [San Francisco Chronicle]
