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Dick Questions For Coach Bob Huggins, Press *1 On Your Telephone Please

skeets — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:45:26 EST

On Wednesday, Will told you about a group of pranksters who had successfully crashed some SEC women's basketball coaches' teleconference. On Thursday, Steinz informed the masses that the Big East men's coaches had been hit. On Friday, The Big Lead posted the audio. God, I love the Internets!

Here's a direct link to listen to the audio (.mp3).

I've listened to it about four times all the way through, and in my opinion, it just keeps getting better and better. The exchange between the moderator and "Rufus" absolutely kills me.

Members of the Kidd Chris radio program on WYSP-FM 94.1 in Philadelphia claim to be behind both of the pranks. Well done, gentlemen.

Prank Callers Terrorize Big East Coaches (w/ Audio!) [The Big Lead]
Telepranksters Hit the Big East [D.C. Sports Bog]
The Kidd Chris Show [94WYSP]
Hey, At Least SOMEONE Was Calling In [Deadspin]

Hey, At Least SOMEONE Was Calling In

Leitch — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:35:06 EST

We remember the old days, back when we were dorfing around at the Daily Illini, of media conference calls with Big Ten coaches. Gene Keady would ramble on too long, Lou Henson would drone that earnest whine of his and Bob Knight, of course, would never show up. It was strange, really, to have a phone number that would connect you with legends of coaching while you were a 19-year-old floppy-haired dork in a Nirvana shirt and ripped jeans; giving us that number was asking for trouble. Fortunately, they were usually before noon, and we were never up that early.

And no one dared give us the women's coaches' teleconference number; that might have been a disaster. It certainly was in the SEC this week.

The LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER gets a busy signal, as a teleconference with SEC women's basketball coaches was interrupted by prank calls.

The H-L reports, "The questions were graphic in nature, and included inquiries about coaches having sexual relations with players and players' performances based on their menstrual cycles." Unfortunately, the media meeting was adjourned before Pat Summitt got her chance to speak.

We're still not certain this was actually a prank and wasn't, say, Mike Tirico.

(Sorry, Mike! We know, you're better now!)

Women's Coaches' Teleconference Gets Dirty [Sports By Brooks]

If He's Not Playing, Ain't Nobody Playing

Leitch — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:45:57 EST

Say what you will about Carmelo Anthony, but he handled his suspension considerably better than this guy.

Howard Stirgus, the star player for the Denton High School basketball team, was suspended from his team for three days for fighting. Right before the one game he was scheduled to miss, he called in a bomb threat, police say.

According to the police report, Stirgus allegedly began calling Denton High School at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday while the school was hosting a doubleheader between the Denton and Guyer girls and boys basketball teams, claiming there was a bomb in the building and it would detonate in a matter of minutes.

Our favorite part is from an early story, when Stirgus, reached by the newspaper, says "he made the calls but didn't say much else." Not much more to say, one supposes.

Stirgus Arrested, Suspended From Team [Denton Record Chronicle]