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Red Wings Prospect Arrested For Allegedly Being "Super-Drunk" While Wearing Teletubby Costume
Riley Sheahan is facing charges of being "super-drunk" after his arrest in October during which cops say the 20-year-old Detroit Red Wings prospect had a blood-alcohol content of .30 while driving and wearing a Tinky Winky costume....
The Real Grand Experiment? It's John Calipari's Kentucky
Originally published in Bloomberg View....
John Calipari Thinks Little Of Duke's Acting Skills: "In The NBA, They'd All Be Suspended"
Kentucky went into halftime against Duke down two points, but that was fine by Wildcats coach John Calipari, who offered up the Blue Devils some post-NCAA career advice on his way to the locker room....
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Texas)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...
Kentucky Basketball Spent Just About As Much Money Lighting A Basketball Pep Rally As It Does On Football Recruiting
On Friday John Calipari and company kicked off the start of the college basketball season with their version of Midnight Madness, Big Blue Madness. Kentucky is coming off a National Championship-winning year so they're allowed to get a little nuts. We're talking hip-hop music nuts....
"Mummified Cat Slam Dunking Mummified Bird" Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Courtesy of the great commonwealth of Kentucky, we have this horrifying creation, which was posted on ebay last Sunday. The seller set a starting bid of $550 for his artfully arranged shriveled cat carcass. Someone must have jumped on that incredible deal, because the item is no longer for sale....
ESPN Definitely Messed Up The Halftime Scoreboard For UK-Florida, But It's Not Because You Can't Score One Point
Yeah, that wasn't the score at all. It was 24-0, Florida, and we do not know why it said 17-1. However many of you wrote it in claiming that the score was not only incorrect, but necessarily incorrect, because a team could never have one point. Not so. It would take a blocked extra point, a recover...
Kentucky Freshman Misses Dunk In Most Farcical Way Possible
Nerlens Noel is the prized pupil in John Calipari's newest crop of one-year athlete-students. Last night, Noel and a few other Wildcats players swung by the area where hundreds of fans had camped out for tickets to Big Blue Madness. They even played some pickup with a few children, at least until ...
Watch A Kentucky Student Do The World's Worst Job Of Pitching A Tent
Every year, UK students camp outside Memorial Coliseum in Lexington for a chance at tickets to Big Blue Madness, the introduction ceremony for the Wildcats' men's and women's basketball teams. (It can get violent—Kentucky stations medical personnel at the race to the campsite—and that all this is ...
Note To Coaches: Saying Your Students Wear A Rival's Colors Because "They Couldn't Get Into" That School Is Not A Good Idea
Western Kentucky's gearing up for a big football game at cross-state rival Kentucky this weekend. Part of the festivities: Hilltoppers players are carrying footballs around campus, and if any fans can steal the ball and bring it to coach, they'll get to travel with the team. (This is a recipe for fu...
Ricky Williams's Foundation For At-Risk Kids Has Been Taken Over By A Rasputin-Inspired Cult
The Ricky Williams Foundation was started "to be instrumental in the physical, mental, emotional and educational development of at-risk individuals from low social-economic communities." You wouldn't expect anything less from Ricky Williams, by all accounts one of the nicest, most genuine guys in fo...
Found: One University Of Kentucky Prosthetic Leg
OK. So. We have here a prosthetic leg emblazoned with the University of Kentucky Wildcats logo. The leg was pulled in by a shrimping boat in Florida. It appears to be a right leg. Guessing from the footwear I am assuming it belonged to a male, outdoorsy type. Of course, it is possible that it's a f...
Man Busted By Reporter For Parking Illegally: "Fuck You. I Hope You Get AIDS."
It's local news sweeps time again, which means reporters are on the prowl with their I-Teams to trump up whatever tired outrage hasn't been covered recently. Fecal matter in iced tea? Eyewitness News is on your side! Cops eating doughnuts and drinking coffee on the job? The I-Team is there!...
Kentucky Declares For NBA Draft
UK's entire starting five—freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, and Marquis Teague, and sophomores Doron Lamb and Terrence Jones—announced they'll be leaving Lexington after a national championship. They'll be joined by senior Darius Miller, so John Calipari—as proud as he is of his one-an...
Raise A Pint For The Short, Fat, Drunk, And Dead Darts Legend Jocky Wilson
On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Mike Pesca tells the story of Scottish dartsman Jocky Wilson, who died in March. Wilson dominated the sport in the early 1980s, and spent the rest of his career as a wonderfully larger-than-life sort. Just one line from his obituary i...
John Calipari Received The Key To The City, And The Plaque Has Typos In The Words "The" And "Its"
John Calipari and the NCAA championship trophy kicked off a whistlestop tour of the state today, and one of the first stops was in Pikeville, Ky., where Calipari received the key to the city. Perhaps the ceremonial plaque was whipped up hastily, but it sports a pair of typos. [Twitter]...
Charles Barkley Warns The NBA Could Rig The Lottery To Give The Nets Anthony Davis
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Charles likes to start conspiracy theories....
John Calipari Used To Make A Nets Intern Defend Him By Calling Into New York Talk Radio
Now that John Calipari has finally won an NCAA championship, Adrian Wojnarowski has written something over at Yahoo that posits the Knicks' job as Calipari's potential next step. Wojnarowski is a terrific reporter, so the rationale behind his suggestion—money, the spotlight, leverage, Calipari's bit...
Science! Simulates The Kentucky Wildcats Vs. The Washington Wizards
Paul Bessire runs PredictionMachine.com and created the Predictalator, the most advanced sports forecasting software available today. The technology has the ability to account for all of the statistical interactions of the players, coaches, officials, and fans (homefield advantage) in each game. The...