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This Mediocre Kentucky Team Offers Hope That John Calipari Hasn't Solved College Basketball
With their win today over No. 11 Florida, the Kentucky Wildcats will probably make the NCAA Tournament. Normally UK achieves that designation by late November or so. Kentucky missed the Big Dance in 2009, but it'd been 1991 since the Cats last weren't invited to March Madness. They hold the NCAA rec...
Here's What Kentucky's Championship Celebration Sounded Like Over The Lexington Police Scanner
If you weren't tuned in to the Lexington Police Department's radio scanner last night, you missed out on a wild world of sports celebrations that ranged from the violent to the perverse. (The #LexingtonPoliceScanner Twitter hashtag alone was trending worldwide, at one point.) We recorded the whole ...
Next Year's NCAA Final Four Will Be Held In Lithuania
The NCAA would have you dismiss all Dumb Jock stereotypes, but the ribbon board tonight announced a far more important notice: next year's Final Four will take place in "Alanta."...
Commence The Kentucky Fans Shouting Profanities On Live Television
Here's a shot from a few minutes ago on WKYT in Lexington of an ill-advised live shot from the middle of a gathering of Kentucky fans at the corner of Woodland and Euclid, near the UK campus. The horrified reactions of the "hosts" broadcasting from what appears to be an RV in New Orleans makes th...
Congratulations to NCAA Champions Kentucky, Whose Celebration Scared The Shit Out Of Some Radio Guy
Kentucky is your NCAA Division I men's basketball national champion, beating Kansas 67-59. They may or may not blow up Lexington tonight, but it's the explosion of confetti inside the Superdome that has this unidentified radio man concerned. [CBS]...
The Fray's Pre-NCAA Title Game National Anthem Performance Was ... Different
While nowhere near as bad as any that made our suggestions for the Worst National Anthem Ever (indeed, if you caught Monica's tone-deaf rendition Saturday, you know it wasn't even the worst of the Final Four) The Fray's attempt at a hipster version of Marvin Gaye's "Star-Spangled Banner" fell awfu...
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That's that: Kentucky's student-athletes defeated Kansas's amateur basketball players, 67-59. Here's a look at some of our tourney coverage: They're cursing on TV in Kentucky » | The celebration scared some radio guy » | John Calipari, honest pimp » | How the careers of March Madness heroes ended » ...
How A Career Ends: Jeff Sheppard, Kentucky's Great Dunking Guard, Quit Because Of 9/11
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Jeff Sheppard, two-time national champion and one of the best dunkers in Kentucky history. ...
How A Career Ends: George Lynch Was Finished Off By Sore Feet
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: George Lynch, all-purpose star for the University of North Carolina....
John Calipari, The First Honest Pimp
John Calipari is a smarmy greaseball with a habit of making enemies and racking up NCAA violations, and sometimes I think he's the only man who really understands college basketball. ...
Reports: Kentucky Students Are Burning Things, Getting Pepper Sprayed After Beating Louisville
Did you guys hear? Lexington is "burning" and the students are "rioting" after Kentucky dispatched with Louisville in the first game of the Final Four. Just look at the crazy scene above. It's your typical city burning/students rioting situation: "at least three" burning couches, overturning cars a...
Louisville Stopped The Bleeding With This Sexy Steal, Dish, & Dunk
It's halftime in New Orleans, and Kentucky leads Louisville 35-28. The Wildcats would be spanking the turnover-prone Cardinals even worse if it wasn't for this late Russ Smith steal, Chris Smith behind-the-back feed, and Gorgui Dieng dunk (which drew a foul from UK's Darius Miller). UL's got a wa...
How A Career Ends: I Went For A Rebound And Realized All The Hands Were Above Mine
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Luke Witte, Ohio State center and on-court stomping victim. ...
Thomas Hill, Duke's Famous Weeper, Finally Confesses: I Wasn't Crying
"The misconception is that there are tears coming out of my eyes," Thomas Hill told me on Thursday. "There weren't." Hill is the former Duke guard who in 1992 became the happily crumpled face of the Blue Devils' last-second victory over Kentucky in the Elite Eight—maybe the face of March Madness its...
A Stripper's Guide To The Final Four
During the 2007 Final Four, I traveled to Atlanta with a couple of friends to dance at the Pink Pony. We were surprised to find the local dancers questioning why the dancer manager was urging them to work all weekend, then do it again next weekend during the Masters. By the Sunday before the final, ...
How A Career Ends: John Wooden's Pyramid Of Success Led Me From Belgium To Real Estate
Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: guard John Vallely, who won national titles with and without Lew Alcindor at UCLA. ...
Dumb Shining Moment: Your 2012 NCAA Tournament Lowlight Reel
While the NCAA tournament isn't yet finished—the Final Four starts Saturday, after all—the 64 games played thus far have been short on the drama (one overtime game, zero buzzer-beaters) but long on the blunders. While a good number of these mistakes can be blamed on the officials, players (and fa...
Ray Lewis Is A Better Motivational Speaker Than You
Here is ageless football-playing machine Ray Lewis giving a bit of a pep talk to the Stanford hoopsters before Tuesday's NIT matchup. The Cardinal then went out and defeated UMass, 74-64....
Kentucky Will Win The National Championship, According To 4 Billion Computer Simulations
Ah, computers. Is there nothing they can't simulate?...