That video was way weird. :-)

The Cats better be ready to, because the Razorbacks aren’t afraid to shoot them.

… that the medical staff says that his finger is getting better, but he still needs to have it heavily bandaged, which in my opinion, is why his shooting percentage has dropped considerably.

Gillispie sounds the same now as when he was talking about Meeks’ injury last year. Kind of baffled at what he’s being told by the medical people.

Until the bandage size is reduced or gone altogether, I’m afraid Patterson will not be the same. He’s said that he’s adjusting, but he’s said that numerous times since the injury.

Maybe he will convince me later.

You can tell when somebody means it. Their grammar improves, as does their sentence structure and reasoning. Matt meant that, and it showed.

I don’t mean to say he doesn’t usually write well, but he does tend to over-word paragraphs and lose me sometimes. Not this time. Focused like a laser, that was, and it left no doubt whatever about either his loyalty, or ultimately, his bona fides as a Kentucky fan. Great stuff.

More, please.

news.

That certainly makes the game on Saturday a lot easier.

Suggest you post this as a FanShot.

I wonder why? I fear academics, although I hope I’m wrong.

I am not pleased. I want a team’s best shot. If we can’t go down and beat them with Fortson, we don’t deserve the victory, and this is likely to make us less focused.

I think Seth is right. If not for some of the posters around here, then for several fans across the Commonwealth. And I think he’s right for all the reasons you put forth.

I am jealous. I’m jealous that in my memories of the mid-late nineties… I still remember Duke being more hyped than the Cats. I want that for us. I want other fans to groan that all media personalities are falling over themselves to plant their lips around the figurative manhood of the Wildcat nation.

I really have no problem with admitting that and I don’t see what the problem is with recognizing it.

Speaking only for myself, I don’t feel in any way inferior to or jealous of Duke. I loathe them only because they have earned it, not because of their exploits on the basketball floor. Kentucky as a program is so superior historically it isn’t worth mentioning, and we have had only one fewer national championship during their golden years as they themselves have had. Their biggest claim to fame is failure — when you get to as many final fours as they have and only have 3 championships to show for it, that is failure.

Duke unquestionably gets an unfair amount of love from many sports commentators, and ESPN and other media outlets are simply lousy with their alumni. Seth Davis’ example is a perfect one — not only is he utterly clueless about basketball, it is clear he has never spent any time whatever on a basketball court. I could spot him 18 points in a game to 21 and beat him, and I must be close to 20 years his senior with two bad knees.

Duke earned my contempt with the utterly unsportsmanlike actions of Christian Laettner and the continuing failure of their fans who actually remember the act to admit the foulness of that act, and they reinforce my loathing with the continuing elitist way they recruit, act, and behave. I have forgotten more about Kentucky basketball in the last five minutes than any Duke fan is likely to ever know about his team. They wear their own ignorance as a badge of honor, as if they are to important to become steeped in the lore and history of their own team.

I would rather be dead by slow poison and left to decompose in an open sewer in Cairo than be a Duke fan for even one microsecond. Their very existence is an abomination to me, and an example of the grossest and most disgusting form of hubris and condensation. I do not agree with anything Seth Davis says with respect to Kentucky fans, and I see Duke as a sad example of what happens in a cult of personality. When Krzyzewski eventually retires, Duke will gradually become a mediocre team.

And I will hate them not one whit less, but probably enjoy it more.

think of the high regard for Duke, in the national media, as a socio-political thing. It has been surveyed that up to 90% of the national media is Liberal. I would suspect that this creeps into the sports media as well. Duke is an elitist, left-wing university (as are most these days) while Kentucky voted for George Bush & John McCain. We here in the Commonwealth are part of fly-over country, too stupid or ignorant to understand the subtle points that Davis & his colleagues spout off each broadcast. Liberals are elitist snobs who think they know more about everything than common, ordinary working folks who make this country work on a daily basis.

If you look at it thru this prism, his comments can be understood for what they are.

I do sense a bais. Something does not ring true when Woody said he became close to Adolph Rupp then asserted that age-old lie that UK basketball alone was behind in recruiting African American players and that was because of Rupp. (By ring true, I mean he was lying or mistaken to the point of losing credibility.) Geez is right!!! I saw the video and I must admit afterwards I felt a little guilty that I believed some of the revisionist history surrounding Rupp. Of course, I’d like to think I would have done some research before printing articles about him.

Michael Phelps is the victim of his own fame and kindness. He could (and should) have said sorry it was a joke there wasn’t really anything in the bong. I used bad judgment about what I thought was funny…Glad to hear that the legal system is keeping me safe from dangerous Olympians. We need to stop him over there before he winds up in my pool breaking my lap record.

work with one and he is bad enough so I couldn’t imagine living down there. Don’t know any Duke fans….atleast, none that I have let live.

I hope Arkansas doesn’t remember how to play like this against us on Saturday.

Man, I can’t believe it.

I did not watch the game but I find it unbelievable that UL lost by that margin. I had to check it ot on CC when someone mentioned it.

Wow.