The Big Blue Daily Mail -- Easter Edition
by Glenn Logan on Apr 4, 2010 11:05 AM EDT
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PrintHappy Easter, ladies and gentlemen of the Big Blue Nation.
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UK fans cheer Cal in cook-off — Jerry Tipton on UK basketball
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Tickets for Calipari's bottle signing sold | KentuckySports.com
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Teague has long been considered as leaning toward Louisville because his father played for Cardinals coach Rick Pitino at Boston University and the son has visited U of L multiple times.
But in recent months, the University of Kentucky has reportedly made up ground, and the player told Scout he's considering Cincinnati as well.
Now THIS is a recruiting battle with Louisville I can get behind.
- The C-J's Sunday College Basketball Notebook | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal
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Basketball Prospectus | Articles | Meant to Be
The etiquette for a coach when a player’s injured is always treacherous. Some coaches don’t even go to the player, leaving that to the trainer. Others go out and stand over their fallen charge, which looks even worse. But I’ve seen a lot of basketball in my life, and I’ve never seen a coach do quite what Bob Huggins did last night. To my eyes he has always given the appearance of one who doesn’t care at all about appearances, sometimes to his detriment. (I am also well aware that earlier in the game Huggins didn't seem very pleased with Butler.) But last night that disregard for appearances made quite an appearance. It showed 70,000 people in Lucas Oil Stadium the eloquence of deeds.
How could anyone have said it any better?
More after the jump.
- Comparing Butler and Duke - Beyond the Arc - msnbc.com
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Column: Vols climb back in race to land all-star guard | tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Selby told reporters at the McDonald's All-American game last Wednesday night that all the schools are equal until he and his mother have time to sit down and decide which team is the best fit.
Of the guards considering Kentucky, Selby is the most athletically talented and also the most likely to leave after only one year. He is talented, but I am not sure UK is the best place for him.
- PhillyBurbs.com: If Sixers get lucky, Wall should be the call
- Bledsoe’s family always believed in him | Vaught's Views
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Fans can all agree: We hate Duke | KentuckySports.com
To some, the problem is an and-one. Duke is a private school, perceived by many to have a haughty upper-crust reputation for arrogance and elitism. And, the Devils have won three national titles and made 11 Final Four appearances since 1986.
For the most part, a lot of what Duke has done is on them. A little bit is just plain jealousy, though.
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Rondo passing two Celtics marks
Rajon Rondo is pretty good at basketball.
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Calipari and Kellogg relationship will pay dividends | The Daily Collegian
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New D-Line Coach Ready to Start.
UK fans can now turn their attention to football now that Kentucky's basketball season has ended. Kentucky enters the Joker Phillips era as spring practice begins on Wednesday. Yet Coach Phillips will not be the only new coach when the Cats begin practice. Larry Vaught talked to new defensive line coach David Turner in an article for The Advocate Messenger.
This is going to be a very interesting football season. I am excited about it.
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NBA drafting five Kentucky Wildcats? - Sports Rumors - NBA Blog - Yahoo! Sports
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Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari prepared for mass exodus; Wall says decision to go pro not made | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal
"I don't want to make it harder for me to come back and get my degree," he said. "And I don't want to jeopardize a scholarship for another player at Kentucky. Why would you want to do a program that you loved and played for like that?" -
At Final Four, experience wins out over one-and-done - Sports - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports -
Not likely a lottery pick, but plenty of pros. -
Calipari, Wall Honored In Indy - Louisville News Story - WLKY Louisville
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Vaught's Views: Kentucky needs Brandon Knight to become a Wildcat: AMNews.com
Yes, we do need either him or Selby to come to UK. Both would be even better, but that's probably too much to hope for. -
SEC Weekend Preview (April 2nd-4th) " The College Baseball Blog
Great stuff for baseball fans. - Sean Woods Podcast: Coaching For A Lower-Major School An Adjustment From Playing At Kentucky – LostLettermen.com
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***** UK Spring FB Notebook - Saturday, April 3 ***** - Kentucky Ink
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Sad irony in Huggins, Butler creating an all-time March moment | College Hoops Journal
Because how can I not address what Bob Huggins did? That display of leadership, fatherhood, devotion and nurture was something so damn endearing in such a dire, depressing moment that I think it simultaneously took the life out of the game and swelled the hearts of everyone watching.
This is weirdly right, I think. I have never been more touched by events in a college basketball game than what I saw with Huggins and Butler. Never. I don't think I'll ever forget it.
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UK football: New faces making impact | KentuckySports.com
And redshirt freshman Mister Cobble spent a good part of Saturday running first team at defensive tackle. Phillips said the 6-foot, 309-pound Cobble is ahead of where his mentor and fellow Central graduate, Corey Peters, was at a similar point in his career.
I like to hear things like this. My biggest concerns this year lie on the lines. UK has had good lines the last couple of years, but graduation will really bite this year.
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UK notebook: One-and-dones pose quandary for Todd | KentuckySports.com
"John Wall really changed my impression of what the one-and-done player is," Todd said. "... The system needs change. But under the present system, I'd take every John Wall I could get, if he's a one-and-done."
Todd is exactly right. Nobody wants the guy who comes to school to, in the ancient example, majors in "basket-weaving." Early-out players have a bad reputation primarily because some schools enable them by allowing them to get away with acting like students rather than actually becoming students, even for 12 short months.
But the NCAA has done a good job, in some ways, of reducing this problem by enforcing standards that are harder for schools to get around, and schools, to their credit, have become much more stringent in insisting players attend and pass their classes. I think that is good and proper.
Nobody wants the "nomad" who comes to school to practice for the NBA and has to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to class. But Kentucky has been mostly fortunate in that area, or so it seems. Obviously, the last chapter of this year's academic performance has yet to be written.
- Readers' Views: Fans thank Cats for return to relevance | KentuckySports.com
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UK football has a hitter in Huzzie | KentuckySports.com
"He always wanted to be the best at everything, and he wasn't going to let anybody stop him," Ford said. "LaGrange guys like to hit, and Qua loves nothing more than to hit somebody. And he wants everybody around him to play the exact same way."
Qua Huzzie looks like he has tremendous potential for UK.
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Mr. Basketball Justice pondering UK's pitch - UofL Basketball - Kentucky.com
"Any time Kentucky calls a Kentucky boy and wants to talk about a scholarship, you always have to listen," Booher said. "That's what Elisha's doing."
In all honesty, this looks to me like an attempt to get Pitino, and Louisville fan's goat, as well as show UK fans that he will recruit the state. Justice is a fine young man and a fine young player, but he does not fit UK's system.
I love Coach Cal, but I confess, I think this recruitment is wheels within wheels.
- UK turning defensive end into offensive tackle | KentuckySports.com
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Happy Easter
My whole family is at church and Easter dinner while I am home sick. So I spent Easter morning ‘shopping’ for a UK tee-shirt for Jessica Rabbit via photoshop. No one will ever hire me for my design skills but at least Jessica “Still CatWoman” Rabbit’s heart is in the right place.
(until I get sued for copyright infringement)
Happy Easter all.
Huggins
I didn’t think he had it in him to be so damn….human. All of my Bob Huggins hate flushed down the toilet with one unforgettable gesture.
Note: whenever I right the word “hate” on this site I’m talking sports hate, not real life hate. Thanks.
by don'tshootmei'macard on Apr 4, 2010 11:33 AM EDT reply actions
I've never seen anything like that before.
It was surely one of the most quietly affecting moments in sports that I’ve ever seen. And I really am not typically an overly sentimental person. I think those photos of babies dressed up as flowers and crap are creepy, and if you send me an email forward with a picture of a basket of kittens, I will make fun of you behind your back. But that was genuinely moving.
by blue kentucky girl on Apr 4, 2010 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions
that sure was a moment, wasn't it?
I didn’t have any Huggins hate beforehand, but he does have a tendency to appear a bit distant and non-caring at times, and that made what happened last night even more special. It made him seem more "human" as you put it.
I remember after the Big East championship game this year (you know, the game where Butler hit the game-winning shot?) and both Huggins and Butler were being interviewed and he (Huggins) went out of his way to mention how special he thought Butler was both as a person and a player, but it was nothing like what he showed for Butler last night and I won’t likely forget that image anytime soon.
It was sort of weird at first to see Huggins act so compassionately towards a player, but if you understood what was going on, it was a truly beautiful moment between coach and player, IMO. He quite obviously holds Butler in such high regard that he said to heck with it, and had no problem throwing appearances out the window for a few minutes in order to attend to and try to console his fallen star.
**and yes, I totally understand your use of the word “hate”. It’s the same for me, not real hate, but rather just "sports hate" : )
Butler tore his ACL
In case you haven’t heard
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-westvirginia-butlerinjury
No matter where you're at, there you are
Yeah.
Too bad. But his knee can be fixed. That scar on his heart will be there a long while.
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
One never knows where hate lives
and thus where you need to read to find it. I was just browsing for my morning reading (at lunch for some reason) while enjoying a second favorite English soccer and the header caught my eye. Thinking I love reading all things bad about Duke..especially on this sad morning with tomorrow looming….I read the article. At the end, like a hidden Easter egg…out comes the Kentucky hate. Go figure.
I have to disagree on Huggins
I thought that moment was very weird and awkward. I have wrecked my ankle so bad before that my leg bone touch the floor as my foot went sideways. I was on the court writhing in pain. The LAST thing I would want the coach to do would be to straddle me, get in my face nose to nose, and then stroke my cheek. In fact, when the coach came out to me while on was laying on the floor, I think my exact words to him were, “get me the f@#k off the floor!” I was swearing up a storm and almost puking from the pain. If my coach would have done what Huggins did, I would have said, “get the hell off of me! I’m hurt and need ice, I don’t need a hug!!”
I understand that it was an emotional moment, Final Four, long season, high hopes, etc. but that, to me, was just weird. It’s one thing to console a player when they’re hurt and in pain. You don’t need to get on top of the poor kid and ride him like a pony.
Well
it likely depends on the player, the coach and their relationship. Evidently, Huggins and Butler had developed a lot of mutual respect in the three years since Huggins arrived. I’d guess you and your coach might not have gotten to that level. ’-0
Re: Duke article
I found two consecutive words with which I could agree.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . .who spends himself for a worthy cause . . ."
Screw it, I'm going
Nobody seems to want to buy my Finals tickets at a reasonable price, so it looks like I’m going to go, wven without our Cats. Should be an experience, anyway. Go Butler Bulldogs!
Anybody wanna buy a pair of tickets to the final game?
I was going to
recommend dressing up like a Duke fan then acting like an idiot to embarass them. I reconsidered, you probably wouldn’t stand out. lol
Have fun rooting on Butler.
Heh.
I wondered if anyone would pick up on it. :-)
A Sea of Blue -- Kentucky Sports for the Discerning Fan
Tru
Some of us were around back then. Although I realise some of the younger ones weren’t. One of my favorite shows. Lots of people have seen reruns I guess.
Happy Days are here again The sky is all ways BLUE again Happy days are here again !
I caught it
And thought it was appropriate.
Of course its difficult, its a shortcut... if it was easy it'd just be "the way."
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