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Ted Ligety was extremely impressive yesterday in the giant slalom, where he got out to an absurd lead in the first run and then just skied conservatively to win by almost half a second. It was a dominant performance by a guy who has dominated the world in this event for a good while now.
Tweet of the Morning
I just watched Dan Dakich on ESPN say Louisville is best team in CBB because they just blew out Rutgers and Temple. Yes he just said that
— GregNJ (@GregNJ) February 20, 2014
Wow. Buggs Bunny said it best "What a maroon."
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
- Wildcat Blue Nation muses on who will replace Bradley Dale Peveto as special teams coach.
Kentucky basketball
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Draft analylst Ed Isaacon tell Larry Vaught has some surprisingly harsh words about Dakari Johnson, and doesn't think he, Alex Poythress or Marcus Lee are ready for the next level.
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John Calipari on last night's call-in show talking about eliminating the 3 minutes where Kentucky let down against Mississippi.
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A double-double is a disappointment for Karl Towns Jr. Hat tip: NextCats
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I feel pretty confident somebody ghost-wrote this piece from the sockpuppet Kent Sterling — either that, or he's the victim of an alien kidnapping and body-snatch. It's actually rational, and he deliberately passes on an opportunity to attack Calipari.
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It's really weird, but this just never gets old to me. I think it's hilarious, and evidently, the Internet does as well.
Other Kentucky sports
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UK softball begins another big tournament in Florida on Friday.
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UK Hoops hosts top 5 South Carolina tonight. This would be a large win for the Wildcats, knocking off two top-ten programs in a row.
Links posts
College football
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NFL Combine begins today. SB Nation has you covered.
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Nick Saban, luxury car salesman? Why not, Rick Pitino does it.
College basketball
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Auburn nearly upsets Florida in the
SwampO Dome on an interesting strategy by Barbee. Barbee had his players foul Patric Young, a poor free throw shooter, with 20 seconds left in a tie game, hoping to get the last possession with a shot to win or tie. It backfired when Young made both free throws and Auburn threw the inbounds pass out of bounds on the ensuing possession.Andy Hutchins has the postmortem. I want to warn Florida fans about one thing, though — teams winning close games is not necessarily a sign of poise. Very often, it's just random events aligning themselves to a favorable outcome, sometimes known as "luck." When you discover the difference between poise and luck, it is often at the worst possible time.
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It's no surprise to me that Syracuse would get upset — I've never believed them to be as good as many think. What is very surprising was the team that finally pulled it off — Boston College who now sits at a blistering 7-19 after the victory.
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UCLA, now sitting at 21-5, handles Cal easily. Bruins Nation continues to hate Steve Alford, yielding no quarter. Consistency.
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College basketball scores from last night.
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Arizona is just a normal PAC-12 team without Brandon Ashley, and they barely escaped back-to-back losses.
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Interacting with fans will now be a flagrant-2 foul and an automatic ejection.
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The SEC has 14 of the top 100 players for 2014. That's definitely a good thing.
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Frank Martin, sex symbol. Who'da thunkit?
Other sports news
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Really good article at Deadspin talking about one of my favorite Olympic sports, downhill ski racing, and how both Bode Miller and Ted Ligety are iconclasts when it comes to ski technique.
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John Clay's random notes. I think the last one is funny.
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Jodie Meeks has a really cool pre-game ritual.
Other news
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Computer geek or IT person? Tired of Windows? Linux, baby Linux! Jobs, jobs, jobs! As an aside, I have been running Linux at home for the last 18 years.
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Supernova secrets revealed — new space telescope maps radioactive material from a supernova explosion.