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Eric Bledsoe is apparently prepared to make a return to the Phoenix Suns in about a week, if things continue to go well.
Tweet of the Morning
This settles it. We should make Mike Krzyzewski coach USA hockey, too.
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) February 22, 2014
Ugh. Team USA really stank against Finland.
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
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Is the top defensive end prospect in the nation interested in Kentucky? Maybe, but I rather doubt he's interested enough to come here.
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Another 2015 offer for Kentucky, a 3-star offensive lineman.
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Top Ohio prospects visiting Kentucky this weekend, including the #6 tight end, C.J. Conrad. Via Hank.
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UK offers another QB yesterday just after I said we were finished with the QBs...of course they did. [Hank]
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Via Hank:
University of Kentucky offers Ross 2015 OL Simon Stepaniak #BBN #enqr http://t.co/992hoV9AyD via @Enquirer
— Mike Dyer (@MikeDyer) February 21, 2014 -
Avery Williamson living his dream the at NFL Combine.
Kentucky basketball
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Watching film with John Calipari like a dose of "medicine," according to James Young.
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Richard Cheeks, Tubby Smith hater extraordinaire, says his math favors Kentucky over LSU by 16 points. I hope he's right.
Other Kentucky sports
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A.J. Reed makes history against St. Josephs by hitting two round-trippers in one inning.
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Kentucky diver Greg Ferrucci wins the bronze in the SEC diving championships
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Gym Cats get their highest score of the season, but still lose at #13 Arkansas.
Links posts
College football
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Bret Bielema's comments about "death certificates" drawing quite a bit of fire.
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The Head Ball Coach takes a shot at the "Saban rule," the proposal to slow down offenses. I think he's spot on.
College basketball
- What if SEC schools hired basketball coaches using the same criteria as football coaches?
Coaching matters, and many of the SEC's basketball coaches have more question marks than those in football. Which raises the question: What if SEC basketball hired coaches the way SEC football does?
That may never happen because hiring away elite coaches is difficult enough as it is, much less coming to the SEC to be second banana behind football. Lower fan expectations in basketball can cause less pressure on an athletics director to make the correct hire, even if it means shelling out more dollars.
- Teams Speed Kills says Florida will probably lose very soon, and cites some history as to why.
Other sports news
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NFL to "penalize" N-word. I agree with the author that the NFL should establish a clear set of workplace procedures covering their entire organization, and including racial and ethnic slurs of all types, including procedures as to what constitutes a slur and an appeals process. Anytime you purport to put verbal utterances off-limits, you need to carefully define what, when, and where it is a violation and the proper procedures to address the violation in each circumstance, if they must differ (i.e. during a game vs. in the locker room).
Most workplaces put abusive language of all types, including foul language, off limits while in the workplace or acting in an official capacity. There must be thousands of good models to use for this, and to just randomly place one word off limits is liable to create as many problems as it solves.
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This is a very sad story. Burkes parents were amazing discussing her demise, and this is just another reminder (as if we should need it) that the appellation "extreme" when applied to sports like the half-pipe is there for a reason. These sports have a significant danger factor, just like downhill skiing and other high-speed winter sports.