Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: SEC Baseball Semifinal Edition

Tonight, it's the Wildcats versus the Gators for a berth in the SEC Men's Baseball Tournament finals. What a run it's been for Kentucky, no matter who wins. If the Wildcats had just played a bit better down the stretch of the season, they could've been in line for a national seed.

Tweet of the Morning

Enjoy the holiday weekend with a new sport: Naked White House crashing! http://t.co/nXqpZcUU5I pic.twitter.com/wvODhQ3GXV

— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 23, 2014

My eyes! And:

Dicky V touching this guy's nipple is preeeety awkward. http://t.co/MRpHkEXQJS pic.twitter.com/GRXVhiGrtc

— SB Nation (@SBNation) May 24, 2014

Nice shirt. The blue one, I mean.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Patrick Towles is has been working out in sand. I'm going to be working out in the sand, too, this week. More likely laying on it, though.

• I'm excited to hear Neal Brown talk about Blake Bone and Dorian Baker:

  "We need to add some length to our receiving corps, and with Dorian Baker and Blake Bone both coming in, those are guys that are long, and we’ve got to have some of those type guys that go down the field and make some plays, so I’m excited for them," he said.

  We desperately need some taller wide receivers, and we're getting them.

• Kentucky football is not getting a lot of national respect. Well, it's usually necessary to ... you know ... win games first.

Kentucky basketball

• When I hear somebody quote an unnamed NBA source, I ignore it. Unnamed NBA sources are among the dumbest basketball people on the planet. It looks even dumber right next to this:

  Cuff: "I would go would Randle, too. His game might not be NBA-ready, but his body is most NBA-ready. He's very athletic. He's right hand dominant. Needs to work on that left hand a little bit. But you're looking at 16-17 points a game, maybe eight or nine rebounds. [my emphasis]

  Dumb, and dumber. but I'd be happy to see Randle go to the Celtics.

• Mike DeCourcy picks Arizona over Kentucky as the #1 preseason team. I respect and like DeCourcy, but I think he's just being contrarian here. Kentucky deserves to be #1 preseason, and you can rarely say that about any team.

• A review of Governor Steve Beshear and Lexington Mayer Jim Gray's appearance on KSR's radio show.

Other Kentucky sports

• Kentucky softball takes on UCLA tonight at 8:00 PM ET in the Los Angeles Super-Regional in a best of three series.

Links posts

• John Clay's Big Blue Links

• Florida defeated Mississippi St. last night, so it will be the Wildcats vs. the Gators again for a spot in the SEC Tournament finals around 4:30 PM today. It will be broadcast on ESPN News.

• The Wildcats volleyball team is in Shanghai, China on a cultural exchange trip. Some pretty cool pics in this post.

College football

• Jon Cooper for SDS reports that more ACC-SEC games are likely coming with the new mandate that SEC schools play at least one FBS team in their non-conference schedule.

• Not to be outdone by anyone, Notre Dame's Brian Kelly says he wants an SEC team on their schedule. Go get 'em, boys!

College basketball

• Apparently, the Cleveland Cavaliers have given up on John Calipari and are moving on to Billy Donovan.

• What it would take to leave for another job: Fred Hoiberg.

Other sports news

• Request denied: NCAA request for trial delay refused in O'Bannon case.

• Conference realignment: More changes coming.

• Blown call advances Arkansas over Ole Miss in the SEC Baseball Tournament.

• Stories like this one are getting old. Just let them go.

Other news

• The iPhone 6 is coming! I don't know, for me, bigger isn't always better. I carry my phone in my pocket, and most of the larger phones are just too darn big to be comfortable. My iPhone 4 still works great, but I'm getting the itch to upgrade. It probably won't be for the newest model, though — I like to have phones where most of the bugs have been worked out before I buy them.