Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: O'Bannon Lawsuit Edition

The O'Bannon lawsuit against the NCAA goes to trial today in Oakland. Here are a few links to read:

• Primer on the O'Bannon trial {CBS Sports}

• How did we get here? {Chronicle of Higher Education}

• Exactly what the NCAA and O'Bannon will use against each other in trial {SB Nation}

Tweet of the Morning

congrats to all the KHSAA new Hall of Famers inc. my friend Dan Manley for a long career of excellence behind the mic

— Tom Leach (@tomleachKY) June 9, 2014

Indeed. Congratulations to all.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• UK Recruit of the Week: Tight End C.J. Conrad.

• Kentucky loses a recruit to Louisville.

• Football prospects flock to Lexington. It's Yahtzee! season.

Kentucky basketball

• Willie Cauley-Stein goes to Disneyworld.

• 2016 recruit Thon Maker "50/50" about reclassifying to 2015. Kentucky has not yet offered him a scholarship, apparently.

Other Kentucky sports

Links posts

• John Clay's Big Blue Links

• John Clay's SEC Links

• The Leach Report: Monday Wildcat Links

College football

• The USC Trojans finally go off NCAA probation this week from the Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo affairs.

• Does Georgia have a discipline problem? Well, who are we to point fingers?

• Heh. Pretty funny.

• Ten SEC players to watch this season.

• Pete Carroll claims he never would have left USC if he'd known sanctions were coming:

  "Had we known that that was imminent … I would never have been able to leave under those circumstances. When I look back now, I would have stayed there to do what we needed to do to resolve the problem."

  Not sure you're going to get many buyers for that, Pete. Sports has become way to cynical for that.

College basketball

• Rush the Court: Morning Five

Other sports news

• Could Enes Kanter be on the trading block for the Jazz? Hat tip: Aaron's blog.

• Louisville makes it to the CWS again (Drat!). Congratulations to them. They get Vanderbilt in the opener. SEC! SEC! ... ah, you know the rest.

• Boxer Oscar de la Hoya inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame.

• Steve Coburn has hit rock bottom and continues to dig.

• Spectacular performance by Lebron James last night powers the Heat past the Spurs in San Diego. The air conditioning was apparently working. Greg Popovich was more salty than usual after the game.

• DeMarcus Cousins plays the drums for Jimmy Kimmel.

• Whoa! Not bad for a 2016 player. Hat tip: Sports Illustrated

Other news

• Miss Indiana praised for "normal" body. I suppose, by implication, the rest of the contestants had "abnormal" bodies? We are left to speculate.

• The ten best cruise lines you've never heard of.

• News you can use: What to do about bedbugs in your laptop. Ick. Hat tip: Instapundit