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Today is the fourth game of the Big Blue Bahamas Tour, this time against the likely superior Dominican Republic team. This one will be the most interesting event so far.
Tweet of the morning:
My dad got my name right. Erin Siciliano Calipari. I have a career so I chose to keep my name, but added Cody's before for Italian points.
— Dr.SicilianoCalipari (@TheErinCalipari) August 15, 2014
“Italian points?” Well, if they give points for that, no doubt she got a lot. If only her given name were Anna Maria instead of Erin, she could have claimed even more!
Kentucky football
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Mark Stoops talks about the SEC Network, and how the team is doing so far:
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Mark Stoops talks about selecting a quarterback. It’s a bit alarming that he seems to be having trouble with it, but like I told Larry Glover last Friday, it’s better to take your time and make the right call than make it early and get it wrong. But I do hate to see it drag out.
Kentucky basketball
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Creig Ewing of the Louisville Courier-Journal says that Calipari should put his assistants in charge every time the team is ahead by 20 or more at halftime. I think this is absurd. It disrespects the opponent in an obvious and insulting way that would be highlighted by the media, and I think the SEC would take extreme issue with it.
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Karl-Anthony Towns’ mom cheers too loud and rowdy for her husband, so they spend game day apart:
She is so sweet. I’d love to sit by her, I love a woman that cheers with gusto!
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John Calipari says Tyler Ulis is “a step up in energy.” I agree and disagree. It is definitely a step up in defensive pressure — Ulis is already as good, and maybe even better, than Dominique Hawkins as an on-the-ball defender.
But Ulis is a step down in offensive pressure. Ulis cannot yet attack the rim, and Andrew Harrison puts much more pressure on the defense.
UK players in the NBA
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John Wall cut from Team USA, feels overlooked. I guess if I had any advice to Wall, it would be to get his perimeter shooting better. I suspect that was the biggest reason he was excluded.
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DeMarcus Cousins came up lame yesterday, but an MRI reveals no structural damage to his knee. That’s very good news. It just sounds like a hyperextension or a strain, those of us who have played a lot of sports know this kind of injury well. I hope it gets better quickly. He’s listed as day to day.
Other news
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You’ve probably heard all about the “Purge” think in Louisville. Tonight, social media has encouraged, or at least suggested, lawless behavior in the town after the events in the movie called The Purge. It would be bad. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen.
This is just one more reason Twitter is the devil. This is another. {Hat tip: Hank}
Links posts
SEC Network
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Team Speed Kills reviews the first night of the SEC Network. Seems like it went off mostly without a hitch.
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UKAthletics talks about the fact that SEC Network subscribers will be able to watch 27 of UK’s 31 volleyball matches this season.
UK Hoops
- Women’s basketball unveils their pre-conference schedule, and it’s a very good one. Duke in Durham, Oklahoma and Illinois in the Paradise Jam, Louisville on the road and Baylor in Rupp Arena are the showcases.
College football
- Alabama is now the betting favorite for the CFP championship over FSU as far as Bovada is concerned.
Other news
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For those of you into serious computer tech, check out Oracle’s latest RISC processor, the new Sparc M7. 32 cores on a single chip, dynamic treading of up to eight virtual threads per core, 16 KB of L1 instruction and data cache, 160GB/sec of memory bandwidth… this lady is stacked like the Empire State Building.
Honestly, processing power like this is a little bit scary. Skynet keeps coming annoyingly to mind.
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Anyone who has read Michael Chrichton’s Prey will be chilled by this.
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