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Tyler Ulis and Andrew Harrison are both on the Bob Cousy Award watch list. That’s pretty cool, but if you think about it, we do have two teams …
Tweet of the morning
Nearly everyone agrees that texting and driving is dangerous. Most people do it anyway. http://t.co/XzfW6911Vx
— LEX 18 News (@LEX18News) November 5, 2014
Not me. Not ever. I have enough trouble with concentration when driving without fragmenting it.
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
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HOPE!
5-star RB Damien Harris plans to take official visit to Kentucky weekend of Dec. 13, announce decision in January, according to his mother.
— Chris Johnson (@bychrisjohnson) November 4, 2014 -
Mark Stoops talks about Georgia, with a little bit about last week.
The word of the day is “undisciplined.”
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Was Mark Stoops’ contract extension premature? No. There, saved you a click. Mr.SEC has additional thoughts.
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Mark Stoops ready to deliver a reality check. Consider:
“We cannot wait for our moment. We’ve got to train to go take it and make our moment. Right now, we’re in that mode of hoping — hoping things happen.”
Absolutely right. Hope is where opportunity goes to die.
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What’s wrong with Patrick Towles? Nothing a home stadium and home crowd won’t fix, in my opinion.
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Damien Harris could be a game-changer for Kentucky. No doubt about that.
Kentucky basketball
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Video about Tyus Battle, 2016 combo guard. He seems like a level-headed kid.
Other Kentucky sports
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Men’s soccer making their mark:
#UKsoccer moves up to No. 13 in this week's @NSCAACollege rankings. @49ersoccer ranked No. 5. The two teams play in Lexington on Friday.
— Kentucky Mens Soccer (@UKMensSoccer) November 4, 2014 -
Willie Cauley-Stein on how practices are harder than games. This year, I totally believe it.
Links posts
College football
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The Numerical — Don’t ever tell Will Muschamp the odds. Georgia was figured by F/+ to have >95% chance of winning on Saturday. I’m sure Will didn’t know that, and didn’t care to.
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College football hot seat watch. Will Muschamp’s seat is very slightly cooler than Brady Hoke’s, but that’s a distinction without a difference.
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The Big Ten reprimands Maryland coach Randy Edsall for failing to control his team prior to the game with Penn St. It also suspended a player for one game.
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The new CFB Playoff rankings. Oregon has reached the final four, and Auburn also. Alabama is just on the outside looking in.
College basketball
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Tennessee doesn’t exactly blow out Pikeville. Consider:
Simmons finished with 30 points on 10-of-19 shooting. He scored 20 of Pikeville’s 31 first-half points. After one of those buckets, he was overhead telling his teammates the Bears would win the game. They led by as many as nine points (15-6) six minutes in.
Also this:
Pikeville Coach Kelly Wells on UK and Tennessee: "It's night and day, talent-wise." Pikeville played UK Sunday, UT Monday.
— Jerry Tipton (@JerryTipton) November 4, 2014 -
Why is Tom Crean getting all this heat for player misbehavior at Indiana? Because he’s not winning enough, of course.
Other sports news
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Brittney Griner attacked with a knife in China. She wasn’t badly hurt, thank goodness.
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Marcus Lattimore plans to retire from the NFL after having never played a professional game. Apparently, that knee injury he suffered was just too much to overcome.
Very sorry to hear this.
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Umm… Brandon? Nervous system malfunction? Cognitive seizure? What?
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Anthony Davis is still awesome, and hearing the MVP chant more and more.
Other news
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This “hole punch” cloud caused quite a stir in Australia. It is very cool.
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To prevent kidney stones, break your soda habit and drink lots of water. I’m happy to say this is one piece of health advice I have been following for many yeears.