February 17, 2009 – 6:11 pm
Comin’ up tonight at, oh, about 9:50 on a TV near you: Round Three.
In one corner, ladies and gents, the ever irascible Lone Star Cowboy, the Pride of the Big Blue — Billy Clyde Gillispie.
In the other corner, ladies and gents, sideline reporter, agent provacteur, apparent nemesis to He Who Sits In Rupp’s Seat, Ms. [...]
December 19, 2008 – 9:33 am
. . . Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy was arrested early Thursday morning after an altercation with a cab driver in Cincy.
Okay, I’m being facetious. Of course, you’ve heard because you’re a sports fan and ESPN felt compelled to tell the story every five minutes throughout its basketball coverage Thursday night. I think Dan Shulman [...]
November 13, 2008 – 9:51 am
Are you ready to ruuuummmmmmmmmmble????????
In this corner, wearing his Sousaesque U of L marching band uni, Patrick Henry Hughes. In this corner, wearing a signature mock turtle, U of L Athletic Department. No hitting below the belt.
I’m not sure what’s going on with the increasingly petty tiff between U of L’s most famous band member [...]
November 12, 2008 – 3:48 pm
You remember the Pakistani Graduate Student Theory, right? Briefly stated, for a school to contend for the national pigsking football title (Such as it is with the ersatz BCS tomfoolery), it must have lots of players willing to mug a Pakistani grad student just because he/she is walking across campus with a laptop and penholder.
This [...]
October 10, 2008 – 3:16 pm
I am no expert on the ever more popular sport of extreme fighting, or martial arts or whaterver they call it. Heck, I’ve never been much of a fan of the Sweet Science, save for my allegiance to homie Muhammed Ali. But I have seen this Kimbo Slice character now and again on the tube [...]