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The Constant Gardner

rtmsf — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:21:23 +0000

Some day-after reactions from around Blogadelphia to last night’s amazing upset of Gardner-Webb over Kentucky…

Michael David Smith over at AOL Fanhouse is on board with us in pointing out just how terrible of a loss this was for UK:

After Kentucky’s stunning loss to Gardner-Webb last night, a lot of comparisons have been made to Michigan’s stunning loss to Appalachian State at the start of the college football season. But let’s get one thing clear: Gardner-Webb is no Appalachian State. Appalachian State was the best football team in Division I-AA last year. The Sagarin ratings at the end of the season had Appalachian State [...]

10.28.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:46:37 +0000

We’re counting down – just over one week until the first tipoffs…

Didn’t Coach K wait a couple of years after winning B2B titles before using the back excuse? Whatsup Billy D, we realize your team is young, but come on! Georgia’s Dennis Felton is officially screwed – he just kicked leading scorer Takais Brown off the team. AOL Fanhouse wonders why UGa players are being charged $10 cashmoney for missing classes – we wonder the same thing. One week later, Mizzou’s Darryl Butterfield is at it again. Bill Self is in tight with half of the top 15 in the [...]

10.07.07 Fast Breaks

rtmsf — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:50:43 +0000

We’ve let the news accumulate for a while, so without any further delay…

Tom Izzo porked the media by putting them through a “typical” 2-hr MSU practice last week. Ben Howland got a hefty raise and an extension through 2014 coaching his self-professed dream job. If you haven’t heard, Jim Jones’ grandson Rob Jones will be playing for the University of San Diego this year. There have been multiple takes on this, but we like Extra P.’s at STF best. Hoops Weiss has a scathing analysis of the Jim Calhoun / Holy Cross Coaches vs. Cancer situation. Kyle Whelliston contributed a really insightful article [...]

Tim Donaghy Scandal Fallout

rtmsf — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:44:30 +0000

Much is going to be made over the next week over the disclosure broken Friday by the New York Post that Tim Donaghy, a veteran NBA referee, allegedly became heavily indebted through illegal gambling and was using his position as an official to manipulate point spreads by proxy of organized crime. In other words… pointshaving, quite possibly the dirtiest word in sports. The only good news for the NBA was that the news hit on a summer Friday afternoon after a week of wall-to-wall Michael Vick and Barry Bonds-related outrage coverage.

“Kobe, do you think you could help [...]

Fast Breaks 07.16.07

rtmsf — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:16:16 +0000

For some reason, we don’t recall summers growing up as this boring…

Mizzou players Kalen Grimes (accused of assault with a shotgun in, of all places, a Jack in the Box) and DeMarre Carroll (shot in the ankle outside a nightclub) were involved in separate incidents within five days of each other. Mike Anderson’s honeymoon is apparently over in Columbia. Bad Luck in Durham: Duke’s Brian Zoubek broke his foot in a pickup game; and Demarcus Nelson broke his wrist at the Pan Am trials within the last week. No word on whether Greg Paulus’s mishap with autoerotic asphyxiation will [...]