Finally, after the craziest offseason (probably) ever in UK basketball history, the regular season debuts tonight on ESPNU against Morehead State (from Morehead, KY).
It was an offseason that started with a loss to Notre Dame in the NIT (what?) and included Gillispie fired, Calipari hired, Patterson coming back, Jodie leaving, Bledsoe signing, Cousins signing, Wall [...]

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The cynic in me says that this is an overly salacious tell-all sexed up by a guy who’s going to jail and has nothing to lose, but then again, this shit is highly specific, and I totally believe that refereeing is a shady business.

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Either that, or I’m a hype-up sports montage genuis.
Back in May, when John Wall decided he was coming to Lexington, I wrote this piece that alluded to UK’s swagger returning.
Friday night at Big Blue Madness, the player intro video used the same song (even the same remix) as my post. Coincidence, or Cankled influence? You [...]

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until Midnight Madness.

They’re calling it “Big Blue Madness” now, but that sounds kinda lame. I’ll call it what I’ve called it my whole life. Found this picture by image-googling “Patrick Patterson midnight madness” because I remember loving his fro’ed-out entrance from last year.
It was the 3rd picture that came up in the google image [...]

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I got on My Fox Memphis’s website out of boredom today, to see how the live stream was doing. If you remember my post from the end of March, you’ll remember that Memphis News was streaming a live feed of the door to Memphis’s athletic department, hoping that Calipari was going to exit.
Well, today here’s [...]

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If you don’t know by now, Midnight Madness (Big Blue Madness…whatever) tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 6am. People have been camping outside of Memorial Coliseum’s ticket windows since Wednesday morning at 12:00am. We stopped by last night, and got stupidly excited when we the first person we ran into was Patrick Patterson:
Look [...]

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I was looking around ESPN.com today (that isn’t a plug for espn. I don’t care that you go there [and therefore I didn’t link it]. it’s just a fact that I was on that website), and noticed Bill Simmons had a podcast that featured an interview with Patton Oswalt.
You probably recognize him from [...]

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and sobriety tests.
I’m reminded now of all the fans who defended this silly man (like these people, and this person, and these people) and didn’t want him to leave. Some even, on call-in shows, threatened to burn their UK wardrobe if he was fired.

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