Good afternoon. Here are a few thoughts to get you by until the televised Madonna performance tonight. Look for HDTV sales to plummet in the next week. Seriously, have you [URL=”http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/08/07/article-1042412-021390A400000578-736_468x717.jpg”]seen[/URL] this woman lately? (CAUTION: Link NSFAnyone. There’s no nudity, but holy crap does she look awful). I have an old ball glove from 7th grade that is less worn out than that hag. If Madonna was an ice cream flavor, she’d be Pralines & Death-Warmed-Over. I’d still take her at halftime over the Black Eyed Peas any day of the week. She’s an insufferable shrew, but her songs don’t make me want to lay my head under my truck tires and hope it pops out of gear. The Black Eyed Peas suck.
Last night, Kentucky went to South Carolina and [URL=”http://www.nationofblue.com/barn-burner-south-carolina-10491/”]set the barn on fire[/URL]. From the opening tip until about 10 minutes to go in the game, the Cats played shuttlecock (see what I did there?) with the USC defense, pretty much having their way with them. And until a late flurry of points by the South Carolina scrubs (not to be confused with the North Carolina scrubs, who still haven’t found their way to the team bus in Tallahassee), Kentucky kept the Gamecocks under 15 points in the second half. That defensive intensity seems to be the biggest difference in this team lately. They simply aren’t letting up. That, and Kyle Wiltjer’s sinister plan to shoot until his arm literally falls off, in the hopes a USC player trips over it and has to leave the game. Normally, he hopes the other team’s star player will trip over it, but USC doesn’t have any star players.
In related news, Darrin Horn will be fired soon.
Kentucky also looked competent on offense, getting what seemed like 41 alley-oop dunks, but what was more like 6 or 7. Anthony Davis was on the receiving end of several of them. He also managed to break the SEC freshman blocks record formerly held by Shaquille O’Neal. He needs 53 more to break the SEC single season record of 170 (held by Jarvis Varnado), and 90 more to break the NCAA single season record of 207 (David Robinson). If Kentucky makes it to the NCAA championship game, Davis would need to average 5.6 blocks to overtake the Admiral. He only needs to average 3.3 to break the SEC record, which I’m pretty sure he’s going to do anyway, possibly by the conference tournament. He’s really good.
In other news, congratulations are in order for Dermontii Dawson, who was [URL=”http://www.nationofblue.com/f3/dermontti-dawson-elected-pro-football-hall-fame-14686/”]elected to the NFL Hall of Fame[/URL] yesterday in his eighth year of eligibility. He joins George Blanda as the only other Kentucky player in the Hall, at least until Randall Cobb makes it in. He’s really good, too.
Yesterday, I asked if there was [URL=”http://www.nationofblue.com/negative-quality-10486/”]anything worth complaining about[/URL] with the basketball team this year. Some replies:
[B]”@rrush59: Rims on the bus are dirty. RT @chris_minton: is there anything regarding the Cats that we can complain about?”
“@droopy_sears: @chris_minton Yes. The fact Cal won’t play the walk-ons/pineriders and get the good guys out quick enough.”[/B]
There you go. Speaking of pineriders, Jarrod Polson and Brian Long have been glued to the bench since the Lamar game on Dec. 28th. Long was set to come in around the 2:30 mark last night, but the clock never stopped. Considering Kentucky has won three straight games by at least 24 points, there is no reason not to get those guys a minute or two at the end. I think the staff was spooked by Sam Malone’s knee injury and is now hesitant to play the other guys. Anthony Davis is expendable. Jarrod Polson is not.
We will get a better idea of how good this Kentucky team is on Tuesday when Florida comes to Rupp. Personally, I think they win by 10-15. Billy Donovan sucks, and has sucked ever since Joakim Noah took the 4:20 train out of Gainesville, along with Al Horford, Corey Brewer, and whoever else Satan gave Donovan in that 2004 recruiting class in exchange for his soul. Taurean Green? Sure, why not? Kentucky still wins big.
You know who else wins big? You, the American sports fan, for today you get to see Madonna “rock” a captivated “crowd” with her “hip” and “cutting edge” “music”. With any luck, she will act her age and immediately turn into dust and blow away.
Also, Giants by 3.
