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Attention K-Mart shoppers and sports gamblers alike! There will be a March Madness this year! I repeat… there will be a March Madness this year! I don’t need to remind everyone currently reading this website that there was no Final Continue reading Remember March Madness? You’re about to get reacquainted
“What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?” Slim Pickens as Taggart in Blazing Saddles, 1974 It’s been a while since I’ve put some random thoughts down on paper. Between holidays, birthdays and deaths in the Continue reading Thoughts on a wild, wild few weeks of sports: Chumpservations revisited (Vol. 39)
I remember Walter McCarty. If you’re a basketball fan around my age, you probably do too. Back in the mid-nineties, attending Kentucky-Florida college basketball games was a gala event. Back when they split the conference into Eastern and Western divisions Continue reading How Walter McCarty shook up the world
I saw Rick Pitino coach in person quite a bit back in the early 1990s. That was one of the perks of attending a school in the Southeastern Conference. College athletics was a healthy, even historical, distraction. Back then, SEC Continue reading Rick Pitino ends coaching career with an ‘L’
In Starkville, Mississippi, a junior field goal kicker lines up from 29 yards away to give his team a hard-fought, last second victory. The ball sails left, clanking off the goal post. The heavy underdog South Alabama would escape with Continue reading Oh, no! We suck again! The auspicious start to the SEC’s season
Geno Auriemma has never been one to keep his opinions to himself. The current coaching king of women’s college basketball recently called the men’s game “a joke.” He claimed the game is behind the times and lacks any consistent offense Continue reading Old school, new school and the differing schools of thought on the state of college basketball
A not-so-great man once gave me the best advice of my life. He told me, “the number one killer of old people is retirement.” His point at the time was simple. If you want to be the best at something….you Continue reading Cmon Duke Fans, Which R are you filled with?
This one’s gotta sting for Kentucky fans. 38-1. Ouch! So close and yet so far away. Not long ago, I hosted a caption contest. It didn’t draw much attention. This one should for it celebrates Kentucky’s now imperfect season. Along Continue reading SportsChump proudly presents your University of Kentucky Basketball Caption Contest
I had a rare Saturday night off. Fever, body aches and coughing fits that made my abdomen hurt can knock even the hardest working man in show business on his ass. So I took advantage of my illness and planned Continue reading Kentucky remains perfect against imperfect Florida
We un-crumple the brackets we tossed to the floor in disgust only a day into the tournament. We look at them again, hoping, begging for a chance. There’s not one. We wonder how things could have gone so horribly wrong. Continue reading The “What We Should Have Done” Approach to March Madness
