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nkuCATfan

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Saw that too. Also when dook were "back" it made no mention on their close wins at home to mediocre teams that were bubble/nit teams And how they can't keep pushing their luck. Ultimately they did push their luck vs cuse and Miami
 
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Bcat44

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Zakk Wyldcat said:
After KU's comeback win Monday v. OU: 'Kansas backcourt best finishers in nation'.

After UK's comeback win Tuesday v. Vandy: 'Kentucky can't keep pushing its luck in March'.
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ESPN tries so hard to hide their bias against UK :smiley:
 
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TheDude73

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Zakk Wyldcat said:
After KU's comeback win Monday v. OU: 'Kansas backcourt best finishers in nation'.

After UK's comeback win Tuesday v. Vandy: 'Kentucky can't keep pushing its luck in March'.
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Noticed this as well. First thing I thought was "Luck? You want luck, look no further than KU".
 
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awf

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What I hear is jabber, jabber, jabber, jabber.......a week or so ago it was UK survives and Kansas rolled. They didn't win by as much as UK did that particular game.
Nobody likes a winner.
 
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Cawood86_rivals

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Zakk Wyldcat said:
After KU's comeback win Monday v. OU: 'Kansas backcourt best finishers in nation'.

After UK's comeback win Tuesday v. Vandy: 'Kentucky can't keep pushing its luck in March'.
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What I can't figure out is how KU replaced Duke as the new media darling. Maybe they all belong to the Hair Club for Men like Self does.
 
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wcc31

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Not just ESPN- its just about all of the sportswriter geeks. Just listening to Parrish and Norlander "concerned." Same guys claimed Duke's nail biter home win against Clemson to be every bit as impressive as their win over UNC. And of course, they are all about Kansas whose had barnburners every game.
 
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BlueRunner11

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TheDude73 said:
Yay! More politics!
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ESPN has created their own political environment and culture by pushing an agenda and showing bias. It's pretty easy for most of us to see and very comparable to other "news" sources these days. Sorry if you were offended but the deeper ESPN goes down the rabbit hole, the more it will be talked about on here and elsewhere. I think there's a safe space in the paddock if you need to go there for a bit.
 
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wentzel25

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Even on Sirius this morning they said "Duke handled FSU" while "Kentucky escaped Vanderbilt."
 
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kb22stang

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Maybe it's because Duke and Kasnas both played teams in the top 30 of the RPI and neither got down by 19 points.
 
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coolioo1

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The funniest thing this year has been how silly the media has been about Duke. Duke breaks their little hearts time and time again....with uk they r skepitcal no matter what and that maybe warranted but if Duke wins one game they r baaaaccccckkkk baby!
 
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YouKay

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Cawood86 said:
What I can't figure out is how KU replaced Duke as the new media darling. Maybe they all belong to the Hair Club for Men like Self does.
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That's easy, the media really don't like the OAD. Now that Duke has embraced it almost as much as UK, they're all over Kansas and its amazing senior backcourt. There really is a widespread sentiment among the college basketball media that UK has ruined the sport, and now Duke is following suit. They Will always love the teams more who win with 4-year players. In the tourney they will be slurping Kansas even though it's best player by far is OAD Josh Jackson. They'll be all over Villanova even though their sophomore PG is probably leaving after this year.
 
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TheDude73

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BlueRunner11 said:
ESPN has created their own political environment and culture by pushing an agenda and showing bias. It's pretty easy for most of us to see and very comparable to other "news" sources these days. Sorry if you were offended but the deeper ESPN goes down the rabbit hole, the more it will be talked about on here and elsewhere. I think there's a safe space in the paddock if you need to go there for a bit.
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There's nothing governmentally political going on at ESPN. Bias for teams isn't the same type of politics you and several other politically-obsessed people somehow manage to inject into the sporting world. The bias ESPN employs is due to societal agendas, not political.

If anyone needs a "safe space", it's people like you who wake up every day and believe it's important to tie political agendas to literally every aspect of your lives, including basketball and sporting news media.
 
Bkocats

Bkocats

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ESPN looks for reactions and hits (no matter the story is right or wrong)
BBN is the largest fan base, and we're passionate
We respond, ESPN gets hits - mission accomplished
 
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SilentsAreGolden

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The bias at ESPN is for the ACC. President of ESPN is a Tar Hole. Bilas, Greenburg, Williams, SVP is a Maryland grad but he's pretty fair, Stuart Scott was a Tar Hole, Hubert Davis, Dina Gaudio, Abdelnaby, Brad Dougherty, etc.

They hire disproportionately from the ACC.
 
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BlueRunner11

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TheDude73 said:
There's nothing governmentally political going on at ESPN. Bias for teams isn't the same type of politics you and several other politically-obsessed people somehow manage to inject into the sporting world. The bias ESPN employs is due to societal agendas, not political.

If anyone needs a "safe space", it's people like you who wake up every day and believe it's important to tie political agendas to literally every aspect of your lives, including basketball and sporting news media.
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Looks like ESPN itself doesn't agree with you.

http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/...espn-dealing-with-changing-political-dynamics

Now, get over yourself. Everyone else has.
 
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NCukcat62

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TheDude73 said:
There's nothing governmentally political going on at ESPN. Bias for teams isn't the same type of politics you and several other politically-obsessed people somehow manage to inject into the sporting world. The bias ESPN employs is due to societal agendas, not political.

If anyone needs a "safe space", it's people like you who wake up every day and believe it's important to tie political agendas to literally every aspect of your lives, including basketball and sporting news media.
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ESPN is fake news
 
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revcort

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Zakk Wyldcat said:
After KU's comeback win Monday v. OU: 'Kansas backcourt best finishers in nation'.

After UK's comeback win Tuesday v. Vandy: 'Kentucky can't keep pushing its luck in March'.
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Yeah, this is not surprising. I think it's really about marketing and clicks as much as anything. ESPN (and many others in sports news) knows that UK fans click when they're upset or believe their school is being poorly treated AND rival fans only click if they think UK will be seen in a negative light in the article. The way you generate interest in an article regarding UK is you make the headline negative. It garners clicks from both UK fans AND UK haters alike. And boom! you just generated 10,000 hits or more.

I really don't think most people at ESPN hate UK. I just think they've learned how to use the strong feelings people have for UK to their advantage. Now don't get me wrong, I do think there are some talking heads out there and some sportswriters out there who genuinely hate UK, but it's not likely as widespread as we UK fans think.
 
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