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    Anyone ever catch this article on Cal/UK?

    I'm sure I did a decade ago, because I frequent that site and know who Tate Frazier is. The irony about that article is it came about right when Cal had started slipping. Skal Labissiere was his first huge whiff (and that falls not just on him, but everyone who scouted him and had him #1 or 2...
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    U S Open tennis.

    The level of athlete playing tennis in Europe got better than in the US, and technology made that more important than ever (particularly strings that allow for far more spin and control than anything available in the 80's and 90's but also making different surfaces less extreme and using less...
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    U S Open tennis.

    Who knows? Women's tennis is generally unpredictable. They hit with less spin than the men, meaning less margin for error, and they play 2 out of 3. It just takes one bad day for any player to lose unexpectedly. What seems more predictable is that Carlos Alcaraz is going to eliminate American...
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    Candid Coaches Poll - Best team of the century

    Duke beat Maryland by double digits after trailing by 20. And that was the game that kick-started the "refs for Duke" movement. Maryland wilted under a combined assault of Duke and ref's whistles. There was one particular game changing play in the 1st half when Jay Williams, who was playing with...
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    Candid Coaches Poll - Best team of the century

    Offensively. They were a key part of that team's defensive dominance. People always wonder how Duke could beat Wisconsin twice while UK lost to them. The answer is mainly Tyus Jones. Wisconsin couldn't really guard him, but UK didn't have anyone like that, and Wisconsin could guard the...
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    Tiger Woods falls to 2nd place

    Tiger Woods' life has become pretty sad the last 15-20 years, but it's impossible to overstate how next level he was in his prime. Golf is supposed to be a game of fine margins, but Tiger Woods blew that idea out of the water. Some perspective on that: Scottie Scheffler has been a clear #1 for...
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    Penn State in the news again

    Apparently as part of his indictment the prosecutors showed pictures of his motorcycle collection, estimated value 40 MILLION DOLLARS.
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    Penn State in the news again

    What a bunch of doofuses. How long did they think they were going to get away with it when they were bringing in pledges and making them part of the operation? If anybody wants to read about some really wild drug related stuff, look up Ryan Wedding. He was a 2002 Canadian Winter Olympic...
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    Skyy Clark to LSU

    This era of professional college players is bizarre. And I'm not talking about players being paid, though that's obviously a part of it, but guys like Clark (and his teammates RJ Luis and Mo Dioubate) who are milking the college game for all it's worth because they'll never make as much as a pro...
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    1995 SEC Tourney title game against Arkansas was arguably the most exciting SEC tourney game ever.

    Someone mentioned Pitino wanting Rod Rhodes to play like Magic Johnson. Antoine Walker actually could have. He had a great handle and court vision for a guy that size. And he probably had more raw talent than Jamal Mashburn or any other Pitino/UK guy. Nice NBA career, could have been HOF if he...
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    1995 SEC Tourney title game against Arkansas was arguably the most exciting SEC tourney game ever.

    Yes, and he played 72 career NBA games spread over 3 seasons and 3 teams. He was a guy who just quite wasn't good enough for the NBA. Same went for Jeff Sheppard and Wayne Turner. The difference with Rhodes was that he had been more hyped out of HS and he looked like that hype might be real for...
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    1995 SEC Tourney title game against Arkansas was arguably the most exciting SEC tourney game ever.

    Can't agree with that. Rhodes was just a 4A player, meaning someone who was almost good enough to have an NBA career but had no outstanding part of his game that would make him a college star or worth a lot in the NBA. He was a good athlete with decent size for a wing, but nothing special. He...
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    1995 SEC Tourney title game against Arkansas was arguably the most exciting SEC tourney game ever.

    A great random factoid from that era. UK trailed LSU and perpetual thorn in the side Dale Brown 68-37 in 1994 before coming back to win. From that 68-37 point until Brown's career ended, UK outscored LSU 402-252. 62-27 to end the 94 game, 127-80 in 95, 129-97 in 96, and 84-48 in 1997. And of...
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    Skubal to Dodgers

    The Dodgers deferred compensation, for 13 players, is equal to nearly 70% of the most recent Forbes franchise value listed for the Reds. Better to do what they're doing than be a team like Red Sox, swimming in money but choosing to blow up a great roster and then wallow in mediocrity. But it's...
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    UK basketball headed towards worst decade in its history

    Kind of inseparable. He was being an embarrassment in every possible way. Some people want to give him credit for recruiting because hey!, Patrick Patterson and Darius Miller and DeAndre Liggins. But it was also hey!, Michael Avery and Vinny Zollo and KC Ross Miller and an incredibly long list...
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