Few things in sports bring quicker headlines than a DUI and a press conference to reconfirm the fact that you did not rape a woman. Ex-Kentucky coaches just can't seem to get enough! Who's more hated by Wildcats fans? I guess it's Billy Clyde. I get this text message from my brother yesterday around 4 p.m.: "What's this Pitino stuff about?" I was at work, where there are no televisions. Puzzled, I ... Read More

Always wish they'd throw in a few games earlier in the season, but I know The Juggernaut doesn't want to overlap college football coverage. Plus, Rece Davis is used to his fullest between September and March, anyway. ESPN decided to play it the usual route: hit up a few spots that are guaranteed hits, and take a few chances on never-been-there-before locations. Last year, the trip to Texas was the ... Read More

Kind of intriguing stuff, really. Indiana's new AD, Fred Glass, wasted no time trying to get on the good side of Indiana's fan base while the program tries to plod through the mud during Tom Crean's infancy as a coach there. The induction ceremony for the new class of Indiana's hall of fame will happen Nov. 6. "I am honored to have been a part of selecting this outstanding class of tremendous ... Read More

What do you consider to be the mascot that is most likely to show up, unannounced, in your nightmares? I've always been petrified OF THIS and THIS. Hell, even THIS. Life magazine compiled the 15 it considered to be not of natural order. I think the Stanford Tree is only creepy if hallucinogens are involved. I still have never understood the purpose of mascots. They scare many children, get in your way ... Read More

Was Derrick Rose worth it? Word is expected to come down later today that the NCAA will bring the hammer to Memphis ... by taking away 38 wins from the record books. No scholarships lost, the current team (rightfully) is unaffected. But those wins — they gone. Totally. The most serious allegation was that former Tiger point guard Derrick Rose had a stand-in take the SAT for him, thus making him ... Read More

On the other side of the jump, we've got almost FIFTY FREAKING PRESEASON TOURNAMENTS. It's getting out of control, and there's probably no turning back. If you went to a Division I school, chances are you're going to see it playing in one of these things. Anything from the Connecticut 6 (that includes everyone except UConn) to the budding Diamond Head Classic to the dying Great Alaska Shootout, which, a ... Read More

Well, this is a doozy of a line, found in the fourth paragraph of the Post's story. The chance encounter in a Louisville restaurant on Aug. 1, 2003, would end in the two having sex on a table -- and would change their lives forever. Sypher didn't drop anything new, just the same stuff we've heard about in the since April. She claims to have been pregnant, and known about it, two ... Read More

While anyone who claims that seeing a school like SMS receive three years of probation while other, bigger institutions skirt the NCAA would by lying, it is frustrating to see a Small Guy get such a harsh punishment for what are clearly inferior infractions when compared to what has/is happening at larger schools. The Redhawks' men's and women's programs were hit with some pretty heavy penalties yesterday. The committee found that the ... Read More

Everyone remembers the MJ/Larry Bird McDonald's commercial from the early '90s. Kansas State's Denis Clemente, in the video below, emulates one of the shots fictiously put together in said commercial. This is pretty much the greatest trick shot I've ever seen, and I don't care if this took 300 takes. (H/T, The Big Lead) ... Read More

I still think the odds of Rick Pitino losing his job over immoral, but legal, activity is pretty low. That said, the Louisville Courier-Journal continues to do some terrific reporting on the story. A little nugget to go along with this drama is that Rick Pitino's contract includes a moral clause. But what major coach's contract doesn't include such a thing in today's times? Here's the clause, specifically: Employee's dishonesty with Employer or ... Read More

Sorry to throw a jab at ESPN's resident Bluegrass reporter, but it seems too easy. You wonder if he knew about this, you know? You also wonder if the sitaution was related to Calipari, if Forde would've searched through every manilla folder — twice — to find anything and everything on the subject. But the story and woman who won't leave Rick Pitino's life has reached an apex, you'd guess, tonight. I ... Read More

Thought the LeBron-James-being-dunked-on video hubbub from earlier this summer was the most overblown non-story, so I never ran with it on the site. That said, John Wall puts a pretty emphatic throwdown on Jerry Stackhouse in the video below. Ballin' is a Habit ran with this video a few days ago. Just another thing for UK fans to get excited about. When the Wildcats inevitably trip up against an inferior opponent, ... Read More