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Louisville students rip on Kentucky fan classmate in hilarious fashion

April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment

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A Kentucky fan living on the Louisville campus is like a screen door on a submarine. The two things just don’t make any sense when you put them together. According to a Reddit user who goes to Louisville, a fellow student has had a UK flag hanging in his dorm room window all semester.

The Wildcats lost on Monday night. The only college students in the country who may have had more fun with the outcome of the game than the 17,000 living on the UConn campus were the neighbors of the dude with the Kentucky flag in his window.

“So I go to University of Louisville and someone has had a University of Kentucky flag in their window all semester,” Reddit user ct81195 wrote. “This is satisfying.”

At least they kept it clean. The Kentucky fan will probably argue that his team made it further than the Cardinals (or are they both his teams?), but it won’t really matter. He just got LOL’ed right off campus.

Chest bump to The Dagger

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Rex Chapman clarifies John Calipari to Lakers comment

April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment

John CalipariFormer Kentucky star Rex Chapman set the internet on fire Monday night when he tweeted prior to the national championship game that John Calipari will be leaving the Wildcats after the season to coach the Los Angeles Lakers. Calipari is linked to NBA coaching rumors every year, but this is by far the most high-profile job he has been associated with.

Chapman went on “The Dan Patrick Show” on Tuesday to elaborate on his tweet. He did a lot of chuckling.

“I treat Twitter like I’m talking to my friends,” Chapman said. “I’m not a journalist and never pretend to be. I interact with people. I’m not going to refrain from giving information I hear just because it might upset some people.”

Chapman said he did not say Calipari to the Lakers was a “done deal” but instead that he was told it’s a done deal. If there’s a difference between those two things, I don’t understand it. He also went on to say that he heard from one source that Calipari is leaving Kentucky for LA win or lose and from another that the Lakers reached out and “of course Calipari has to listen.”

When Patrick asked Chapman if he believes Calipari is going to leave the Wildcats, he seemed to start backpedaling a bit.

“I believe that John is very savvy when it comes to these things,” Chapman said. “I would hope he’s not going to leave. He deals with this every year. Whether it’s to (get his next deal at Kentucky), I don’t know. There obviously is something to it. Come on.”

The interview had backpedal city written all over it. In one breath Chapman was saying he thinks Calipari will ultimately remain at Kentucky. But after Patrick reminded him several times that his tweet said “done deal,” Chapman confirmed that he heard from two “reliable sources” that Calipari to the Lakers is a done deal. Does that make any sense?

If Chapman’s sources are so reliable, why does he still think Calipari is going to stay at Kentucky? Something doesn’t add up, and my gut tells me that something is Chapman feeling stupid because he sent a tweet he shouldn’t have. The full interview is below:

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Geno Auriemma and Muffet McGraw seem to genuinely hate each other

April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment

geno-auriemmaThe Notre Dame and UConn women’s basketball teams have quickly developed a fierce rivalry over the past several years. The two teams have played a ton, mainly because they used to be in the Big East together. Now that they play in different conferences, it is only fitting that the Irish and Huskies are meeting in the national championship game on Tuesday night.

Some are comparing the current UConn-Notre Dame rivalry to the one the Huskies had with Tennessee several years ago. One thing that is fueling that rivalry is the blatant dislike UConn coach Geno Auriemma and Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw have for one another.

“We’ve got two really, really good teams,” Auriemma said earlier this week, via Lori Riley of the Hartford Courant. “Forget the other stuff. The other stuff is such nonsense. Really, that’s nonsense. I could sit here and list 10,000 coaches that don’t interact with each other whose rivalries are intense.

“This is a function of women’s basketball. Sometimes we act like girls, like we’re supposed to go to dinner every night. We’re supposed to play each other, try to beat each other’s brains out, try to win a national championship and compete like hell, Muffet and Geno, and then we’re supposed to get together afterward and go have a bottle of wine. That’s just not going to happen. So stop asking why it doesn’t happen.”

On Saturday, Notre Dame and UConn watched the unveiling of The Associated Press player and coach of the year awards from a small room together at Bridgestone Arena. McGraw admitted it was a tense atmosphere.

“Yeah, I think there was definitely tension in the room,” she said. “I think, for us, we wanted Kayla McBride to win the player of the year award [instead of UConn's Breanna Stewart]. So I think it was a little bit of that. And certainly the rivalry has gone a little away from the civility it was when we were in the league together.”

Stewart took home player of the year and McGraw won coach of the year. The Irish and Huskies have a combined record of 76-0 and are the two best teams in women’s college basketball. The fact that the coaches hate each other makes our jobs easier. This won’t be the last time these two teams meet for a title.

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UConn riots after win over Kentucky (Pictures, Videos)

April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment

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The University of Connecticut has an undergraduate enrollment of around 17,000 people. After the men’s basketball team defeated Kentucky to win a national championship on Monday night, all 17,000 and then some flooded the streets of Storrs and wreaked havoc.

All of the standard riot behavior was covered. There were flipped cars, fires, dudes climbing light posts, and plenty of broken glass. Here are some photos and videos from the night of madness.

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Guy misses out on $100,000 because he forgot to save his final bracket

April 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Think you were having a bad day or week? I’m sure it was nothing compared to what Corey Johnson was going through.

Johnson, 28, picked one of the best brackets among all entrants on Yahoo! Sports. Even though nobody won the Perfect Bracket Challenge — no surprise — Yahoo! was still going to give away $100,000 to the top 20 brackets.

Entering Monday’s title game, Johnson was tied for fourth among all entrants. That’s impressive. He had 11 of the Sweet 16 teams, three Final Four teams and correctly predicted UConn and Kentucky would reach the title game.

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Prior to the game, Johnson said he had UConn winning it all but, because of some error, his pick didn’t save on Yahoo! That means he had one of the best brackets in the world, but a computer error kept him from winning $100,000.

Johnson joked to Deadspin that he would be watching the game “from a rope hanging from a tree” after his blunder, but we don’t think he should be so hard on himself. In fact, we think Yahoo! should make it up to him, especially since he correctly picked the title game before it was played.

I posted my brackets on LBS days before the NCAA Tournament began, so it was obvious I had completed my picks. But when I went to check the standings, I had a zero score. Yahoo! didn’t save my picks, possibly because I didn’t fill out the final score. It was a crappy and lame technicality, especially since I filled everything else out.

Yahoo! should apologize to the kid, who says he clicked UConn and hit save. Their system really was screwy this year.

And how hard is that going to be to get over? Ouch.

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Kentucky fan Tyler Black keeping his tattoo, but we fixed it for him

April 7, 2014 By 1 Comment

Kentucky fan Tyler Black came close to calling his shot by getting a tattoo declaring his Wildcats national champions before the NCAA Tournament began, but his bold move came up short.

Kentucky lost to UConn 60-54 on Monday night, rendering Black as one of the most interesting characters of the night. Everyone was wondering the same thing shortly after the loss: what did he plan to do with the tattoo?

Black answered the question simply: he plans to keep it.

“I’m keeping it,” Black told ESPN. “It’s a way to remember this team and it’s part of my life story.”

He actually does have a pretty cool story to tell now, and he certainly will never forget this team. But if you know anything about Black — and his Twitter bio states “I’ve always felt I was born for rebellion” — then you know he’ll be unfazed by the declaration coming up short.

Based on all the attention Black received for what he did — and what happened with the Seahawks fan — we have a feeling quite a few fans will continue the trend of calling their shots with team tattoos. We don’t encourage the practice. If you feel the need to show everyone your faith, throw down a futures bet and just tweet your betting slip after it comes through. OK?

Anyway, the folks at Reddit College Football came up with this nice little fix for the tattoo in case Black’s so inclined:

Kentucky Tyler Black tattoo

Perfect.

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John Calipari’s daughter Megan sends sweet tweet about dad after loss

April 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

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John Calipari may be feeling down about his team losing in the championship game to UConn, but at least he has his family to pick him up.

Shortly after Kentucky lost 60-54 to UConn, Cal’s daughter Megan sent these nice tweets:

We figure she meant “couldn’t” be more proud of the team, because she followed up with this:

How sweet was that? That would easily make any father feel instantly better.

Things took a humorous turn when John’s other daughter, Erin, responded to her sister with this tweet:

Erin always has had a sharp edge. She also sent this to Rex Chapman after the former Kentucky player started a frenzy by tweeting that Calipari was headed to the Lakers:

As soon as those rumors pop up, Erin and Megan are the ones who hear it from the fans the most. We don’t envy being in their position. At least they’re both supportive of their father no matter what happens.

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