Posts Tagged ‘Rick Pitino’

Billy Gillispie Continues to Win in Kentucky

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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The most celebrated Kentucky basketball coach this side of Adolph Rupp has given us reason to celebrate once again. The coach a lot of people stupidly referred to as “Billy Clyde” or “Coach Clyde” (Seriously, WTF? You come off [...]

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Relishing Pitino’s Misery

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

In light of Rick Pitino’s admissions concerning the Karen Sypher story, allow me to relay a little lesson I’ve learned: If you want to find the best reactions when it comes to a Kentucky-related story, turn to Kentucky fans, something the lead image shows very well. Granted, the mock-up of the “Miles Ahead” [...]

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Louisville Fans Like Their Number One Seed

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Oh, the things an overall number one seed can inspire. Take this little ditty in the lead video. It was put together by a couple of Louisville Cardinals fans who are quite excited about the upcoming NCAA Tournament. So much so, they make fan songs with pop music lyrics to demonstrate their [...]

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Pitino and Laettner Revisit History

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

I’m sure you’ve heard about the Rick Pitino/Christian Laettner commercial Vitamin Water was making. It recreates the famous shot from 1992 when Duke beat Kentucky in what is considered one of the best college basketball games ever. Of course, Laettner provided the dagger, courtesy of Rick Pitino’s unwillingness to guard the in-bounds pass, [...]

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Fun With SI and Rick Pitino

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

As indicated in my last post, Rick Pitino issued an apology to Louisville fans for losing to Western Kentucky on Sunday. Naturally, when a coach of Pitino’s stature does anything something like this, it makes the media rounds. Unfortunately for someone at Sports Illustrated’s FanNation blogging platform, they forgot that while Pitino does [...]

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College Basketball Upsets are Fun

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Still catching up from all the Thanksgiving fun, so excuse the tardiness of this post. I find college basketball to be much more enjoyable than college football. I understand this is blasphemy to some people, but I do have my reasons: one of them being watching mid-major schools beat up on the big [...]

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