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Entries from May 2009

These Teams Should Go To The Mediocrity Bowl

November 24th, 2008 · No Comments

If I were a college football coach, I would not want to take a 6-6 team to a bowl game. Any team that’s good enough to win only half its games meets the definition of mediocrity, and I don’t believe mediocrity should be rewarded. Somehow I believe that Mr. Paul “Bear” Bryant, Mr. Knute Rockne, […]

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Tags: Football · Sports · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville

A Nobody Asked Me, But. . . Post

November 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

    Nobody asked me, but…
I HAVE a wonderful idea to deal with Kentucky’s revenue shortfall: Add one per cent to the sales tax on all fast-food. It should be an easy sell to the General Assembly if we used the same convoluted logic that’s being used to promote an increase in the cigarette tax.
The medical […]

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Tags: Basketball · Football · Politics · Sports · University of Kentucky

The V’s Have It Against UK in Every Way

November 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

VMI is an old private military school that prides itself on the leaders it prepares for both the military and the business world. Its most famous graduate is Gen. George Marshall, author of the “Marshall Plan” that rebuilt Europe after World War II. It has about 1,200 students, give or take a few future lieutenants.
Vanderbilt […]

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Tags: Basketball · Sports · University of Kentucky

If Character Counts, More Time for Kragthorpe

November 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Ever since I got into the journalism dodge almost 50 years ago, I’ve tried to judge coaches by more than their won-lost records. I’ve tried to applaud coaches who play by the rules and deplore those who don’t. I’ve always believed what I learned from coaches such as S.T. Roach, C.M. Newton, and Bob Knight […]

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Tags: Football · Sports · University of Louisville

WANTED: You, For Your Slave Labor

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s that time again! Haha so, funny story, we need to hire another creative and capable advertising executive to grow our media sales team.
Could that be you? Would you relish the opportunity to work with some very important and powerful bloggers and politico/media types?
We’re obviously a flourishing media operation with trillions of dedicated readers […]

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Tags: Entertainment · Journalism · Miscellaneous

The Day That Changed the World

November 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

At 6:20 a.m. on the day the world changed, it was so dark in the parking lot of the suburban church that you could make out the signs, “Vote Here,” only when they loomed in the headlights. The voter was surprised to find the lot so full of cars that he needed a few moments […]

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Tags: Politics

Obama: Right Man, Right Place, Right Time

November 1st, 2008 · 10 Comments

This year’s Presidential election is more important than most because never in our nation’s history has our government strayed as far from our fundamental American values as it has in the eight-year reign of George W. Bush and his Machiavellian Vice-President, Dick Cheney.
From President Bill Clinton they inherited a federal government that was at peace […]

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Tags: Politics