3 players most to blame for Kentucky basketball bowing out in March Madness​

Story by Drew Koch • 43m ago

CJ Fredrick​

Finally, you have to look at CJ Fredrick. The transfer from Iowa, who'd been injured in recent weeks, played 20 minutes but only came up with three points on 1-of-3 shooting.

Fredrick was the only other Kentucky basketball player outside of Antonio Reeves capable of consistently knocking down outside jumpers. While the injury may have contributed to his lack of production, if he's on the floor to be a scorer, he needs to shoot the basketball.

One of my very good friends, early 60's, has been an alcoholic for a long time. He had a very successful career managing the finances of a large international law firm. Probably hasn't done that for 20 years or so and is now working from home as a headhunter for legal firms. He's had the issue for a long time. Usually when he goes on a huge bender, it is with the guys. Last night his wife was out of town and he went out with 4 couples. By 5 when we got there, he was a mess. By end of night, he literally could not take a step forward without one of us on each arm. Didn't help that he had at least 10 mg of gummies, maybe more. Anyway, these events are getting more common. His 2 sons are disgusted with him and his daughter won't talk to him. His wife is lovely and extremely patient. Anyway, I have been thinking for awhile that an intervention might be needed. After last night, my wife and another one of the women think it needs to be done. He'll kill himself, one way or another if we don't. It will likely fall on me to organize something, likely with his wife and SIL. Anybody done this? Know of a website that has a guide for it? Any anecdotal things you would advise to do or not do?

Biggest shock is DJ.

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The GOP blocks a bill that would have prevented unlicensed open carry by minors.

So rest assured, if your child wants to walk the streets of Clayton Missouri with an open carry AR-15 that will continue to be allowed.

We are just lost as a nation on the issue of guns.

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So... it's the "dry" season here at Tradition Manor, and I returned from a business trip last night and the new Tradmobile was COVERED in lovebugs. I mean, "I can hardly see through the windshield" covered in lovebugs.

So today, they were forecasting a 40 percent chance of rain around 2 p.m.

Okay fine. I waited and the rain did not come. No forecasts for any rain after that.

So, let's detail the car and get all the damn bug guts off of it!

Of course, after totally washing, drying and waxing her, a T-storm moved through tonight.

Fvck me. Just fvck it all to hell. That is all.

Oh, and fvck it for good measure. Fvckity fvck, fvck fvck. Fvck.

The reason I ask is, after the 2016 election, Trump got more white male votes and less minority votes. This stat was used over and over in the media as to why Trump was a racist.

In 2020, a large percentage of those privileged white males left Trump and went with Biden, but Black and Latino voters increased with Trump. The racism logic magically disappeared from the media.

In 2024, the white male is sticking with Biden, and Trump could get the largest percentage of Black and Latino votes a Republican has in decades.

So the media, democrats, etc can “call” Trump a racist, but a growing number of the groups he supposedly “hates” continue to support him from 2016 forward.

Why???

So in 1885, Flagler connected a series of disjointed railroads along Florida's Atlantic Coast from Jacksonville, at Florida's northern end, to Miami, near the state's southern tip. Miami should have been the end of the line, but when the US began construction on the Panama Canal in 1904, Flagler saw tremendous potential for Key West – the US' closest piece of land to the Canal and the deepest port in the Southeast US. The bustling hub was already flourishing thanks to the cigar, sponging and fishing industries (Key West was Florida's largest city until 1900), but the island's remote location made it difficult and expensive to move goods north.
Therefore, Flagler decided to extend his track 156 miles south to Key West, mostly over open sea. This so-called Key West Extension was considered impossible by many of his contemporaries, and his vision was labelled "Flagler's Folly" by his critics. Between 1905 and 1912, three hurricanes battered the construction site, killing more than 100 workers. Undeterred, Flagler pushed ahead. It took seven years; $50m ($1.56bn today); and 4,000 African American, Bahamian and European immigrants to build the railroad – all of whom had to contend with alligators, scorpions and snakes as they toiled in harsh conditions.
When the railroad was finally completed in 1912, it was called "the eighth wonder of the world". On the train's inaugural run, a wood-burning locomotive arrived at Key West from Miami carrying the then-82-year-old Flagler, who stepped out of his private luxury carriage car (which is on view at the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach) and allegedly whispered to a friend, "Now I can die happy. My dream is fulfilled."

He nails this one, just like so many of his historical documentaries. Cowardice and a lust for power, with no policy visions for the country. And, he legitimately warns that it ain't over yet.

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All right. Now it's time for the cultists to post their laughing emojis.

Carry on.

Tried to sign up for free FUBO-- not successful. Where else will it be shown? TIA

VisionSpring's CEO Ella Gudwin describes Scott's support as a "big win" for the sector. "This is believed to be the largest, single private donation towardsolving the problem of uncorrected blurry vision as a poverty intervention," she says.

Most notable in Scott's gifts is the lack of any reporting requirements, something that nonprofit workers like Water For People's Williford heartily welcome.

"People don't realize how much time organizations spend on allocating restricted resources. A lot of people say, 'I want to make sure my money goes only to programming, not to overhead.' " But, she says that overhead is important — it's "salaries, fundraising and keeping lights on."

She also says that it is common for donors to have specific geographic preferences for their gift.

"If you get different restrictions, you are constantly having to reallocate resources and reserves."

Bubb says that an unrestricted approach is a blow against bureaucracy.

"Philanthropic foundations have been far too process-driven, deciding what's best for charities and making them jump through hoops with over-elaborate application arrangements."

I am absolutely shocked that a conservative blogger (a self-proclaimed Christian) would maliciously edit a video to support her ideology. Is it too late for the GOP to regain their grand ole party?

The day of Posey’s performance, June 11, 2022, Bushnell posted a video of herself discussing the mass arrest of Patriot Front members near City Park, as well as footage from Posey’s performance. “Why did no one arrest the man in a dress who flashed his genitalia to minors and people in the crowd?” she said in the video. “No one said anything about it and there’s video. I’m going to put up a blurred video to prove it.”

The next day, Bushnell published an edited video she had received from local videographer Jeremy Lokken. Bushnell told others that the blur concealed “fully exposed genitals” and urged people to contact police. The edited video garnered many thousands of views, sparking national news coverage and a police investigation. City prosecutors ultimately declined to file charges and stated publicly that the unedited video showed no exposure.

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Wow. What is it about Iowa. Football, basketball, baseball, Iowa grads in the WNBA . . .

Today, it was the Big Ten Tourney. Iowa trails Illinois 4-2 in the bottom of the tenth, but the Hawkeyes have the bases loaded and nobody out. A ground ball is fielded and thrown to second for the force with the relay to first way late while the runner from third scores to make it 4-3, one out, and runners on first and third.

But NO. Wait. The umpire called interference at second base even though, as the TV guys said, the play was routine in every possible way. The slide was straight into the bag, and the Hawkeye runner made no contact of any kind with anybody. But not to worry because the obviously wrong call will be overturned on review . . .

But NO. The crazy, ridiculous, horrible call was CONFIRMED! After Head Coach Rick Heller argues and is thrown out, of course, the next Iowa batter strikes out. Game over.

Iowa gave the game away to Michigan yesterday, and today they were outright robbed by an inexplicable call, even after review, that can only be compared to the TD that was taken away from Iowa and Cooper DeJean against Minnesota that cost Iowa the game. It was NOT a fair catch, and it was NOT interference.

Beth Goetz had better raise hell about what happened today because it was plain incompetence or bias or both. The evidence is clear.

WARNING: Not safe for people allergic to real data.


The finding are briefly summarized at this point in the latest TWIV video, for those who prefer that medium.

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“the admissions committee gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.”


Idiocracy is real and is being caused by Liberals.

Bizarro World.

I have been single for some time now. I had hoped to reconcile with a no pic x but apparently that ship has sailed. I’m in my late 40’s have no desire to use an app to meet a potential partner.

My no pic neighbor is roughly my age, smart, social and quite attractive. Since I know that any chance of reconciliation with my x is essentially gone, I have thought about asking this woman to go for a walk, meet for a drink, etc. Here’s the rub, in my limited experience with her, she never shuts up. She was walking her dogs this morning, she saw me and stopped to chat. She talked for a half hour straight without taking a breath and the majority of the time, I had no clue wtf she was talking about.

So do I ask her to do something in hopes she has a different gear? Do I continue to wait for my x? Or do I move along and hope the right person is out there?

I’m expecting some well thought out, rational, sound advice from you knuckle dragging trogs. TIA.

Just posting this mostly because I didn’t realize the size and athleticism of incoming football recruit- Joseph Anderson. Yesterday at his Sectional Track Meet, the 6’6 220+ pound Anderson went 14.38 in the 110 hurdles, 22’3 in the long jump, and over 49 feet in the Triple Jump 😳

That’s a huge kid to be accomplishing those marks, and obviously speaks to the athleticism he will be adding to the D Line room. Cant wait to see what Bell, Parker, and company can do with him!!

Congrats to Caitlin Clark and Co. for collecting Indiana's first win of the season last night before a record crowd of over 19,000 in Los Angeles. There were a few remarkable elements involved in that game besides getting that first W:

* The officiating was fantastic. Not perfect, but it was one of the best officiated games I've ever seen on any level in a long time. Or did it just seem that way compared to the trash the WNBA has been putting out before last night . . . In any event, it was shocking and overdue. Let's hope for this kind of officiating becoming the norm, as it should.

* The lack of rugby-style play. Give LA credit for playing basketball instead of rugby. I'm pretty sure that helped make the game so well officiated. This, too, should be the norm.

* Caitlin should have had a triple double if her teammates could make a layup. Even so, she finished with 11 points, 10 rebounds, and 8 assists, and that last number should have been at least 12. In fact, last night CC led the Fever in rebounds, assists, and steals (4), and she was tied for blocks with 2. For those who didn't realize it, CC is a basketball player, not just a shooter.

* Despite having a seriously off night from three, CC played some tenacious defense, forced some TOs, and in addition to putting up the numbers above, she hit two of the biggest shots of the night . . . both long threes late in the game . . . to clinch the win for Indiana.

* There were signs, at times, that Indiana is beginning to figure out how CC plays and how they fit into that style. Of course, how she plays hasn't exactly been a secret, so maybe her teammates--and coaches--should have been far more prepared for her arrival.

* Finally, the TV announcers were the best, by far, we've heard in our brief WNBA experience.

And so maybe everyone can relax a little and Indiana can keep on winning, although tonight's quick turnaround @ Las Vegas should be a challenge. Tonight's game also will be a reunion for CC with Kate Martin and Megan Gustafson. As a result, I understand that Lisa Bluder and the entire Iowa women's coaching staff will be in Vegas to witness the game. Cool. I hope all three Iowa grads play well and that we see another clean, close, well-officiated, entertaining game.

Big Hawkeye cheer to the soccer team! They knocked off #1 seed Michigan State last weekend and then defeated Penn State last night to make it to the tournament championship against Wisconsin on Sunday. Go Hawks!

It's talking about that latest ruling that allow NCAA athletes to get paid. Am I reading this right? I got this from the Gazette Online.