What A Great Day

I’m not sure its possible to have a better day, or a better couple of Sundays in a row. Talk about being wound to the max, that’s me. Beating Tennessee was down right awesome, then following it a week later with a beautiful, hard-fought, well coached win over a real good NC team is an unbeatable feeling. Thank you all you athletes who have given us a couple of Saturdays to remember for the rest of our lives.

To top this wonderful morning off, not one spammer tried to register last night. The fear of being blocked by Davis is working. He’s now our official spam blocker.

Writers Wanted

We are getting ready to start a new year of Kentucky sports and as usual more writers are needed. I was looking thru whats been written on the front page and trying to decide what was the best story’s written by a writer.

UKBoo wrote a lot of good straight sports articles and is missed by all of us.

Memoirs0Zeus/stringmusic was another early writer who wrote interesting sports story’s.

Hondo did a series on a year of 50′s football that I learned a lot from. He also did a good story on two way players at UK.

Katmendo became a writer because I stole his football posts from the forum but there wasn’t one that wasn’t on the mark.

bamacat does our rankings and I always enjoy seeing where we differ on who should be ranked higher. bama Arkansas is going to be better than Alabama this year. LOL

catfan4life is still writing good story’s and will be fun to read this fall.

Me I’m the BS guy and the beer wench supplies the beer. LOL

There are a bunch of story’s that I thought were the best but when it came down to it the best story that I read had to belong to MsCats with this story.

So if your interested in topping MsCats story or even just writing give me a email from the contact page or a pm.

Tipton Moonlighting?

Just saw a story on the news earlier talking about the face of JESUS appearing on a register receipt. This one is right out of a Jerry Tipton moonlighting as a reporter story. LOL

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July everyone. We are fortunate to live in a country built by hard work, determination to prosper and the sacrifices of men and women who were willing to give up their lives to keep Lady Liberty strong.

Thanks to them we can debate and change issues without resorting to the violence sweeping other parts of the world. Lady Liberty isn’t perfect but she allows 18% of the voters on a ESPN poll to say eating is a sport.

God Bless All of You

Did Tressell resign or was he tattooed er booted

Its official, Jim Tressel has resigned at Ohio St. Now comes the fun part watching how the media portrays him and what the NCAA does to the Ohio St.

If your in one of those asking moods today ask yourself some questions.

I’m a Kentucky fan why do I care?

Will the media do a dog pile on Mr. faith and integrity Jim Tressel like they do to Coach Calipari, or will they totally ignore him like they do with Pete Carroll?

Will this tattoo of Jim Tressell resigning sweep the land?

After the NCAA’s recent rejection of USC’s appeal will they then come down hard on the Ohio St to show they are fair?

And finally whats this with “the” Ohio St crap?

Fkn A

They finally got Bin Laden. If hes expecting his blow up doll harem to be virgins when he gets to his maker he better have a patch kit.

Sad News Here at BBR

I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but BigBlueRules didn’t win a Pulitzer Prize this year. Thanks to all of you we are hoping for a Nobel Peace Prize for last years hard hitting thoughts on Ricks 15 seconds of fame. I loved the picture of him hanging on the rim with that huge dunk. We will try harder this year and we just hope that Rick does so we win the Noble.

Triumphs n Tribulations

Being a Kentucky fan this year has been like playing with TnT. Some times we were up and sometimes we were down, and sometimes we were blown away by the triumphs our teams gave us.

Football started the season off with many of us having high expectations for our Cats to continue their climb to the top. After starting the season with wins over Louisville and a couple of cupcakes we came face to face with reality that’s the SEC. Granted we beat the old balls coach and took national champion Auburn to the wire before losing but we couldn’t get over the hump with the east teams. The Vanderbilt win can be ranked up there with the cupcake wins over Western Ky and Akron so the only reason to mention it is that its a win. Tennessee was the loss that hammered the team and fans the worst. They were down according to our thoughts and ripe for the picking. Unfortunately instead of picking the Orange they squeezed us like overripe grapes. The final game of the season was a embarrassing lose to Pittsburgh after losing QB Mike Hartline due to stupidity.

What should we expect in Jokers second year? A better defense and special teams for a starter. On the other side of the ball with the loss of so many key players we should expect a grind it out less scoring offense with more use of the TE position and fewer long completions.
Triumphant players: Randall Cobb, Derrick Locke , Danny Trevathan, Winston Guy and Mike Hartline.
Tribulation player: Mike Hartline who ruined his best season.
Season Ranking: Tribulation

Basketball started out with some eye popping games by the freshmen before running into UConn and a tsunami named Walker in Maui. We finished the non conference part of the season strong with wins over big east powers Louisville, Notre Dame and a blow out at Indiana. A 2 point loss to North Carolina could have as easily been a win and the rest of the games fell into the football cupcake category.

We started play in the SEC where home games were like canned food for the Cats and away games were dried food. Losing those road games made the Cats realize that they preferred canned food and they finished the season roaring by beating Florida and Vandy at home and then showing they were over those road woes by pulping the Vols.
Then the Cats continued to show they had crossed over the hump by sliding through the SEC tournament like a veteran mature team while showing the fans that they were the team that the fans and coaches thought they could be.

After an insulting #4 seed while Florida received a #2 the Cats traveled to Tampa where it took a last second shot by Knight to win pull out a tough win over Princeton. After a revenge game win over West Virginia they faced #1 overall seed Ohio St. Once again they proved they were able to win a close game as Knight finished the nutz off with a jumper with 5 seconds left. That brought them to the regional finals where unlike last year the Cats had a easy time knocking off North Carolina in a sweet revenge win.

Then it was off to the final four in Houston to face UConn in the semifinals. The Cats came out cold and were down by 10 at the half. At the start of the second half shots started falling and they took the lead only to go cold and ended up losing by 1 point.

Everyone knows what I just wrote and if they don’t agree blame it on my magic fingers.

What can we expect with next years team? That’s going to depend on who returns. Josh is gone but if Knight and Jones decide to return like Lamb has said he is and you throw in the #1 recruiting class this team will be hard if not impossible to beat. Hopefully coach Cal will finally realize that free throws are a necessity not an after thought.

Was this Coach Calipari’s best coaching job? You bet it was but that’s to be expected when you coach at the best basketball school in the country.

Finally thank you guys for giving us what we have longed for for 13 years. Hanging a final four banner in Rupp ranks you right up there with the best to ever play for Kentucky in our hearts.

Finally part deux. In my opinion the player of the year for the wildcats is Josh “Jorts” Harrellson.

Triumphant players: The whole team especially Josh Harrellson who took his game to a level where he has been invite to Portsmouth..
Season Ranking: Triumph

Happy Thanksgiving

Today is a double holiday here at BigBlueRules. Its our favorite pig out day Thanksgiving and its also our second birthday. Hard to believe that two years ago today with the help of Boo, LouisaCat and others, people started registering here.

Things have changed in the BigBlue world. Coach Brooks is no longer coaching football and we have beaten the old balls coach. Coach Calipari has made basketball exciting again taking us to the elite eight. Coach Mitchells womens basketball is now a top 10 program. Volleyball has made the tournament and the cheerleaders have continued to rule the world.

We have a lot to be thankful for in our BigBlue world, especially our families and friends. Happy Thanksgiving to all you and your families. Beating Tennessee will be the whipped cream on our pumpkin pie this weekend.

Veterans Day Thoughts

Thanks to all you guys and gals who have and are putting your ass one the line. We here at BBR appreciate your and your family’s sacrifices.

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