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Checking The Oil Can Be Hazardous

I can’t wait for football to start but with the Karen Sypher trial off for the weekend and nothing happening in the sports world, I thought I’d look at other famous people who were caught checking the oil.

Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton is at the top of the list because he was at the other end of the 15 second spectrum. When he had an affair with intern, Monica Lewkinsky, it almost got him impeached but also made him the hero of many poondawgs. The Oval Office for Christs sake how can you top that. How it affected him: His wife, Hilary Clinton, not only forgave him for his indiscretion, but the two are still married.

Jesse Jackson. In 2001, it was revealed Jackson had an affair with a staffer, that resulted in the birth of a daughter. How it affected him: He has never recovered from it and doesn’t command much respect today.

John McCain. He had a well-documented affair on his first wife, with his current wife. He has admitted in the books he has written about his life that he ran around with several different women while still married to his first wife. And don’t forget that he left her for a younger, richer woman – multi-millionaire Cindy Hensley who is now Cindy McCain – after she had been severely hurt in a car accident. How it affected him:All though it should have, it hasn’t affected him at all.

Wimp Sanderson. He won nearly three hundred basketball games, took Alabama to the Sweet Sixteen several times and won four SEC championships then he had an affair with his secretary. She also had an brief affair with his fist. How it affected him:Lost his job at Alabama then went to UAB for a couple of years and retired. This affair hurt Alabama way more than it did Wimp.

Rudy Giuliani. His messy divorce and subsequent remarriage were dragged into the spotlight during the 2008 presidential campaign, when questions arose over why New York City had picked up the tab for his security detail while he was involved in an affair with his current wife, Judith Nathan. How it affected him:Still a powerful figure in politics but he ruined his chance to be president.

Thats just a quick list. I could get into athletes who seem to take it as their right to cheat on their wives or how about presidents. JFK in the back of limos, FDR at hot springs and Eisenhower in Britain with an enlisted woman. If I get started on Hollywood I’ll never finish this so I wont even start on that cesspool.

As far as politicians go you might be wondering who cheats the most Republicans or Democrats. Eagle Investigative Services can give you the answers. To make it quick if you don’t want to follow the link, Republicans come out on top 50.2%% to 49.8% so its obvious that they prefer the missionary position more.

So remember checking the oil can be hazardous to your future.

8 Years Ago Today

Eight years have gone by since Mitch Barnhart was hired as Kentucky athletics director. July 15, 2002 should be a date thats remembered by Kentucky fans.

Sure most of us have bitched about him from time to time but just look at this season and you can see how good a job he’s done hiring coaches.

Both men’s and women’s basketball had a great year. Football went to its fourth straight bowl game and Mitch hired Joker rather than trying to go for a home run hitter. Women’s volleyball had a good year and look to have another one. Both men’s golf and men’s and women’s tennis are producing big time players. Rifle and cheer-leading are great as always. Baseball had a fair year and softball had a good year. Track had a national champion and soccer is improving.

All the programs are getting great athletes and have great coaches so hats off to Mitch Barnhart. Hes taken Kentucky to levels Tom Jurich can only dream about, that and Ricky P. in Italian diners.

Sgt Pepper had nothing to do with this but now the song is stuck in my head.

Happy 4th

I’m 6 hours behind most of you so your 4th is already off to a rockin start while mine is just starting. Happy 4th of July to you all and God bless you and your families, those who are fighting for our country, the BBN and America. May we all reflect on what our country means to us and join together despite our differences to solve the problems that plague our country.

Its Miller time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Cinderella Story

The match up seemed hopeless on paper, and Kentucky appeared just as daunting when it took the floor before a Big Blue mass of 24,402 Saturday night.

But the Cinderella Vols believed they could win, and for 30 minutes the glass slipper fit in Rupp Arena.

Thats the way the story starts at govolsextra.com.

Its a given that Tennessee played a good game against the Cat’s and its a given that barring a complete collapse by the Vols and a few more arrests they will be playing come March Madness time.

I don’t mind giving credit where credit is due but calling them the Cinderella Vols is stretching the amount of credit I’m really able to extend them.

Don’t they know the story of Cinderella? For those of you who haven’t read it or at least heard of the story I will tell it to you.

Once upon a time there was a basketball team that lived in a conference call the SEC. They cried because they couldn’t win a national championship and a low and behold a fast talking coach magically appeared who promised them they could dance with the trophy.

Now there were a couple of problems for the coach to overcome before this could happen. They didn’t have any designer clothes but that was easily fixed by trips to the mall and the county clothing store. They didn’t have a ride to the big dance so he would turn a pumpkin into a shiny city car come time for the dance and low and behold their problems were solved.

Sadly their two wicked step sisters Kentucky and Vanderbilt wanted them to stay home the evening of the dance so they resorted to judicial magic to escape. The pumpkin changed into a beautiful car with pretty flashing lights and their rags turned into beautiful orange jump suits.

Of course we all know how the story turns out, one and done. It would be a sad story but they got to keep the beautiful orange jump suits.

I know I know its not that good a story but desperation forces a man to write something like this to compete with story like Cinderella Vols. Cornell advancing to the final four would be a Cinderella story but calling Tennessee a Cinderella is a sign or increasing desperation.

Show the Cats a little love

One of our fans, Catlanta, had a great idea on Facebook that you might love too: Let’s fax some love to our Cats directly. Here is the number and the address of the UK Athletics office to send your messages so the Cats will actually get them! :

Send the Cats some love via snail mail, so they will see how much the real Cats fan in the Big Blue Nation really feel about them. Will you please do this too? I am going to send mine right now to the UK Athletics office.

Here is the address:
Mailing Address UK Athletics
Joe Craft Center
338 Lexington Ave.
Lexington, KY 40506-0604
General Phone 257-8000

According to UK Athletics, the fax # is (859) 323-1071.

Please do this! Let them know the Cat fans are behind them. Thanks!!!

Merry Christmas

We here at BigBlueRules want to wish everyone in the BBN a Merry Christmas. If fate and the post office favors us our Christmas present will finally arrive some time in March.

Merry Christmas

Some good lovin for Jamele Hill

Heres a show just for Ms Shock Jock to show Jamele Hill that not only do we know basketball we know music and what Ms Shock Jock needs is a little Charlie to fulfill her wildest fantasy’s since there is a snowball in hells chance that UK would hire him as a coach.

Here’s Charlie Manson crooning just for her in a Sunrise Show

Happy Veterans Day

Another Veterans Day has come and men and women are still deployed to places totally foreign to their beliefs to defend American freedom. The loss of one man or woman who is willing to fight to defend our freedom is a steep price but these men and women are willing to pay that price. They are what secure our freedom to live and worship as we choose not drooling politicians who might once have been like them but now are like a bad smell in the outhouse you cant flush away.

Patrick Henry once said give me freedom or give me death. I say give me one illegal immigrant, one gay man or woman, one poor boy from the mountains, one poorly educated boy, one well educated girl who understand that without paying the price freedom in America wont endure.

The real wizard

It’s been a good week for the Cats. Men’s soccer clinched a post-season berth with a win Wednesday over SMU behind senior Tim Crone’s goal in the second half. It was his 3rd career goal all against SMU. His other two goals came in a 2-1 victory over #1 SMU in 2007.

The #11 womens volleyball team showed they are deserving of a top 10 ranking by defeating Alabama Friday night. The lady Cats (23-2, 13-1) got their 50th win at Memorial Coliseum in the last four years with the win.

Men’s basketball routed Clarion 117-52 with John Wall scoring 27 in his first game for the Cats. DeMarcus Cousins had 20 points, Patrick Patterson scored 14 and Ramon Harris, Darnell Dodson and Darius Miller had 11 points. It was a clean well played game with excellent play by everyone who touched a ball.

The football Cats won on Saturday with a 37-12 thumping of Eastern Kentucky behind two second half touchdown passes by Morgan Newton and all around good play by the team.

So what did we learn this week? In football Morgan Newton, LaRod King and Chris Matthews are going to be great next year. Donald Russell is probably going to see more playing time after his 79 yard run for a TD.

In volleyball the lady Cats can go deep in the NCAA tournament and with a little scheduling luck bring home a championship.

In mens soccer we learned that SMU probably looks forward to Tim Crone graduating.

In basketball we learned that the real wizard isn’t the the pretender from Westwood nor is he the fine dining coach from Louisville or the blue collar earth wizard from Michigan. He’s certainly not the dripping wizard from Tennessee who’s only claim to wizardry is his ability to cast a spell on the color orange or the cave dwelling wand waver from Connecticut. And lets not get started on the kettle stirring witches from Carolina or the seller of love potions from Kansas.

The real wizard is the Wizard of Lexington. The Wizard of Lexington is not just a wizard in coaching and recruiting. He’s also a wizard in the way he cast a spell that brought back our ability to laugh and enjoy ourselves during a basketball game.

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