Chink In Their Armor

I saw this morning where espn fired a writer for using this headline “Chink in the Armor,” when talking about the Knicks loss Friday. As some may know or guess by my handle I live in Hawaii. Over here using chink would just be describing a persons ethnic ancestry and no big deal even if used to their face. Now if the espn writer had used “F#&^ing Chink in the Armor,” then it would have been a racial slur.  Obviously in Connecticut things are different and the knights at the espn court are held to higher standards.

I dislike espn so much I very seldom use capital letters when typing espn. They are so two faced in the way they do things. Think Knight and Forde insulting Kentucky fans for years and being allowed to get away with it. Even Dickie V hinted around that we were hillbilly racists for wanting Tubby gone. Then they fire a writer right away for using “Chink in the Armor.” Sure it was dumb to use that headline, but firing dumb? Only if you take into account the free advertising mentioning espn when you do a search.

Bobby Knight still working for espn shows that they have a Chink in their Armour too. LOL

Once again they showed at least to this Kentucky fan that they deserve to have F#&^ing used in front of espn.

A Kentucky Hero Is Born.

Bruce Feldman was suspended today by ESPN after co-authoring a book with Mike Leach that is highly critical of Craig James.

From cbssports.com comes the following.

According to reports, Feldman was given the green light to proceed with the book, and he never engaged in any promotion for the book before or after its release. Non-issue, then, right? Well, wait:

They informed Feldman today that he has been banned from writing for any ESPN entity, is forbidden from appearing on any ESPN platform, is not allowed to Tweet from his Twitter account nor participate in any promotion of a recently-released book in which Feldman played a role.

According to Sports By Brooks Feldman followed ESPN’s rules about the whole writing issue.

According to BBR’s thoughts when your suspended by the big sister of the NCAA because Craig James is a crybaby you become a hero to Kentucky fans who have faced ESPN’s scorning behind the back jabs for years. Our hats off to Mr Feldman and we hope he promotes Coach Leaches new book to the max.

Violation Blues

Hoist one with me to say good bye to the WAC. I’ve been a WACker since the early 60′s when sometimes the local New Mexico paper or El Paso and Albuquerque TV stations didn’t even bother to show SEC scores or standings and left me in limbo about my Cat’s.

Now that Fresno St, Boise St. and Nevada are leaving leaving there only leaves 6 football teams left in the WAC. This is old news and normal WAC history though. In the late 60′s as soon as Arizona and Arizona St. got to the point where they were looking like top 25 teams and recruiting to mank kids from California the PAC 8 gobbled them up. Then when the MWC teams broke away the WAC got lucky with Boise St. who is departing to the Big 12.

Now I don’t have to like it but I can understand why much of this has happened. Its all about consolidation and all you have to do is follow the money. What do you find when you do? You find the worldwide leader ESPN. With having only 6 teams now I’m going to bet that the newly signed WAC contract will be challenged and who does that benefit? Why ESPN of course. After all the best WAC teams are now in other conferences so why spend the money to televise the WAC games is small markets. Does anyone really think that there haven’t been any discussions about the MWC’s television channel and ESPN getting a cut. I have my hopes that the talks with Comcast and CBS pan out so the world wide leader gets screwed by the MWC too.

When you look there are only a few decent teams left and they are FCS teams in the Big Sky who’s budgets won’t support trips to Hawaii. This is going to destroy the Hawai’i men’s athletic program.

So I only have this to say. I will never have anything good to say about any of those bitches or the MWC again and I hope a UH linebacker violates your QB with his foot this year.

We will just have to watch and see how this plays out but one thing for sure. I’m glad to be a SEC fan where even lowly Vanderbilt’s back is watched by the other teams.

MWC signs agreement with BCS

OK I admit my first thought when I saw the headlines was that the BCS gave in over fear of congress and a antitrust violation. Didn’t take long to realize that they signed because they had no choice but to sign after the WAC voted to sign.

Here is what the MWC said.
Today, the Mountain West Conference has executed the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) agreement and the attendant rights agreement with ESPN. While the Mountain West has expressed serious concerns with the various fundamental flaws in the current BCS system, our various good faith initiatives to generate reform have thus far not been accepted.

Therefore, the Mountain West believes it has no choice at this time but to sign the agreements. If a conference wishes to compete at the highest levels of college football, and the only postseason system in place for that is the BCS, no one conference can afford to drop out and penalize its football programs and student-athletes.

The Mountain West will continue its efforts for change, including a request for dialog with representatives of the BCS. Our goal is to ensure the eventual outcome of these endeavors is what our universities and student-athletes need, what the vast majority of American sports fans want, and what is long overdue: an equitable system.

Four years from now if the MWC and WAC continue to go to BCS bowls the BCS will have no excuse to exclude them.

ESPN to televise SEC games for 15 years

On top of the great Kentucky recruiting news recently the SEC and ESPN signed a major television deal that promisses to give the Cats more national exposure and spending money. The Southeastern Conference has signed a 15-year deal with ESPN reportedly worth more than $2 billion to televise sporting events, including football and men’s and women’s basketball. Its past time that the SEC got a tv package they deserve. Finally fans who dont live in the raycom broadcast area will be able to see some SEC sports other than the prime CBS games. Goodbye and good riddence Raycom.