Cincinnati-Xavier

The Cincinnati-Xavier game is Ohio's version of Duke-North Carolina with the the rivalry being heated and the school's being in close proximity. I am sure that most everyone has seen the lowlights of the end of yesterdays game by now and it was an ugly end to a lopsided game.

Trash talking by both teams were evident throughout the game. The referees should have started handing out technicals as the two teams went into halftime and had a verbal altercation. Maybe that would have calmed the two teams down. The referees started losing total control of that game in the second half and the result was the brawl that happened with a little over 9 seconds to go.

The press conference after the game was very telling. Granted I only saw the clips that they showed on ESPN. The Xavier players spent the entire time justifying the defense of their manhood and one of the players even referred to himself and his teammates as "gangstas."

I really admire Cincinnati Head Coach Mick Cronin's comments. He questioned his teams fitness to even wear the University of Cincinnati jersey and said that they were lucky to even be able to play for the University of Cincinnati and have scholarships and it was an embarrassment for the school to be represented that way. He went on to say that he had physically taken the jerseys off of some of those players and a determination would be made later if they would even be allowed to put them back on. Coach Cronin handled himself well during that press conference and also represented the University of Cincinnati as well.

"Cluck" Kellogg

I owe Jay Bilas an apology. A big one. I may even invite him out for a beer to prove the sincerity of this apology. I just thought he was one of the crappiest college basketball analysts out there. Clark Kellogg went out and proved me wrong this afternoon during the North Carolina-Kentucky basketball game.

If I can channel Terry Bradshaw for a minute, I need to give a little background here. My Grandaddy had a chicken one time and this chicken clucked all day long. You never knew what she was clucking about, she just clucked to be clucking.

That is my analysis of Clark "Cluck" Kellogg's performance today. His anti-Carolina bias ranks right up there with Billy "Fudge" Packer and "Dumbass" Dan Bonner. He talked the whole game and never said anything of relevance. Anytime Kentucky made a play, he would ramble on for the next 30 seconds about that play. Whenever North Carolina made a play, he was either still talking about Kentucky or he was silent like they had turned his microphone off. The viewers couldn't have gotten that lucky. After the game, I realized a senile Woody Durham would have still been a thousand times better than "Cluck" Kellogg. I also had a hankerin' for some fried chicken. Right, Terry Bradshaw?