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19 February 2010
FWP (Fearless Weekend Predictions) is a (hopefully) weekly post that we used to run at our old site every Friday after college football season. It gives one of your favorite StadiumDrives writers a chance to look into the crystal ball, or the bottom of a beer bottle, to see what the forthcoming weekend holds. It's also another post that will utilize the efficiency of bullet points. As always, please take all picks as novelty and do not gamble your rent check on them, unless you feel really strongly about a certain one.
The UK Wildcats travel to Nashville tomorrow to play Vanderbilt at Memorial Gymnasium (not to be confused with Memorial Coliseum in Lexington where the Wildcats used to practice). Vanderbilt is home to a bunch of nerds who now think they are cool because everyone else at the school was a nerd in high school as well. You should really visit there sometime to see them "tailgate" before a football game. Imagine lots of pastel-colored shorts, lots of crocheted belts and many bar hats. For the most part, the girls aren't attractive (except you baby... you know who you are), but might be worth baby-trapping because they'll probably be rich later in life. Plus, if they're at Vandy, daddy probably has some money. Alas, I digress. I don't mean to rip on nerds, I mean to rip on Vandy's ridiculous gym setup. I used to run a youth basketball league. For kids ages 6-9, we would play cross-court, so we could have two games going on at once. Because of this, we would set up the team benches under the goals for space reasons. If you've ever seen a game played at Vanderbilt, you also know that Vanderbilt also sets up the benches under the goals. Do you see what you've done, Vandy? You have set up your gym to resemble a mediocre youth basketball league run by a hungover 22 year-old college kid. Is this what Cornelius Vanderbilt had in mind when he started your university? Is it? Is it??? Put your benches on the side of the court like everyone else in the world and come back and talk to me. Now, I'll tell you what the weekend holds.
People will strangely be drawn to watch the Winter Olympics. I don't know what it is, but people love them. I have maybe watched 4 minutes combined and was bored out of my mind. Maybe it has to do with the white glare off the TV from the snow/ice. I just flipped the channel to see Russians and Americans deep in a curling battle. Please tell me how this is entertainment. Nevermind, just found a hot Russian curler. I'm hooked. (Sidenote: There are timeouts in curling? What the hell?)- Tiger Woods will be the focus of the national media. Was the best game of the NBA season played last night? Yes it was. Are there tons of great college basketball games being played all weekend long? Yes there are. Are pitchers and catchers reporting right now? Absolutely. But, we'll be focused on a guy who hasn't participated in his sport in months, gave us no new information today and sounded like a robot for 13 minutes. Sounds like a plan. I'd be more interested if the Perkin's hostess had a press conference.
- Purdue, Tennessee and North Carolina will all win. Purdue is playing as well as anyone in the country, just ask Gage. Also, Illinois just isn't very good. Tennessee appeared to have South Carolina's number when they played in Knoxville and as well as Devan Downey scores, I don't think he can erase 26 points. North Carolina will be helped by the return of Tyler Zeller, although he would help more if he could play point guard. They'll be helped more by the fact that Boston College isn't very good.
- Josh Howard will become the hero of some. ESPN has a story that Josh Howard sat out a Mavs game last month because of a hangover. Let's face the facts, most of us have called in to work or skipped class because we had a few too many the night before. I've even sat out a rec-league basketball game because things got wild the night before. Lots of people will crucify Howard for his reasoning. I know a few people around these parts that will like him just a little bit more.
You will remember how hot Jen Lindley from Dawson's Creek is. She appears to be the leading lady in Shutter Island which opens this weekend. Remember her in Dawson's Creek? She was super hot at the beginning of the show, got really unattractive towards the end and then got really hot again after the show ended? This picture was obviously taken in one of her hot stages. But, she's not even the biggest star of the movie, and neither is Leonardo DiCaprio. Jackie Earle Haley is in the movie!!! Kelly Leak from The Bad News Bears!!! Kelly Leak is an all-time movie character. How about when he goes to the fitness class and starts hitting on all the cougars? "I got a Harley Davidson. Does that turn you on? Harley Davidson?"- Vandy will beat UK. I know. I'm not happy about it either. I already detailed the stupid gym setup in Nashville. Kentucky has a young team that needs to be coached on both ends of the floor. I predict they struggle on offense in the first half and defense in the second half. You know, when Cal will have to pull a Bruce Pearl and walk to the free throw line to try and yell down at his team. Vanderbilt isn't awful and they play really well at home.UK seems ripe to get beaten before they (hopefully) make a run at the end of the season. They'll fare better for the rest of the season, because the NCAA Tournament doesn't have any venues that have their gyms set up like that. What the hell, Vandy 79 UK 75.
