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01 February 2010
A weekend just happened, supposedly. It was a weekend without football (if you think the Pro Bowl is football, you need to reevaluate), not a lot of entertaining basketball and most of the SD crew was snowed in. Have no fear, my bullet points and I don't discriminate against the crappy weekends.
- Kentucky got back to their winning ways against Vanderbilt. I can't imagine anyone besides fans of these two teams were able to watch this game from start to finish. It was a classic, "Look at me!" performance from the referees. The game seemed to last six hours and there were about 283 fouls called. When actual basketball was being played, DeMarcus Cousins turned in the performance of the afternoon with 21 points and 10 boards. He made AJ Ogilvy look like he was an Aussie that bleaches his hair and admitted on ESPN that his favorite show is One Tree Hill. What? All those things are true? No wonder he was made to look an idiot.
- Scotty Hopson delighted a poorly dressed Bruce Pearl. Hopson hit a huge step-back shot with less than 20 seconds left in yesterday's game against Florida. Shots like that are the reason that Hopson was a McDonald's All American, and it appears he is ready to reach his potential that Vol fans expected. Bruce Pearl is now 8-1 (regular season) against Florida since he's been at Tennessee. He was also rocking the infamous sports coat/t-shirt/tennis shoes combo yesterday. Yes, I know the tennis shoes were a part of Coaches vs. Cancer. And I also know his t-shirt was a UT shirt for their fight against cancer. But, that is a combination that should never be worn. Ever. Just take off the jacket, Bruce. Be better.
- North Carolina lost at home...again. Thankfully, because of snow, there were hardly any fans there to see them drop to 10th in ACC standings. If you've seen UNC play, you know their guards are shaky at best. Frontcourt players that are NBA prospects are great, but if no one can get them the ball, they aren't quite as dominant. Even if the Tar Heels don't make the tournament this year, they'll be all right. Scout.com's #1 player, Harrison Barnes, and #7 player, Reggie Bullock, have already committed to UNC for 2010.
- The Winter Olympics start in 11 days. I swear. I am not joking. They're in Vancouver this time. Who knew?
- The Grammy Awards were last night. I watched about twelve minutes. Granted, I bought one CD in 2009 (Phish's Joy) and had maybe heard of about half of the people nominated for the "big" awards, but this seems like an overly hyped event. I saw Dave Matthews make an ass of himself on stage, furthering my claim that he is a musical joke (and so is the rest of his band). The performance by Drake, Lil Wayne and Eminem was a censor's delight. I think half of the song was heard by the television audience, the other half was muted. Truly, a great moment in music. And, Taylor Swift won Album of the Year. I watched her acceptance speech. It was probably 30 seconds long and I flipped back and forth about 173 times during the speech on whether she is hot or not. I really can't tell if she's beautiful or the love child between Sam Cassell and Nick Van Exel.
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