Weekend Fun: Tardiness is a warm gun

December 23rd, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Hi, hello and salutations, everybody.

With E’s connection to the Internet tubes on the fritz, I am here to deliver you some Weekend Fun - albeit a day later than usual.

In just a few hours, the Ohio State-Florida BCS Championship game college basketball game will take place. Should be a real doozy. At this point, I wouldn’t bet against Ohio State, even if the tilt is going down in Gainesville. (Update: I was dead wrong about this one.)
Mr. Bob Knight, a favorite among these parts, is going for the illustrious title of most collegiate basketball wins ever by a men’s coach today at home against Bucknell. For as much ribbing as we’ve done in the past to the man, it’s a well-deserved honor.

Sure he’s a bit of a mean fellow, but he’s also a stellar basketball instructor. Knight lives and breathes the game. For as much ire as he directs your way when you play under him, the General is forever indebted to his players after graduation. Ever need a favor? Bob Knight is there for you. And, according to many knowledgeable sources, he’s about the only guy in the country running a 100 percent clean program. So, yeah for Bob Knight.

Also, don’t forget about all those awesome bowl games this weekend! Why, which ones you ask?

How bout the PapaJohns.com, New Mexico, Armed Forces and Hawaii Bowls all going down today!

I’ll leave you with this video, quite the awe-inspired holiday treat.

(If you noticed, we now have a new header created by yours truly. Just pointing that out. Also, I think all the tweaks are just about done to our new look. Again, just pointing that out. And one last note: we probably won’t start posting full throttle again till Tuesday, with Christmas falling on Monday and all. But perhaps expect a sporadic post or two before then. Perhaps.)

What did the five fingers say to the face?

November 14th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanE

If you haven’t heard about this, sports fans, now you will. Bobby Knight, slightly displeased, as is his wont, calmly asked his player to step off the floor and have a discussion with him about his low quality of play last night … they proceeded to engage in a mature, thoughtful dialogue … one thing led to another … and bam, Mr. Knight and Texas Tech Athletics Media Relations Department are having a pretty rough day at the office.

To be honest, it doesn’t look that bad, but, I mean, he did hit the dude.

Surely, we’ll have plenty of impending opinion on this. In fact, I can already faintly hear the Bring Bobby Back crowd in Indiana sharpening their blades against the decapitated skulls of Mike Davis fans. And surely every collegiate pundit in America will be doing one of two prevailing dances - the macho “Coach Knight will make a man of you” fox-trot, or the “you never touch our frail, innocent, baby-faced, beautiful, sweet-as-the-morning-dew collegiate athletes” jig - any time now. But let’s just enjoy the video while we still can.

And hey, everyone has a temper tantrum here and there, right? Like, after a bad golf shot, maybe.

(Video via the incessantly brilliant The Big Lead.)