Digger Phelps can’t stop touching Bob Knight

March 17th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Fellow FanHouser Charles Rich has this Red Lasso video of Digger Phelps and Bob Knight analyzing basketball together, if by “analyzing” you mean “Digger touching Bob Knight’s shoulder in a gentle, reassuring, way.” This is one of the weirder portions of Knight’s time on ESPN. Not only did Knight fail to do anything interesting (that is, until Dick Vitale got a bit too friendly last night), Digger and Knight couldn’t be worse matches on camera. Knight is relaxed and hoarse and slouching — Digger is erect, handsy, and tielighter-clad. These two can’t possibly be friends.

In other news, Red Lasso is the best thing to happen to blogs since Youtube. I have no idea how it’s legal, but it apparently is. Yay for murky fair use!

Digger Phelps and a chasm of opinion

March 10th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

Digger Phelps. What can I say about this man’s outfit that hasn’t already been said about Afghanistan? Looks bombed out and depleted.

Ah, but I am not alone in my most diabolical of hate. Dave at Sporting News writes:

I’m laying around after the fights Saturday night doing some work and I got the Worldwide Leader on in the background and then suddenly I look up and it’s like, whoa, play that funky music white boy. I mean, doesn’t this show, whatever it is, College Basketball Tonight, whatever … doesn’t it have a producer on the set with enough juice to say, “Hey Digger, uh, Rudy from Fat Albert called and he wants his hat back.” Or “Digger, you like school in the summertime – no class.” Or just, “Digger man, take off the stupid hat or you’re fired.”

There I was, sleepily enjoying my alcoholic buzz on Saturday night, trying to watch some college basketball, and Digger’s out there dressed to impress. The funny thing about that is that Phelps was the only one dressed anywhere near as warmly as this; Rece and Hubert and Bilas were all just wearing their suit, and to be honest, they looked perfectly comfortable. Plus, it’s North Carolina in March. It can’t be that cold, can it?

For the record, Awful Announcing disagrees, as I think Chris Mottram will as well. But that’s why we love each other so much. Our differences only make us stronger.