Jim Schue

Chris Jackson at LSU is the first guy I recall who did it with a lot of regularity.

I like how this can also apply to the way towns/cities/counties are pronounced by some, as alluded to earlier. Some variations I've heard: Lancaster — (Lank-ster) or (Lan-cast-er) Pikeville — (Pahk-vuhl) or (Pahk-ve-uhl) Boyle — (Bahl) or (Boy-uhl) Richmond — (Rich-mund) or (Ree-uch-mund) Bonus fave Elizabethtown — (E-liz-uh-buth-town) or (Eee-town)

I prefer not to take the expressways. So yeah, the Danville route is my choice. That doesn't mean I'll take that way home.

Shaughnessy from the Boston paper turned in a ballot with just Rivera checked. If there was anyone who would not go with Rivera to make sure he wasn't unanimous, he's the guy. Apparently the old-school writers didn't communicate through group text to decide who would be the one no vote for Mo.

I gotta be in Richmond tomorrow until about 8pm. How bad is my road getting back to Bardstown gonna be?

Those ones that bumped up to $2.05 dropped back to $1.93 same day.

Wait, what does Waltrip do? "They're gonna turn left."

By matchup R13 — Middlesboro 43.2 R9 — Cov. Holy Cross 77.4 R6 — Lou. Holy Cross 49.6 R4 — Metcalfe Co. 60.1 R12 — Danville 79.3 R1 — Murray 75.2 R7 — Brown 42.6 R3 — Owensboro Catholic 79.5 (overall state #25 this week) R5 — Bethlehem 74.8 R10 — Bishop Brossart 61.5 R8 — Walton-Verona 75.4 R2 — University Heights 46.6 R14 — Wolfe Co. 51.8 R11 — Berea 51.8 R15 — Paintsville 55.3 R16 — West Carter 75.6

http://allaclassic.org/State%20Brackets/2019%20Girls%20State%20Brackets.pdf Here's the bracket.

According to this week's Cantrall Ratings, however much stock you put in them, here's how the field rates. Girls R3 — Owensboro Catholic 79.5 (overall state #25 this week) R12 — Danville 79.3 R9 — Cov. Holy Cross 77.4 R16 — West Carter 75.6 R8 — Walton-Verona 75.4 R1 — Murray 75.2 R5 — Bethlehem 74.8 R10 — Bishop Brossart 61.5 R4 — Metcalfe Co. 60.1 R15 — Paintsville 55.3 R11 — Berea 51.8 R14 — Wolfe Co. 51.8 R6 — Holy Cross 49.6 R2 — University Heights 46.6 R13 — Middlesboro 43.2 R7 — Brown 42.6

The All A Classic has always had the schedule format it has as long as I can recall, with the first game of the first session of Day 1-2-3 being 8:30am ET and the last of the second session set for 9pm ET (but it sometimes starts waaaaaay later than that, and never right at 9).

I think basketball season has too many games as well. About 24 games max but 22 would be more ideal. Last year's state finalists played 39 games each (10 postseason).

Yeah, probably because Jim Nantz has always been better suited to golf announcing. Soooooo booooooring. Romo is a welcome breath of fresh air in Nantz's stodgy booth.

I suppose it could. But we have what amounts to "full-time officials" in college basketball. Refs in the college ranks are doing several games per week — some as much as 5-6. And while they are considered "independent contractors" to the conferences they officiate for, that many games a week and all the outside filmwork they are required to do sounds like a full-time job to me. And yet all people ever do is complain about the officials in college hoops screwing up.

There seems to be some flux in Bardstown, which is rare, even at different stations within the same company. Anywhere from $1.93-$2.05. The ones at $2.05 made the jump yesterday.

I got a sneak preview of Ky. Owl's "Confiscated" label the other night. Oh my.

Sleeting pretty hard in Bourbon Country right now.

Man, this pressure change in the air is killing me. My ears have been popping all morning like I'm on an airplane or something. And I'm going to have to go to Kroger at some point today because my cupboard is barren. Not looking forward to that mess.

The winner Sunday will face 5th Region champ Bethlehem at 5pm Wednesday. The Banshees are making their first-ever trip to the state All A Classic and are having their best season in school history so far, with a 16-2 mark to start the year. They beat host Green Co. — who has traditionally been the top small-school team in the 5th — 58-46 last night in Greensburg.

Good grief. How many teams are in All A qualification in this region?

Very interesting score. But I understand as John had a busy week last week with the 2A tourney. Wish I could have gone to their game with LaRue at NC on Saturday, but I was preoccupied.

She was a very, very funny and talented gal.

I'm going to go ahead and leave this post from the thread in the Controversial Issues forum right here. Notice how few kids from small-town schools are on this team? Does that mean that there's nobody any good outside of the state's larger population centers? Someone said they don't consider Scott Co., Jessamine Co., Mercer Co. and certain other areas as "part of Lexington." But they are close enough to where the voters would have had a chance to see those kids. Same goes for Oldham Co. and other areas that are not necessarily metro area, but play in the same districts as metro area teams. Voters can (should) only vote for players they actually have an opportunity to see and be impressed by. And this is why the AP vote fails miserably.

Looks like an old-school one from back in the day that I often used over the past two decades. Mine didn't have a brand name on it, so I'm guessing it costs a lot more than the regular ones.

Don't feel too bad. I am totally oblivious as to why Imagine Dragons are popular. They're freakin' awful.