Have you ever watched “Deadliest Catch” on The Discovery Channel? Commercial fisherman risk life and limb to catch Alaskan king crab in the middle of the Bering Sea. As you watch these men clinging to the ship, waves crashing over them, you think, “This has to be the scariest job there is.”
Try being a basketball coach at the University of Kentucky.
It may all seem like gravy while they’re on staff, but once they leave, they really seem to scrape bottom.
Exhibit A: Louisville Coach Rick Pitino. He offended the UK basketball gods by going to their biggest rival, UL. And what happens to him there? Sex scandal with a staffer’s wife. And he pays for her abortion. Bad, bad publicity…and even worse attitude from Pitino who seems to think he’s above it all.
Exhibit B: More recent former Coach Billy Gillispie. He just checked into alcohol rehab after getting arrested for his third DUI. UK fired Gillispie after two years more for his tragic personality than his coaching record. And he’s still awaiting a decision on his lawsuit with UK for the remaining pay on the contract that he never signed. (Good luck with that.)
At least Eddie Sutton, who coached UK during my college years, waited to have his drinking problems at Oklahoma State. (He just had recruiting violations at Kentucky that got us suspended for a few years.)
Our new coach John Calipari appears to be one of the greats. Of course, right now, he’s still knee-deep in the gravy.
I just learned that OMG isn’t an acronym at all.
Mum’s the word
Did you know the Internet was international? Seems obvious, right?
Apparently not to some.
Dan Stevens, who played the recently deceased Matthew Crawley on Downton Abbey. Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaid and Girls fame. But they were quickly corrected by pushy, ethnocentric Americans that “Mother’s Day is still a couple of months away.”
I was at once embarrassed and entertained.
Cable television and the Internet may make programming and actors from other countries available to us here in America, but it doesn’t mean we’re necessarily going learn anything.
Well…at least we’re predictable.
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