Kentucky is ranked 18th in Points Per Game, Syracuse 22nd, count that one for Kentucky.
Kentucky is ranked 11th in Rebounds Per game, Syracuse an abysmal 114th, count that one for Kentucky.
Syracuse is ranked 9th in Assists per game, Kentucky 142nd, count that one for Syracuse.
Kentucky is ranked 18th in Field Goal Percentage per game, Syracuse 30th. Count that one for Kentucky.
Kentucky has beaten 3 Top 25 teams, Syracuse 2. Count that one for Kentucky.
Kentucky’s only loss is to a team now ranked 13th. Syracuse’s only loss to a team with eight losses and not even close to being ranked. Give that one to Kentucky.
No clue what his idea of a meaningful category is. He doesn’t say. He wouldn’t have to look very far to find mine tho, they’re on the same web page as his article.
In 1990, Roseanne Barr gave the worst performance of the National Anthem ever. Bar none. In her mind I think it was performance art. In the minds of everyone else, it was awful to the point of blasphemy. She was roundly criticized, justifiably so.
Last night, Steven Tyler, long time member of Aerosmith, of whom I’m a fan of, and more recent judge of American Idol, almost one-upped Rosie.
He started flat, forgot the lyrics, and finished with a screech. It was awful. Fortunately I missed it. In defense of Steven, he can get it right:
Ohio State lost to two ranked teams and one unranked team. Those three losses have bumped them to #6 in the land. One of the teams that beat them, has also lost three games, two to ranked teams, one to a rather awful Davidson team. For that, Kansas is #7. Right after that, you have North Carolina, who has lost to one ranked team, Kentucky, and two unranked teams. Including a rather humiliating thrashing by 30+ points to unranked Florida State. For that, they are #8. On and on it goes. Inertia dictates that teams AP expects to be good, are there whether they truly are any good or not. And then teams that a truly good are fighting that inertia trying to get the recognition they deserve. At this time, three teams are still undefeated, Syracuse, Baylor, and Murray State. It can be argued Murray State’s not played a quality schedule, but, no one questioned some of the cinderellas of the last couple of years. Going 18-0 as gotten them to #12.
If you doubt me, think about this. One team has lost five games now, two to unranked teams, one of those a 31 point blow out. Their stats appear like this:
Points per game – 122nd
Rebounds -24th
Assists – 85th
Field Goal Percentage – 186th
For that, Louisville is ONLY ranked 21st. Being as they lost again tonight, I’m sure they won’t be ranked next week. But, most people would have suggested after getting blown out by an unranked team, they shouldn’t have been in the top 25. That kind of applies to North Carolina too if you think about it.
Indiana beats Kentucky for the first time in about a decade last week. After it was over, IU fans rushed the floor. Apparently Megan Dills, a huge UK fan, got roughed up in the melee. What makes this story Moonagian is the fact that Miss Dills is a Playboy model. That got my interest on the Foxnews page. BUT, Foxnews ran a pic of a generic Playboy model apparently and NOT Miss Mills. So, to better assist Fox, I decided to chip in and help:
The family went to see Hugo last night. From watching the previews I figured it was a kid’s movie and since me and the boy needed some downtime, this would be a good way to do it. Boy, was I ever right. This movie is sedentary as you can get. It’s a very, very, very easy movie to watch. It’s kinda loonie in a whimsical way. And, it’s pretty much so far out there it’s pretty impossible to believe. But, during the movie, one scene kept bugging me all the way through the movie.
I’ve been a sci-fi junkie all my life and recognized that picture immediately. It’s from the very first “official” sci-fi movie ever made, A Trip to the Moon. However, in Hugo they attributed it to some whacky film director named Georges Méliès who went bankrupt due to World War I.
Did a little reading today. There actually WAS a Georges Méliès who actually DID produce A Trip to the Moon. What’s even weirder is this is what Georges Méliès looked like:
And this is Ben Kingsley’s portrayal of him:
Spot on!
The true story of Georges Méliès is almost as fantastical as it’s portrayed in Hugo. He did make fantastic movies YEARS before anyone else. He did make COLOR movies by painting each frame years before anyone else. Most of his movies were destroyed to make shoes. The primary object of his focus in the movies was indeed his wife. There’s one very different fact tho. Georges Méliès did go bankrupt as the movie portrays. But, it was not because of World War I. It was because Hollywood outmarketed and flat out stole a lot of his movies. It was a rather ruthless destruction of an incredible talent. One of the people that would have been instrumental in that would have been a fellow named Lewis Selznick. The movie is based on a book called The Invention of Hugo Cabret, written by Lewis’s great-grandnephew, Brian Selznick. He even has an uncredited part in the movie.
A really stupid flick called New Year’s Eve got the biggest numbers over the weekend. But, I’m telling you THIS is the release of the week to watch. It will keep small kids occupied because of the fantastic imagery of the movie. BUT, the story is unforgettable. It’s a movie where you really don’t see what’s coming, but moves around and finishes in a very satisfactory way. The movie is not at all what it seems. It’s very complicated, very historically enjoyable to watch, and the acting, especially by Sascha Baron Cohen, is fantastic. It’s all thumbs up. It’s not at all what I expected, it’s LOTS better. GO SEE THIS MOVIE! Am I clear enough?
In the meantime, here’s the original A Trip to the Moon in it’s entirety:
Red Rain’s always been a favortie of mine. For some reason there’s been tons of songs about rain. Being a cold, rainy day in November, thought it’d be a good day to discuss favrotie rain songs. What’s yours?
(a)Offense defined.–A person commits a felony of the first degree when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant:
(1) By forcible compulsion.
(2) By threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution.
(3) Who is unconscious or where the person knows that the complainant is unaware that the sexual intercourse is occurring.
(4) Where the person has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance.
(5) Who suffers from a mental disability which renders the complainant incapable of consent.
(6) (Deleted by amendment)
(b) Additional penalties.–In addition to the penalty provided for by subsection (a), a person may be sentenced to an additional term not to exceed ten years’ confinement and an additional amount not to exceed $100,000 where the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant and has substantially impaired the complainant’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct by administering or employing, without the knowledge of the complainant, any substance for the purpose of preventing resistance through the inducement of euphoria, memory loss and any other effect of this substance.
(c) Rape of a child.– A person commits the offense of rape of a child, a felony of the first degree, when the person engages in sexual intercourse with a complainant who is less than 13 years of age.
(d) Rape of a child with serious bodily injury.–A person commits the offense of rape of a child resulting in serious bodily injury, a felony of the first degree, when the person violates this section and the complainant is under 13 years of age and suffers serious bodily injury in the course of the offense.
(e) Sentences.–Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1103 (relating to sentence of imprisonment for felony), a person convicted of an offense under:
(1) Subsection (c) shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which shall be fixed by the court at not more than 40 years.
(2) Subsection (d) shall be sentenced up to a maximum term of life imprisonment.
Joe Frazier passed away last night. Watching him and Muhammed Ali go at it decades ago was some of the most thrilling competition I can remember. This begs the obligatory question tho:
I’m a Kentucky boy, I’m biased. Regardless tho, boxing has not been quite the same since those two monsters went at it in the 70′s. One or the other might argue to be the “greatest”, but they were both the greatest in my book in the excitement they brought to their sport.
Uh Oh! I smell "thought police" Maybe we should outlaw birth as well since some people are offended by children.I could find the statue offensive as well since that poor man is being attacked by babies.
, written by Lewis’s great-grandnephew, Brian Selznick. He even has an uncredited part in the movie.
