Here's your Cincinnati Fast Break for today:
Jim Calhoun always seemed like a big baby, but this is just crazy. He talks about Kemba Walker like he’s the second coming of Michael Jordan.
Here’s a new mock draft done by one of Youngstown, Ohio’s favorite sons.
This doesn’t give me any confidence about the Bengals first pick at #4.
When talking about the Reds, one guy brings charisma and energy like none other. CBS Sports gives a new perspective on him.
This end to the St. John’s/Rutgers game has been well publicized by now but it shows a bigger overall problem in sports.
Good officials should be practically anonymous, if I show up at the game and I see officials I recognize, it’s usually because they’ve screwed things up in the past and have a bad reputation. I can also tell you that I’ve seen plenty of bad games called by Jim Burr and Tim Higgins, two of the refs in yesterday’s debacle, over the years at UC. I understand that good officials make mistakes from time to time, but I have never seen officials so blatantly ignore something as black and white as stepping out of bounds the way it was done yesterday. If I’m the NCAA, those three are done officiating for the year. Give them an early vacation and reevaluate them for next season. Rutgers may not have won, but they certainly would have had a shot to tie it up from the free throw line had they made ONE correct call down the stretch. And kudos to Rutgers coach Mike Rice who took the high road and was a real class act in the wake of all this controversy.
UPDATE: Since the time of today's podcast, the officiating crew of Jim Burr, Tim Higgins, and Earl Walton have withdrawn their services from the remainder of the Big East Tournament.
Mark Schlabach gives some fresh perspective on the cover up scandal at Ohio State. This is bad news for the Sweater Vest, a coach who has always been relatively clean. That being said, this is a big problem and the penalties that the NCAA might inflict on Ohio State could be way worse than these self-imposed sanctions. I think Bob Knight had some great perspective on the situation yesterday on Mike and Mike. He said that any good coach would probably do the same thing, stating that it would be very difficult to go and tattle on his kids to the NCAA. I can understand that logic, relationships between player and coach can be very father-and-son like. However, Buckeye fans need to hope the NCAA has mercy on OSU because this could get very ugly very quickly.
This kid from the Ohio State newspaper wants the Vested One fired.
John Buccigross has a look at the top candidates for the Hart Trophy.
A sad goodbye to Tim and My Mom Calls Me George who are moving on from Kiss 107 here in Cincinnati. Two really great guys who always treated me with tons of respect and kindness when I worked down the hall from them at Clear Channel. Best wishes to them in their future endeavors. Here’s where I would normally show a video of one of their great prank calls to other cities, but the folks out there have already removed every scrap of content they produced from both the Kiss 107 website and from the station’s YouTube channel. Classy move…
Follow me on Twitter here; I always welcome your comments. Should be another great day of college basketball as the big conference tournaments are starting to heat up. Enjoy some good old-fashioned Bruin fan violence. I always wondered where Boston guys get all their pent up rage from.
That was a crazy ending to the Rutgers-St. John's game yesterday! The officials definitely messed up, but one or even two mistakes shouldn’t ban them from working NCAA tournament games. I thought Rutgers coach Mike Rice handled the situation with a lot of class. Most coaches at any level of basketball would have gone ballistic if similar circumstances occurred. At least the officials’ errors didn’t occur during the national championship game though. That certainly would have caused a massive uproar from players, coaches, and fans. I totally respect the decisions of the three officials involved to withdraw from the Big East Tournament. That shows a strong sense of accountability for their actions.
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