Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
On this day, six years ago, a man named Steve Jobs stood in front of a crowd of virgins at the annual Macworld keynote and introduced a device that would change the way communicate, browse the web, listen to music, pass the time in meetings and in class, and take photos of our cats, sushi and genitals. The iPhone, Jobs called it, was the first smartphone of its kind and one of the most remarkable inventions of the last 100 years. Today, Apple is on, like, its 29th version of the gadget, and uses its sleek design and user-friendly interface to burglarize the wallets and checking accounts of those who restlessly swipe their numb, tired fingers across its multi-touch retina display.
So, today, while you’re playing Ruzzle with a stranger or SnapChatting with a love interest, take a second to wish your iPhone a Happy 6th Birthday. And think about all of the money you’ve pissed away on its overpriced apps, overpriced music and crippling data plans. It’s a beautiful thing, the iPhone, and I can’t imagine living in a world without it. Only Larry Vaught and his Droid will ever know.
Now on to the News and Views, which I estimate over a third of you are reading on your iPhone browser…
It feels like it has been a month since we last saw our Kentucky Wildcats on the basketball court, and we’ll have to wait another two days before seeing them again. The Cats are in the midst of a week-long layoff before entering conference play Thursday night against Vanderbilt. Kentucky lost the last meeting against the Commodores, in the SEC Championship, so the fans are out for revenge. The players, however, are new on both sides as each team starts five fresh faces. ”The guys that I’m coaching may not even know that game happened,” Coach Cal said earlier this week. Vandy coach Kevin Stallings added, ”The personnel is just so different for both teams.”
Vanderbilt isn’t very good this year. A loss to Vandy to open the SEC schedule would suck.
Oh, and the first 1,000 fans will receive one of these:
Occupy Memorial, Round 2?
Roster changes aside, what does Kevin Stallings think about the buzz the Wildcats bring when they roll into Nashville? We’ll let him tell you, via quotes from his rendezvous with the Vanderbilt media Tuesday afternoon…
“They’ve dominated the league for ever and ever. They face that buzz every place they go. They’re the hunted. I always go back to the statistic that they’ve won more championships than all the rest of the league, put together. When you are dominant like that, of course people get excited to try to beat you, so I think they face that kind of environment everywhere they go. And, certainly, they face it here. Our fans love when Kentucky comes to town, but I’m sure we’re not a lot different from most of the other people in the SEC. They have a great program and great tradition, and I think all of us aspire to have some of the success that they’ve had. Not only coaches and players, but fans alike. I think that’s what creates for a different atmosphere when they come to town.”
And what about this year’s Kentucky squad?
“Their length and athleticism is something that jumps out at you. They’re always very good defensively. It doesn’t matter who shows up in the uniforms, John always has them very well prepared and very efficient defensively and on the boards. I would kind of consider them a typical Kentucky team — long, athletic, fast. They make it hard for you around the goal.”
“They present the same problems they always present, and it’s always a big challenge to play them and to beat them.”
Thank you, Coach. See you Thursday night.
Tim Brando, who called the Louisville game for CBS, likes what he’s seeing from Ryan Harrow in 2012-13. Brando worked several Wolfpack games during Harrow’s stint at NC State and he says the new Ryan Harrow, the Kentucky version, plays with a lot more intensity and confidence. Brando believes Kentucky fans will take a moment in March to look back at the first half of the Louisville game as the turning point for Harrow and UK. “Something happened there, an epiphany took place and Ryan Harrow became a really good player,” he said.
In Kings-to-Louisville news, Virginia Beach is slipping in the running for the Kings franchise and the city is pessimistic about landing the team. The city and Comcast Spectacor have not yet come to an agreement on the construction of a new arena, according to SI.com, and it’s unlikely the two parties will come together to begin construction on a potential NBA arena. The news means Louisville’s chances are a little bit better.
Also from Sac Town, DeMarcus Cousins doesn’t know what he did in college to develop such a bad reputation before entering the league. “OK, there is footage of me and Coach Cal going at each other,” he said. ”That happens in sports. Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.”
Regardless of what the haters are saying about him, his dominance since returning from suspension can’t be denied. He is averaging 21.6 points and 13.8 rebounds in his last five games and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down or letting up.
Kentucky football has a new assistant coach, this one coming from the unfriendly confines of the University of Tennessee. Derek Ansley is leaving his position as cornerbacks coach at Tennessee to join the UK staff at the same position. Prior to Tennessee, Ansley spent two months at Central Florida and two seasons with Alabama, including the national championship season of 2011. This is a photo of Ansley as a player at Troy :
Congratulations to yontz31 (johnj), winner of the KSR Bowl Pick ‘Em Challenge. He was the only contestant to accurately pick 27 of the 35 bowl games. If that’s you, we’ll be in touch soon. Second place is a little more complicated. We’ll be in touch with you soon, too. Thanks for playing, everyone.
Join us again on Wednesday when Tyler and I list our 18 favorite things to look forward to in SEC play and look at Kentucky football’s current commitments and signees.
See you then.
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January 8th, 2013 at 11:13 pm
I live in louisville and don’t want the NBA. However like Dave Baker said on 790 a few weeks ago…the only reason Cal and others are promoting the NBA to Louisville is because UL doesn’t want it. Dave Baker said Cal is laughing at this whole thing. So even though I personally don’t want the NBA in blueaville…if it pisses off the dirty birds then so be it!
January 8th, 2013 at 11:20 pm
#1 Why do you not want and NBA team?
January 8th, 2013 at 11:21 pm
I would love to have a NBA team in Kentucky. It would help with recruiting and would be fun to watch!
January 8th, 2013 at 11:31 pm
DeMarcus ALWAYS considers himself a victim. GD man. Don’t act like you do ALOT of times and maybe the perception that people have will change. Make it a goal of yours to not have an incident for the rest of the season. Your only gonna change people’s view of you by acting like an adult……For a long period of time.
January 8th, 2013 at 11:34 pm
If we listed the top 100 most remarkable inventions of the last 100 years, the iphone wouldn’t even rank. Remember, that list will include the actual telephone and cell phone; the iphone is merely an improvement of those inventions. The 20th and 21st centuries include the culmination of some of mankinds greatest achievements. The iphone is merely the neatest thing you’ve bought since highschool.
January 8th, 2013 at 11:59 pm
NBA to Lexington! Why not?
January 9th, 2013 at 12:07 am
#5….you must have an android. Stop pouting.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:15 am
Demarcus had that one incident with Sean Elliot and the rest is ticky tack BS. Big Cuz is a throwback player and doesn’t play nice with his foes. I like it to see players mix it up and actually look like they give a damn about winning.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:31 am
only seven animated gif’s tonight. that’s only six too many. gettin’ better.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:33 am
Drew, that intro killed me. Thanks for the laugh
January 9th, 2013 at 4:47 am
1 – Completely disagree. CAL is not promoting the NBA to Louisville because UL doesn’t want it. I think CAL would welcome an NBA team to Lexington if the city was big enough and the money was there. The fact is that most UL fans I know do want an NBA team in Louisville as it would be HUGE for the city. The only two people who are adamently against an NBA team are Tom Jurich and Rick Pitino. Jurich sees an NBA team as a threat to UL fundraising and ticket sales. Pitino sees it as a hit to his ego as he wants to be the most important coach in town.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:14 am
Cousins needs to take responsibility for his actions. Stop blaming everyone else for how he is perceived. I like him and support him. But it’s up to him now. Man up and stop acting like a spoiled child.
Louisville cannot support an NBA team for the long run. It would be a failure and the team would be looking to change cities within 5 years.
January 9th, 2013 at 6:38 am
WHAS 11 reported this morning that Lexington is also trying to get the Kings. Uh oh!
January 9th, 2013 at 6:56 am
So how about fixing the iPhone app? It used to work but doesn’t anymore.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:12 am
5.) Sorry, the telephone can’t be considered one of the top inventions of the past 100 years, since it was invented in 1876.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:47 am
Anyone else think Ansley could be P-Pat’s Brother in that pic.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:50 am
This is why I hate apple so much. It wasnt the first revolutionary smartphone. Windows phone did it first and better. This is stupid.
January 9th, 2013 at 8:45 am
DROOOOOID!
January 9th, 2013 at 8:56 am
The iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone of its kind. They copied the Samsung F700.
January 9th, 2013 at 8:56 am
So we’re supposed to be excited that UT’s CB Coach is headed to Lex. This might be the first head scratcher IMO as far as Stoops’ asst coaching hires. Their DBs were aweful last year. Maybe he’s tied to a good recruit, but other than that, I don’t see how Ansley should get another SEC job next year.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:03 am
Google>Iphone
I can name 5 to 10 phones that are better than the iPhone. When it first came out it was horrible. Couldnt multi-task, i mean hell you couldnt even copy and paste. The Blackberry was ahead of the iPhone when it comes to tech specs. IF you are one of these people that went and got the 5 i feel sorry for you. You got ripped off. Phone didnt even change except for getting a little bigger, slightly changing the spec’s and moving the earphone jack to the bottom. IF thats worth 199 bucks, more power to you.And if you wanna get a 32gb instead of 16, you gotta pay nearly 150 bucks. I however, just get the stand 16GB S3, andgot a 64GB SD card. 80GB total storage. People dont realize where most of the changes occur is with IOS, not the actual phone. IOS is free. IT makes scense to get the iphone if you have a Mac and an iPad (which isnt even the best tablet). But you are not paying for the best phone, you are paying for that little apple on the back. Apple’s innovation died with Steve Jobs, and all he did was steal ideas originally introduced by Android and upgrade them (siri). But now google has released Google now that trumps that. Even the Panorama feature for the camera was introduced by android nearly a year and a half ago. But by all means, go line up for 5 hours to get the iphone 6 when it comes out, that will introduce Widgets, NFC and SD storage and call it iUpdates-iTransfer and iBeam and act like they came up with it.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:06 am
i mean Android>Apple
January 9th, 2013 at 9:07 am
Have fun with your iPhone file system… oh wait..
January 9th, 2013 at 9:11 am
I like being able to create folders for my music/videos/pictures instead of storing them on a magical cloud that screw crap up all the time. If you cant navigate the file system, dont store anything to the SD card. If you still wanna store on the SD card at least you dont have to jailbreak your phone just to access the apple file system and take a risk on bricking your phone.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:35 am
21 – 24 We don’t care. We love our iPhones. Stop being so bitter about it. We aren’t bitter that you love your Droids or whatever you have. Lighten up. Why so serious?
January 9th, 2013 at 9:42 am
The state of Kentucky, and the city of Louisville, gave a contract with UL for the YUM center that will not allow any NBA team to come, and will insure that the YUM center always loses money.
January 9th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Blackberry(Rim) was before the iPhone and better just wasn’t touch screen. Everybody has their favorite but a lot of iPhone users has never used any other kinda smart phone. I’ll say that the top end models of Android has came along way and surpassed iPhone.
January 9th, 2013 at 10:29 am
How can the #5 Pick in the NBA Draft say he was unfairly stigmatized out of college?
January 9th, 2013 at 10:31 am
8) You must not have followed Cousins very closely. He’s been suspended several times, played dirty on the court, and his coach hates him. And all he’s done is acted like he’s the victim. If you can’t recognize that he’s got issues just cause you look through blue goggles, then you need to look again.
Cousins kept his nose clean while he was here. There were glimpses of maturity and attitude problems, but he mostly was on his best behavior here. Sure, many people had a preconceived notion about him entering the NBA, but he had a chance to prove them wrong. And instead he’s acted like a baby and shifted responsibility on others. I really hopes he gets himself together.
January 9th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
My KSR app is stuck on Dee Dee Bonner’s pic. Don’t want to lose it.
January 9th, 2013 at 1:40 pm
UK printed t-shirts for a win over a 5-7 UT team…..I wouldn’t be so quick to throw stones.