Friday morning, University of Kentucky coach John Calipari put to rest the rumors that he’s leaving the Wildcats for any number of NBA openings next season by tweeting that he’s staying to finish what he started – which, presumably means, he’s got a handful of future NBA Rookies of the Year left to usher out of college basketball.
Either that, or he meant that he still hasn’t finished the rest of “Friday Night Lights” Season 4.
In the past two weeks, the Bowl Championship Series has made a string of moves that are about as strange as that time your weird uncle Harold signed up for a MySpace account.
Early Tuesday morning, former NBA pariah Stephon Marbury found himself too giddy from a rousing night of dance lessons and stargazing to fall asleep. So what does he do? He pushes out a few tweets disparaging former teammate and Celtics captain Paul Pierce.
Makes sense.
His actions, anyway, not the content of his remarks.
Imagine you had a dirty joke that you like telling in familiar company. This joke you’re imagining is filthy. Heinous. The kind of joke that demands you hunch your shoulders and lean in close to the people you tell it to. Handled properly, there isn’t necessarily anything wrong with these jokes (although there might be something wrong with you for thinking they’re funny), but their relative harmlessness doesn’t mean you’d want to tell this joke over a bullhorn to a group of randomly gathered strangers either.
See? Celtic swingman Marquis Daniels doesn’t get that.
Here’s a recap of the weirdest or most overlooked sports stories on the Interweb this week. Plus, as you’ve come to expect, step 1 in removing the pesky human aspect from all sports.