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Inadvertent media errors are understandable. Punctuation and camera angles sometimes get the short shrift by media workers.

No one gets hurt by minor mistakes in media. However, lives are ruined when media manipulation is in play. This adds to the burning tire fire that is fake news. Ouch!

This is really helpful to our media business. Thanks for the punch in the face, New York Times.

Rest in Peace, Cokie Roberts. She had the decency to be honest about her Liberal bias in her reporting. At least she owned it.

Liberal “journalists” Cokie Roberts and George Stephanopolous

For Kentucky football, targeting is triggering

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THE BEASMAN florida curse
I HATE YOU AND EVERTHANG YOU STAND FOR, LARRY MINNER. “CHANCE POOR” THAT ANY TRUE BLUE WILDCAT FAN EVER WANNA LISSEN AT YOU…ON THAT RADIO GIGGLIN LIKE A SCHOOL GIRL ABOUT LAY-MAR JACKSON AND TEDDY DIRTY WATER PLAYIN N.F.L. INSTEAD OF SOUNDIN SAD ABOUT OUR BELOVED CATS LOSIN TO THEM FLORI-DER PHONIES AGAIN! (cry) ALL US GOOD AND CLASSY KENTUCKY WILDCATS FANS IS LICKIN OUR WOUNDS AND Y’ALL WH&S PEOPLE JUST ON THERE TODAY HOLLERIN AND CUTTIN UP LIKE YOU’S AT A CARDINAL HOOTENANY. (cry)

DADGUMMIT, Y’ALL POSED TO BE GRIEVIN LIKE THE REST OF US, YOU CROSS-EYED, PENCIL NECK, TWO-BIT, DRUNK FOR BREAKFAST, WELFARE STAMP, CHAIN GANG, NOBODY LOSERVILLE WILDCAT WANNABES! WE GOT A FIELD GOAL KICKER NAMED SLIM CHANCE, FAT CHANCE, CHANCE POOR, OR BETTY BLUITT OR PEG LEG MEG OR WHATEVER. GIT HER OUTTA HERE AND GIT US IRON MAN TO KICK FIELD GOALS. (cry)

STOOPS TROOPS DONE GOT ROBBED BY THEM REFFERMARIES CALLIN WEAK TARGETING PENALTIES ON TWO OF OUR CATS. KENTUCKY WILDCATS AIN’T HEAD KNOCKIN THUGS LIKE LOSERVILLE CARDINAL BIRDS. U UH KAY WILDCATS IS JUST SO DADGUM TOUGH THAT OPPONENTS LOOK LIKE CRASH DUMMIES WHEN THEY GIT TACKLED BY A GOOD AND CLASSY WILDCAT! (cry)

MATT JONES — HE’S GONNA BE A SENATOR YOU KNOW – MATT JONES SAYS THEM REFFERMARIES IS STILL CHEATIN U UH KAY CUZ THEY’S MAD ABOUT MATT JONES PICKIN ON THAT BASKETBAW REFFERMARIE NAME OF HIGGINS. SO THAT’S WHAT THIS IS REALLY ABOUT. ALL THE ZEBRAS IS OUT TO GIT THE CATS BECAUSE THEY JEALOUS OF STOOPS AND COACH CAL.

Lexington Herald Leader

STOOPS TROOPS REALLY BEAT FLORIDER THE OTHER NIGHT IF THEM PHONEY TARGETING CALLS WASN’T MADE! HERE’S WHAT U UH KAY NEEDS TO DO SHUT DOWN THEM CHEATIN REFFERMARIES…WE NEED KENTUCKY HALL OF FAMER BOOGIE COUSINS TO GO OUT THERE FOR THE COIN TOSS AND THEN THREATEN TO PUT A BULLET IN THE REFFERMARIES’ HEADS! YEAH! I BETCHA THEY’LL STOP CALLIN FAKE TARGETING CALLS ON THE CATS ONCE BOOGIE GITS UP THEIR GRILLS! AWWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS!

OH, AND LARRY…STOP BRAGGIN ABOUT YOUR CARDINAL CONVICTS BEATIN NOBODY WESTER KENTUCKY. THEY’S A BUNCH OF SWISHY BOYS WHO CAIN’T BEAT NOBODY SO BIG WHOOP! IF Y’ALL WAS IN THE S.E.C. LIKE KENTUCKY THEN YOU WOULD GIT STOMPED EVER WEEK. THE ONLY REAL GAME Y’ALL GOT IS CLEMSER, WHO CAIN’T BEAT ALABAMMER BUT ONCE EVER 20 TRIES. THE A.C.C. IS LIKE DIVISION 2 FOOTBAW. BUNCH OF WILDCAT WANNABES.

STOOPS TROOPS STILL GONNA WIN THE NATIONAL CHAMPERCHIPS CUZ WE RUNNIN THE TABLE STARTIN THIS SAIRDEE AGAINST THEM MISTERSIPPI STATE BULL DYKES. MEANTIME YOUR DOORMAT LOSERVILLE FRAUDS GONNA GIT YOUR JAW JACKED BY THEM SCUMBAG FLORIDER STATE SCRITCHERS. AND DID YOU NOTICE THAT COACH CAL DONE GOT ANOTHER TOP RECRUIT FOR NEXT YEAR? THE ONLY GUY YOUR TWIN BROTHER BALDY MACK CAN GIT HERE IS BILL MURRAY, AND HE CAINT DUNK NOTHIN BUT A DONUT! SO SHUT YOUR CROOKED TEETH MOUTH, LARRY MINNER!

Former UofL player Jonathan Greenard tackles UK quarterback Skylar Smith

YOU AND ALL THEM CARDINAL CONVICTS STILL GONNA GIT SLAPPED DOWN AGAIN FROM THE F.B.I. CUZ OF SLICK RICK’S CHEATIN. THAT’S A GIANT TARGETING PENALTY ON U OF SMELL. THE F.B.I. AND SLICK RICK’S BANKER IS TARGETING Y’ALL. SLICK GONNA SUED TO TAKE ANOTHER FARDY MILLION DOLLARS SO Y’ALL GOTTA SELL THE THINKER STATUE JUST TO PAY HIM OFF! YOU SUCK, CARDINAL BIRDS! LET’S GO, BIG BLUE NATION! GO CATS! GO BLUE! AWWWW C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS!

In Kentucky, basketball stardom overrides terroristic threatening

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Congratulations to Kentucky one-and-done star DeMarcus Cousins. He helped the Cats get to the Elite Eight a decade ago and has made the NBA all-star team multiple times. He just got married two weeks ago, threatened to murder his baby mama, and is now in the University of Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.

Wait, what? Yeah, he got a bit steamed when his ex wouldn’t allow their child to attend “Boogie” Cousins’ wedding to another woman so the NBA star allegedly threatened her over the phone. She recorded it and released it to TMZ.

There’s been no legal update since the arrest warrant was issued two weeks ago but…GO BIG BLUE! Due process demands that Cousins get his day in court but why does the University of Kentucky, a pillar of enlightenment and female empowerment, feel the need to go ahead with the Hall of Fame induction?

Can’t this wait until the legal matter is concluded? What if more nefarious information is released by the ex or some other woman who has been mistreated by Cousins?

UK officials should have waited until the legal process plays out and then invite Cousins to join the HOF after the smoke clears.

In 2013, former Kentucky player DeAndre Liggins was arrested for punching his girlfriend and dropping a fan and video game on her head. Not long thereafter, Liggins appeared on social media in a photo with Coach John Calipari, a public declaration that “we still love you.”

John Calipari and DeAndre Liggins, September 2013

It was a different world six years ago when the Liggins charges were reduced and he was released from the Oklahoma City NBA team.

This is not a good look in today’s #MeToo and #TimesUp cultural landscape. Many women will find the Hall of Fame induction as a dismissive gesture toward all women who are victims of domestic violence or economic and verbal abuse.

New York Times reveals Kentucky Derby winner failed a drug test just prior to the Run for the Roses

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Justify wins 2018 Kentucky Derby, photo via New York Times sports

The New York Times racing writer Joe Drape shocked the horse racing universe with documentation proving that 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify failed a drug test after winning the Santa Anita Derby. That victory earned Justify enough points to qualify for the Kentucky Derby.

Justify went on to win the Kentucky Derby but the Times story illustrates how the horse should have been disqualified from claiming the Santa Anita victory, thus opening a Derby slot for someone else’s horse.

New York Times racing writer and bestselling author Joe Drape

Justify was found to have scopolamine in is system, a banned substance known to aid breathing and heart acceleration. Many in the California racing business are aware that scopolamine can get into hay through “environmental contamination.”

Trainer Bob Baffert was made aware of the test results four days before shipping his horse to Louisville for the Derby. Baffert quietly asked for a second test without any public statement. The confirmation of the original test results came a few days after Justify won the Kentucky Derby.

Baffert’s team dismissed it as a minuscule amount of scopolamine that was not intentionally given to the colt. Justify passed all drug tests following each of his victories in the Triple Crown races.

Jill and Bob Baffert, photo via Heavy.com

Drape’s story points out that several California Horse Racing Board members also use Bob Baffert as their horse trainer, a look that suggests conflicted interests.

Lawyers representing Baffert were quick to dismiss Drape’s story as sensationalism, adding that the content could be considered defamatory to the Hall of Fame trainer.

I asked Joe Drape to appear on WHAS radio and respond to Baffert and his lawyers.

Bob Baffert via New York Times sports

Here is Bob’s Baffert’s reply to the New York Times story.

The former head of the drug lab for the Kentucky Racing Commission begs to differ from Baffert and his legal team as to the dosage and intention surrounding the doping controversy.

What now? Could California’s lack of action by compromised administrators force other horse racing overseers to consider stripping Justify of his Derby victory? That would nullify the Triple Crown achievement, an unprecedented action in the sport’s history.

Don’t bet on it.

When I privately joked with Joe Drape that the horse racing business is chock full of scoundrels, he replied “That’s what keeps me in business.”

No, Goodfellas, he’s not.

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via Twitter

No, I’m not taking that photo. But it’s a powerful message from Rick Pitino to leaders at the University of Louisville.

He very well could have captioned the photo, “I’m not going away until you pay.”

Ricky P is back in Louisville for a federal court hearing regarding his $40 million lawsuit over being being fired by the University of Louisville. That’s how much Pitino claims he is owed by the employment contract that was in place at the time of his dismissal.

UofL’s athletics association thinks Pitino deserves nothing more than the millions he has already been paid over 16 years of employment.

Looks like very little progress has been made so many see a protracted trial and appellate process that could take a decade to resolve.

Pitino was fired after a serious of embarrassments involving sex, strippers, and alleged recruiting violations.

I still believe Pitino knew nothing about the stripper scandal and that the recruiting issues were conducted outside his purview by unscrupulous assistants.

The problem for Pitino is the notion of failure to maintain institutional control over the program and its authorities, his assistants.

It will be interesting to see if a jury of working stiffs feel sympathy for Rick or want to punish him for failed leadership which erased 100+ games and a national championship.

If the over/under is $20 million, I’ll take the over. The Goodfellas will be celebrating the night that decision comes down, then again after the appeals court rules, and ultimately the state supreme court rules.

Now if everyone can just live long enough to see it. Or at least party hard tonight to envision that possibility.

Rick Pitino and friends at Jeff Ruby’s, September 9, 2019

A world without football is like battling Hell with a squirt gun 🔥

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Welcome back, football. Especially at the University of Louisville where last year’s team laid down to die. The coach was fired, a new one hired, and victory has returned after a 10 game self-inflicted streak of defeat.

As an obscure football coach once said, “We’re kind of like a woodpecker in a petrified forest. Just keep busy and look for opportunities.”

The joy is back at University of Louisville football. Coach Scott Satterfield and his Louisville Cardinals put a beatdown on overmatched Eastern Kentucky University. I’m sorry for the Colonels but “Can I get an Amen, brother!”

About that woodpecker line…meet Montana Tech’s Bob Green.

Meanwhile, the Kentucky Wildcats offer southern hospitality to the visiting gentlemen from Eastern Michigan. #FootballEtiquette

Louisville’s got that going for us, which is nice

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A flood of Bill Murray sightings popped onto social media this week. The actor known as being the most chill celebrity in the world spends time in Louisville with his son Luke, a top recruiter and assistant coach for University of Louisville men’s basketball.

Luke and his wife Kara are expecting their second child soon. Murray loves visiting his son’s family, even handing out Halloween candy at their home last October.

This week, Louisville’s head basketball coach Chris Mack hosted an old guy basketball camp complete with competition, film breakdown, celebrity guests like Bill Murray and Jay Bilas, and a championship game.

Nick Coffey, Terry Meiners, Will Clark (September 6, 2019)

Even though I wore a uniform, I played the role of general manager for some of my much younger colleagues like 790KRD morning host Nick Coffey and 840WHAS news anchor Will Clark.

Chris Mack, Terry Meiners, Jay Bilas, Will Clark, Nick Coffey (September 7, 2019)

The seminars were terrific. Game play was fun. The trainers got a workout helping the old guys deal with sore muscles.

All indications are that the days of a scandal weary UofL basketball program are finally fading away. Finally!

Chris Mack and Jay Bilas (September 7, 2019)

Having Jay Bilas visit the freshly joyous Louisville basketball program was terrific but it is Murray who turns heads wherever he goes.

Murray, 68, parties at a slightly slower pace than he did in the 80s, but he still turns up by surprise at wedding receptions, reunions, pubs, and the occasional party where he is actually expected.

Such was the case at Chris and wife Christie Mack’s Prospect area home this week. Coach Mack’s basketball camp brought Murray to both the gym and a casual dinner party.

Murray was incredibly kind to each fan who asked for a photo, including a woman who said “I hate to interrupt your dinner.”

Murray sprang from his seat and replied, “It’s OK, I’ve eaten before.”

She got the photo she wanted.

Murray was especially amused with my wife Mary, teasing her about settling for a guy like me. He slyly turned the conversation into the concept that Mary was so incredibly lucky to land a man of my superior intellect and rugged good looks.

He saw me, looked at Mary, looked back at me, then stared at Mary and said, “How did you land THIS guy?” as if he was looking at the world’s top male model.

Murray and I had already exchanged a few laughs earlier in the day so he knew that I am conditioned to taking a ribbing. He also enjoys the art of changing facial expressions between successive photos. Here are a few examples shot by an observer.

WDRB director of sales Rick Burrice was more than a bit surprised to find Murray hitting golf balls next to his sons on the Audubon Country Club driving range.

via Facebook

With over 40 years working in broadcasting, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet dozens of highly famous people. Most of them are accommodating and offer great show content, but very few seem to savor the company of everyday working people.

Bill Murray seems just as comfortable listening, not talking, but listening to people tell him about their lives. It was impressive to watch him interact with 30 or 40 people at Mack’s house and maybe a hundred others at the basketball gym.

What a chill dude. What a great gift for UofL basketball and the city of Louisville.

And yes, the Caddyshack star did hit the golf course to play 18 with Luke at Valhalla. Once again, Murray patiently posed for photos with golfers and Valhalla staff members.

Bill Murray and Valhalla teammate Charlie Logsdon (September 8, 2019)

As he walked into the clubhouse, I said I’d see him for trick-or-treating next month for Halloween. Murray shot back, “Wait til you see my costume.”

Welcome home, Bill.

Terry Meiners, Bill Murray, Jonathan Blue (September 6, 2019)

“Papa John” lives only in John Schnatter’s mind

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John Schnatter, September 4, 2019

John Schnatter donated ONE MILLION DOLLARS to historically black Simmons College. It is an obvious atonement gesture for Schnatter’s horribly racist utterance during a 2018 company training conference call that ruined his life.

Check the word on his tailored shirt. Papa.

That’s a reference to a dead mascot that only Schnatter keeps alive.

Many people feel that last year’s complete annihilation of “Papa” John Schnatter was the most overplayed hand of political correctness ever seen in business. The guy said the n-word and was pilloried as though he’d murdered a thousand homeless children.

That stated, rule #1 in today’s WOKE culture is that white people can’t say the n-word no matter how commonly it is used by people of color in their public conversations, art, music, or any mass communication.

The n-word is the nuclear bomb of white verbiage. Don’t say it under any circumstance, not even as a “mention” within the context of discussing the debilitating effects of saying it. Just don’t say it, white people. Period.

Schnatter screwed up. He has paid dearly by losing his company, power, respect, and his manufactured spokesperson image. Note that the spokesperson image is MANUFACTURED. The guy who demanded to appear in all marketing for Papa John’s pizza was simply playing a role as “Papa” John. The company spent millions to purchase his fame and now needs that “Papa” recognizability to go away.

Jim Nantz, John Schnatter, John Calipari

Today’s completely restructured Papa John’s pizza company leadership team wants no part of Schnatter’s name or image associated with the firm. Schnatter’s n-word idiocy followed prior tone deaf comments about the NFL national anthem controversy and the cost of employee healthcare.

Racism + racial insensitivity + lack of empathy for employees = You’re fired.

What is especially jarring to Papa John’s management is that Schnatter still doesn’t quite understand that HE IS NOT PAPA JOHN. There is no Papa John. Papa John is a mascot that has been retired.

Yet he wore the PAPA signature shirt at the Simmons College announcement, referenced “our great employees at Papa John’s,” and “it’s been a real gift from God to be a leader in this community.”

Community leader? Yes. Our employees? No. That ship has sailed.

Schnatter was hustled out the door without taking media questions. But…but…the media was invited and then denied access to anything other than prepared remarks.

video via The Courier-Journal

The first question would be “Why are you wearing that shirt?” but no one got the chance to ask. Schnatter, Simmons president Dr. Kevin Cosby, and board president Dr. Mark Lynn sprinted off the stage after Schnatter’s gift announcement, with Lynn eventually answering a few media questions in the parking lot as Schnatter and Cosby slipped away.

Schnatter’s shirt carries personal significance. He was the only Papa John’s employee allowed to wear that particular blend of red and orange colors, sewn to mimic a Dale Earnhardt style garment. The former pizza pitchman also wears tailored jeans and custom made shoes said to match his dyed hair color.

Jared Fogle, former pitchman for Subway sandwiches

Just as Subway retired its human mascot Jared Fogle after his (much more severely heinous) misdeeds, the company Papa John’s wants ZERO imagery of “Papa” John the person in public again.

Companies retire mascots without controversy. Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas was on his commercials for decades, eventually transitioning to his daughter Wendy. No longer. Think “Herb” from Burger King or the oddly menacing Queenie Bee after Burger Queen changed its business model.

Not all food mascots are eternal like Ronald McDonald. Most mascots eventually outlive their usefulness.

John Schnatter is not “Papa” anything. He’s just a confused guy who cannot comprehend that his ego continually hampers the rebirth of his former company. Tens of thousands of Papa John’s employees need for him to change his shirt for good.

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UPDATE: On September 9, several days after dodging Louisville media, John Schnatter appeared on Fox Business with Maria Bartiroma to answer questions about Papa John’s future and his stock sales. Note that Schnatter opted to wear a suit instead of the usual PAPA signature garb.

Fox Business video HERE

Naomi Osaka’s lesson for sports: smack talk not spoken here

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U.S. Open defending champion Naomi Osaka, 21, taught the world a lesson in humility, thoughtfulness, and sportsmanship after her victory over 15-year-old phenom Coco Gauff. ❤️ Kindness never goes out of style.

Athletes who smack talk, stand over fallen opponents, lie about ball possession, or pound their chests while screaming about their own greatness could learn a thing or two from Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff.

This exchange at the 2019 U.S. Open tennis tournament must have made John McEnroe’s head explode. His famed cranky, petulant, whiny, foulmouth derision spawned an era of disgusting behavior that sullied the sport for decades.

Thank you for flushing the McEnroe scum water down the drain, Naomi.

The next morning’s tweet validated the tender moments following the intensity of the U.S. Open battle.

100% class and integrity. The 21-year-old teaches the world a lesson in compassion and humility.

Cain and Abel

Of course, smack talk and slaying of opponents goes back to the beginning of the human race. (Wuzzup, Cain & Abel!). If Biblical references are off your radar, then visualize hordes of ancient marauders killing and displaying the severed heads of their prey.

That’s some serious smack talk. But modern derision is usually just words and the occasional sucker punch.

In the past 100 years, heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson spawned a million imitators, including Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Richard Sherman, Rex Ryan, Matt Hasselbeck, Marshall Henderson, Mark Cuban, Reggie Miller, and 999,991 more. They’re all well known for talk, talk, talk, talk, some achievement, and more talk, talk, talk, talk.

Until they get older and hopefully wiser…suddenly they ease into the reality that their “gifts” are not permanent and they must go on as regular human beings.

Smack talk is merely a cover for insecurity, fear, stupidity, self doubt, or a combination of all four elements. Derision is not ever mistaken for integrity, intelligence, or honor.

LIVE AT 5 or FAKED AT 8 — video killed the audio guy

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Rock & roll invaded America in the 50s just as television was building its stranglehold on the culture. Once you heard a great song on the radio, the desire to actually SEE the artist intensified. Fans would suddenly be able to put a face with voice(s) they loved.

In 1956, Elvis sang multiple songs on the Ed Sullivan Show, and Sullivan egged him on to return later in the broadcast. Elvis started to deflect the host’s suggestion but quickly agreed.

Not long thereafter Elvis became so famous that he wouldn’t take orders from geriatric show hosts.

In the 60s. TV shows often used mixes of recorded music with some live overlay of vocals. Watch the The Mamas and Papas throw out some live lead vocals with recorded backup. Michelle Phillips eats a banana but her vocal contribution is unaffected. Awesome. She appears to be higher than a kite on this 1968 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show.

Stevie Wonder took questions from Soul Train audience members and then lip synced his huge hit Superstition. Later in the show he played piano and sang a live Soul Train tribute with the audience joining in.

45 years later, Stevie Wonder was brilliant singing Car Karaoke with late night host James Corden.

The calls to Corden’s wife and Stevie’s family were brilliant, plus Stevie still hits the high notes from songs he recorded in the 1960s. Outstanding fare.

Here’s a lost voice. The crystal clear tones of Karen Carpenter smoothed life in the 1970s. But even Karen opted to lip sync on TV.

My best guess is that the TV sound engineers couldn’t guarantee a slick sound for broadcast. That would give the artist (and her management team) the option to lip sync. Better to deliver a product that the customer expects to hear.

Let’s close with the best James Corden Car Karaoke segment ever. It is absolutely the best late night TV segment in decades. Watch the entire tape. Live singing and completely marvelous. Enjoy.

BONUS…Paul McCartney at Citi Field (2009)