Cats and Cards: Football and Basketball News

The best decision that Brandon Knight ever made was putting on that hat.

Despite other people thinking that my excitement and optimism is a little overblown, I am still very impressed with Brandon Knight and the performances of many of the basketball players. I reiterate the fact that I know these are practice games against Canadian colleges. But these games are important for a few reasons: 1). The team is playing against players other than each other early; 2). The young players are getting to learn a new system under a new coach; 3). UK fans get a glimpse of the new 5 star freshmen early; 4). Hopefully when the real games start that there will be lesser amounts of growing pains like we saw early on last year. The games aren't meaningless and it gives fans a glimpse of what may be coming in November.

It's fun to watch these games as we are not able to see exactly what the football teams will look like until September 4th, preseason football is a bore and some of us could care less about baseball because our teams aren't making the players. My Red Sox and 2Hot's Indians to be exact. There is some news regarding BOTH the Cats and the Cards in BOTH sports. No more ranting. Let's get it on:

• Freshman Terrence Jones will miss the remainder of the Canada trip due to a stress fracture in his ribs. He had four points in the firs half. He will be ready in September when the team starts to practice in preparation for the season.


• Brandon Knight is going to be great. Read this article by the Courier Journal about the young point guard, what his coach is saying and what the players for the Lancers had to say about guarding him last night. He was 11 of 19 from the field and was 8-8 from the line. 31 points, homey.


• UK wide receiver Gene McCaskill is out for the season with a torn ACL that he suffered at practice. The wide receiver core still has Randall Cobb and Chris Matthews as starters. One player that needs to make some noise is Junior Aaron Boyd. Boyd is a 4 star recruit that has yet to make any type of statement as a Wildcat. Let's hope he ends his silence this season.


• The University of Louisville will face off against Butler in the first game in the KFC YUUUMMMMYYY IN MY TUUUUMMMYY! Arena (still the most ridiculously named arena in all of sports) on November 16th. It will be on ESPN on 8 p.m. The mere fact that Pitino will be present for the game makes the game rated TVMA for strong sexual content. It's ironic that Ricky's sexual performance isn't very strong.


• It looks as if DeMar Dorsey and Jordan Campbell may be joining the Cards in the near future. Cardchronicle is posting that both players have tweeted (maybe fake tweeted) that they are on their way to camp. Many Cards fans will believe it when they see it.


• There is still a 3 way chase for the starting quarterback job for the Wildcats. Joker Phillips stated that the competition is "hot and heavy".

That's all for today! Tune in for another Sportsthat live blog for the Wildcats game in Canada tonight. I will be unable to lend my usual funny wit and insight. I have other obligations.