End of an era, some Bradley and MVC stuff, and more

End of an era -- everyone who's grown up in Peoria is familiar with Emo's and most have eaten or enjoyed ice cream there. Tomorrow is the end of an era. Emo's has been operating at the corner of Prospect & War Memorial for decades, and that'll all likely end tomorrow. They close for the season tomorrow, September 24, but since the building is up for sale and the sale is currently being negotiated, then in all likelihood, tomorrow will be the final day Emo's ever serves. Never know -- if it doesn't sell they could be around next year - but that's not currently the plan.
I know I will miss them.............



Anthony Parker...is going to start for sure now for the Cavs and get a lot of playing time -- as their scoring takes a hit with their player departures.....
and they're going to have to get more scoring from Anthony so he's have a great opportunity!
Here's AP posing silly -- don't know for what??
http://ow.ly/i/42OF



Wichita State freshman (redshirt) Jerome Hamilton is on crutches wearing a protective boot on his right foot. Not many injuries require this type of management - but Bradley fans are sure familiar with the one that does this most often....having watched both Andrew Warren and Dyricus Simms-Edwards during the treatment of their stress fractures...
No official word on his injury but it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be just that...
http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/2010/09/23/a-few-basketball-bullets/

The Shockers also have one open date that could still be filled with either another exhibition game or a closed scrimmage...
Reportedly Kansas State was willing to play Wichita State in a closed scrimmage but just recently backed out with no warning -- leaving Wichita holding the bag with an open slot on the schedule...
Shocker coach Gregg Marshall says..
"WSU is still looking for a scrimmage opponent. Or it could schedule another exhibition.
If Martin canceled the scrimmage too late for Marshall to find another opponent, and Marshall prefers a scrimmage to an exhibition, then I think that potential "friendly" relationship isn't real "friendly" right now."



SIU's first home basketball game this season is at 9AM on a Tuesday morning...ha, anyone wonder what some of BU's fan base would have said about this??
They'd have either had a cow or told the press they had a terrible round of golf because of it...
http://siusalukis.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/silu-m-baskbl-sched.html

A small but nice segment on one of ISU's players.....
http://centralillinoisproud.com/fulltext?nxd_id=139945



Lots being written about the Eric Bledsoe case...but again it's being said we'll know something more later today....

Remember -- Kansas' Darrell Arthur and Simeon's Derrick Rose, Tim Flowers, Kenyon Smith, and Kevin Johnson were all proven beyond question to have had their grades altered and fraudulently rigged in order to get eligible...
yet the NCAA looked the other way each time.....as the individual schools, to avoid even more embarrassment and scandal simply closed each case and said they weren't going to pursue them any further.

You cannot rely on those high school people to always do the right thing, as proven by these cases where obvious cheating occurred, yet the schools actually helped in the cheating and coverup - and had little motivation to go back and find the truth or come clean.
NCAA has to stay in the business of finding these cheats and policing this dishonesty.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=134172&postcount=10
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=134174&postcount=11

btw -- what ever became of this scandal where the UK players were getting freebies and special treatment??
http://www.kentucky.com/2009/06/06/820774/joe-bolognas-off-limits-for-cats.html



Indiana's Tom Crean is in his 3rd year at Indiana and because he has now gotten some verbals from Class of 2012 kids, the pressure seems to be off....even though he hasn't come close to winning much at all yet...

But some of the articles about the job he's doing are a little bit silly ...like this one...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/471514-dont-doubt-tom-crean-just-yet?source=rss_teams_Indiana_Hoosiers

Much of this article is silly -- like how hard it must be to win when you only have a stable of 3-Star and 4-Star players!!!
Note this particular line...
"Crean basically had a team of walk-ons in 2008."

Really??....I guess nobody actually looked at the facts -- they just made this up...

Per one ratings service...
...scout.com -- he had FIVE 3-Star and ONE 2-Star recruit in 2008, hardly a batch of walk-ons...
Butler kicks everyone's butt in the Hoosier State with far fewer than that numbers of decently rated kids...

One other recruiting site says this, though...
Rivals says in 2008 he had SIX 3-Star kids and ONE 2-Star

Then those same ratings services also note that in 2009, Crean also landed FOUR 4-Star and THREE more 3-Star players...

so...seriously - I think he has enough talent that the excuses have to stop......there's a lot of Big Ten schools that don't ever get a 4-Star kid -----



There have been a ton of stories and articles about the exploding number of serious head injuries in football....especially prep and youth football.....duh...
ya think???
I have heard parents and even the kids who play youth football...as young as 8-9 years old in JFL talking about really flattening the other kid or laying a monster hit on the guy and hitting them hard..
Isn't that one of the main points of this game??
How can you talk of injuries without also talking of major rules changes??
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/09/24/how-worried-should-parents-be-about-concussions-in-young-athletes/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/sports/football/21fastforward.html?_r=2&hpw



Too much sex & cleavage on Sesame Street??
That's what's happening -- as apparently the people producing Sesame Street have no common sense anymore...such that only after they were deluged with tons of complaints by parents after their recent segment that included sexy star Katy Perry.

The complaints came after the episode (shown on Youtube) repeatedly showed too many close ups of Perry's cleavage and high mini-skirt..even an interesting clip of her running with certain parts jiggling..
http://www.pantagraph.com/entertainment/music/article_4d34687e-c7e4-11df-a4a4-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.pantagraph.com/entertainment/music/article_4d34687e-c7e4-11df-a4a4-001cc4c03286.html?mode=video




Here's an interesting topic....
this researcher and well known academic and author has kept track of the violent arrests and felonies in sports for some time...and the thing that's newsworthy -- in how the college kids are WORSE than the pros, and the pros have been bad for years!!

Jeff Bendict is the author -- and here's more......
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/web/COM1174197/index.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/sec/2010-09-23-florida-football-arrests_N.htm

http://m.si.com/news/archive/archive/detail/2812016;jsessionid=1BBA5FE07B0C62148732B3F88E839340.cnnsi2

http://www.myshelf.com/miscellaneous/04/outofbounds.htm

So - here's the tough question...why are college football and basketball athletes the main ones who commit such plentiful and violent crimes?
we never hear of college golfers or tennis players doing this. The proportions are astronomical given the numbers of athletes in so many different sports from swimming to rowing to even rifle...that never commit crimes!



Here's one that didn't get much coverage today....
IUPUI just fired their women's basketball head coach....
http://www.indystar.com/article/20100924/NEWS14/9240354/-1/7daysarchives/IUPUI-basketball-coach-is-out-with-300-000?odyssey=mod|dnmiss|umbrella

They decided to fire her "without cause" - even though they believed they had plenty of cause!!!
...but then that forces them to pay her entire salary all the way through the end of the contract (2013) -- $300,000...
Lots of people are questioning why if she's a bad person and a bad coach, then what gives that she's getting her full contract in cash up front just to get rid of her...
and note in that article how many of the insiders are keeping quiet and tight-lipped...nobody wants to get sued, since that's all some lazy, incompetent bimbos ever do when their bad job performance gets them fired.......they get a lawyer and sue...

Well, the answer is fairly obvious -- in this day and age if you think someone's a really bad coach, then you have to name the reason you're firing her -- then they'll get lawyers and ask for all that money anyway plus damages and fight the school in court for years and win more than just the measley $300,000...
it's happened way too many times and schools are apparently just happy to pay the witch off and get rid of her...

Read for yourself..but actually she doesn't sound all that bad - but some players whined about her and her techniques.......
Anyway --as one article points out -- the school simply is blowing taxpayer and student money -- so who the heck cares...isn't that unfortunately the way the rest of all the public employees act -- what a bunch of losers and cheats......

speaking of which.......

This may seem off topic except that a few of these scholarships ought to be helping athletes get to college....
Here is a form of legislative abuse of a tremendous privilege -- legislators who are given the ability to help kids by awarding scholarships on the basis of need...
...Then, they turn right around and give the valuable scholarships (illegally) to their own family members...even though the rules are spelled out CLEARLY that they are NOT allowed to given them to any family member or staff member.

Ultimately this money is being stolen from generous donors and taxpayers by the very people who we elect to represent us....
Nov. 2 is less than 40 days away --- we can do something about it..

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41953.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-ebj_16met.ART.East.Edition1.3579b7f.html
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/082910dntexcongress.2c049bb.html
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/09/scandal-widens-congresswoman-who-gave.html
http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2010/09/10/new-documents-implicate-two-house-members-scholarship-scandal