D-League

[storm1507]

Good morning everyone

Game Day! I think this game is important. We need some energy/effort back and if we don't see it this game I believe it's over for the year. I predict we'll see it. Oh, saw where Pope took the seniors out to eat, but Kerr was not with them. So, red shirt this year and back next? I think so after that pic. I really think this team missed his energy and effort after he went out. He may have been a more important piece than we give him credit.

Long day yesterday driving, working at the lake, driving back. Not much on tap today except wife has some plans. I've been so busy I'm not sure what they are....going to town to get little projects done. Then I'll watch the game while she has a bible study meeting.

Enjoy your day.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 68°F and cloudy. Winds kicking up. Severe fire risk. Possibility for thunderstorms.

Dell fixed my laptop. Too awesome.

Chemo today.

Wishing y'all another good one.

I absolutely love pound cake.

 

[cordmaker]

Ok, D, is there any way to watch the Senior night festivities? They don't ever show the whole thing anymore!

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Go Big Blue!!

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 54°F and clear. We lost power for 3 hours yesterday. Dust storm knocked out lots of powerlines.

Leaving in 45 minutes for hospital. Wife needs a procedure.

Happy Hump Day, y'all.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Nice early March win for the Cats. LSU is not a great team by SEC standards, but they are probably as athletic and big and talented as some teams Kentucky might face in the first couple rounds of the tournament, so steamrolling them is a hopeful sign.

Warming up fast in the east. Heading into work. I hope everyone has a good day.

 

[UK82]

Fun game. It helped to partially take my mind off the chills, wet cough, sore throat, aching, etc. from the flu. Missouri coming up. May have to play them twice in 5 days. Hopefully a win will keep the Cats out of Auburn's bracket.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

The Cats had fun last night and so did I.

Plus Auburn went down big and Mississippi State lost to Texas.

I dread going to Missouri. They can really be hard to beat at home.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Ok, D, is there any way to watch the Senior night festivities? They don't ever show the whole thing anymore!

Not to my knowledge.

Back in the Joe B. Hall era the NCAA outlawed UK showing the Senior night festivities because it was an unfair recruiting tool. Before the advent of the SEC Network we could see then on the UK network but it is gone.

They were pissed off the UK did it better than Duke, Indiana or UNC!

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Senior Night 2025

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

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Senior Night 2025

I was talking about it being live.

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

I was talking about it being live.

Remember those days. Guess this might be the only way to watch Senior Night now.

 

[cordmaker]

The Cats had fun last night and so did I.

Plus Auburn went down big and Mississippi State lost to Texas.

I dread going to Missouri. They can really be hard to beat at home.

The thing I hate about Auburn losing is, guess who will be #1 in the polls, ESPN has drooled all year for this day! Duke will always be #1 in the toilet for UK fans!!!

 

[vhcat70]

The thing I hate about Auburn losing is, guess who will be #1 in the polls, ESPN has drooled all year for this day! Duke will always be #1 in the toilet for UK fans!!!

To get a higher seed & away from AU, need to win & have A&M or MSSt to lose. Both at home, but MSSt has tougher game against AR.

 

[cordmaker]

Man, Barns is constantly gripping and riding the refs, never stops!

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 46°F and partly cloudy. Today's high expected around 73°F. Wildfire risk still in effect.

Wishing y'all another great day.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Hard at work since 7am. It's feeling more like spring in the east. I hope the really cold days are behind us.

I meant to post this on Senior Night but got distracted. Cannot watch without fighting tears, even after all these years. If I make it that far, Winston Bennett's dad wiping away his tears does me in.

Have a great day folks

 

[UK82]

Good morning folks. Hard at work since 7am. It's feeling more like spring in the east. I hope the really cold days are behind us.

I meant to post this on Senior Night but got distracted. Cannot watch without fighting tears, even after all these years. If I make it that far, Winston Bennett's dad wiping away his tears does me in.

Have a great day folks

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I remember Charles Hurt (RIP) bawling his eyes out during My Old Kentucky Home. Even Dick Enberg's and Al McGuire's voices broke after it was over. It just means more to a Kentucky man.

 

[vhcat70]

To get a higher seed & away from AU, need to win & have A&M or MSSt to lose. Both at home, but MSSt has tougher game against AR.

Ok, with MO losing, all we have to do is beat MO to get #7 seed & in opposite bracket from AU. We don't win, we deserve whatever we get.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

It's going, oh the stories.... MTF at some point. Just keeping on, keeping on... I do pray all are well. God's healing touch to you ATXC.....

 

[cordmaker]

Good morning folks. Hard at work since 7am. It's feeling more like spring in the east. I hope the really cold days are behind us.

I meant to post this on Senior Night but got distracted. Cannot watch without fighting tears, even after all these years. If I make it that far, Winston Bennett's dad wiping away his tears does me in.

Have a great day folks

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This should be the only version with Happy singing it on senior night!!!!!!

 

[BBUK]

 

[berniecarbo]

This one is for BBUK. I don't listen to much music, but the wife was listening to some today. A Bobby Bare song called Detroit City came on. When I was a baby, we moved to Detroit so dad could get a job making cars. We only stayed for one year till my folks got homesick, so I don't remember much about it. The song brought back memories.

Most of the time at DaNang, I had enough rank that I worked the ECP as head man at the bomb dump. It was on a hill a ways off the main base. Sometimes at night, a few hills away, Charlie would start lobbing rockets at the main base. They would call Puff and he would come out with his mini guns. Puff was a gunship with 3 mini guns. Each was capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute. Sometimes even 2 or 3 would come out. With tracer rounds, it looked like streams of fire coming out of the sky. The Vietnamese thought it looked like fire breathing dragons. The Peter, Paul and Mary song called Puff The Magic Dragon was popular at the time, thus the name Puff.

Someone left a radio at the ECP and we kept it on Armed Forces Radio. I'd sit there watching Puff work out and think about the enemy on the receiving end. It seemed like they always played Detroit city while it was going on and I'd think about all those things and how nice it would be to be home.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

This one is for BBUK. I don't listen to much music, but the wife was listening to some today. A Bobby Bare song called Detroit City came on. When I was a baby, we moved to Detroit so dad could get a job making cars. We only stayed for one year till my folks got homesick, so I don't remember much about it. The song brought back memories.

Most of the time at DaNang, I had enough rank that I worked the ECP as head man at the bomb dump. It was on a hill a ways off the main base. Sometimes at night, a few hills away, Charlie would start lobbing rockets at the main base. They would call Puff and he would come out with his mini guns. Puff was a gunship with 3 mini guns. Each was capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute. Sometimes even 2 or 3 would come out. With tracer rounds, it looked like streams of fire coming out of the sky. The Vietnamese thought it looked like fire breathing dragons. The Peter, Paul and Mary song called Puff The Magic Dragon was popular at the time, thus the name Puff.

Someone left a radio at the ECP and we kept it on Armed Forces Radio. I'd sit there watching Puff work out and think about the enemy on the receiving end. It seemed like they always played Detroit city while it was going on and I'd think about all those things and how nice it would be to be home.

Good story Bernie. Your line about thinking about the enemy of the receiving end reminded me of one night up on the Iraq-Saudi border, just before the Ground War part of Desert Storm. I was hunkered down with the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry (Quarter Cav) that was screening for the Big Red One. They were close enough to occasionally draw a few mortar rounds from the Iraqis, who would then haul ass before the Americans could call in counter-fire. (One day they sent over a bunch of what must have been smoke shells and the guys I was with were sure they were being gassed...False alarm.)

One night it came over the radio net to watch straight out ahead of our position because a Special Forces MC-130 was going to drop a 15,000 pound Daisy Cutter on the Iraqi positions as part of the brutal softening up process underway that included long MLRS and howitzer barrages every day. So, we're watching when the MC-130 passed overhead on our radar, and the bomb is dropped. The entire horizon lit up for either 13 or 19 seconds: I counted and wrote about it in a report but can't remember exactly. I couldn't imagine the poor Saddam-conscripted a-holes caught under that.

I went on Wikipedia to see if they had any details about the use of Daisy Cutters during Desert Storm and found this: Due to the size of the conventional blast, a British SAS unit that witnessed the explosion mistakenly assumed the U.S. had used a nuclear weapon and radioed back to their headquarters exclaiming, "Sir, the blokes have just nuked Kuwait!". That must have been a different bomb because the troops I was with were way out west of Kuwait, as part of the VII Corps Left Hook. But I understand the confusion. It was a massive blast.

 

[BBUK]

This one is for BBUK. I don't listen to much music, but the wife was listening to some today. A Bobby Bare song called Detroit City came on. When I was a baby, we moved to Detroit so dad could get a job making cars. We only stayed for one year till my folks got homesick, so I don't remember much about it. The song brought back memories.

Most of the time at DaNang, I had enough rank that I worked the ECP as head man at the bomb dump. It was on a hill a ways off the main base. Sometimes at night, a few hills away, Charlie would start lobbing rockets at the main base. They would call Puff and he would come out with his mini guns. Puff was a gunship with 3 mini guns. Each was capable of firing 6,000 rounds a minute. Sometimes even 2 or 3 would come out. With tracer rounds, it looked like streams of fire coming out of the sky. The Vietnamese thought it looked like fire breathing dragons. The Peter, Paul and Mary song called Puff The Magic Dragon was popular at the time, thus the name Puff.

Someone left a radio at the ECP and we kept it on Armed Forces Radio. I'd sit there watching Puff work out and think about the enemy on the receiving end. It seemed like they always played Detroit city while it was going on and I'd think about all those things and how nice it would be to be home.

Thank you Sir,

One of my favorites...




My Dad did the same thing but we stayed longer. A lot longer and my Dad couldn't make it punching a clock. It wasn't in him so he ran his own siding, roofing, and gutter company. Mostly him but he made a good living every year until winter hit. (Another story.)

I laugh as, even yesterday I was talking to someone and it came up about where were born. I have to watch who I say it to but this worked out to where I could be more open.

I mentioned to the person I was talking to I had met and after a while I stated; " I know I don't sound it but I grew up in the slums of Detroit. (I sound like I am from the deep south.) (I guess twenty years in Kentucky, seven years in Texas, and two years in South Carolina helped but I think I always had a southern accent.

I was talking to this guy and as I have stated many times, I thought I was black till I got my driver's license. (Many never know how to take that but it is okay.)

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning and Happy Friday from ATX. Currently 62°F and cloudy. Today's high expected at 84°F

Well, we're heading back into the office, too. Announcement yesterday. I may go in 1-2 days per week unless exemption waived. Retire in 13 months. Let's see what happens. Live just 1/2 mile walk from bus line. No big deal for me, but some folks have hellish commutes.

Wish y'all a great end to your workweek.

 

[storm1507]

Good morning everyone

Although I'm sure it's not some of your favorite memories I love reading your all's stories.

That is all. Have a great day.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Happy Friday. About time.

Challenging day ahead, but then it should be a nice weekend. Decent weather forecast, and my wife and I have plans to go to a favorite steak house Saturday night.

My son, who has managed to keep his original job while losing the new, better job, has been detailed to a project in southwestern Oklahoma at what looks like a really beautiful national park, so he's more than making the best of things.

Getting to feel like tournament basketball is on the horizon. Have a good weekend.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good morning folks. Happy Friday. About time.

Challenging day ahead, but then it should be a nice weekend. Decent weather forecast, and my wife and I have plans to go to a favorite steak house Saturday night.

My son, who has managed to keep his original job while losing the new, better job, has been detailed to a project in southwestern Oklahoma at what looks like a really beautiful national park, so he's more than making the best of things.

Getting to feel like tournament basketball is on the horizon. Have a good weekend.

Supposedly Oweh is coming back. I hope Pope is working on Kriisa and Garrison also.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

An unassisted triple play....

 

[cordmaker]

WC, were you at Fort Sill?

 

[berniecarbo]

Listening to the Cardinal spring training game. They were talking about a minor league pitcher trying to make the roster. I think his name is Robberse. They said his last game he gave up nine straight base hits. Only 2 hits and one run today in one inning.

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning folks. Hard at work since 7am. It's feeling more like spring in the east. I hope the really cold days are behind us.

I meant to post this on Senior Night but got distracted. Cannot watch without fighting tears, even after all these years. If I make it that far, Winston Bennett's dad wiping away his tears does me in.

Have a great day folks

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Bennet is one of my all-time favorites. He was the enforcer and protector of the rest of the players on the team.

 

[warrior-cat]

Good morning folks. Happy Friday. About time.

Challenging day ahead, but then it should be a nice weekend. Decent weather forecast, and my wife and I have plans to go to a favorite steak house Saturday night.

My son, who has managed to keep his original job while losing the new, better job, has been detailed to a project in southwestern Oklahoma at what looks like a really beautiful national park, so he's more than making the best of things.

Getting to feel like tournament basketball is on the horizon. Have a good weekend.

What park? Do you know? We have one close called the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.

 

[warrior-cat]

WC, were you at Fort Sill?

I live in Elgin OK which is 14 miles From Lawton/FT. Sill. I used to work there before retiring, Wife still does for a military contractor. FT. Sill is where I do most of my bass fishing which next week will be my first time this year as it is starting to warm up a bit.

 

[berniecarbo]

Bennet is one of my all-time favorites. He was the enforcer and protector of the rest of the players on the team.

You would have loved Larry Stamper. He once punched out a Vandy player because he " got tired of him pushing me around."

 

[warrior-cat]

You would have loved Larry Stamper. He once punched out a Vandy player because "he got tired of him pushing me around."

Used to train with some Stampers in Karate back in the 80's in Lawton. Probably no relation.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

What park? Do you know? We have one close called the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.

Warrior, yes, the project is somewhere in that Wichita Mountain wildlife preserve. I think my son said it was near a town or area called Indianahoma. Does that sound right?

 

[warrior-cat]

Warrior, yes, the project is somewhere in that Wichita Mountain wildlife preserve. I think my son said it was near a town or area called Indianahoma. Does that sound right?

Yes, Indiahoma and Lawton too. Part of LETRA (Lake Elmer Thomas Recreational Area) is on the preserve. I fish the FT. Sill portion of that lake and sometimes, the Reserve side. Most of the Lake is on Sill. I am about 20 minutes from the Reserve.

Edited: I can see Mount Scott (on the reserve) from my back yard. Used to run up Mount Scott at the end of each Drill Sergeant School class we had when I taught there. Last weekend before graduation.

 

[berniecarbo]

Used to train with some Stampers in Karate back in the 80's in Lawton. Probably no relation.

There is another story about a Vandy player who was having a big game and getting away with rough play. Rupp put Stamper in the game. Halfway down the court, Stamper hit him so hard that he slid under the scores table, then Stamper just walked to the bench and sat down. The player finished the game poorly and UK won.