Big Blue Madness...October 16th, 2009!!!!!!

It's official! Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena on October 16th! GO BIG BLUE!

Breaking News - UK Basketball

According to Kentucky Sports Radio, The University of Kentucky Mens Basketball will be getting a visit on Wednesday from my favorite player, 6-7 forward Tobias Harris. Torrel Harris, Tobias’ father, wrote via text on Tuesday: “We are planning a trip to Kentucky on Wednesday before we go [to] Portland for Nike Global.”

I was able to watch Harris on ESPN U as he joined the Albany City Rocks in Orlando. According to Torrel, UK has recently picked up the interest with Harris and extended an official offer about 2 weeks ago. The recruitment of Tobias has been quick and furious with numerous coaches trying to get involved. The Harris family will be arriving in Lexington today for a short visit before going to the Nike Global Games. Tobias is a tremendous ball player! Any school would be lucky to have him, so UK fans should get pretty excited about this visit and about the possibility of Tobias wearing the Blue & White. GO BIG BLUE!

Dearborn City Council Election Results

Updated: 8/4/2009 10:49:45 PM
Election results: Dearborn
By Sean Delaney
Press & Guide Newspapers
DEARBORN

Following Tuesday’s primary, 14 City Council candidates will move on to the general election in November, including all seven incumbents.
While the polls closed after the Press & Guide’s deadline Tuesday, the following election results are being reported with all of Dearborn’s 55 precincts counted.
• Thomas Patrick Tafelski: 5,629 votes (9.40 percent)
• Nancy A. Hubbard: 4,457 votes (7.44 percent)
• George T. Darany: 4,140 votes (6.91 percent)
• Suzanne Sareini: 4,051 votes (6.76 percent)
• Mark C. Shooshanian: 3,931 votes (6.56 percent)
• Sharon Dulmage: 3,533 votes (5.90 percent)
• Brian C. O'Donnell: 3,417 votes (5.70 percent)
• Doug Thomas: 3,284 votes (5.48 percent)
• Robert A. Abraham: 3,232 votes (5.39 percent)
• David W. Bazzy: 2,759 votes (4.61 percent)
• George Hart: 2,372 votes (3.96 percent)
• Patrick M. Kiernan: 2,267 votes (3.78 percent)
• Patrick D'Ambrosio: 2,170 votes (3.62 percent)
• Ali Sayed: 2,004 votes (3.34 percent)
• Adrenne Wygonik: 1,958 votes (3.27 percent)
• Nancy Siwik: 1,644 votes (2.74 percent)
• Stephen S. Dobkowski, Jr.: 1,497 votes (2.50 percent)
• Rabih Hammoud: 1,432 votes (2.39 percent)
• Terry Burke: 1,182 votes (1.97 percent)
• Scott J. Marquette: 1,031 votes (1.72 percent)
• Khalil Dakhlallah: 989 votes (1.65 percent)
• Mark J. Dawdy: 884 votes (1.48 percent)
• Hussein Sobh: 880 votes (1.47 percent)
• Molly Sharp: 630 votes (1.05 percent)
• Joseph Agius: 446 votes (.74 percent)
• WRITE-IN: 94 votes (.16 per-cent)
Approximately 10,861 of the city’s 59,170 registered voters (18.36) percent took part in the election, according to the city’s Web site, www.cityofdearborn.org.
For more election coverage, see Sunday’s Press & Guide.
Contact Staff Writer Sean Delaney at (734) 246-2702 or sdelaney@heritage.com.

-"Brothers From Another Mother" (KC & PK) were at the after party of eventual winner Thomas P. Tafelski. Family, Friends and Neighbors were all cheerful by the final results. Thanks for the food and Spirits. Good job Tom!

UK Basketball Recruiting

Recruiting Thoughts:
The University of Kentucky (UK) has at least three (3) scholarships to provide for the class of 2010. UK will have departures of Ramon Harris, Perry Stevenson and Jodie Meeks (scholarship not used). In addition, UK may have additional two (2) or three (3) departures with Patrick Patterson, John Wall, and/or DeMarcus Cousins. Therefore, it seems safe to say that UK will need to recruit at least four (4) and maybe as much as six (6) scholarship players. I have bolded, italic and underlined whom I believe are the most likely additions. I have also provided a priority order within each position based on my beliefs. My beliefs are driven by other blogs, Internet reporting and news articles. I have no inside sources! These are my thoughts as of today.

PG:
1. Brandon Knight (6-3) 5* - Ft. Lauderdale, FL (UK, Florida, UCONN)
2. Josh Selby (6-2) 5* - Baltimore, MD (UK, Memphis, UCONN)
3. Kyrie Irving (6-1) 5* - Elizabeth, NJ (Duke, IU, UK, UCONN)
4. Joe Jackson (5-11) 5* - Memphis, TN (Memphis, UK, Tenn)
5. Keala King (6-5) 4* - Compton, CA

SG:
1. Doran Lamb (6-4) 5* - Mouth of Wilson, VA (UK, OU, Kansas)
2. Jeremy Lamb (6-3) 3* - Norcross, GA

SF:
1. Cameron Clark (6-6) 4* - Sherman, TX
2. Harrison Barnes (6-6) 5* - Ames, IA (Duke, Kansas, Iowa St.)
3. Dominique Ferguson (6-9) 5* - Indianapolis, IN (Arizona, IU, UK)

PF:
1. C.J. Leslie (6-8) 5* - Raleigh, NC (UK, NC, Duke)
2. Tobias Harris (6-7) 4* - Dix Hills, NY (Syracuse, UCONN, UK)

C:
1. Adreian Payne (6-10) 5* - Dayton, OH (UK, West Virginia)

I’m very impressed with our new coaching staff and their ability to raise an interest level in all of these 5 and 4 star basketball players. A recruiting class of Knight, Lamb, Leslie and Payne would be huge! Probably another #1 class but definitely top 5. Wow! My next three guesses would be Selby, Clark and Harris and probably in that order.

As noted in a previous post, Brandon Knight and Adreian Payne were both rumored to be close to commitments. Since then, Brandon Knight’s mother has visited UK alone and was very impressed with UK for academics. Brandon has had straight A’s for 11 years. She also indicated that she would be visiting UConn soon. I believe Brandon’s recruiting will come down to UK, UConn and Florida. Regarding Adreian Payne, his high school coach has indicated that no decision has been made or he would know about it. However, chatter has indicated that this race is between West Virginia and UK. Bob Huggins has a lot of contacts still in the Ohio area. UK is only 2 hours from his home in Dayton while West Virginia is 5 hours away. Hopefully that works for UK’s advantage.

New chatter is indicating that C.J. Leslie could be UK’s first commitment in August. This is the first I have heard of this and is coming from the Courier-Journal in Louisville and Dave Kersey of the Cat’s Pause. C.J. was a teammate of John Wall’s in Raleigh, NC. C.J. Leslie is a huge get to this class. Finally, numerous people indicate that Josh Selby is UK’s if we want him. However, a decision will not be made until late signing period so he will have a full recruiting experience. Jody Demling of the Courier-Journal indicated that “UK will get a good point guard – one of the top four – and there’s not that big of a difference (from 1-4).” Personally, I enjoy watching Tobias Harris. This kid will be a better version of Jamal Mashburn if that seems possible. Maybe Mr. Harris will allow UK to get more involved. He currently has a very long list of suitors. GO BIG BLUE!

Joke de Jour Tuesday!

The power of Alcohol

A man is waiting for his wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion.

After 21 years, the son is now old enough for his first drink. Dad takes him to the bar, tearfully tells the son he is proud of him and orders up the biggest, strongest drink for his boy. With all the bar patrons looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in disbelief, the boy takes his first sip of alcohol.

Swoooosh! Plop!! A torso pops out! The bar is dead silent; then bursts into whoops of joy. The father, shocked, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant 'Take another drink!'

The bartender continues to shake his head in dismay. Swoooosh! Plip! Plop!! Two arms pop out.

The bar goes wild. The father, crying and wailing, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant, 'Take another drink! Take another drink!!' The bartender ignores the whole affair and goes back to polishing glasses, shaking his head, clearly unimpressed by the amazing scenes..

By now the boy is getting tipsy, but with his new hands he reaches down, grabs his drink and guzzles the last of it.. Plop! Plip!! Two legs pop out. The bar is in chaos.

The father falls to his knees and tearfully thanks God The boy stands up on his new legs and stumbles to the left then staggers to the right through the front door, into the street, where a truck runs over him and kills him instantly The bar falls silent.

The father moans in grief. The bartender sighs and says,

'He should've quit while he was a head!

Joke de Jour - Retirement Plans

Outside England's Bristol Zoo, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn't show up. So the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.

The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed, completely on his own and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years.

Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars!

And no one even knows his name.

Quick Question - Adult Humor

Quick question: Can u get pregnant from anal sex?

If so, is it considered a:

• crack baby,
• a little shit, or
  
• will it just grow up to be an asshole?