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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / KSU CATS on PGA Tour

« on: March 08, 2013, 08:40:28 AM »

From this point on I will be providing updates for our that are currently competing on the PGA Tour.

Robert Streb (KSU 2009) is currently 84th in the Fedex Cup rankings. His best finish is T16 at Humana. He sits 94 on the PGA Tour money list with $167,664 thru six events. He was paired with Tiger Woods last week in the final round of the Honda Classic, and whooped Tiger's ass. This week he is playing in the Puerto Rico Open, shot -1 first round, and is even thru 8 holes in round 2.

Aaron Watkins (KSU 2004) has yet to make a cut on Tour this season. However, he shot -2 in the first round yesterday at the Puerto Rico Open, and is currently -3 thru 9 holes and T15 in round two.

 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / What would you score on the Wonderlic?

« on: April 03, 2012, 09:02:23 AM »

Better than Morris Claiborne I bet


Claiborne gives birth to a four on the Wonderlic

Posted by Mike Florio on April 3, 2012, 7:18 AM EDT

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The NFL has kept the Wonderlic results under tighter wraps than usual this year.  Or maybe the media has had enough other things to keep itself occupied.

Regardless, the first eye-opening score has leaked from the 2012 edition of the 50-question Wonderlic test.  Per multiple league sources, LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne scored a four.

Yes.  A four.  Out of 50.

Six years ago, quarterback Vince Young initially got a six.  Re-scoring of the test bumped it to a seven.  A next-day Mulligan moved it to 13.

Finally, Young has someone at whom he can point and laugh.

The joke, however, continues to be on anyone who thinks that all college athletes are also students.  Plenty of them aren’t.  They’re minor-league football players who have no choice but to wait at least three years until they get a shot at joining the NFL.

How else can anyone explain a person who presumably has found a way to avoid failing out of college getting such a low score on a basic intelligence test?

And that gives rise to a more important question.  What did LSU actually do to keep Claiborne from failing out of school?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / UK vs UK/UK noncon schedule

« on: April 25, 2011, 08:21:31 AM »

http://www.810whb.com/article/6456

Date (Day), Opponent, Site (notes)

— Nov. 1 (Tuesday), Fort Hays State, Lawrence (exhibition)

— Nov. 8 (Tuesday), Pittsburg State, Lawrence (exhibition)

— Nov. 11 (Friday), Towson, Lawrence (EA Sports Maui Invitational First Round)

— Nov. 15 (Tuesday), Kentucky, New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden)

— Nov. 21-23 (Monday-Wednesday), EA Sports Maui Invitational, Maui, Hawaii (potential opponents: Arizona, Chaminade, Duke, Georgetown, Memphis, Michigan, Tennessee, UCLA)

— Nov. 30 (Wednesday), Florida Atlantic, Lawrence

— Dec. 3 (Saturday), South Florida, Lawrence

— Dec. 6 (Tuesday), Long Beach State, Lawrence

— Dec. 10 (Saturday), Ohio State, Lawrence

— Dec. 19 (Monday), Davidson, Kansas City, Mo. (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout at Sprint Center)

— Dec. 22 (Thursday), at USC, Los Angeles

— Dec. 29 (Thursday), Howard, Lawrence

— Dec. 31 (Saturday), North Dakota, Lawrence



http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/30165/kansas-schedule-difficult-awesome

We've already established that the new Champions Classic -- which pairs four national powers (Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State) in a two-game showcase at Madison Square Garden in the first week of the college hoops season -- is good for college hoops. Why? Because fans want to see good teams play other good teams as early in the season as possible. Fans want to open the hoops season with a bang. The Champions Classic accomplishes both.

This year, the Champions Classic doubleheader does something else: Adds another top-flight game to the Kansas Jayhawks' impressively difficult -- and extremely exciting -- nonconference schedule.

Kansas released its nonconference slate Sunday, and it will have a place at the top of any list of the most-difficult schedules in college hoops in 2011-12, especially among college hoops' elite. The damage begins with the Champions Classic matchup with Kentucky. A few days later, Kansas will travel to Hawaii to compete against the most loaded Maui Invitational field in recent memory, a field that includes Duke, Georgetown, Memphis, UCLA, Tennessee and Michigan. (And, of course, Chaminade. Don't overlook the Silverswords.)

It doesn't end there: On Dec. 10, the Jayhawks will welcome Ohio State -- which is set to be one of the two or three best teams in the country next season -- to Allen Fieldhouse. Then, as a tidy little reward for all that nonconference difficulty, Bill Self's team gets the privilege of playing in the Big 12, a conference that just waved farewell to two of its traditional doormats (Colorado and Nebraska, which are headed to the Pac-12 and the Big Ten, respectively) and now features a round-robin home-and-home schedule that should only stand to make the tightened conference even more challenging.

All of which is very good news for college hoops fans, who, again, like to see good teams play as other good teams as often as possible. In other words, you'll be seeing a lot of Kansas in November and December. Jayhawks fans might be a little unsure about the schedule -- the last thing any fan wants is to watch his/her reloading team pull a Michigan State and never quite recover in January, February and March -- but for the general hoops fan, the proper reaction is all excitement.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Bored at work? Read about the "Fridge"

« on: February 08, 2011, 12:52:55 PM »

Not related to KSU football in any way, but still a good read. 


http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/news/story?id=6091766

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Our PG for 2018

« on: January 10, 2011, 10:08:50 AM »

http://www.komonews.com/home/video/111892554.html?ref=morestories

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Front page of ESPN, go now.

« on: December 16, 2010, 03:39:53 PM »

First Team

ESPN.com pick: Jacob Pullen, G, Kansas State
Grade: C
Status: Shaky
Skinny: Pullen entered the 2010-11 season riding a wave of individual expectations. He was one of only two players listed on all 10 ESPN.com first-team All-America ballots. The other one? Returning Final Four MOP Kyle Singler. In the context of those expectations, Pullen has thus far been disappointing. He's averaging more rebounds and assists than last season, but his turnovers are up, his points are down, and his shooting percentages are disconcertingly flagging. Pullen shot 40 percent from 3 last season; so far this year, he's hitting just 33 percent of those shots. His effective field goal and true shooting percentages have also taken a noticeable hit.

Whether these numbers are the cause of a fluky drought or a complication from the loss of point guard Denis Clemente is hard to tease out with two-thirds of the season left to play, but the answer will reveal itself soon enough. Pullen hasn't been bad, but he hasn't lived up to last year's breakout performance. We may have a soft spot for the ebullient, bearded playmaker, but with so many guards elevating their games in November and December, Kansas State's star isn't shining quite so bright.

4. Kansas State (Current ranking: 6)
Grade: B


Think we all expected the Wildcats to be slightly more competitive in their show-me game against Duke, particularly in their own backyard. Still, we haven't been terribly far off about Kansas State.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Conference Voices

« on: December 01, 2010, 01:58:54 PM »

http://insider.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog?name=conference_voices&id=5870667


Video helps the basketball star
December, 1, 2010Dec 112:32PM ETEmailPrintCommentsBy Jacob Pullen, Kansas State
AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki
Frank Martin has taught Jacob Pullen the importance of many things, including film study.

This season, Insider will feature the writing of six current NCAA basketball players, contributing their thoughts on issues facing their conferences. Kansas State guard Jacob Pullen continues the series with an explanation of how his team uses film study to gain an edge.



I'm not sure that people know how much film studying we do in basketball, they think of it more as a football thing. It's huge in basketball but I think for our team in particular. We watch tape of ourselves -- our sets, what we're doing wrong, what's working, how we're being defended -- pretty much every day before or after practice. That might run anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours depending on our last game and when our next one is. Then we also get personnel DVDs, too. Assistants will give us footage that's already cut to show you who you're going to be defending in the next game and what their tendencies are. Sometimes that's a specific player and sometimes it's the team, just to show you what they like to do against certain offenses or how they might react to what we want to do or what's been an effective way to guard them.



Let's say today is Tuesday and we're going to play on a Friday. We might start practice by watching film just of us, practice, come back and watch an hour of our next opponent's sets. The next day, the coaches might start off with tape of their plays -- what they run on specific possessions and inbounds. The next time we might watch ourselves and then after practice get into tape on individual personnel. There are times when even after I've gone home, Frank [Martin] will call me at midnight to tell me he just saw something on the tape that he thinks I should look at. He knows that I'll want to see it; that's just the relationship that we have. Then on the day of the game, there will usually be film of our opponent playing on TV while we eat our team meal. There's really a lot that we're trying to know about our next game and the coaches do a good job of pointing stuff out.

Take this week, for example. We beat Emporia State by like 20. Frank had us watching one possession over and over for 30 minutes. And when you look back at that possession, everything we did was wrong -- the forwards weren't moving up when they were supposed to, guards didn't set the screens where they should have, we weren't coming to the ball, no one boxed out for the rebound. Nothing went right. Frank kept showing it and we kept finding things we didn't do right.

The DVDs that they give me, I usually upload on my Macbook and my iPad. I always travel with both of them on the road and just watch film on the plane or on the bus or wherever. Gotta have both just in case the battery is running low on one or the other. I've been tempted to watch in class. We do watch a lot of film and I can't say for sure whether everyone on the team does or doesn't get tired of it. But I know I don't. It's so important because it really points out whether you're doing the little things it takes to win games. I didn't really learn the value of watching tape until after my freshman year. It was right after Mike Beasley and Bill Walker declared for the draft and our coaches called me into the office and started playing tape of our last tournament game against Wisconsin. They had it clipped up to show me playing defense; I was bouncing up and down, not moving my feet. There were a couple of times when my man got past me and I was just watching. I think Trevon Hughes had like 30 points on me that game [editor's note: it was 25].

That's when I realized how much you can learn from watching film. And Frank really believes in it too because the thing is, it doesn't lie. I know Texas does this too but we watch footage of our last practice before we go out on the floor for the next one. Sometimes the coaches will tell us that we're not doing something and you can swear that you were. Just pull up the tape and that settles it. If you're wrong the coaches are going to call you out in film session and you're going to have to run sprints. That hasn't happened to me in a while. There was one time during a game two years ago when we had Buchi Awaji on the team. Frank told him he wasn't cutting to the ball, wasn't making a line to the ball. Buchi argued with him during the game that he was. They went back and forth about it. When we got in the locker room at halftime, the staff had the first half already clipped. Frank bet him, he said if the tape showed that Buchi did, he would play in the second half. If it didn't, Buchi was going to be on the bench. Buchi didn't get in the rest of the game and he had to run sprints the next day in practice.

Our team definitely watches a lot of film and talking to Marcus Morris at Kansas I know they do too, but every team is different. I had a friend that went to Florida A&M and he said the only time they watched film was on the bus to their games. I got pretty close to Marcus this summer when we were traveling to different camps. It's funny because once the season starts you don't really get time to talk or stay in touch because you're just focused on your own season. There were times this summer, though, that we'd be working out and Frank would text me or call and Marcus was surprised that I call my coach by his first name or that we have that kind of relationship. Same thing with my cousin Demetri McCamey and oscar Weber, his coach at Illinois. Most times they're surprised by how much me and Frank talk or when they see him joking with us or hanging out. I know a lot of other coaches want that "call me coach or sir" or whatever relationship, but Frank has always told us that he's gonna call us by our first name and we can do the same. I think it's because he didn't come up through the system the same way as other guys. He worked with a Hall of Famer in Bob Huggins but mostly he came up coaching high school and AAU and he had it tough. We respect that a lot and it's why he has such a close relationship with our team.



Jacob Pullen is a senior guard at Kansas State. He contributes every month to the Conference Voices blog

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / +6

« on: November 23, 2010, 10:35:43 AM »

Line opened at +4.5 and briskly moved to +6

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Rodney

« on: November 22, 2010, 03:10:31 PM »

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/seth_davis/11/22/sophomore.breakout.candidates/index.html


Rodney McGruder, 6-4 guard, Kansas State

Freshman: 12.5 min., 3.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg, 0.5 apg
Sophomore: 29.7 min., 11.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 3.0 apg

McGruder is a good shooter as well as a silky, bouncy athlete. He reminds me a little bit of former Memphis guard Rodney Carney. McGruder is going to benefit the most from the graduation of Denis Clemente, because not only can he create points for himself and others, he is also a terrific perimeter defender. Through three games he is the Wildcats' leading rebounder and second-leading scorer



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/seth_davis/11/22/sophomore.breakout.candidates/index.html#ixzz1631s2ixK

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Katz

« on: November 11, 2010, 11:16:19 AM »

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/preview2010/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=5787247

Here are 10 games I hope we get to see in the exempt tournaments:



Duke vs. Kansas State, Nov. 23, CBE Classic final, Kansas City: Duke is a lock for No. 1 and a popular pick for the national championship game, but the Wildcats are also a first-ever Big 12 preseason champion pick and a Final Four favorite.

And now … the games we will definitely see this season

Gonzaga vs. Kansas State, Kansas City, Nov. 22: Kansas State begins its quest for a Final Four and possible No. 1 seed with one of its many quality tests early in the season.

Kansas State vs. Florida, Sunrise, Fla., Dec. 18: The Gators usually don't select a top-10 team for this home-away-from-home-game-in-the-state, but this is another example of the program's scheduling upgrade.

Kansas State at Missouri, Jan. 17: If you're looking for a potential Big 12 title-game matchup between two conference teams that have a shot to advance deep in March, this could be it.

Kansas State at Kansas, Jan. 29: The Sunflower State rivalry now has significant meaning, but the Wildcats must crack the code of winning in Phog Allen

Missouri at Kansas State, Feb. 26: Kansas should still be in line to finish in first, so the winner of this game could determine the Jayhawks' competition for the Big 12 title

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / ESPN Insider stuff

« on: November 09, 2010, 02:30:31 PM »

Jacob Pullen vs. Kim English should thrill
November, 8, 2010Nov 89:08AM ETEmailPrintComments11By Fran Fraschilla
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Kim English is ready to become a star this season, and will be tested in battles with KSU.A new season is upon us. Here are some matchups I'm most excited to see as I travel the country calling games for our family of networks.

Kansas State Wildcats vs. Missouri Tigers
Monday, Jan. 17 (ESPN) and Saturday, Feb. 26 (TBD)
Although the Kansas Jayhawks have been the Big 12's top dog since the inception of the conference in 1996, its two historic rivals in the North Division have had only marginal success until recently. The hiring of two dynamic and intense coaches, Missouri's Mike Anderson and Kansas State's Frank Martin, have given both programs a great shot of energy. Both have gotten their teams to an Elite Eight in the past two years and each has his team ranked highly in preseason polls.



While both Kansas State and Missouri can play physical basketball in the paint, it is guard play where both teams hang their hats. The Wildcats' Jacob Pullen, who is on most All-America lists, will need to nurture some talented but young backcourt mates, while the Tigers have a wave of backcourt talent that may be the most underrated in college basketball.



Mizzou 6-foot-6 junior Kim English is a burgeoning star and 6-1 Michael Dixon and 6-3 Marcus Denmon can score in bunches. But the catalyst will be 5-10 freshman Phil Pressey, who is the closest thing the conference has seen to former Longhorn T.J. Ford. The Tigers' "40 Minutes of Hell" is in very capable hands this year.



It hasn't happened often, but both of these teams can challenge Kansas for the Big 12 title. The team that does likely will have to win this battle first.

Also, Fran hates us
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/powerrankings/_/show/first

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Kansas State Football / Freems on Jim Rome today

« on: October 29, 2010, 10:59:13 AM »

at 1135 on 610 

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Kansas State Football / Barry Sanders Jr.

« on: October 28, 2010, 11:06:03 AM »

 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Comparing Big 12 schools to countries

« on: June 29, 2010, 03:14:41 PM »

Got this from a KU phore. Texans love us even though we  them every year..

Prepared by a Texan:
 

Comparing the Big 12 schools to countries.

Texas is like the USA - Wealthy, talented, and with seemingly endless resources. They have a big ego, but are deserving of it because they win at almost everything they do. Others often despise them out of jealousy. Their money and wealth make the world go round, and everyone wants a piece.

Texas A&M is like China - Big, powerful, and rival of Texas (USA). They live in a male dominated society, and thus their women are not allowed to be cheerleaders. Their money and power also make the world go round.

Oklahoma is like Mexico - Having no resources of their own, they have to invade the border of Texas (USA) in order to survive.

Oklahoma State is like Venezuela - There wasn't a whole lot there to start with, but without the oil money they would be nothing there at all.  They have a crazy guy in charge who often shouts nonsense when he speaks.

Baylor is like Israel - A feisty little religious enclave that could not survive without Texas (USA). However, if provoked, they WILL kill you.

Colorado is like Canada - A small, unimportant bastion of liberals who are not very good at anything. Like Canada , they are bad at all sports other than hockey. Like Canada , they produce no GDP.

Nebraska is like Russia - A former super power who frequently stirs up trouble because they still think they are a super power. Nebraska ( Russia ) thinks it is the equal of Texas (USA), and pouts in public when it doesn't get its baby way. When they do not get their way, they take their ball and go home. Go big RED!

Missouri is like Iran and North Korea - a definite member of the axis of evil. Conniving and loyal to no one, you cannot believe anything they say (you can only watch in amazement at what they do). Like Iran and North Korea , they are hated and despised by everyone--even the Swiss.

Iowa State is like Switzerland - Boring, unimportant, not good at much of anything, but neutral and without enemies. Even the Hawkeyes like the Swiss.

Texas Tech is like Australia - Big, dusty, and a Texas version of "down under". Cowboys, like Aussie's, drink a lot of beer and carry weapons.

KU is like France - KU is full of socialists and they think they are better than everyone else. This high opinion of themselves is not shared by anyone else in the world. Like France , KU cannot be trusted or counted on during a time of need.

K-State is like Ireland - A gritty, feisty, over-achieving little country with a large inferiority complex. What they lack in resources, they make up by determination and people. Others can't find them on a map, but they like them because they are fun, friendly, and like to drink beer.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / UK Schedule

« on: May 24, 2010, 03:40:13 PM »

http://campuscorner.kansascity.com/node/893

Pretty weak other than games against  and Baylor. Who the shazbot! is Longwood?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Kansas/Missouri All-Star Game

« on: April 12, 2010, 10:51:18 AM »

Anyone watch Sprads and Nino in the All-Star game over the weekend? I was very impressed with Nino, dished the ball well, went after rebounds, dropped some treys, looked awesome. Sprads had 21 and I think Nino had 19. Sprads needs to hit the weight room HARD.