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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Ole Miss - redcuprebellion.com Game Thread Gems

« on: December 06, 2013, 12:54:11 PM »

http://www.redcuprebellion.com/2013/12/5/5180406/ole-miss-rebels-at-kansas-state-wildcats-open-thread

Marshall getting boos but he don't care. He got that fresh cut

They already don't like Henderson.

Lets go Hendo
I have a ton of friends in Manhattan, and they are all obnoxious K State fans. I want him to ruin their day.

These fouls are ticky tacky.

Did anybody else just see those K-State kids
doing the landshark when Marshall missed that free throw?

Did anyone else notice the K State fans
Doing the patented Henderson-land-shark-attempt-that-looks-like-a-chicken?

"That's a bad shot"
The most annoying thing about watching these games on TV is the announcers calling almost every shot attempt from Marshall “a bad shot.” There is no such thing as a bad shot with him.

I will literally NEVER understand basketball rules
I’ve tried. But when I see a guy take a knee to the face, and somehow gets called for the foul, I just give up. It doesn’t make any sense.

KSU #55 is like a thick Jimmy Chitwood

for reference...

All we need now is for Shooter to come stumbling out onto the court crap faced.

Never seen the shooter get called for that before.
Only because it was Marshall.
That was a horrible call.

good....need chitwood to sit down for a while

First half refs were calling both ways
Second half has been all ksu calls

Call the foul assholes!

Wow the announcer just said that all the calls tonight have been pretty good
#whatthefuckishewatching

These announcers are rough ridin' idiots.

All the attractive wimmens must to to Kansas
Cause I ain’t seen one in the crowd.

There are no attractive wimmens in Kansas
anywhere

These people look straight out of Napoleon Dynamite

Holy crap
A foul on KSU. Their 4th of the half

oscar Weber should be on a Cialis commercial

It's a great feeling to know
that I will never have to yell “let’s go cats” as loud as I can in my life.

There it is!
Bomb!! And huge drawn foul.. Game changer. Hell KSU can’t shoot worth anything, so maybe we should make them shoot two.

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but one of the commentators is literally an ex-K-State player.
And whenever that guy says anything about the officiating being good, the other just kinda goes along with it.

Gipson has done Marshallesque flopping

The officiating
Is about on par with Kstate’s ft ability.

I want a rematch in Oxford with SEC refs

We are better than this team. This a game we should win.
MH is 3 for 15 and we are down one. Come on!

We were better. This is a bad loss.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Last XX games thread

« on: November 22, 2013, 01:36:22 PM »

Last 7 games:

2-5

vs. KU - L
vs. LaSalle - L
vs. Northern Colorado - L
vs. ORU - W
vs. LBSU - W
vs. Charlotte - L
vs. Georgetown - L

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Kansas State Football / 30 yard Field Goal

« on: November 15, 2013, 02:34:40 PM »

you get 10 attempts, with no practice kicks. Grass field. The holder is a kick stand holder like the kickers use on the sidelines.

How many do you make?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Northern Colorado returned all 5 starters!

« on: November 09, 2013, 08:16:16 AM »

... from a team that did this:

13-18 (10-10) Big Sky

http://uncbears.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/schedule

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Chat tonight

« on: November 08, 2013, 03:19:52 PM »

 

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Kansas State Football / Babe Ruth connected to Darren Sproles

« on: October 22, 2013, 06:58:18 PM »

BABE RUTH played on the 1932 New York Yankees with ...
Ben Chapman, who played on the 1941 Washington Senators with ...
Early Wynn, who played on the 1963 Cleveland Indians with ...
Tommy John, who played on the 1989 New York Yankees with ...
Deion Sanders, who played on the 1998 Dallas Cowboys with ...
Randall Godfrey, who played on the 2005 San Diego Chargers with ...
DARREN SPROLES

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/slate_labs/2013/10/six_degrees_of_kevin_garnett_connect_any_two_athletes_who_ve_ever_played.html

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Kansas State Football / everyone that's wrote the baylor game off as a loss

« on: October 11, 2013, 12:00:42 PM »

how did little ol k-state beat them with rg3 quarterbacking?
how did k-state beat the best team in the history of college football?
bill will have a good game plan and we are going to beat the bars. yes i said bars.
thank god the players aren't going in to the game hoping we can stay with three touchdowns.
i am going to the game tomorrow fully thinking we will play baylor tough and come out with a win.
you all can call me a purple kool aid drinking naive cat fan...but i never give up on my cats, and never will
next years run i keep hearing about starts tomorrow

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Kansas State Football / I will say this

« on: October 09, 2013, 11:21:42 AM »

Once we figure it all out which I hope is soon we are going to force to recon with. People look at this team and think we are down on talent, but I don't see it that way. The fact that these players have made it to K-State is a testament of how good they are. We just have to play as one unit and dominate on all 3 phases of the game. The coaches have to make sure they are doing all they can do to put the players in winning situations. We are showing improvements. This game this weekend is the type of game that can turn the season around for us. We could be spoiler for the rest of the season as mentioned in my other post. We don't have any pressure on us so guys need to go out and just play loose and have fun. Hell our country is at war and they get to play college football on Saturdays and we get to cheer for our guys while all of the stuff is going on with our nation and trouble in the world. K-State fans continue your support of the brand. We will figure it out and trust me the best is yet to come!

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Kansas State Football / Snyder's voice

« on: September 11, 2013, 03:42:56 PM »

very soothing. hypnotizing, really.

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Kansas State Football / Optimism Thread

« on: September 02, 2013, 11:54:33 AM »

everyone needs to calm the eff down. on friday we did what we basically do every year, only this time we played a team capable of capitalizing on how much we suck in the first game.

we're fine.

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Kansas State Football / let's use this thread to bitch about the first play of the season

« on: August 31, 2013, 03:20:43 PM »

wtf was that crap? a timeout? a month to prepare and you can't get your first play off?

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Kansas State Football / big 12 media days

« on: July 22, 2013, 10:37:27 AM »

http://www.big12sports.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?catid=0

  is on

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Essentially Flyertalk / Kansas City things

« on: June 11, 2013, 10:52:52 PM »

explaining to friends that come into town that no we probably shouldn't go to p&l

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Tech Support and Suggestion Board / the eye-hearts emoticon

« on: June 08, 2013, 02:52:30 AM »

 

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / KANSAS CITY BOOZECATS PAK

« on: June 01, 2013, 11:51:52 AM »

anyone down?

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Essentially Flyertalk / "Table for one, please"

« on: May 29, 2013, 01:28:46 PM »

Acceptable? Ever?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / New study proves that pretty much everyone is a bigot

« on: May 15, 2013, 05:39:52 PM »

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/14/twitter-hate-map-shows-where-racist-homophobic-and-offensive-tweets-originate/

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Essentially Flyertalk / Amanda Berry - held captive for ten years, saved by guy eating McDonalds

« on: May 07, 2013, 10:08:22 AM »

http://deadspin.com/all-the-best-quotes-from-the-american-hero-who-rescued-493599102

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Panama City Beach PAK

« on: March 15, 2013, 09:12:37 AM »

anyone? 

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / HOLY crap GUYS

« on: March 03, 2013, 01:41:09 AM »

FUN GAME RIGHT!?

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Paint the Walls

« on: February 25, 2013, 07:49:10 PM »

alone in first place for AT LEAST two hours on February 25.

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Essentially Flyertalk / waks!!!!!!!!!

« on: February 13, 2013, 04:50:52 PM »

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Bramlage East

« on: February 09, 2013, 09:11:40 PM »

I have a friend in the KU AD and he thinks most of the major donors are so angry at Self that they won't show up on Monday. Could be pretty empty and awkward, folks.

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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KU Big Monday

« on: February 09, 2013, 07:15:11 PM »

Do we rest McGruder for Baylor next Saturday? A win in Lawrence is kind of a given at this point I would think. Go cats.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / oregon vs. kansas, politically

« on: January 02, 2013, 05:47:45 PM »

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/01/oregon_vs_kansas_state_a_bowl.html#incart_river

By Nora Simon

Finding a silver lining in Oregon's loss to Stanford didn't take me long: At least Kansas State fell to Baylor on the same day. Otherwise, UO and KSU wouldn't be meeting in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 3. It's a matchup I'd hoped for all season, and I'm immensely proud of both teams: I grew up a Wildcat and graduated a Duck.

 

I'm fascinated by both my states' traditions, sports included. Spending my childhood in Manhattan, Kan., and my college years in Eugene, Ore., I've been immersed in two different sports rivalries -- and two different political rivalries.
Although the 33rd and 34th states (Oregon entered the union in 1859; Kansas followed in 1861) at times couldn't seem more different socially and politically, I can see some similarities.

First are the obvious ones: football and college towns. Nearly every team has an in-state rival, but the Beaver State and the Sunflower State have particularly longstanding, contentious rivalries: the Civil War for UO and OSU (since 1894), and the Sunflower Showdown for KSU and KU (since the early 1900s). Kansas has its liberal-leaning college town, Lawrence, and its conservative-leaning college town, Manhattan. Oregon, of course, has Eugene and Corvallis.

Then there's the less-obvious parallel: politics. Kansas might be an easy target for liberal Oregonians because of the ridiculous goings on over abortion, evolution (which led to the creation of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by an Oregon State student), women's rights and gay rights. Then again, conservative Kansans might think the same of Oregon for its progressive policies, such as banning plastic bags and not having self-serve gas.

Here's the connection. When I look at Kansas, I see a state that's growing more conservative, and when I look at Oregon, I see a state that's growing more liberal. In 2010, Democrats far outnumbered Republicans in Oregon, and the opposite was true in Kansas. In either state, that's not likely to change soon.

Several opinion pieces in The Oregonian have spoken to this trend, saying that the Republican Party has lost its influence and relevance in Oregon, particularly in statewide offices. The moderate style of Republicans such as Tom McCall and Mark Hatfield is absent, even though we're constantly reminded of their impact on the state. Biking by Tom McCall Waterfront Park and the Mark O. Hatfield Building in downtown Portland, along with time spent hiking in the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness near the Columbia River Gorge, I see their legacies constantly.

Kansas, too, used to be the home of middle-ground Republicans: Bob Dole, Alf Landon, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Every Kansas elementary school student visits Eisenhower's presidential museum in Abilene, and being the only president from Kansas, he's a kind of state hero.Perhaps my generation remembers Bob Dole better from pop culture than politics, because he appeared in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Regardless, by that time he had gained national recognition.To illustrate Kansas' shift from the middle, earlier this month U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., rebuffed Dole, who uses a wheelchair, by refusing to vote on a disability rights treaty.

In national politics, nothing seems so contentious as the rivalry between a red state and a blue state, but it's more difficult to get things done when party politics is that polarizing. Middle-ground politicians seem more difficult to find -- at least ones who can get elected. Bipartisanship has become a catchphrase, when compromise should be the point of politics.

In sports, one rival wins and one rival loses. In politics, that type of competitive domination now seems the norm, but I'm hopeful that ultrapartisan politics won't forever trump the middle ground.

People have asked me what side I'm taking when my hometown team faces my college team. With an open mind, I'll be cheering both teams down the middle of the field.

Nora Simon is The Oregonian's letters editor.