I like Dick Vitale, in small doses. I enjoy his enthusiasm and knowledge about the game of college basketball, but most of the time he just gets on my nerves during the call of the game. So last night I caught myself watching part of the Kentucky @ Florida game, and Dick Vitale was on the call. So as I tried to endure even 10 minutes of Vitale’s yelling and superlatives, he and Brad Nessler began to talk about this whole Mark MacGuire steroid thing. Vitale said that everything was tainted in baseball and that the whole race between he and Sosa was just a fraud. And then he had the audacity to say that he is sick of talking about cheating and would rather talk about things like the #2 rated Kentucky Wildcats.
After he said that all I could do was just roll my eyes. When I take a close look at the head man at UK John Calipari the first few words that pop in my head are: cheater, greasy, unethical, slimy, sanctions, slippary, among many other derogatory words. This is the guy that when he left Umass and Memphis, abandoned each program as a piling heap of smoldering rubble. He forfeited a Final Four and many wins at each school because of NCAA violations and broken rules. His wrath has put Umass in a hole the likes of which they have not been able to dig out of in over a decade. As for Memphis...the jury is still out on that program.
So please Mr. Vitale, don’t brag about the sanctity of college basketball; especially when you’re example is a slimeball like Coach Cal. Just wait UK, it may not be soon, but you too will feel the wrath of Calipari. Not even your program is immune from the Calipari plague.
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