Kansas State Basketball is Back

The Kansas State basketball team hasn’t made a Final Four since 1964 and have only made one tournament in 12 years, but the tide seems to be turning for them.  I don’t mean that they will suddenly become one of the premier programs in the country, that would just be crazy.  They were only slightly above average even when they featured Michael Beasley.  No, I’m simply saying that maybe people will remember that Kansas State actually has a basketball team.  Stranger things have happened.

In this video, senior guard Denis Clemente connects on a shot sure to give anyone a letter in HORSE.  I’m sure this video will make the rounds, get picked up by ESPN and be a vague memory by the time NCAA hoops season starts up.  Congratulations Wildcats, while the Kansas Jayhawks are being picked to be pre-season number 1, you aren’t being completely forgotten.  It’s a great day for the Sunflower State.

Also, Manhattan, Kansas will host one of the College GameDay shows this basketball season.  It will be the only stop in the Big 12 made by the ESPN show.  So, not only will people know the Wildcats exist, but they might actually witness them play this year.  I just hope all this fame and notoriety doesn’t go to their heads.

Bootlegged from The Dagger

Tags: basketball, Denis Clemente, Kansas State, NCAA

You Wacky Wildcats

It took 3 hours to shoot this, Cole's cell kept going off

The rivalry between Kansas State and Kansas University has never seemed all that severe to an outsider, but those involved in the Sunflower Showdown (worst rivalry name ever) take it pretty damn serious.  Last season, Wildcat fans thought they had something special with Michael Beasley and started talking trash to the Jayhawks.  They even discovered Brandon Rush’s cell phone number and posted it numerous places on the Internet.  Prank calls ensued but in the end, Rush and KU won a national title. 

This season, a new tactic has been formulated by the diabolical Power-Cats.  They discovered Cole Aldrich’s cell phone number and posted it numerous places on the Internet.  If that doesn’t sound very different to you, it’s because it isn’t. 

K-State fans get a 1 in the creativity department, but high marks for their ability to find out the cell phone numbers of marquee college basketball players.  I suspect they recruit their best and brightest hottest and horniest coeds to infiltrate the Lawrence campus and finagle those numbers from unsuspecting Jayhawks.  Either that or an elaborate heist on Pizza Hut’s call center. 

Regardless of the method, whoever is discovering these numbers has a real future in the business.  That would be the business of discovering famous people’s phone numbers.  They could work for any media outlet in the world.  You think some people might be clamoring for Alex Rodriguez’s number right now?  Hell, the ingenious K-Stater could probably get hired by Madonna. 

If they are willing to work as an unpaid intern, Bootlegger Sports has a position open for them, which is rare because our internship program is also reserved for the hottest and horniest coeds.  We don’t waste time interviewing athletes, but I could use the numbers of the models featured in the SI Swimsuit issue.  It’s for a story, honest.

EDITOR’S NOTE: You can listen to “Cole Aldrich’s” response to the prank calls he’s been getting here.  Some say it is Cole, some say it isn’t, all I know is it sounds like some idiot impersonating a tall guy.  So yes?

Tags: basketball, Big 12, Brandon Rush, Cole Aldrich, Kansas, Kansas State, Michael Beasley, NCAA

Dan Hawkins is Confident, Delusional

Colorado head football coach Dan Hawkins is apparently being affected by the pot smokers atmosphere in Boulder because he recently guaranteed a 10 win season for the Buffs in 2009.  Playing in the Big 12 north hasn’t been much of an obstacle recently, but keep in mind no one won 10 games this year, and Colorado hasn’t hit double digit victories since 2001. 

So Hawk, how do you plan to break out of an 8 year slump?  Continue running the Nepotism formation?  Maybe go back to that female kicker since that really put Boulder on the map?  Is your old buddy Jared Zabransky still eligible for a transfer? 

Colorado fans are the first to point out that injuries decimated their team this year, and I’ll admit that’s true.  Instead of that 5-7 season, you should be living it up with 6 wins at the This Sponsor Filed Chapter 11 Texas Bowl. 

There are some scenarios, however, where 10 wins becomes likely:

A “We Are Marshall” situation at Nebraska… and Texas.

The strippers you’re no longer allowed to give recruits resurface in Gary Pinkel’s trunk.

Bill Snyder comes back to coach K-State.  Wait.

Tags: Big 12, Bill Snyder, Colorado, Dan Hawkins, football, Gary Pinkel, Jared Zabransky, Kansas State, Missouri, NCAA, Nebraska, Texas