Letters to the Editor
The Notorious W.E.S.
Published Letters: 3288 Editor's Choice: 27
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Doubts
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About the common theory about the sub-par free throw teams being suspect to advance or win a big game for that reason. Announcers single out teams for this throughout the regular season as a chink in their tourney armor.
All teams have some stat that isn't that impressive. If that surfaces in a game combined with not doing well in a couple other stats that they are normally good in, then they are in trouble.
Even in a game that a team loses 75-70 in which they went 10-22 from the line it's faulty logic to just chalk the loss up to bad free throw shooting. The winning team could single out some team stat that they could have done better in too.
If you're talking about the one game situation where you have to make a couple one-plus-ones in the last 20 seconds to keep a lead, in that small a pool of reference, the 75 percent team and the 63 percent team are not very different. It's almost a crap shoot on what either would do.
They put up a chart in some game of the national champions for the last 10 years and their team FT percentage and most of them were not highly ranked free throw shooting teams. Some very low.
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Plus It Gets Ridiculous Sometimes
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One of Pitino's monster teams at Kentucky beat Crum and Louisville by 20. They were up 30 and called off the dogs. For the game Louisville was something like 20 for 40 for the line, and in the post-game show Crum kept using the free throw shooting excuse, and the Louisville fans repeated it for days.....Yeah right Denny, as long as Pitino takes out his stars with 10 minutes left, and if your team had gone 40-40 from the line then it would have been tied.....And of course no one mentions that UK missed 12 free throws in the game too.
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On The Student Athlete Part
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"It's right and proper not to think of them as being similar to ordinary college students who are on campus to get an education........."
What percentage of the ordinary college students are there to get an education is a proposition for debate. I'd say lower than 100 but higher than 50. Somewhere in there.
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Some Of Them Are There
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]To paint themselves blue or red and go to the games.
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Well
[Read the article: The return of Joementum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Being as the democratic preference between Obama and Hillary has bobbed around the mid to high 40's for each, and more than 60 percent of dems think both should stay in the race despite the delegate count and the hollering from the minority that Hillary should get out, there appears to be some serious reservations about Obama in the democratic party rank and file.
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Being As
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wright has already stripped Obama of a big chunk of the independents and moderate republicans he was counting on, he better take a very hard look at that nearly 1/3 of Hillary supporters who would vote for McCain. He better at least offer the VP to her if he is the nominee.
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No Biggie
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the difference between college basketball and football recruiting and rent-a-cars?
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3 Of Your Co-workers
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have the power to destroy the democratic party? Don't let them know how powerful they are, they may get cocky.
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Can I Find
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The meaning of life in the WSJ too?
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Yes
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It suggests that.
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Faithless?
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting word choice.
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The People Who Want Hillary To Drop Out
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are a distinct minority.
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What Happened To Will Of The People?
[Read the article: Obama-Bloomberg '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When it comes to Hillary dropping out?
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If No One gets 2025
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They may approach Gore
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Then The
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama babies couldn't cry about it being stolen from them.
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If Hillary's Takes It To The Convention
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And no one has 2025 and they keep re-voting and her supers keep voting for her and Obama's for him, they may have to find a compromise candidate.
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JSum003
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's not alarming. It's a fact. Obama can't win. That's why the supers haven't gone with him. They don't know what the hell to do.
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I'm Not Predicting
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The superdelegates are. Their inaction means they think Obama can't win.
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That's The Entire Hillary Fight
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And why she keeps fighting.....He can't win.
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Yes
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought Hillary would win the nomination from the start. Which probably positions me to enjoy a nice "told ya so" in November.
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With Hillary As VP
[Read the article: Time columnist: Gore-Obama in '08?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama would go from a no shot to at least possible.
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The Only Commentary From Kagan
[Read the article: Fred Kagan on Monday: "The civil war in Iraq is over"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That I could take seriously would be a restaurant-buffet recommendation.
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This Is About Dems
[Read the article: Polls: Obama weathers Wright controversy ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Not the general.
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Louisville
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is putting up some looney numbers like Pitino did at UK.....In that game last night it was about midway through the first half and Louisville had 11 turnovers. A quarter of the game had been played, they were on pace for 44 turnovers, and they were up by 16 points.
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Just Add Up The Losses?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]UNC lost at home to 13 loss Maryland.
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There's Big-Time Behind The Scenes Movement Towards Gore
[Read the article: Michelle Obama on "ignorant" America]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To eliminate the losing candidacy of Obama in the general.
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Well
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There's also the memory of UNC going up against the Big East last year.
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Or
[Read the article: Dean wants superdelegates to come to a quick decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gore
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Yeah
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Everyone's a bandwagoner except you---clown.
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Past Vibes
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Pitino's first year at UK, Roy Williams administered a 150-95 drubbing.........There was crying from the UK camp but I liked Williams answer--He kept pressing so we kept attacking the basket....The UK-Kansas series ended.
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"Anyone who thinks Wright represents Obama is either an idiot or is just trying to raise hay."
[Read the article: Dean wants superdelegates to come to a quick decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about Obama representing him?
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Okay
[Read the article: Dean wants superdelegates to come to a quick decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dad
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Well
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Whatever Ken Pomeroy says..........Who is Ken Pomeroy?
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One More Time
[Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary could be the 2012 democratic nominee if Obama is the sitting President.........Been a lot of love and hope and change promised.
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The Superdelegate Headaches May Be Just Starting
[Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Picture Obama with a 35 percent approval rating in 2012, troops still in Iraq, etc.
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One More Time
[Read the article: Leahy: Clinton should quit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If Obama is the nominee and loses it's because of HIM not her.
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No Problem
[Read the article: Dean wants superdelegates to come to a quick decision]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Nothing personal. I just consider it to be my solemn duty to slam the Knight in Shining Armor (Obama in this case), even if he is on our side.....I never liked the Knight in Shining Armor routine from the republicans either.
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Sagarin
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is a frustrated wannabe that probably got crammed inside a locker by the jocks and laughed at by the girls.........Now here he is with his computer printout years later exacting his revenge. All those rankings are nonsensical.
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Sagarin
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Also pinches himself every night to make sure it's real.....A whole bunch of people actually taking him and his computer seriously.
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"Sagarin has A&M ranked #19. They were by far the best team in the 8-9 seeds the second round."
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Would that be the A & M that lost to Oklahoma 64-37, and lost 5 of their last 7 , the 5 losses by a total of 82 points.....They are "by far" the best of 8 and 9's?