Former Louisville Sports Information Director, St. Johns Special Advisor to Rick Pitino, and Computerized Statistics Coordinator for 35 Final Fours: Kenny Klein passes away at 66

Former Louisville Sports Information Director, St. Johns Special Advisor to Rick Pitino, and Computerized Statistics Coordinator for 35 Final Fours: Kenny Klein passes away at 66

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One of the biggest men behind the scenes in Louisville basketball history, and one of the most connected people in college basketball as shown by the reactions and condolences from the college basketball world. Served 39 Years as Louisville SID, for last two years was at St. Johns as a Special Advisor to Rick Pitino.

Also was a coordinator for the computerized statistics for 35 Final Fours, served in the NCAA Final Four media coordination committee, and was inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America in 2015.

u/aaronman4772 — 10 days ago

[Thamel] “NEWS: Big Ten officials are expected to discuss in the upcoming days a league-wide mandate to not play Texas Tech in any sports, per three Big Ten sources. This is in the wake of Nebraska AD Troy Dannen informing his staff today that they aren't allowed to schedule Texas Tech.”

u/aaronman4772 — 27 days ago

The galaxy's ghosts live anew! Darth Eternatus has mastered the distortion of time and space, and is threatening to collapse all of it into one Darkest Day. To stop this fearsome foe, heroes and villains across the continuum unite, to sever the spatiotemporal strings held within Eternatus's fearsome hand.

Led by Luke-ario Skywalker, the master of The Force and Aura, with his amazing abilities to both weaken the foes ability to move with Bulldoze and Force Palm and ability to strengthen himself enough to mast meteors. He is joined by his closest confidant, Princachsbun Leia, whose ability to withstand any fire from the enemies and ability to stand up to any Dragons that may stand in their way, she's not afraid to Play Rough against any foe. Joining them are their faithful droid companion, Bronzong2D2, whose ability to hold up to hits with his steel body, confuse any foe and slam right into them with his rocket boosters was invaluable in their quest. In fact, some say they saw Luke-ario training his droid friend in powers some may consider Extrasensory.

However it is not only the rebels who saved the day, as a foe this ferocious required assistance from even enemies. First was the twin-flamed saber of Darth Maul-owak. Some thought him a ghost, but he was very much alive, striking foes with attacks befitting a Sith, with enough power to make the earth quake beneath his feet. The droid hunter of the Jedi joined in as well, Golisopod Greivous. While his cowardly tendencies led to many emergency exits at times when struck, no one can deny he made a strong First Impression, and his abilities dance the dance of battle with the swords selected from his stricken Jedi prey was formidable.

But finally on the field of battle was one caught between the Dark and the Light. The one who once wanted to let the past burn now fights to save the past and ensure his own future. Reconciling with his family, Kylo Ce-ren-edge joined the battle, the flames held within his once Bitter Blade now turned into a Sacred Sword to seize the day.

By the forces combined, they slew the Darth Eternatus, freeing all eternity from his corrupting claws. The comrades were triumphant, however the victory was short lived, as the distortions of time and space ended, and all were sent back to their own times.

But is the Darth truly gone forever? After all, control of time and space seemed a fantasy for many, who is to say the dark lord didn't walk down other pathways to other abilities some consider to be, unnatural.

u/aaronman4772 — 2 months ago

With the most famous yearly horse race occurring this week, decided to make a run at an A Horse is a Horse of Course of Course team for Pokerogue.

In the Win spot, going Wire to Wire in first, the latest racer trained by the famed "Sword of Justice" team, Keldeo. There has been some question on if acquiring Magician powers from a clown in the middle of the race influenced his position, but as it was a force beyond the known laws of time and space and not of his own volition, the racing commission has ruled it legal. As such, Keldeo was able to rack up items to keep all the racers properly stocked, and be annoying to kill with Speed control and copious amounts of healing. In the end he jumped over E-Max Eternatus and Final Rival near single handedly, and was the clear leader throughout.

In a Place and Show spot, a photo finish between the Rapidash siblings, with Galarian just edging out the second spot. With its ability to pivot in on Dragons and being an overall well coverage providing mon, it just edged out for the second most important spot. But both had good spots of speedy coverage especially when Keldeo couldn't finish off something.

Speaking of speed, coming into the race later but holding a good spot throughout, Zebstrika. Some question if a zebra can legally be considered a horse for the purpose of a horse race, but the racing commission has ruled that "Because for some reason there's only been 5 equine Pokemon families made not counting legendaries, it's allowed to race". It contributed some solid annoyance throughout with Thunder Wave and Signal Beam being quick ways to annoy opposition, and acquiring TM for Supercell Slam as the physical Electric move of choice helped give it something with some actual heft behind it.

Finally, bringing up the rear and leaving people asking "wait so why are Clydesdales in this race, they're huge tanks of horses and slow, there's no way they were going to be able to finish in the money, and can they even fit in the starting gates?" to which point the racing commission says "see the point about why zebras are allowed", the Mudsdales. Anyway while they certainly weren't winning any foot races, their endurance came in huge handy throughout. The best counter to go into Eternatus alongside Keldeo and the best way to counter Poison and some Steel mons throughout, with just huge hits through High Horsepower, they did more than enough to earn their spot.

Spectrier and Galstrier could not be reached, though invites were sent out to them to race. Something about them being too busy trying to find their jockey Calyrex.

u/aaronman4772 — 2 months ago