DenisGScott

Catters lead 1-0 after 1 period, Catters kill all 3 Blades power plays, Matt Yeats stops 10 shots...effort and intensity higher than last night but still room for more.

Catters strike first Daniel Sparre gets his 4th of the playoffs assisted by Jason Beeman ... 1-0 Texas... 13:26 left 1st period

underway..3 mins in penalty Texas ... McWilliams for holding ...Blades on PP

start time 6:30

I would call those accomplishments significantly succesful, and yes I do think he has fully used the talent Texas has had. This year was a bit strange, and to a degree you are right the offense was get the ball to Durant and get out of the way. As talented as Barnes' Texas teams have been none of them I think were real contenders for a national title. And with the landscape of basketball being to come out early every year it speaks even more to his abilities as a coach to keep putting out the teams with the records and tournament bids he has. If LaMarcus Aldridge, PJ Tucker, Daniel Gibson had all stayed this year with DJ Augustin and Kevin Durant then there is a bigger case for saying they should make final four and compete for the title.

wow good one...and atm's last final four was when???? nice effort though 9 straight NCAA tournaments, 8 straight 20 win seasons, 4 out of the last 5 years into the Sweet 16, 2003 Final Four..3 NBA First round draft picks last year, and the likely #1 or #2 overall pick again this year. Yeah youre right thats not success at all. Especially this year starting 4 true freshmen. SO lets go back 9 years that Barnes has been at THE University of Texas....compared to atm.. that would mean going back to 1998-99 for them....5 losing seasons..one .500 season and granted the last 3 years over 20 wins.... seems UT wins that argument again, but thanks for playing

no good news tonight, Blades add 2 in the 3rd by Adam Taylor and a hat trick goal by Bellissimo to win it 5-0, worst loss we've had in a good while guys should be nice and ticked off for game 2 tomorrow. only 1 game in a best of 7, just need to get a good nights rest and be ready for war tomorrow night.

now 4-0 7:44 left in the 3rd, Adam Taylor scores assisted by Bellissimo

end of the second, 3-0 Blades, Catters have roughly 1:30 left on a power play to start the 3rd period

Bellissimo nets his 2nd of the period on the power play with :53 seconds left in the 2nd to make it 3-0 Blades

2-0 Blades..Vince Bellissimo scores 6 mins into the 2nd right after an unsuccessul Catters power play 13:46 left 2nd period

Blades lead 1-0 after 1st period, Johnathan Lehun scored 11:17 into the period. Game is pretty chippy on both ends. Danny Taylor in net for the Catters stopped a couple shots that looked like were goals for sure. Catters only managed 4 shots on goal in the 1st, need to pick up the pace to get to Kowalski

according to Websters new 2007 dictionary... gillispied: (Verb) Informal - GILL-is-pied To think something is a done deal, only to have your coach show up at another schools' press conference saying he's going to coach for them. Examples: 1. Man, the Pistons really got Gillespied by Larry Brown. 2. The Arkansas Razorbacks suck because they were gillispied by a coach from Creighton.

Jazz in no more than 6, Yao or T-Mac gets hurt and they fall apart

let's finish them off Friday, and bring on the Blades!!!

My thoughts are I hope Rick and the Catters sue the living hell out of Cumulus. I have no legal background so I dont know if they would have a case or not. That being said, with my media background and people I know in media here, I've known this move was coming for a few months now, but why do it in the middle of the playoffs?? This would be like doing the same thing to Lamar in the midst of the NCAA tournament. And spare me the upset the spanish listener base....if ESPN radio didnt have a listener base in 2 years how in the hell could a spanish station have one in 2 days??? And love how they will accomodate the Cowboys onto FM but screw hockey. It all comes down to money as usual. The sales staff there at Cumulus focuses on selling 94.1, 101.7 etc not on the ESPN signal or what was the ESPN signal. And add to that the signal itself sucked, especially at night but thats an FCC deal I know.

Donde está 'Wildcatters, Cowboys games on Southeast Texas radio? By CHRIS DABE, The Enterprise 04/17/2007 Updated 04/17/2007 12:21:08 AM CDT The Texas Wildcatters and Dallas Cowboys found themselves to be alike in at least one aspect Monday. Neither has a Southeast Texas radio home. A format change on KIKR-AM might have left the Wildcatters without an over-the-air radio station for the team's first-ever home playoff game Wednesday night. Wildcatters and Cowboys games had been broadcast on the station before a format change from all sports to a full-time Spanish language format early Monday morning. The change is likely to prevent the Wildcatters from being broadcast over the air in Southeast Texas, said Cumulus-Beaumont vice president and market manager Jim Ray. KIKR is owned by Cumulus-Beaumont. Ray said he was 70 percent certain the Wildcatters would not be put on the radio. Ray said he feared losing a Spanish language listener base by broadcasting the hockey game. "If people are really interested in the games, we figure they'll be there," said Ray, who added that the broadcast would still be available at the Wildcatters Web site. The Wildcatters play at 7 p.m. against the Gwinnett Gladiators. Each team has won once in the best-of-five series. Wildcatters radio announcer Anthony Langella Jr. said he thought the team had a contract with the station for all games, regular season and playoffs, to be broadcast. Langella Jr. said he was disappointed in the change. "But I'm not the person to talk about that," said Langella Jr., referring questions to Wildcatters managing partner Rick Adams. Adams did not return two phone messages Monday. The Wildcatters were not the only team surprised by the format change. Dallas Cowboys affiliate relations manager and senior producer Jon Ingham said he had not known of the format change until a reporter told him Monday. "This is news to me," Ingham said. Ingham said most affiliate agreements are for two years. He said the 2007 season is the second year of the current agreement with KIKR and was unsure if the format change violated the agreement. Ingham said putting the team's Spanish language broadcast on KIKR and shifting the English language broadcast to another Cumulus-Beaumont station might be an option. Ray said he hopes to shift the Cowboys broadcasts to KQYX-FM 94.1, KAYD-FM 101.7 or KTCX-FM 102.5. All are owned by Cumulus-Beaumont. National sports programming formerly on KIKR can be heard on KFNC-FM 97.5, an ESPN Radio station called The Ticket. The station's program director, Jon Madani, said National Football League territorial broadcast restrictions prevented his or any station that reaches within 50 miles of Houston from airing Cowboys games. Madani said the Wildcatters would not be on KFNC. Stations closest to Beaumont to air Cowboys games are KAOK-AM 1400 in Lake Charles and KTBQ-FM 107.7 in the Lufkin/Nacogdoches area

sounds like she was either jealous of Chapman's job or jealous on a more "personal" level hint hint

Texas isn't the best just better than that other place. I can accept UT lost this year, do I believe atm is better..no..they were just better on that day/night. OU cheated to get all their titles. But it is one thing both horns and ags can agree on is OU sucks.

but some act like Sharpton is a messiah.... lets take a stroll down memory lane shall we.... 1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair. He hasn't paid the judgment, either. 1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death. 1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees, ironically most Hispanic, die in the inferno. He should never be allowed to speak again to the public.

I disagree, he got on TV thru his popularity of his radio show, which was part morning show, part satire, part editorial comment. SO while he is not s stand up comedian per se, its not like he has only cracked on black people, he has been pretty equal opportunity when it comes to stirring the pot unlike Al Sharpton. There's someone who should be fired but has no job, and should never be put in front of people again ever

and all the radio and TV stations and programming thereof that CBS is a part of will be pulling scripts and music with that language when?????

Imus should have been left alone, he's not just a morning show host, he's almost like an editor doing an editorial, it's his opinion, not a news fact, he's paid or his opinions and entertainment. calling someone nappy headed ho's is now a big joke, heard people from all walks of life doing it all week.

funny how aggie's best comeback is always the ghey and whorn, notice its never how many titles or championships they've won or their all time record against big brother UT. and how they like to spell it ghey or whorn but god forbid someone type aggy...ahhh yes the delusional cs double standard

Imus like Stern gets paid to stir the pot. He could have said "man those were some ugly girls" in stead of "man some nappy headed ho's" but because he took a slang language the black culture brought to the public and used he gets villified for it? I just cant agree. It should have been over and done with the apology, no suspension, nothing like that. Found this one article, written by a black columnist, who seems to get the point.... COMMENTARY Imus isn’t the real bad guy Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture. By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality. You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor. Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred. The bigots win again. While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos. I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas. It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent. Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves. It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud. I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack. But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$. I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had. Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage. But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction. In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive? I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do? When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim. No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.