The Sweet 16 of Shame
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Each March, the NCAA Tournament shines its spotlight on a group of men uniquely unfit for national media attention. There are the players, whose most notable achievement is having had high levels of human growth hormone in their bloodstream when they were 12; their coaches, former players who weren't sharp enough to make it as auto insurance salesmen; and don't forget about the pundits, whose résumés as failed coaches somehow qualify them to shout alliterated phrases on national television for an entire month. So it's not surprising that the NCAA tournament is as notable for embarrassing blunders as it is for displays of heroics. What is surprising is the sheer number of ways the stars of the tournament manage to choke, overreact, under-perform and make general asses of themselves. Below, the 16 most cringe-inducing duke it out for supremacy. 16
Thomas Hill weeps after Christian Laettner's game winning shot beats Kentucky, 1992
Laettner's turn-around jumper is the most replayed tournament highlight of all time, making Hill's weepy reaction the most replayed instance of a man looking like a total bitch in tournament history.
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Kentucky loses to Texas Western, 1966
An all-white Kentucky team, coached by hardcore racist Adolph Rupp, gets Jesse Owens-ed by Texas Western's all-black starting five, and dreamboat head coach Josh Lucas. (Yes, an all-white basketball team losing to a black team was shocking in 1966.)
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Jim Valvano's prance, 1983
NC State upsets Houston in the 1983 championship game, sending coach Jim Valvano on a magical sprint around the court, looking like a hysterical Iraqi mother mourning the loss of a child. 13
Fred Brown passes to James Worthy, 1982
Georgetown's Fred Brown passes the ball directly to North Carolina's James Worthy in the closing seconds of the 1982 final. Brown went on to draw further ire by saying, "What can I say, black people all look the same to me."
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Jeeze; all you Kayatts fans are ridiculous. Rupp's racism/Antisemitism/dirty tatics and arrogance are well documented in the halls of basketball history. UofK athletics in general has a history choke full of dirtiness and cheating. Hell you didn't even have an honest coach until Pitino and Tubby. Just because you whiny pompous lot have to enjoy watching the Tops, Cards and even f*&^kn Morehead eagles in the Tourney. Don't whine about history.
/forever a Kentuckian
//Lifelong Bball fanatic
///UofK athletics suck
You might want to do some f*****g research before you call a man a racist. And by research, I don't mean watching the damn movie.
Why does it look like he's getting ready to give the Syracuse Player a BJ??
Yeah dude you picked some good ones!
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And if it's supposed to be a joke (naming Josh Lucas, because that's the picture you used) then it's a pretty lame one.
The GodfatherI hate to break it to you, but dreamboat Josh Lucas is the actor who played the actual coach, Don Haskins in the film Glory Road (about said game).
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ryanJust because Adolph Rupp was coaching an all white team and his name happens to be "Adolph" doesn't make him a racist. He's one of the best coaches in the history of the NCAA, wikipedia that s**t.
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Show me where Rupp's racism is well-documented. Seriously.
He was deemed a racist for having an all-white team playing an all-black team. It was an attempt to add some flare to the game. Who else had all-white teams at the time? Um...the ENTIRE ACC. THE ENTIRE SEC. ALMOST EVERY SINGLE MAJOR CONFERENCE ON THE EAST COAST. I guess the head coaches of all those teams were racist, as well. Surely it had nothing to do with the powers-that-be at their respective conferences refusing to integrate.
And for those that refuse to acknowledge that Rupp WAS NOT A RACIST, and will stick to their blind beliefs due to inexplicable hatred...
ADOLPH RUPP SIGNED A BLACK PLAYER. HIS NAME WAS TOM PAYNE. It is even documented that Adolph Rupp TRIED TO GET THE SEC TO INTEGRATE FOR MANY YEARS, even going over their heads and attempting to get two black basketball players to come play for him, which the SEC (and UK administration, apparently) quickly shot down.
"That belief (Kentucky is overtly racist) was given life by a Sports Illustrated article on the 25th anniversary of the 1966 NCAA Championship game ... With no evidence beyond gossip, the magazine indicted the Kentucky coach, Adolph Rupp, accusing him of politics leaning to the Ku Klux Klan. Rupp-as-racist stories now have been so embellished that the average basketball fan can be forgiven for imagining Rupp burning a cross in the yard of any black player who dared think of playing at Kentucky. That image is a lie." - by Dave Kindred, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, "Facts Belie Stereotype of Racist Rupp at UK," May 11, 1997.
"Rupp after his death, became a racist. The media decided that he was a bogey man that we could pin this on now. The 66 game, the Texas Western game set that in the minds of a lot of sportswriters, and other media, who weren't there, who didn't know Adolph, who had never been around him in any situation. But it became a model, a symbol really of the black arrival in basketball. It became a convenient historical point." - Dave Kindred, "Basketball in Kentucky - Great Balls of Fire", WKET, 2002.
Further, to keep blowing holes in your ignorant belief, it is also well-documented that ADOLPH RUPP RECRUITED WES UNSELD IN 1964.
And, what the hell, I'll keep blowing holes in your ignorant beliefs.
* In the late 1920s, when Rupp coached high school basketball in Freeport, Ill. all three of his teams had a black player in a school with only six black students.- by David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer "Rupp Family Wants His Honor In Tact," March 15, 1997.
Oh my? Rupp coached black players IN THE 1920s? You don't say...
Well, I do. Fact. Here's some more FACTS.
In 1950, Rupp helped a young black player, Jim Tucker, receive a scholarship to Duquesne University, where he later became an All American. - by Carlyle Farren Rupp (granddaughter of Rupp), Lexington Herald Leader, January 23, 1992.
In 1950, Rupp attended the Kentucky black high school state tournament, where he noticed a talented black player by the name of Jim Tucker from nearby Paris. After Tucker's team lost in the tournament, Rupp asked for permission to speak with Tucker.
"I knew who he was, and he [Rupp] said to me, 'I'd like you to come to Kentucky, but you know our situation here. But what I'd like to do is contact some of my friends in the coaching community and see if they might have an interest in you because I think you have the ability to become an All-American and a good basketball player."
So I'll agree with feral boy. DO SOME f*****g RESEARCH before you label someone a racist. I was able to find this stuff in less than 20 minutes.