March 15th, 2010 05:52pm
by Pat Dooley
The Back Nine comes at you after a wonderful week in Nashville where the music never stops and Kentucky fans spent Sunday booking rooms in Indianapolis. Used brackets sold separately.
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March 13th, 2010 05:39pm
by Pat Dooley
So how did that pick of Tennessee to win the SEC Tournament go for me? Not so good.
But there was one bright spot on Saturday. The woman sitting next to me at the press conference smelled like flowers. Suddenly she turned and started talking to me.
It was Ashley Judd.
“Whuut?” I said to her after she spoke, using my sensational small talk.
“Oh, I’m just talking to myself. Coach just said, ‘Let’s go win it all.’ It’s so exciting,” she said.
Now, I’ve …
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March 11th, 2010 03:49pm
by Pat Dooley
The people who are the most excited that Kentucky basketball is back among the elite? It’s not the Wildcat fans or the SEC. It’s the scalpers.
They are making a killing here because Kentucky fans are attacking the streets in droves. The loudest roar for the opening game came when the big screen showed Kentucky players watching from the stands.
In order, here’s what I have seen as far as the most fans in Nashville.
1. Kentucky fans with tickets.
2. Kentucky fans looking …
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March 10th, 2010 06:08pm
by Pat Dooley
OK, after listening to some of the coaches speak and checking out some practices, I’m ready to make my pick for the SEC Tournament.
And it’s not Kentucky.
I’m not taking the time-honored tradition of picking someone other than the favorite to stir things up. There are reasons why Kentucky will be the pick of most of the members of the media. The Wildcats will have the most fans, most talent and most tradition.
But they also will have the least motivation. When …
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March 10th, 2010 02:03pm
by Pat Dooley
This is my third SEC tournament in Nashville and I’ve already been reminded why I like it best when it’s played here.
People think of Nashville as a country music town and there is certainly plenty of that. But it’s a great city for all kinds of music. You walk down Broadway near the Bridgestone Arena and it pours out into the street.
On Tuesday night, I got my fill. I ended up spending most of the night in a place that …
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March 6th, 2010 06:07pm
by Pat Dooley
On my radio show Friday, we spent a half-hour trying to figure out who Florida would play if Alabama beat Auburn Saturday. It goes down a long way on tiebreakers past head-to-head and division records and records against your own division and all the way down to records against the fifth place team in the East.
We figured that it would be Auburn and on Saturday after Alabama did beat Auburn it was confirmed by the SEC — Florida v. Auburn …
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March 1st, 2010 06:10pm
by Pat Dooley
The Back Nine has seen enough vertical jumps, 40-yard dashes and nasty press room sandwiches to last a lifetime. Home has never looked better.
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February 25th, 2010 10:44am
by Pat Dooley
INDIANAPOLIS — So here I am at my first NFL Combine sitting in a room with a bunch of other journalists (almost all of them male , by the way). There seems to be a pattern in my life. Mooooo!
We’re waiting for the first player or coach to come in and subject himself to scrutiny. Mike Singletary of the 49ers is coming first. I should get Aaron Hernandez and Maurkice Pouncey today.
So far, it’s been pretty uneventful except that I …
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February 22nd, 2010 07:17pm
by Pat Dooley
The Back Nine comes at you after a wonderful weekend that was. How nice was the day Sunday? Depends on who you were rooting for. Eh, Canadians?
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February 19th, 2010 11:21am
by Pat Dooley
This is surreal.
More than 300 accredited media members sitting in a ballroom hacking out tweets and blogs while waiting for the television to come on for the Tiger Woods infomercial.
Supposedly, Michael Jordan will be there. Hey, if you’re going to apologize for infidelity what better person to have in the room than another adulterer? There will be media there, but only a handful and not members of the Golf Writers Association of America who are boycotting the gathering.
So we sit …
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