Butler played it's heart out, but Duke's physicality won the game. It was not so much a loss for Butler as it was a matter of being mugged. Duke threw players to the ground over and over with no call. They tried to take Hayward out in what at the best was a flagrant foul, which was just plain dirty. Of course it wasn't called flagrant.The NCAA Tournament was marked this year by flat out dirty play and a lack of officiating. The talent level of the teams that played in the tournament was mediocre. No player is going to stay more than one year when they see serious injuries occur throughout the year. The NCAA is going to decline continuously, simply because, players are not going to risk career ending injuries to make money for the schools and The NCAA.I have been a fan of basketball for forty years and I had the honor to help coach young kids. During that time we stressed fair play, safety, and the development of skills and integrity. Basketball is a game. Kids play for the sheer love of the game for years before high school and college. They learn team work and strategy as well as critical thinking skills. It is sad to see such a wonderful sport decline. The injury to Da'shaun Butler was inevitable. When a team gets a pass on the brutality of it's tactics, it is bound to end with a catastrophic injury. It was just sad that it happened to a probable NBA first round draft pick, so that a team could win a tournament, no matter how important.I find it terribly sad that 18 year old kids are at such risk. These kids are student athletes and it seems that some coaches are ignorant of that. Jim Boeheim knew that the odds against winning the tournament had declined with Onaouku's injury, but he held him out to his credit, to protect him from further injury. Commentators concentrated on the fact that the team had lost a key player instead of emphasizing the concern that Boeheim had for his player. More coaches should take that kind of attitude toward their players. The kids want playng time and many times that leads them to play with injuries. It is up to the coach to put the players health before their win loss record.I am not angry. Rather, deeply saddened by the indifference that exist toward their health in the distant future. Coach K is driven to win and his lack of concern for the health of all the players was captured in the tape of Da' Shaun Butler writhing in agony on the floor Saturday night. Letting his players loose game after game to physically pound on opposing teams with no regard to safety is a sad example of all that is bad about college basketball and the low that officiating has hit. Without the complicity of the officials that kind of environment would not exist.Myoungatheart5, The hidden news, Apr 2010
Jack Nickolaus is arguably the best Golfer ever. But Tiger Woods is closing the gap quickly. Perhaps Wes Johnson isn't on people's radar as a competitor to Michael Jordan, but the raw talent is there. Johnson has managed to gain national notoriety and acclaim, even though he has spent more time sitting than playing in his first three years of college basketball. This is no small accomplishment in a country that spawns super star talent by college freshmen. Yes, Johnson has the talent and if he works on his passing and ball handling skills and improves his shooting so that he is a threat to score from any where on the court he could become as good as Jordan. I saw Jordan play in college and I can tell you that he did not show all the signs of becoming the player that he became. There was a lot of hype about him, but all the substance wasn't there. The one thing that Jordan did was to work harder on his game than anyone in the NBA. He had athletic talent, but his work ethic turned him into a player that no one in the NBA can touch at this time. I have seen forty years of basketball. In that time no other player showed signs of Jordan's athletic ability and promise until now. The first time I saw Wes Johnson take off at the foul line and glide in for a dunk, I knew Johnson had great potential. What really impresses me about Johnson is that he averaged nearly 17 points a game and he wasn't trying to do anything more than be a team mate. Johnson has the potential and the ability to take over a game. More over, he is having a ball playing the game. He is the type of player that finds real joy when he steps on to the court and it would seem that he doesn't want the final buzzer to go off. With this kind of attitude, practice is probably just as much fun as the game. If Johnson stays another year in Boeheim's system and works on the flaws in his game, I can see him developing into a player, who could drop eighty in a game and seem like he's coasting. He has the promise of being as good as Jordan and perhaps better. A big perhaps, I know. Still, if he ended up on Jordan's NBA team, he could get tutored by the greatest and I don't think, that barring injury, he would have any trouble in picking up every lesson from him and mastering it.
The Republicans would probably like Dick Cheney to run for office in 2012, but they are more likely to put up, a conservative speak, George Bush type. They are hell bent on continuing the Bush policies that led us to this economic melt down. Every change that Obama tries to make that would change one of George Bushes policies, they fight tooth and nail. They claim that it is a moral stand against big government, but the truth is that it grew more during the Bush administration than it did in The Clinton Administration and The Reagan Administration combined. During The Bush years the same Senators and Congressmen who claim to hate big government passed every bill expanding it. As a matter of fact they passed every law and bill that Bush sent them. They had the majority and it was their way or the highway. Republicans shut the Democrats out of every decision or forced it on them by saying that it would weaken the nation if the Democrats didn't vote for their Bill. The Republicans can spend their days running around like chicken little, but they were the ones that brought the sky, the roof, and the building down on us. It was The Republicans that ignored the coming train crash and allowed the trains to collide. They allowed poisoned Chinese goods to be sold to our children, because they didn't think that the government should monitor goods coming into this country. They thought the corporations would do it. Well it didn't happen and millions of kids were exposed to lead in everything from toys to clothes. The same policy was followed for the nations food supply. Republicans once again used the big government beating on the poor farming community. What happened there. We had wide spread epidemics of food poisoning and people died. The kicker is that they were not fighting for the family farmer. They were fighting for multi billion dollar food conglomerates, that had more than enough money to test produce. Not to be forgotten is the senseless deaths of family pets due to grain that Republican Policy allowed to flood the country from China. Wheat by products that were not even healthy enough for an animal. Lord knows what poisons entered our food industry. With people dropping like flies, who can tell if produce was the only source. The Republicans scream free trade, but what they really mean is a free pass to any company that wants to import poison and sell it to the American people. The are so big business oriented that they probably agree with these corporations when they institute policies that speak about acceptable negative results. In plain lingo, it is OK for a certain number of people to die or get maimed by their products so long as it doesn't significantly impact their profit. They actually figure out how much a default will cost them in a lawsuit and set aside money to pay off the claims. Of course the victims are all made to sign gag orders in the settlements. Big government is just a Republican buzz word for a policy that allows companies to decide how many people are acceptable losses for the profit of their the companies products. The fact is for the eight years of The Bush Administration, no one was allowed to look into any king of product liability issues. The Republicans talk about small business, but in the eight years they were in control of the Senate and The Congress, the only people who got tax relief were the super rich. During that time small business accumulated more debt than ever before in history period. Free trade is not letting business run wild and allowing criminals sell mortgages. It is not a immoral disregard for customers and their safety. Free trade is not the right to trade wheat gluten laced with rat poisoning to companies. Free trade is the responsible trade of quality goods raw materials between countries. It is the disgrace of the decade of the 90's that goods were bought and sold without any quality control at all. That disgrace is magnified by the deaths of people who trusted the government to keep those goods safe and had the government turn it's back on them. It is to the shame of every industry that turned a blind eye to it, so they could increase the dividends they paid to share holders. Share holders, may I add, that were probably buying those good and products. This is what the Republicans are fighting to uphold. This is why they walk in lock step like the members of The Third Riche. This is what their talk show hosts and their allies want to ram down our throats. Do you think those talk show hosts aren't willing puppets for the people that pour money into their bank accounts. Funny that in The Republican world drug dealing and addicts are scum, but let that addict be a prominent Republican spokes person and they get a free pass. Wonder if a nurse in the same position, but without that backing, would get that consideration. Bet you know the answer. I don't seem to remember them starting a foundation to help the countless other addicts. Oh wait that's what they want to cut. Along with any funding that would prevent a young unisured person from dying.
Wall St has been the motivation for the trashing of America's businesses for decades. Companies might have stayed in America had it not been for the greed of Wall St. Wall St. demanded higher and higher profits from companies until those companies had to move out of the states to slake The Wall's thirst. In the process millions of jobs left The United States: never to return. In the backrooms on Wall St. banks made money by betting against the deals they were backing, then twisting the arms of corporate America to produce unrealistic results. When corporations failed to deliver, they made money off the secret bets they had made, and forced them to gut their companies to show the expected profit. More importantly, the banks refused to pay fair interest rates to account holders and bled them dry. They pushed people into the stock market in this manner, then made huge profits off the fees they charged them. The government has given Wall St. and all the banks a free pass, allowing them to charge unlimited interest rates. What would have been loan sharking is now called standard operating procedure. Congress is about to make a big deal about Goldman Sacks, but the truth is that Congress gave them the ability to broker deals like the ones Sacks did legally. When it came time to run for reelection, Congressmen and Senators quietly payed visits to Wall St. to collect the campaign donations they had earned by giving banks permission to stick it to Main St. You might think that it was just eastern Senator and Congressmen that benefited this way, but, in truth, there isn't a federal legislator that isn't getting payed by them. Republicans especially have given banks a free pass to run a muck through middle class America. You may think that keeping government out of businesses way is a great thing, the problem is that the only businesses the Republicans care about are the ones that can pay for their reelection. During the Bush Administration, a republican president and a republican Senate handed money to corporations who left the country. At the same time small factories and manufacturers suddenly saw their business evaporate. The Chinese sucked their profits away. In the mean time the big banks were brokering the transfers of huge amounts of cash bound for foreign banks. The system is rotten to it's very core and even The Federal Government lacks the legal authority to look at the books of these banks. Their will, indubitably be a huge deal made by congress in the hearing tomorrow, but you can bet that the same Congressmen will get huge campaign contributions to give Goldman Sacks and the other big banks a pass. Other than the show you see on the TV news, nothing is going to change. Deals will be made to leave huge loopholes for banks to drive their armoured trucks through, and sustain the banks legal ability to suck your hard earned dollars in with more fees and hirer interest rates. Make no mistake, these banks are not American banks. They are simply based here to take advantage of the legal loopholes they receive for being based here. In reality they have no ties to this country. They exist to enrich themselves by amassing huge fortunes in every country they have a presence in. The multinational banks dictate the politics of the free world and are above the laws of any country. No real laws will be passed in this country or any other to truly change the way Wall St. Banks do business. They have simply become to powerful to succumb to any regulation. The fact is that they hold, so much of America's assets that they can simply threaten to walk away and the government will bend over backwards to keep them. What you will see tomorrow is simply a show designed to gain Senators and Congressmen your votes. We have seen enough of these Congressional dog and pony shows to know that they are all shams. This one will be even more of a joke than those of steroids in sports. I don't recall any of the companies that produce steroids even being invited to testify. Do You? The Federal legislature is the joke of the world now. Drug cartels and organized crime do businesses like fast food restaurants here. Corporations simply ignore them and it is time we did too.
Dear Mr Bing: Bravo! Dream big for Detroit. I know you are, but even bigger, Look inside look outside. In colonial times there wasn't much money and most people made their way by doing what they knew how to do or what they learned how to do. I think every city, county, and state should find a path by remembering those days. By the way, you are starting to look a bit like Jimmy. You have people who have lost their jobs and are going to lose their houses. Educated people. It's time to forget about about teaching degrees, unions, and school budgets. What you need' is to take the tutoring plan and make it massive. Trade with people for their skills. Make people independent contractors and work out a way to keep them in their houses if they will agree to tutor kids. From the looks of things you need bodies more than buildings. Of course you have to monitor things, so use your teachers, to make teachers out of them. Then have them monitor a small group of kids to make sure they are succeeding. With 200 Million dollars I could educate everyone of your kids. I am not applying for the job though. Yes advice is like ___holes everyone has some. Saving a city is flying by the seat of your pants, which is politically unwise. It's time cities, states and, counties got over what is paralyzing them. Politics and money! If there is a study that can be done a politician will do it. It makes no sense to spend a million of dollars studying something rather than fixing them. A study is just a way of covering there you know what, so they have someone else to blame. Building structures that are going to be torn up the day after they open is a waste of cash. Who says a school has to be built from scratch? The one thing kids want is to be safe. Schools used to be fairly safe, but it was not because they had 10 million dollars in security equipment. We traded hall monitors for cameras that can't react when the need arises. Cameras are a good tool, but they are not a replacement for people. Forget the teaching certificate, get honest, caring people into the halls. It's not about how much you can spend. It is about getting good results. Teacher's unions have all copped out to the attitude that inner city kids are, so crippled by their circumstances that they are likely to fail. Starting with the attitude that you will fail is a formula for failure. Imagine if I built planes and told people that: Due to the poor manufacturing process, they were more likely to crash, but that has to be accepted. The goal is the outcome. Giving kids safe nurturing, environments, that build their self esteem can help get you to that goal. The schools are not the answer to pitching campaigns for every social ill. Education is about teaching kids how to make good choices, not what choices to make. Some how we have gotten to the point where we want to control everything about the people in our community. Unfortunately, people will not allow themselves to be fit into a round hole. Our country has always had problems, but we always tried to teach people respect and civics. When that ended all hell broke loose. Personally I think that America has to many anal retentive people. Those people spend so much time looking for things they don't like, that their whole life is spent trying to end those things. They have no clue of what life could be like if they took advantage of what was around them. The whole thing leads them to become nomads that are focused on when and where they can move to escape their latest pet peeve. In the mean time their kids are trying to run from them, because they want peace and stability. The point of this is, that, we must stop running and start facing problems. If you have no cops and no money, go to a city, county, or state, where they have cops and ask them to volunteer some time. They are a brotherhood, so they should want to travel to help out. Firemen too. Then ask yours to help them. There is no more money. A 100,000 became a million, and a million became ten million and so on. Politicians wan to throw money at everything. We can't fix it, so we'll spend our last penny to hide it. Now, the public expects money to fall like rain every time we hit a bump. Well the drought has finally come. We have to go back to resolving issues now. We must think outside the box we've put ourselves into. We have to stop watching propaganda from big money and fix the problems that have destroyed our cities. We have to do it block by block. We have to do it face to face. I know you know this. It's more preaching to the choir, but it's time to take out the middle men and get our hands dirty. Hands on problem solving. No one knows where to cut. Well, cut the advertising money. Stop spending money to pass laws that already exist. Stop trying to stop your neighbors from smoking by screaming at them day and night through the air waves. Stop spending money on any ad that caters to special interests of any kind. You don't have it. Change starts by changing yourself. If your not willing to practice what you preach, change is not going to come. You may not smoke, but you may be in need of exercise. You maybe thin, but your spending a thousand dollars a year on bottled water, which goes to the landfill. Leave your neighbors alone and stop sending ads out to tell them they have bad breath or hairy legs. Walk over to them and introduce yourself. Maybe you should actually get to know them. Maybe you will find that you have things in common and not all bad things. Ask your neighbor to plant bushes to hide that old rusting car. Better yet, plant bushes yourself. I know it's not all this simple. I also know that we do not talk to each other or listen to each other. We talk at people. Blah, Blah, Blah. Saturated fats will kill you, so were not letting you use them. Air pollution doesn't exist and it's all the smokers fault that we get sick. Your kids to fat. Come to the anorexia clinic or we will drag you their in chains. Gingivitis offends me. Enough! If 5 ads a week don't get it, 50 won't either. The only thing your accomplishing is; making yourself feel better. "Land of The Free" people. You keep swinging Dave, because your going to hit a home run eventually. In the mean time advance the runners. I guess that's like making your free throws in basketball or a lay up.
Butler played it's heart out, but Duke's physicality won the game. It was not so much a loss for Butler as it was a matter of being mugged. Duke threw players to the ground over and over with no call. They tried to take Hayward out in what at the best was a flagrant foul, which was just plain dirty. Of course it wasn't called flagrant.The NCAA Tournament was marked this year by flat out dirty play and a lack of officiating. The talent level of the teams that played in the tournament was mediocre. No player is going to stay more than one year when they see serious injuries occur throughout the year. The NCAA is going to decline continuously, simply because, players are not going to risk career ending injuries to make money for the schools and The NCAA.I have been a fan of basketball for forty years and I had the honor to help coach young kids. During that time we stressed fair play, safety, and the development of skills and integrity. Basketball is a game. Kids play for the sheer love of the game for years before high school and college. They learn team work and strategy as well as critical thinking skills. It is sad to see such a wonderful sport decline. The injury to Da'shaun Butler was inevitable. When a team gets a pass on the brutality of it's tactics, it is bound to end with a catastrophic injury. It was just sad that it happened to a probable NBA first round draft pick, so that a team could win a tournament, no matter how important.I find it terribly sad that 18 year old kids are at such risk. These kids are student athletes and it seems that some coaches are ignorant of that. Jim Boeheim knew that the odds against winning the tournament had declined with Onaouku's injury, but he held him out to his credit, to protect him from further injury. Commentators concentrated on the fact that the team had lost a key player instead of emphasizing the concern that Boeheim had for his player. More coaches should take that kind of attitude toward their players. The kids want playng time and many times that leads them to play with injuries. It is up to the coach to put the players health before their win loss record.I am not angry. Rather, deeply saddened by the indifference that exist toward their health in the distant future. Coach K is driven to win and his lack of concern for the health of all the players was captured in the tape of Da' Shaun Butler writhing in agony on the floor Saturday night. Letting his players loose game after game to physically pound on opposing teams with no regard to safety is a sad example of all that is bad about college basketball and the low that officiating has hit. Without the complicity of the officials that kind of environment would not exist.Myoungatheart5, The hidden news, Apr 2010
Butler played it's heart out, but Duke's physicality won the game. It was not so much a loss for Butler as it was a matter of being mugged. Duke threw players to the ground over and over with no call. They tried to take Hayward out in what at the best was a flagrant foul, which was just plain dirty. Of course it wasn't called flagrant. The NCAA Tournament was marked this year by flat out dirty play and a lack of officiating. The talent level of the teams that played in the tournament was mediocre. No player is going to stay more than one year when they see serious injuries occur throughout the year. The NCAA is going to decline continuously, simply because, players are not going to risk career ending injuries to make money for the schools and The NCAA. I have been a fan of basketball for forty years and I had the honor to help coach young kids. During that time we stressed fair play, safety, and the development of skills and integrity. Basketball is a game. Kids play for the sheer love of the game for years before high school and college. They learn team work and strategy as well as critical thinking skills. It is sad to see such a wonderful sport decline. The injury to Da'shaun Butler was inevitable. When a team gets a pass on the brutality of it's tactics, it is bound to end with a catastrophic injury. It was just sad that it happened to a probable NBA first round draft pick, so that a team could win a tournament, no matter how important. I find it terribly sad that 18 year old kids are at such risk. These kids are student athletes and it seems that some coaches are ignorant of that. Jim Boeheim knew that the odds against winning the tournament had declined with Onaouku's injury, but he held him out to his credit, to protect him from further injury. Commentators concentrated on the fact that the team had lost a key player instead of emphasizing the concern that Boeheim had for his player. More coaches should take that kind of attitude toward their players. The kids want playng time and many times that leads them to play with injuries. It is up to the coach to put the players health before their win loss record. I am not angry. Rather, deeply saddened by the indifference that exist toward their health in the distant future. Coach K is driven to win and his lack of concern for the health of all the players was captured in the tape of Da' Shaun Butler writhing in agony on the floor Saturday night. Letting his players loose game after game to physically pound on opposing teams with no regard to safety is a sad example of all that is bad about college basketball and the low that officiating has hit. Without the complicity of the officials that kind of environment would not exist.
China has declared war on the U.S. This war may seem to be an economic war, but it is really a secret war designed to bring the U.S. to it's economic knees and take control of our government. Russia and China took different paths in Carl Marx ideology. The Russians saw communism as a beginning for it's ideology, which was renamed socialism. Socialism was political and economical ideology that allowed for political leaders and members of it's communist party to be above average citizens. They believed that people were not equal. The Soviet Union became more of an empire. This was completely contrary to the beliefs of Carl Marx, who believed that everyone deserved to prosper equally with each other. The Russians backed the Chinese Communists, but when the Chinese communists gained power they turned their backs on The Soviet Union. This snub is the basis for the hatred that exist between Russia and China. The Soviet Union backed the Chinese Revolution, because it wanted to control all of Asia and the parts of Europe that it controlled already. The paranoia of The Soviet Union was all consuming. They saw their situation as them against the world and they wanted China to go communist to solidify their security. China took a different approach to communism at first. They believed literally in Carl Marx vision of society and they sought to construct the grand society. A society that was truly equal from top to bottom. Of course this was a total failure, but their goal was to take over all of Asia because they believed that all Asians were linked to them through blood. This, they thought gave them the right to take over every country that had people of Asians descent. This put them directly at odds with the Soviet Union, which was trying to spread socialism through out those same countries. This is why China and Russia have nukes pointed at each other. Flash forward. The U.S. and Russia agree to cooperate with each other in key areas after the fall of the Soviet Union. This causes ramped paranoia within the Chinese Government, because it is now facing the two most powerful countries in the world and they are both enemies. It was at this point that China opened it's economic doors to The United States in order to turn Russia and The united States against each other, so that it would not be facing two great enemies. For China, the period in which the U.S. and The Soviet Union were at the brink of war, was a time when they enjoyed the most politically secure times since it's transformation into a communist state. With Russia and the U.S. cooperating China felt threatened and decided to drive a wedge between The U.S. and Russia by luring American businesses into business partnerships. This was highly successful, but China's aim was not just to divide The U.S and Russia, but to destroy America. Over the past two decades China has done everything possible to sabotage American businesses. The government controlled businesses in China have peddle poison to our children and dangerous products to our people. Chinese backed companies are buying into every market in the world in an effort to control them, so it can bring the U.S. to it's knees by eliminating all the markets the U.S. has. It has manipulated it's currency, so that it's money is becoming more attractive than the dollar. It wants the dollar to be eliminated as the worlds currency and in, what is a transparent plow, it has asked that a new monetary unit be created. However, what is clear, is that China wants all the world to do business in the currency that it controls. China is waging a not so secret war to destroy the economy of the United States and turn The U.S. into a paper tiger. All muscle, but no clout. When that day happens China will have won and it will dictate to the United States what it may and may not do. It will control the U.S. Government and dictate it's foreign and domestic politics.
Duke forces teams to guard useless players like Zoubek. The way to beat them is to guard the three point line and force Shcheyer and Singlar to shoot off the dribble. Singlar can barely hit the rim off the dribble from outside. Next Zoubeks is no threat to shoot when he is more than 5 feet away from the basket, so let him run around all he wants. Keep your bigs under the basket. Next when Duke's big body up let them knock you into an official or two. You can also fly into another Duke player when they cross block you. If Duke get's physical, take every opportunity to subtley give them a shot while the ref is not looking. If you can't do that step in when they are at full speed, so that they hit you and go flying. Next every time one of your guys gets hit point at them and look at the ref. Nolan Smith can shoot off the dribble, so force him to shoot twos.
In what I can only characterize as the dirtiest game ever. Duke brutalized West Virginia. During the game Zoubek "the enforcer" nearly cross blocked West Virginia players. In one case two West Virginia players hit the floor and the refs blew a foul on West Virginia. West Virginias point guard had to leave the game in the first five minuts, because of an injury. After reentering the game, he was forced to again to comeout after his uniform was torn off his back. He reentered the game again, but he didn't stand a chance against the physical beating that Duke put on him.With ten minutes left Duke who had fouled their way to a lead of ten points took out Deshaun Butler, an award winning player for West Virginia. Ironically as Butler writhed on the floor in agony. The refs called the foul on West Virginia. With Butler writhing in pain and in tears Huggins turned to an official and made the comment that summed the game. He said, "and they don't foul" meaning Duke. There has been no imformation released on Butler's injury but his leg dragged lifelessly behind him as he was carried off the court. The speculation is that the injury he sufferd may end his basketball carreer.CBS sportscommentators swallowed their tongues during the game. Anyone watching could see the pounding that was being put on West Virginia's players, but they made no mention of it. Instead they praised Duke after the game for playing their best game this year. In the 40 years I have watched basketball I have never seen a more brutal and punishing game on any schools part. I watch the Big East which is arguably the most physical league in college basketball and I have never witnessed this level of violence. It is completely disgraceful that CBS commentators did not express conceern for the players on West Virginia as they were taking the pounding that culminated in Butler's injury. In an effort to protect his team from further injury Huggins seemed to have told his team to back off, fearing injuries to other players.Duke Sited team work as thei key to their success. They sure would be handy in a bar fight.Myoungatheart5, The hidden news, Apr 2010
In what I can only characterize as the dirtiest game ever. Duke brutalized West Virginia. During the game Zoubek "the enforcer" nearly cross blocked West Virginia players. In one case two West Virginia players hit the floor and the refs blew a foul on West Virginia. West Virginias point guard had to leave the game in the first five minuts, because of an injury. After reentering the game, he was forced to again to comeout after his uniform was torn off his back. He reentered the game again, but he didn't stand a chance against the physical beating that Duke put on him. With ten minutes left Duke who had fouled their way to a lead of ten points took out Deshaun Butler, an award winning player for West Virginia. Ironically as Butler writhed on the floor in agony. The refs called the foul on West Virginia. With Butler writhing in pain and in tears Huggins turned to an official and made the comment that summed the game. He said, "and they don't foul" meaning Duke. There has been no imformation released on Butler's injury but his leg dragged lifelessly behind him as he was carried off the court. The speculation is that the injury he sufferd may end his basketball carreer. CBS sportscommentators swallowed their tongues during the game. Anyone watching could see the pounding that was being put on West Virginia's players, but they made no mention of it. Instead they praised Duke after the game for playing their best game this year. In the 40 years I have watched basketball I have never seen a more brutal and punishing game on any schools part. I watch the Big East which is arguably the most physical league in college basketball and I have never witnessed this level of violence. It is completely disgraceful that CBS commentators did not express conceern for the players on West Virginia as they were taking the pounding that culminated in Butler's injury. In an effort to protect his team from further injury Huggins seemed to have told his team to back off, fearing injuries to other players. Duke Sited team work as thei key to their success. They sure would be handy in a bar fight.
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