Barking Carnival

Texas is in negotiations with North Carolina for a 4-game series, that would start with a game Jerry Jones’ new stadium in Arlington.
The series would be set up where two games would be played at major sites off campus for each school and then have a another game on each others campus.
Jones is bidding for […]

Evidently the Kansas Jayhawks remembered the Alamo. Okay, probably not, but they remembered Memphis’ poor foul shooting. In a championship gaffe that ranks up with Jean Van de Velde choking away the British Open, the Houston Oilers blowing a 4 TD lead in the second half of a playoff game, and the Houston […]

1) Look for Sherrod Collins to play a bunch alongside Chalmers and Rush on the perimeter. Robinson has been a great role playing guard, but against Memphis’ perimeter pressuring M2M, you have to be able to drive the basketball and Collins, Rush, and Chalmers give the Jayhawks the best opportunity to do so. […]

Memphis vs. UCLA
Josh Shipp and Russell Westbrook’s size. Kevin Love’s interior presence. These were supposed to be the antidotes for the size and length of Memphis’ backcourt offensively and smothering perimeter personnel defensively. Well, scrap that. The UCLA Bruins would have had a better chance winning Saturday night if they ran […]

Here at the Carnival, we’re coached to accentuate and draw attention to those predictions that we happen to be dead-on-balls accurate about. When we’re wrong we change the subject, obfuscate, or write about film. I didn’t get the memo on writing about being dumped but damn that’s entertaining shit any way you slice […]