I wrote two entries last week.  Each of them was a long one.  They both took hours to finish (because I'm easily distracted.)  Both of them were Pulitzer Prize material.  Both of them disappeared when I hit the "Publish" button and was told to log in again.

I had a fun, but tiring weekend of UK sports over the weekend.  Friday night (technically Saturday morning,) I watched the UK hockey team play Kennesaw State University.  The game started at midnight, so it was technically the Halloween game.  They did a costume contest and gave away t-shirts.  Kentucky won 10-2, and I saw one of the UK players score not just a hat trick, but later tack on a fourth goal.  There was also a pretty good fight with just a couple of minutes left in the game.  Being there reminded me of going to the Frozen Four in 2005.  At the Frozen Four, I was sitting right behind the bench.  Not only was the action on the ice up close, but you could smell the stink of the players.  In Lexington, the stands are only opposite the benches, and they only seat a couple hundred people.  (Kentucky has a club hockey team, not D-I.)  The place was still loud and nobody sat down unless it was intermission.  Once again, I was sitting... okay, standing... close enough to smell the players skating by.  Yes, hockey players stink.  They smell horrible.  It's actually probably even more that their gear reeks.  Still, you really feel like you're at the game when you can smell it.  If you don't believe me, go watch a minor league team play.  The tickets should be cheap enough that you can actually afford to get seats on the ice.

Anyway, after arriving at home at 4:30 in the morning, I got a couple of hours of sleep before getting up and getting ready to head back to Lexington for a UK football game that did not go so excellently.  Kentucky ended up losing by 7.  I don't have a huge problem when the team loses a close game.  That's probably from cheering on years and years of bad UK and Bengals football teams.  Some of the game decisions have furthered my belief that the coach is either an idiot or a jack@$$.  (hmmm... Maybe I should have chosen better editing symbols.)  I can't believe that Brooks would actually say after the game last week that a running back isn't the type of player who can play every down in a game.  The guy is only 175 pounds and would get creamed by the defensive line if he did.  That's all paraphrased, but very true.  This week, Brooks played that back on half the plays in the first half, until he was injured, and then on nearly every play in the second half.  In the post game interview, Brooks said that he thinks he "tore" something in his knee again that he had needed surgery to repair during the off-season.  I can't for the life of me understand how a coach can say a player is not an every down player, which I agree with, one week, and then the next week after what he believes is a substantial injury, go on to play him on every down.  Would I feel differently if UK had won?  I seriously doubt it.  I'd rather have UK lose by 30 than see one of the players unnecessarily risk an injury that could affect him for the rest of his life.

Sunday, I caught up on sleep.  Thank you, time change!