DixieDestroyer
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Yes! The all-negro Kentucky empire is dead at the hands of 4/5 white Wisconsin!!!
Like last week, Dekker's step-back 3 was the dagger!
WPWW!!!!
Yes! The all-negro Kentucky empire is dead at the hands of 4/5 white Wisconsin!!!
Like last week, Dekker's step-back 3 was the dagger!
The main difference is that the media had already established Duke as a hated entity, while Wisconsin is, well, Wisconsin. It certainly makes for an interesting championship game. In the eyes of the media, which team will be the "hated" team? Mostly black Duke or the cracka-laden Badgers??Duke had white friendly teams back in the early 90s that defeated coal black teams but that did not change the mindset of the average fan.
The main difference is that the media had already established Duke as a hated entity, while Wisconsin is, well, Wisconsin. It certainly makes for an interesting championship game. In the eyes of the media, which team will be the "hated" team? Mostly black Duke or the cracka-laden Badgers??
I count 5 bruthas on Wisconsin. Sorry for my ignorance, how many whites does Wisconsin start? Is it 4? Get Al Sharpton, this is a hate crime. How many does Duke start?
Yep! Wisconsin starts 4 whites. Duke starts exactly 0. But they do give Marshall Plumlee and Grayson Allen time off the bench, which will probably be about 10 combined minutes tonight.
This AP piece about tonight's game, no author listed, calls the Badgers "fun-loving" as it spends the first 80 percent of the article focused on Duke. When Wisconsin is finally mentioned again, they are called "lovable goofballs." If they beat Duke maybe they'll graduate to being described as "overachieving peckerheads."
http://triblive.com/sports/nationworldsports/8113216-74/game-wisconsin-title#axzz3WYpXDHdh
For over 40 years the way for a white athlete to be popular with the press was to be a "free spirit" or as in this case a "fun-loving lovable goofball" or something in that vein.
Tonight the Duke basketball team may have fans they never had before. Why? The makeup of their opponent along with this year's starting lineup..
Grayson Allen looking pretty good for Duke. Drives to the basket really well.
I wonder about the racial consciousness across Grayson Allen's family. He likely grew up idolizing the unpopular players throughout Duke history - a towering list of scrappy, lunchpail whites. There's no way he or his parents expected him to be spelling five "talented" underclassmen negroes off the bench, even as a mere freshman five-star recruit who could punch his own ticket into every single university in the country. Do you think he has some wise-cracking cousins who bust his chops about finally rooting for the other team? Does his father ever sour at the sudden, extreme demotion and launch off into a tirade, or might he just bottle it up?
Deathbed confessions if at all (dat downside).
Bill Raftery makes Dick Vitale seem like a calm, rational, human being. What a doofus. Is there a chance he might die or something before this is over?
Grayson Allen looking pretty good for Duke. Drives to the basket really well.
Jackson typifies black inconsistency. He's made two nice plays so far and three bad ones. . .