Reader letter

UK dooming college basketball?

I watched the Louisville-Kentucky game Saturday and came away with the perception that I had not witnessed basketball as I know it should be played. This is the only Kentucky game I saw this season. One team smothered its opponent, not randomly, but totally.

My belief is that Kentucky's coach has planned, through recruitment and coaching tactics, to build a program that smothers and bullies opponents rather than play basketball the way it should be played.

Inevitably, this corruption of college basketball will doom the sport at the college level. No team wants to play that kind of program. I don't understand how Kentucky's players tolerate the loss of athletic play in their present up-and-down routine where true competition is never achieved.

The NCAA should reject this corrupted play before other schools reject submitting their programs to participate.

MICHAEL CASSARO

Emeritus Professor –

University of Louisville –

Louisville 40207 –





Jones' Oscar-worthy acting

Did Chris Jones meet with Jennifer Lawrence prior to the game on Saturday? Just asking!

MARYANN CARNEY

Memphis, Ind. 47143 –





Video: Chris Jones flops during UK game







