dukehester (anonymous) says...

so much for 'socialism at its best'.......i think 'Hawks to EE losing to Louisville.

March 18, 2009 at 1:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

who really gives a rats ass, dont recall putinng President Bush's bracket on here. lets leave the obama mania to cbs, abc,cnnand msnbc, please.

March 18, 2009 at 1:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jwliddell (anonymous) says...

jh34... shut up

March 18, 2009 at 1:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

typical liberal.....ever heard of free speech? of course as long as i dont say something you dont like, again typical kool-aid obama-clinton drinker

March 18, 2009 at 1:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

JayJayPG (anonymous) says...

Did anyone see Steve Lavin's bracket? He has Texas in the Final Four.

March 18, 2009 at 1:49 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

d_prowess (anonymous) says...

Yeah, it would be much better to just bury our heads in the sand and ignore the person that was elected to run this country.
And I know this is a sports site, but it is a sports story!

March 18, 2009 at 1:59 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayharchitect (anonymous) says...

I thought it was funny he put Missou... instead of Mizzou... show's he doesn't pay attention and/or care about them!

March 18, 2009 at 2:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

my only point was we get enough of obama mania on tv, magazines, radio...ect. i come to this website to get info on my jayhawks. its just gettin old real fast. i cancelled my subscription to sports ill., that i have had since high school, because of the constant obama stories totally un-sports related. yes this was sports related, but still i ask the question, wy didnt they post President Bush's. if youre honest intelectually you would understand my question, without being sarcastic, or like that liberal egghead said, "shut up".

March 18, 2009 at 2:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jmills3 (anonymous) says...

Obama is a better speller than those MU folk...

March 18, 2009 at 2:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

JayViking (anonymous) says...

Someone sounds really bitter about the election.

March 18, 2009 at 2:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

hawkitup (anonymous) says...

Actually, I hear Obama wants to re-distribute the points from the higher scoring teams to the lower scoring teams...so everyone wins! hahaha.... =)

March 18, 2009 at 2:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

now thats funny.oh and "shut up" hawkit up, lol.....

March 18, 2009 at 2:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

rockchalk80 (anonymous) says...

heh heh heh heh... so when one team hits a 3 pointer...everyone gets an equal share?...and I thought Obama liked Kansas.

March 18, 2009 at 2:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

klong (anonymous) says...

I hear ya jayhawkr34! I have never heard any past presidents views on sports so much. I'm sure about every other pres. does that stuff too, but the media just loves Hussein Obama sooo much that if he has a paper cut it will be hands across america for him.

March 18, 2009 at 3:32 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

JayViking (anonymous) says...

Lots of Q_Q in here

March 18, 2009 at 3:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cklarock (anonymous) says...

Did Bush ever fill out a bracket? I've been hearing about Obama's love for hoops since I started hearing about him as a candidate. I know Bush attended some Baylor games, and that was pretty well covered.

If the President shares his bracket, it's (fluff) sports news.

Hopefully, Sherron and Cole will get to meet two presidents during their college career.

I know that Osama Bin Laden picked Mizzou to upset West Virginia in the NC game, but the crappy cave video was too fuzzy to make out the rest of his bracket.

March 18, 2009 at 4:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Eurekahwk (anonymous) says...

How can you be a Jayhawk and not a liberal? After all Lawrence is the counterculture mecca of the great plains. It is the most free thinking town, the only free thinking town in all of Kansas.

March 18, 2009 at 5:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkdandy (anonymous) says...

Congrats Eurekahwk, you get the award for idiot poster of the day. Most KU fans don't live in Lawrence, and considering how red the state is, I would assume more fans are conservative than liberal. Kansas City Kansas is also politically blue, if that's what free thinking is, then you can have it. What a dump. Also hawk is spelled h-A-w-k, apparently your free thinking doesn't involve vowels. Idiot

Being a Jayhawk isn't about political affiliation. It's about rooting for the best university in the nation.

March 18, 2009 at 6:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

hawkman1031 (anonymous) says...

One more time. The President, whoever he may be, should stick to official business. God knows there is way too much of it to tend to. I don't want to hear one more thing about what any politician, especially a president, thinks about college football playoffs, college bball playoffs, etc. The world can laugh about what our president takes time to make public. He should be presidential, not Vitalential.
I don't care whether Lawrence is free-thinking, liberal, conservative, as long as we try to remain a free democracy. I don't care what the pres thinks about basketball. I care what he thinks about Osama. Get the point? And being a Jayhawk is not about being a liberal, I'm sorry to say, mr. eureka. take politics to political boards, not here. All I want to know is whether you are a Jayhawk... or a slimey tiger lily.
By the way, I think the counter-cluture happened about 40 years ago...
When I went to the orange bowl and the final four, I didn't give a hoot whether you were pro-this or contra-that... just whether you were the right blue. It is ludicrous to suggest KU is full of liberals anyway. I think our business school provides many graduates for the business world, and for whatever makes it work. I'm not certain liberal ideas get that done, but regardless, doesn't matter much when Cole is dunking on their head!

March 18, 2009 at 7:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkr34 (anonymous) says...

i laugh at what liberals call "free thinking", i go back to my orinal comment about obama and that liberal told me to "shut up", is that infringing on my free thinking, or what?

March 18, 2009 at 7:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cshjhawk (anonymous) says...

I thought that this was a sport's website.

March 18, 2009 at 7:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

summers (anonymous) says...

Free to be You and Me, as long as you are like me... Rock Chalk Jayhawk, KU!!!!!

March 18, 2009 at 7:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cshjhawk (anonymous) says...

Folks...This is a sport's blog....not Politico!

March 18, 2009 at 7:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

cshjhawk (anonymous) says...

There's an article on Collins on ESPN website
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/...

March 18, 2009 at 8:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

mizzousucks89 (anonymous) says...

Dang Jayhawk Dandy, you make it seem that you haven't been to Lawrence at all, and if you have you would understand what he meant by free thinking right off the bat, and and another part where you're incorrect pretty much all of the conservatives are K-state fans.

And about 97% of L-town is Crimson and Blue

And his name is obviously short for Eureka Hawk

So don't call people idiot, idiot.

March 18, 2009 at 8:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawkdandy (anonymous) says...

Mizzousucks, I lived in Lawrence & Eudora for 9 years until this January. I received my doctorate from KU also. But you're right, I dont know anything about it. I lived in a bubble.

Being a freak on Mass Street doesn't get an automatic classification for Free Thinking.

Do you have data to support that pretty much all of the conservatives are K-state fans?

I now live in a fairly conservative county now, but there are lots of KU fans who are politically conservative as well as liberal folks who are huge K-state backers. My point, it doesn't matter what political persuasion you are, if you're a Jayhawk, you're good enough for me.

So you're good enough for me too, idiot.

March 18, 2009 at 8:56 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

njjayhawk (anonymous) says...

Who does Vladimir Putin have winning the NCAA tourney this year?

March 18, 2009 at 9:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

hawk07 (anonymous) says...

Sorry to keep this going but...

There were a LOT more conservatives at KU (thank God) than I had expected when I arrived there, given the reputation of Lawrence, at least among political science students. Not that it matters anyway. It is just ignorant to make the assumption that because Lawrence has hippies, everyone is liberal. Is everyone in Kansas a Jayhawk? Somehow, no.

Back on topic, which is SPORTS, he gets a lot of attention because he has demanded it, even during the campaign he was complaining about a playoff in college football. The media is all over him, sure, but HE gave THEM the bracket to print. What is wrong with that?

March 18, 2009 at 9:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

kik1958 (anonymous) says...

Is Kansas a state in the U.S.S.A. ?? (United States of Socialists America)........for those liberals that failed to get an education in liberal Lawrence.

March 18, 2009 at 9:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

memhawk (anonymous) says...

njjayhawk-

I heard that Putin and the octuplets mom were seen filling out brackets together.

March 18, 2009 at 10:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

milwaukeeJAYHAWK (anonymous) says...

I remember quite often hearing about Bush's sports interests....

1. He owned the Texas Rangers, and rooted for them often.

2. He's a Texas Longhorns fan, and did the hook 'em horns sign once with his daughter, and people in Europe were like "WTF!" because that's the satan symbol there. Haha.

3. Bush often liked to relax and watch a ball game here and there. Like that time he choked on the pretzel, he was watching sports.

so yeah.....every president has some sort of non-political coverage. not a big deal whether you like the person or not, who cares?

March 18, 2009 at 10:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

drgnslayr (anonymous) says...

Bush's Final Four dream:

1. Texas
2. Baylor
3. Texas Tech
4. Univ. of Haliburton

March 19, 2009 at 3:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

RockChalkGumbyHawk (anonymous) says...

Obama's in a bit of a quandry. He built massive support by extremely over-exaggerating how bad the economy is and likened it to the Great Depression (under 10% unemployment in no way compares to over 30%!), but now consumer confidence is SO LOW that he has to find something he can take credit for to try to build the confidence back that he himself eroded! (I know the economy as a whole stinks now and many people are hurting from it- that's not my point...it's that it was grossly exaggerated).

Also- KU losing to Michigan State? Wow...does he not know how mediocre the Big Ten is this year?

Having lived in Lawrence, I would agree there were a lot of free-thinkers...they delivered pizza to my apartment every week! (that's a joke...don't take it seriously!)

Hawkitup- that 'redistribution of points' was the funniest comment I've read in awhile...good one!

March 19, 2009 at 8:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jayhawk_sean (anonymous) says...

I'm a KU fan...

I'm conservative...

I could give a funk or wagnell about who Obama picks...

It takes like 10 minutes to fill out a bracket, but obviously by the article, it might have taken him 12 minutes....

The redistribution of points was hilarious...

I'll shut up now.

March 19, 2009 at 9:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

klong (anonymous) says...

I heard Obama had a cold today so we are going to fly the flag at half staff on Friday. Poor muslim! :(

March 19, 2009 at 10:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

milwaukeeJAYHAWK (anonymous) says...

So.....

You Jayhawks are letting politics divide you? Laaaaame. If you were all in a bar with KU shirts you'd be buddy-buddy with each other, but it's all anonymous so everyone lets loose like crazy and really dumbs down these boards.

I'm pretty "liberal" on some issues (am non-religious, am concerned about the environment, can't stand the "Religious Right") and "conservative" on others (not a fan of taxes per se, don't think guns should be banned, am against Spanish as a second language). Does that really matter on these boards though?

But does it all really matter? We're Jayhawks here. Why doesn't everyone just drift over to other articles and talk about other stuff besides Obama being a Muslim or socialist (unoriginal and overused comments) or Bush being a Nazi (equally stupid).

I'd rather everyone debate about Cole Aldrich's intensity, Coach Self's recruiting, KU's tourney prospects, or something vaguely resembling kusports.

March 20, 2009 at 2:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

klong (anonymous) says...

Good point miljay! I think we all just get a little carried away when it comes to politics. I am ready for some games today! I took the day off so I can soak it ALL in!

March 20, 2009 at 9:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

milwaukeeJAYHAWK (anonymous) says...

yeah, politics can really get everyone's blood boiling, it's easy to drift off into it. I just think we need to focus our hate on Mizzou and K-State!

THAT we can all agree on.

March 20, 2009 at 10:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

blabylon (anonymous) says...

First off, how are all y'all "conservatives" enjoying the second "Republican Great Depression?" Kinda sucks seeing all the new "Bushville" homeless encampments wherever you go. But to sports, which is why we're here; Obama was and is a basketball player. Bush was and is a cheerleader and mass murderer. That Obama didn't pick KU to win it all last year and go further in the tourney this year is sad since his Mama was a Kansan like mine was. Too long in Chicago I guess. My best guess as to how the "Shrub" would have filled out his brackets is that his crayon broke before he finished the first round, he started crying and Laura and uncle Dick had to put him down for a nap so he never finished it. When he got up, he had a cookie and went for a bike ride. Fascinating man, that!

March 21, 2009 at 12:23 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )