In this iteration of fans disgracing their teams, an Alabama Crimson Tide basketball A fan showed up to the SEC tournament on Saturday wearing a T-shirt with GOATS on the front and “Killin’ our way through the SEC in ’22” on the back.
I get the mules coming back, but this takes the party up front, the sleaze out back to a whole new level. If you don’t know why it’s so heinous, there’s an open investigation into a capital murderand former Tide player Darius Miles and his friend Michael Davis were indicted by a grand jury.
Brandon Miller, Bama’s top player and a projected lottery pick, and teammate Jaden Bradley were questioned as witnesses in the case which LEFT Jamea Jonae Harris, 23 dead. The university hasn’t sat either player for a game, and Tide head coach Nate Oats could also join the defense team. Through his lawyer, Miller denied all previous the knowledge of or involvement in shooting.
However, this group from Alabama is really good, and not just for Alabama. They beat Missouri on Saturday to advance to the SEC title game, and will have a near-locked-in 1 seed with a win on Sunday. (And probably without.)
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Yet this adult fan/adult fool thought it would be hysterical to be This guys. You know the one who cracks an inappropriate joke right after someone dies, then laughs it off when the joke isn’t funny or clever. The worst thing about the shirt is its insensitivity to the grieving family, and in a distant second is that the joke was bogus.
It’s in the same vein as the Cleveland Browns idiots who welcomed Deshaun Watson with a rape jokeor Tiger Woods give a tampon to Justin Thomas after passing it. I’m sure a few Southern sons are calling the backlash a cancel culture, and I’d like to be the first to congratulate them. Because, yeah, it’s cancel culture, and that goddamn visor deserves to be shredded by internet sleuths.
According to AL.comSEC chiefs know the shirts well:
SEC spokesman Herb Vincent told AL.com that fans will not be allowed into Bridgestone Arena with the shirts on Sunday and that if fans put them on at any time inside the arena, they would be asked to leave. The SEC’s fan ticket policy states that tickets are revocable if “the user is disruptive, endangers others, or uses vulgar, threatening, or degrading language.”
Arizona, Texas and Duke claim home conference tournament titles
March Madness is just around the corner, so it’s time to start taking trend inventory right now. So, let’s do an extremely quick recap of the Power Five conferences that held title matches on Saturday.
- Texas beat Kansas by 20, 76-56, but Jayhawk coach Bill Self missed the game as he was out with an undisclosed medical procedure since the day before the quarter-finals. He is expected to be back for the tournament, and the Longhorns are projected as the 2 seed.
- Duke survived Virginia to win the ACC Tournament in a game that didn’t give any of the fans a ton of optimism for the Big Dance. It was 24-17 at the break, and there were several streaks early in the second half when neither club managed a shot or free throw. It was Blue Devil coach Jon Scheyer’s first appearance (and victory) in an ACC tournament, and he has his guys on a nine-game winning streak before the madness.
- UCLA led Arizona by no less than eight in the second half but couldn’t hold off the Wildcats. Neither club could create a separation in the final 10 minutes after Arizona pulled one back. It was Zona’s Courtney Ramey who played the hero, hitting a three with 18 ticks remaining to give her team a two-point lead. After both teams 1 for 2 to the boards, Bruin Dylan Andrews had an open look behind the arc for a game-winner, but the shot was a bit wide and the Wildcats won their second straight Pac-12 tournament.