@kjayhawks2.0 I can't rewatch those painful losses. 86, 03, when the refs tried to help us!, and 2015 which is just about my favorite single college team ever.

Upon my morning perusings on the WWW I've had occasion to become all outraged again over the Duke Whistle. From our viewpoint it started at the Final Four in 1986 and our great team had the chance to win a title stolen by a 26-14 foul count against Duke. It's only been 40 years! I think the soothing memory of '88 helps, but it still stings.

In 1991 we played Duke in the final and while it maybe doesn't sting as much because that wasn't our greatest team, Duke did shoot 28 FTs while we shot 8 in that game. To be fair, we played Duke also in the 88 FF and refs called 19 on them and 16 on us, but they shot more FTs than we did.

In the 1992 Final Four Indiana played defending champ Duke. Duke was the favorite but needed a boost of 4 IU guys fouling out and a 5th having 4. 33-18 was the foul count plus a tech against Bobby Knight from Teddy valentine. Early in the 2nd half IU star Damon Bailey was whistled twice in 4 seconds giving him 4 fouls. Then he got hammered on a layup and no call. Ted was standing right next to knight, some say on purpose, and when the bench jumped up Bob got nailed. Duke wins by 3 while shooting 42 FTs compared to IU's paltry total of 16. No bueno.

It's still too soon to talk 2015 from my unique perspective, but that was pretty bad as well.

The strange thing to me is I've never disliked Duke players. Maybe it's the ivy league nature of that school, maybe their admission standards are higher than many other elite programs. Duke generally has had likable guys. But the guy on the sideline just really turns stomachs to so many.

Fun fact. Since 2002 KU and Duke both have 2 titles. They're not outperforming us. They should have a lot more but we have just as many because we've kept players on campus while so many of there's have left after 1 year. Their loss.

I wonder what other teams feel victimized by the coach K whistle?

Summer league means nothing in predicting a players success does it? Not saying DP won't be successful, but we've gushed over KU guys a lot because in a silly league game they scored 23 with 12 boards and then not even make the team.

Here's another

I live near a narrow, but active shipping river, the Calumet. One of my hobbies is looking at my marine traffic app and seeing what's coming. This Oberstar ship is a classic lakes freighter, 800 feet long

@Jayhawk_69 "woeful...pitiful...lowly...Herculaean...Princely, stately"
Great use of the English language!!

@Texas-Hawk-10 Awful. Hope the shot person recovers and Lagerald gets some help.

On the same trip we were treated to this sight. Mackinac Bridge tower.

I love clouds, well at least the interesting ones and this taken in northern Michigan looking south caught my eye the other day.

@rockchalkjayhawk Apparently they were doing the trump dance in the corner after the match. Pretty clear chip on their shoulder. Had Trump known anything about soccer he'd have kept his mouth shut because you don't give motivation to a favorite. It's like KU basketball giving Houston bulletin board material. WE could have had the chip on our shoulder because we were playing without Balogun.

And yet another juvenile mistake. Belgium has won 24 world cup matches and lost 11 and 18 draws. We've got a 12-8-21 record. The experience at a level like this is showing.

Junior high mistakes on defense cost us two goals. Belgium did have a nice finish on the 2nd goal but he ran right by our defender ignored goal side defensive principles and it cost us.

This taints anything the US accomplishes tonight. Irony is Balogun is a birthright citizen.

@approxinfinity So sorry for your loss. Prayers for your family.

@patoh3 Thanks for the fun stories and sorry for your loss. My dads best moment was about a year ago when he proposed to my mom, his wife of 67 years. It took a half hour to convince him that he was married. I told my mom you should have told him how much weddings cost these days, he would have dropped the idea right then!!

I was always told when you foul someone from behind it's a red card. That's why our guy got the red card.

Not quite sure about the red card there, but I really don't care that much.

Can't waste scoring opps by being offside.

Exciting match today. Ivory Coast was quite the challenge for the Scandinavians. Looked like it might be going to extra time but an 88th minute goal by Norway sealed the deal.