UAB has angry fans

Alternate title: Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting).

Memphis (not MemPIS college students) managed to beat UAB 79 to 78 with five seconds left in the game. UAB did have a chance to come back with 2 seconds left but they took the shot after the game was over so it didn't count. The Blazers fans didn't like that so all hell broke loose.



From Scripps Howard News Service:

Though coach John Calipari called the scene "ugly," he said Sunday he was disappointed with the reaction of his players.

"They were wrong, but our response was wrong too," Calipari said. "My only issue was our guys being smart enough to know, we're creating our own happiness. Why would you let what they say do or throw -- paper cup, (urine), beer, popcorn -- have an effect on the happiness we're going to have? You wish it didn't happen, but just show maturity when it does."

Nice, coach. Very zen like. But who cares, lets go to the tape!



I say DAMN that one UAB student threw that booze bottle like a molotov cocktail!


That shot should have COUNTED! Revolution now!!

The blogosphere reaction is even better. This from a person called "hueys":

stfu you obviously don't know about the tigers

and oh yea, your team just got beat in your own "ghetto" homecourt by a bunch of "ghetto niggers" who are a "GANG (team)"

does that make sense to you?

Uhhhh, no. Stupidity rarely makes sense.

UPDATE: Almost forgot... Alabama-Birmingham, you win the Always Be Closing award! You had those Tigers, man!