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Mike Miller has been NBCSports.com's college basketball editor since 2003. It's a position he relishes; no wonder considering he transferred to Kansas to watch Paul Pierce play. Most of his favorite sports memories involve college hoops, usually during March, when every waking moment is spent thinking about March Madness.



Big Blue Nation goes international

Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:11 PM
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John Calipari greets the Big Blue faithful.

Big Blue Nation is going international.

Via John Calipari’s Twitter account, Kentucky’s athletic department has translated Coach Cal’s speech at Big Blue Madness into eight different languages. This is not a typo.

Maybe it’s just the next step in creating an unstoppable Kentucky basketball force in a 24-7 Internet world, but … it just leaves me kind of speechless.  Now Kentucky fans can see Calipari’s speech in Spanish, Kazakh, Russian, Chinese, Afrikaans, German, Arabic and American sign language.

This seems kinda over the top – and a little bit amazing. I only speak one language (I know, typical American), so I don’t have to seek out similar types of translations. I’m also not aware of other schools doing this kind of thing very often. Perhaps it goes on more than I know.

Regardless, it’ll only serve to burnish the images of Calipari, the school, and Kentucky hoops in general.

Everyone else, take note.

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From now on, please refer to us as "Big Blue World".  Thank you.

T, Brownsburg, IN (Sent Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:12 PM)

Does this mean that in a couple of years the NCAA will have to pass down their verdict in 8 languages?  How do you say "This guy cheats everywhere he goes" in all those languages?

BigBlueSucks (Sent Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:10 PM)

Your hate brings me nothing but joy.

All Kentucky fans in the world (Sent Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:01 AM)

Hey BigBlueSucks, I'm sure you're aware of how the best player on the visiting team gets booed all the time. Why is this? Well, it's their acknowledgement of his greatness, just as the ovation they give to their best player acknowledges his greatness. If the player was no good then he wouldn't deserve their booing. So too is the Kentucky Wildcats to everyone but a Wildcat fan. We, the fans of the Big Blue Nation, do thank you for your hatred. It just proves how great the Big Blue Nation really is! And as for Coach Cal, he has never been mentioned in any of the NCAA reports. And since the NCAA is like the IRS (in the sense that if they want you, they will get you. Both have all the resources at their command and no one, and I do mean no one, can escape them if they want you, and no, I don't speak from first-hand knowledge), if they had anything, anything at all on Coach Cal, they would have gotten him. So, your "supposed" hatred toward Coach Cal also indicates how great of a coach he really is.  And as for your last statement, it's nothing more than you mimicking all haters of Coach Cal and the BBN, as I know for a certainty, that you don't have anything on our beloved coach at all! Nothing!

BBN loves Coach Cal, Frankfort, KY (Sent Monday, November 16, 2009 1:46 AM)



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