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This isn't about basketball, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to mention Myron Rolle. For those of you who don't know about Myron Rolle...Florida State safety Myron Rolle has chosen to opt out of the possibility to ink a hefty professional football contract, and will study at Oxford instead of entering this year’s NFL draft. Rolle plans to seek a one-year master’s degree in medical anthropology and take full advantage of a Rhodes scholarship he was awarded in November, The New York Times reported Monday in an entry on its college football blog. “I’m very excited to go,” Rolle wrote in a text message to the newspaper. Rolle, projected to be an early round pick, said he plans to enter the 2010 NFL draft. Rolle, from Galloway, N.J., got his undergraduate degree in pre-med after two and a half years, and has been taking graduate courses at Florida State this year, reports USAToday.com. Very Inspirational to say the least....




Records are Made To Be Broken

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- From today forward, children across the state of Kentucky will be demanding hash browns and scrambled eggs from their parents before they head off to school.

It's the new breakfast of Big Blue champions. Specifically, it is the game-day breakfast ritual of Kentucky Wildcat Jodie Meeks. Who puts the shoot in shooting guard. Who stroked smoke out of the nets in Thompson-Boling Arena. Who merely rewrote the annals of the winningest program in college basketball history. On Tuesday morning, Meeks had eggs and hash browns at the Knoxville Marriott. Same as he did when he scored 46 points against Appalachian State last month. Same as he has before every game during his breakout junior season. On Tuesday night, he turned Thompson-Boling into Studio 54. Meeks danced his way to a school-record 54 points as Kentucky thrashed Tennessee 90-72. Made a school-record 10 3-point shots in 15 attempts. Made all 14 free throws. Made five other two-point shots, too. The 54 points broke the 39-year-old school record of Dan Issel, who scored 53 against Mississippi. It should be noted that Kentucky scored 120 points that day, which means Issel scored 44 percent of the Wildcats' total. Meeks racked up a ridiculous 60 percent of Kentucky's points here -- an extraordinary display of shooting and stamina stretched over 39 jaw-dropping minutes. When you say Issel's name aloud in the commonwealth of Kentucky, a heavenly chorus follows and those within earshot bow their heads. It's a state law. He is the greatest scorer in the history of a program that has won 1,979 games, and its most revered player. So when you break a Dan Issel scoring record, you have done something. When you do it on the road in front of 20,474 fans and the defending SEC champion, you have really done something. You have etched your name in Kentucky lore.

"To be in the same sentence as guys like Dan Issel and other Kentucky legends, it means a lot," the muscular, 6-foot-4 guard said. "It's kind of mind-boggling to me." Consider everyone's mind boggled, Jodie. "It was the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen," said his coach, Billy Gillispie.

Meeks wears No. 23. And seriously, has that number looked this good in action since Michael Jordan hung it up? He finished one point shy of Jordan's famous double-nickel game against the New York Knicks.

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