Your FKP update, or How Coop Spent his Week-long Bender

Whewwwww, that was a long six days! Let's recap what happened since we wrote you last.

We beat UConn in the Big East Tournament. Joe Alexander had a Larry-Johnson-in-NBA-Jam-circa-1995-esque performance, putting up 34 and posterizing the bejesus out of Stanley Robinson. 

We lost to Georgetown the next night. This was a bit of a dagger, especially after we were flying high from the previous afternoon's ridonkulous victory. Roy Hibbert had a tremendous game, putting up 25 points and snagging 13 rebounds. WVU once again proves that it has no answer for a dynamic big man. (box score)

Our football team dealt with some issues. Noel Devine, Jock Sanders, and few other players were finally arrested from the incident outside of Club Z about a month ago. Coach Stew is quick to announce that discipline within the team has already taken place, and the matter is closed. And god dammit, I'm going to believe him. (exclusive story from the News-Press, blatantly lifted from EDSBS's Fulmer Cup update)

Coop fell asleep at 3:30 on Saturday afternoon. Thanks to the good people at Jameson's whiskey for a delightful morning, which began at roughly 10 a.m. Things I recall: texting an ex-girlfriend (tremendous lapse in judgement), drinking in the front yard, wondering why Joe Alexander wasn't there for me to fellate. Things I do not: her furious reply, how I made it from the front yard to the living room floor, why my new WVU b-ball jersey has such a sinister-looking stain on it.

We landed a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament, and will meet Arizona Thursday night in Washington, DC. Wait, what? Doesn't Coop live in Washington, DC? Why yes. Yes, he does. Is he going to said game on Thursday night? Why yes. Yes he is. Jubilation abound. Look for pictures and other nonsense from that night this Friday. WVU/Arizona preview coming soon as well. Look other places for more extensive, more hilarious tournament coverage. Or just check deadspin like everyone else.

Coach Stew took some narsty steps forward in recruiting. Wide Receiver Logan Heastie and Quarterback Tajh Boyd made verbal commitments on Monday, each sounding pretty psyched about joining the Old Gold and Blue. Why is this a huge deal? Heastie and Boyd are ranked #1 and #21 at their respective positions within the rivals.com 2009 recruiting class. Here's to hoping Stew uses the two for more than bubble screens.

Rich Rodriguez is still a douchebag. In an ESPN.com article written by fellow member of the d-bag club Ivan Maisel, Rodriguez practically reaches climax over the $1 million that the University of Michigan has thrown at him for training facilities, strength and conditioning coach Mike Barwis sings the virtues of chocolate milk, and wide receiver Greg Matthews talks about taking his shirt off this summer. Sounds like quite the party up there in Ann Arbor. 

Finding Kevin Pittsnogle's babynuts finally dropped. After a rough first month, someone else in the blogosphere actually acknowledged the presence of this awful site! And you know what that means...Our reader count is up to at least four. Soon you'll need two hands to count how many people visit Finding Kevin Pittsnogle! Check plus. What makes this even more fantastic? The site that linked to us was Hugging Harold Reynolds - which was the blog that basically inspired us to start FKP in the first place. Emosh. Thanks so much to anybody over there that's stopped by here.

So that's what's been going on in the world of West Virginia sports while we were away. It was a huge week, wasn't it? Nice. Hopefully there are even bigger and better things to come. Let's go Mounties.