Kemba Walker has read one book in his life.

[More Cowbell]

He met with his campus tutor on Skype. And in his travel pack is a copy of New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete, a book that Crump encouraged Walker to read as part of an independent study class on racism in sports. Before the Final Four, Crump suggested that Rhoden's book would be the first that Walker had ever made it through cover-to-cover. After the win over Kentucky, Walker confirmed this. "That's true," he said. "You can write that. It is the first book I've ever read."


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1184204/3/index.htm#ixzz1JKvPzYlG

[kyxu]

That's really, really sad.

[waggy]

The entire system is a disgrace. F Calhoun and the rest of the cheaters. The NCAA may not be able to find out what's going on everywhere, but when they catch people red handed and they do little to nothing, it's sad and discouraging.

After witnessing X get shafted in the '93 (?) tourney against IU, I wondered why anyone would even bother to continue trying to do it right at X. I'm glad they did, but watching what passes for success is pretty disgusting.

[drudy23]

Besides the books I had to read for school, I've never independently read a book cover to cover either.

[The_Mack_Pack]

Besides the books I had to read for school, I've never independently read a book cover to cover either.

Same, and I'd be lying if I said I read all of the books I was supposed to read for school.

[More Cowbell]

I wonder if reading was the tutor's job and after reading the book he would give Kemba the cliff notes or just explain what happened.

[xavierj]

reading while a good thing didn't get him anywhere. Maybe if he read more books he wouldn't be about to become a millionaire. Now that would be sad to him.

[PM Thor]

Reminds me of James Brooks, the ex Bengal who admitted he couldn't read, even after attending 4 years at Auburn. Sad, sad state of affairs.

I HATE dayton.

[whiteyxu]

reading while a good thing didn't get him anywhere. Maybe if he read more books he wouldn't be about to become a millionaire. Now that would be sad to him.

Tell that to all the kids who want to be just like Kemba Walker but frankly aren't as talented and can't make it to the NBA or even NCAA level playing ball. It would be sad to throw a vital part of education and personal development to the side because your idol did that and therefore you have a better chance to be a professional athlete.

But...since you're probably being at least somewhat sarcastic, it's a decent point that for him it didn't much matter.

[smileyy]

Athletic achievement is as remarkable as literary and scholarly acheivement -- I have no doubt that Kemba puts a whole lot of time into his craft. But that doesn't mean one should completely ignore the one for the other. (Says the tub-of-goo who needs to read more books _and_ get off his ass and exercise)

[boozehound]

How can you never have read a book?

[LadyMuskie]

Reminds me of James Brooks, the ex Bengal who admitted he couldn't read, even after attending 4 years at Auburn. Sad, sad state of affairs.

I HATE dayton.

I met James when I was still working, and he is one of the nicest guys I've ever met. His face is covered in scars from his time playing football, but his personality is completely different from how he looks. He would be the first to agree with you about how sad it was that his children could read and he couldn't. I asked him how he did it, and he said that he just always relied on others being honest with him, and that sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. Of course, this is why the man was in the trouble he was in and is completely broke. He can read now, but that's thanks to the halfway houses he lived in, and my boss getting him the help he needed in order to become productive in society.

I can't imagine not being able to read. I can't imagine not reading books. There are so many amazing stories out there, and reading makes your mind work and uses your imagination. Movies are never anywhere near as good as the book.

[drudy23]

Reminds me of James Brooks, the ex Bengal who admitted he couldn't read, even after attending 4 years at Auburn. Sad, sad state of affairs.

I HATE dayton.

He said he never read a book cover to cover...not that he can't read.

People will read (no pun intended) into anything.

[nuts4xu]

Throughout my education, I can't recall too many assignments that required me to read an entire book cover to cover. There were books assigned in elementary and high school, but I often could get by simply by skimming the book, cliff notes, the movie version, etc.

I was diagnosed late in life with ADHD and I never had a long attention span with subjects I had no interest. It was painful for me to sit and read a book assigned in school, and to this day I still read very few books cover to cover.

I can read just fine. I read well enough to graduate from Xavier in 4 years and the lack of my book reading has never been an issue that holds me back in life.

Good luck to Kemba in the NBA and in life.

[drudy23]

Throughout my education, I can't recall too many assignments that required me to read an entire book cover to cover. There were books assigned in elementary and high school, but I often could get by simply by skimming the book, cliff notes, the movie version, etc.

I was diagnosed late in life with ADHD and I never had a long attention span with subjects I had no interest. It was painful for me to sit and read a book assigned in school, and to this day I still read very few books cover to cover.

I can read just fine. I read well enough to graduate from Xavier in 4 years and the lack of my book reading has never been an issue that holds me back in life.

Good luck to Kemba in the NBA and in life.

This.

[MCXU]

Throughout my education, I can't recall too many assignments that required me to read an entire book cover to cover. There were books assigned in elementary and high school, but I often could get by simply by skimming the book, cliff notes, the movie version, etc.

I was diagnosed late in life with ADHD and I never had a long attention span with subjects I had no interest. It was painful for me to sit and read a book assigned in school, and to this day I still read very few books cover to cover.

I can read just fine. I read well enough to graduate from Xavier in 4 years and the lack of my book reading has never been an issue that holds me back in life.

Good luck to Kemba in the NBA and in life.

Wow, This is like an AA meeting. I feel like I am in a room with people just like me who are being honest about not reading books.

I have an MBA, and I can honestly say I have never read a book, cover to cover, without being forced to.

Somewhere in my closet is a VHS of "Salems Lot" that I bought and watched just to do a book report in high school.

Books are long, and I can't multitask while reading a book. I find myself drifting off and counting the pages and running ratios through my head of how many pages I have completed and how many I have to go. At that point I realize I am 4 paragraphs farther than where I was before and can't remember a single thing other than the math problems I did in my head.

At this point I usually just give up and drink.

[drudy23]

Wow, This is like an AA meeting. I feel like I am in a room with people just like me who are being honest about not reading books.

I have an MBA, and I can honestly say I have never read a book, cover to cover, without being forced to.

Somewhere in my closet is a VHS of "Salems Lot" that I bought and watched just to do a book report in high school.

Books are long, and I can't multitask while reading a book. I find myself drifting off and counting the pages and running ratios through my head of how many pages I have completed and how many I have to go. At that point I realize I am 4 paragraphs farther than where I was before and can't remember a single thing other than the math problems I did in my head.

At this point I usually just give up and drink.

This too...I also have a Masters and have gotten by just fine without ever reading a book cover to cover without being forced to.

[Snowboarder]

Kemba Walker is actually a good student he graduated in 3 years, how many people here can say that.

[XULucho27]

Kemba Walker is actually a good student he graduated in 3 years, how many people here can say that.

I graduated in 3 years. I just stayed an extra 4 cause I didn't want to leave. :D

[xubrew]

I personally love to read. There are days where I'll read several hundred pages. Having said that, I completely understand why other people don't like it.

I'm half kidding when I say this, but I'm only HALF kidding. I think kids get turned off to reading very early on when they're made to read in school. Many kids hate school. I sure as hell did. I hated having to do things for school when I wasn't at school. Many of the books I was made to read were terrible. At that point in life, I hated reading, and never really began to like it until high school, when I began reading some books that were actually good.

Even if you don't like to read, read Dick Schaap's book about Bo Jackson. It is terrific. You'll like reading that.

Read Hoop Dreams. It's incredible. Everyone on this board likes sports, and I bet even those who say they don't like to read would finish both of those books within days.

But, when made to read, kids are given books that are boring to them, and it's no fun. It's a chore. Reading in college is typically even worse. Textbooks are terrible. They're written by tenured professors who don't care about educating as much as they care about communicating to everyone else how smart they are. Look at the language and dialect in any textook. War is exciting stuff, but yet most history textbooks are boring or hard to understand. Of course people don't like reading them.

And as far as the system being broken, I'm not going to sit here and say that it's not. But, at least Kemba Walker was able to find one book that he liked. Maybe now he's open to the idea that not all books suck. Had he not gone to UConn at all, it's unlikely anyone would have ever given him that book to read. I know many people who haven't even done that, and aren't willing to try it without being made to.

[LA Muskie]

Throughout my education, I can't recall too many assignments that required me to read an entire book cover to cover. There were books assigned in elementary and high school, but I often could get by simply by skimming the book, cliff notes, the movie version, etc.

I was diagnosed late in life with ADHD and I never had a long attention span with subjects I had no interest. It was painful for me to sit and read a book assigned in school, and to this day I still read very few books cover to cover.

I can read just fine. I read well enough to graduate from Xavier in 4 years and the lack of my book reading has never been an issue that holds me back in life.

Good luck to Kemba in the NBA and in life.
I'm the same. 4 years of college, 3 years in law school, and I can't remember the last book I read cover to cover. After hours of reading for work, I'm generally not looking to read afterward.

[GuyFawkes38]

I've put a stop to the habit recently. But it was ridiculous how many books I would buy and never read. The publishing industry is probably built on such purchases. I often feel guilty for not reading enough. It's silly.

[LadyMuskie]

Kemba Walker is actually a good student he graduated in 3 years, how many people here can say that.

I graduated in 3 1/2 years with two majors and two minors.

[LA Muskie]

I've put a stop to the habit recently. But it was ridiculous how many books I would buy and never read. The publishing industry is probably built on such purchases. I often feel guilty for not reading enough. It's silly.
I feel so guilty that I started buying those leather-covered books from Easton Press so that my daughter would have all the classics at her disposal and read what I never bothered to read (or, in my pipe dream, would read with her). After about 3 bookshelves and a daughter who is still only 3 years old, my much-smarter-than-me wife made me cancel the subscriptions. Ironically by the time my daughter can actually read any of those books, they'll look like 8-track tapes to her. Those bindings may never be broken...

[Professor X]

I] But, when made to read, kids are given books that are boring to them, and it's no fun. It's a chore. Reading in college is typically even worse. Textbooks are terrible. They're written by tenured professors who don't care about educating as much as they care about communicating to everyone else how smart they are. Look at the language and dialect in any textook. War is exciting stuff, but yet most history textbooks are boring or hard to understand. Of course people don't like reading them.

NO ONE, even academics, sit and read textbooks, they aren't the reason people don't like to read. If people don't find things they enjoy reading in history class, well, thats what English class is for. Or the library. I do agree on 2 of your points though.

1) By the grade school/middle school years, kids feel like they are being forced to read and generally reject it. part of this has to do with the books they are being assigned (curriculum) and part has to do with the fact that they ALREADY don't like to read when they get there, and thus being forced/assigned is even worse.

2.) Yes, many history books are boring (I am getting my MA in history and even I feel this way.) But many aren't and don't get a lot of exposure. which more just part of the general publishing industry. I have a professor who just wrote a book on Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, complete with all sorts of interview with Heff and people who started the magazine and the magazine's impact on american culture during that time period. Sounds like something a lot of people could probably see themselves reading, right? Well 1) its not gonna get any exposure other than a few reviews, 2) it's such a niche book that its not going to generally be assigned to general history classes. (again, curriculum). A second example is David McCullough's books on John Addams and 1776. They sold like CRAZY AND got academic/critical acclaim. But they that was due 1) he isn't actually an "accredited" historian 2) he is a preternaturally gifted writer who makes the topic accessible and interesting to people of all walks of life. 3) because he had already proven himself in earlier works, the publishing company was more willing to pay for marketing/exposure/book tours, things like that to drive sales. With the thousands of academic books published each year, this isn't realistic. And even the best professors can only be exposed to a handful of books and authors, so they don't always end up assigning the best or most current or appealing books on a topic. So to sum up, there are academic books out there that have popular appeal, but most generally don't get the chance to prove it, and many professors only assign what they know and are comfortable with and don't necessarily update the syllabus each year or each semester.

The common issue in both of these points is curriculum. Both how its addressed and conducted at an early age, and in formative years. So between that and the fact that reading takes effort and commitment, and prevents multitasking or keeping connected via technology, it's really not that surprising how much reading has declined in popularity or the fact that most generally just don't read. And I even understand those who have to read as part of a job and don't feel like reading when they come home, I'm the same way after spending hours in a library reading boring history books. But thats where the effort comes in, so sometimes instead of zoning out watching nothing on TV or flipping channels I will find a decent graphic novel to read to switch things up, or find short story collections (usually Best of (insert year) collections are pretty good.) where I can still get a light reading fix, without devoting too much time or energy.

As a sidenote in this rambling, lengthy post (again, I apologize) obviously you can get through college, life, whatever without reading books cover to cover. No it doesn't make you a bad person or a dumb person by any means if you don't read. It is what it is. But there IS value to it, and to ignore or deny so is just ridiculous.

Where is LeVar Burton when you need him?!?!

[smileyy]

I've put a stop to the habit recently. But it was ridiculous how many books I would buy and never read. The publishing industry is probably built on such purchases. I often feel guilty for not reading enough. It's silly.

At least with a Kindle, they take up a lot less space :)

[SixFig]

I don't think you can become a good writer without being a good reader. Just my opinion.

I wouldn't be where I am today if I didn't love to read, but that might just be me.

[Professor X]

I don't think you can become a good writer without being a good reader. Just my opinion.

I wouldn't be where I am today if I didn't love to read, but that might just be me.

can't rep you but totally agree.

[xubrew]

NO ONE, even academics, sit and read textbooks, they aren't the reason people don't like to read. If people don't find things they enjoy reading in history class, well, thats what English class is for. Or the library. I do agree on 2 of your points though

I didn't mean to come off saying that college textbooks are the reason people don't like to read. I was just giving it as an example of something that students are forced to read and do not like.

I was a history major for undergrad. I would not recommend it to anyone who doesn't like to read. Truth be told, I read some great books for my classes, but they were books that were interesting to me. I agree with your point about how good books are not widely circulated. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I was just throwing out a generic example of how students are oftentimes made to read things that suck...or at the very least don't interest them.

[GuyFawkes38]

I feel so guilty that I started buying those leather-covered books from Easton Press so that my daughter would have all the classics at her disposal and read what I never bothered to read (or, in my pipe dream, would read with her). After about 3 bookshelves and a daughter who is still only 3 years old, my much-smarter-than-me wife made me cancel the subscriptions. Ironically by the time my daughter can actually read any of those books, they'll look like 8-track tapes to her. Those bindings may never be broken...

Ha, well, it's better to provide too many books than not enough.


At least with a Kindle, they take up a lot less space :)

I might go crazy on a Kindle. So many awesome old books for free or a couple dollars. Amazon is amazing.

[LA Muskie]

I don't think you can become a good writer without being a good reader. Just my opinion.
I think that's right. And most writers will agree with you as well.

[XU05and07]

I personally love to read. There are days where I'll read several hundred pages. Having said that, I completely understand why other people don't like it.

I'm half kidding when I say this, but I'm only HALF kidding. I think kids get turned off to reading very early on when they're made to read in school. Many kids hate school. I sure as hell did. I hated having to do things for school when I wasn't at school. Many of the books I was made to read were terrible. At that point in life, I hated reading, and never really began to like it until high school, when I began reading some books that were actually good.

Even if you don't like to read, read Dick Schaap's book about Bo Jackson. It is terrific. You'll like reading that.

Read Hoop Dreams. It's incredible. Everyone on this board likes sports, and I bet even those who say they don't like to read would finish both of those books within days.

But, when made to read, kids are given books that are boring to them, and it's no fun. It's a chore. Reading in college is typically even worse. Textbooks are terrible. They're written by tenured professors who don't care about educating as much as they care about communicating to everyone else how smart they are. Look at the language and dialect in any textook. War is exciting stuff, but yet most history textbooks are boring or hard to understand. Of course people don't like reading them.

And as far as the system being broken, I'm not going to sit here and say that it's not. But, at least Kemba Walker was able to find one book that he liked. Maybe now he's open to the idea that not all books suck. Had he not gone to UConn at all, it's unlikely anyone would have ever given him that book to read. I know many people who haven't even done that, and aren't willing to try it without being made to.

I wanted to read this...but it was too long

[XUFan09]

I don't think you can become a good writer without being a good reader. Just my opinion.

I wouldn't be where I am today if I didn't love to read, but that might just be me.

This. I'm getting an MA in philosophy right now, and I feel the exact same way. It also helps with all the reading I also have to do, of course...

[XULucho27]

This. I'm getting an MA in philosophy right now, and I feel the exact same way. It also helps with all the reading I also have to do, of course...

Now he's a philosophizer.

[Xavier]

I'd trade all the books I have read to play in the NBA.

[Jumpy]

I agree with the prevailing sentiment from the readers that have posted above me. I had the hardest time reading anything assigned to me, yet when I finally read my first "real" book on my own (Dean Koontz's Watchers, and by real I mean full length, not necessarily noteworthy) in the 8th grade, I was hooked. Ever since, I've been hooked on reading for my own enjoyment yet still struggle with assigned readings.

I have read so many great stories through the years, both non-fiction and fiction, that I could not imagine my life without them. I consume all types of media, but nothing exercises my imagination like a good book.

[MCXU]

I consume all types of media, but nothing exercises my imagination like a good book.

No book, will ever exercise my imagination as much as a picture of a monkey with a sniper rifle.

[Jumpy]

At least with a Kindle, they take up a lot less space :)


I might go crazy on a Kindle. So many awesome old books for free or a couple dollars. Amazon is amazing.

The Kindle is an addiction that I will someday need to kick. I shudder to think of all the money I've spent on books in the past two years through my Kindle app. It's an instant gratification that I can't avoid. For instance, about a month ago, Nigel recommended a book series called the Kingkiller Chronicles. I instantly checked it out in the app, then bought it. Within 2 minutes I had the entire 700+ page book loaded on my iphone. Of course I bought the second book and those two books have kicked off a medievil-fantasy tangent for me and I've since read two similar books and am working on a third. In one mention from a fellow poster, I've spent roughly $40 on digital books in the past month.

It's not all bad, though. The Kindle does offer many highly discounted and free books for download. A lot of times anymore, new authors will sell their first offering for very little or even give it out for free. I've come across many more new authors this way than I would have by going to the bookstore and picking something off the shelf.

[xavier3]

At least kemba doesn't get playboy for the articles

[stophorseabuse]

I'll be brutally honest, everybody on this message board does WAY more reading than the average person. Reading on the internet is still reading, even if it is just ridiculous opinions. You can tell you are dealing with people who can read, otherwise all the snide stuff would fly over our heads. If you taught high school for one day (at a public high school), you would be shocked at what the average student is turning out, and what they are unable to decipher in text. Not talking about hard to read classics, just narratives or even instruction manuals. It is sad.

I will also say, the level of writing here is likely in the 90th percentile. It helps that these boards are dominated by college alumni. Go to NBA boards sometime and read that garbage. We give each other crap about grammar sometimes, but the truth is RARELY do we deal with not understanding text on here. If someone comes on that is unreadable they are crushed to the point they don't want to come back. Really, I think that is a good thing.

[Fireball]

I'll be brutally honest, everybody on this message board does WAY more reading than the average person. Reading on the internet is still reading, even if it is just ridiculous opinions. You can tell you are dealing with people who can read, otherwise all the snide stuff would fly over our heads. If you taught high school for one day (at a public high school), you would be shocked at what the average student is turning out, and what they are unable to decipher in text. Not talking about hard to read classics, just narratives or even instruction manuals. It is sad.

Great point. I've probably read two or 3 books cover-to-cover in the last 10 years, but between the Internet, newspapers, magazines and such, I do a TON of reading.

Who knows what Kemba Walker's situation is, but is he's really graduating college in 3 years, he's clearly willing to put more work in that your average student / athlete, which puts him nowhere close to James Brooks.

[SlimKibbles]

Great point. I've probably read two or 3 books cover-to-cover in the last 10 years, but between the Internet, newspapers, magazines and such, I do a TON of reading.

Who knows what Kemba Walker's situation is, but is he's really graduating college in 3 years, he's clearly willing to put more work in that your average student / athlete, which puts him nowhere close to James Brooks.

http://www.memecat.com/images/memes/chris_crocker_leave_britney_alone.jpg

LEAVE JAMES BROOKS ALONE!!!

[Jumpy]

No book, will ever exercise my imagination as much as a picture of a monkey with a sniper rifle.

Ha. Missed this post the first time around. Scary thought, isn't it? Monkeys learning to fire sniper rifles just might be the start of the new world order that leads to apes ruling the world. There's no escaping the planet of the apes!

[Titanxman04]

I'll be brutally honest, everybody on this message board does WAY more reading than the average person. Reading on the internet is still reading, even if it is just ridiculous opinions. You can tell you are dealing with people who can read, otherwise all the snide stuff would fly over our heads. If you taught high school for one day (at a public high school), you would be shocked at what the average student is turning out, and what they are unable to decipher in text. Not talking about hard to read classics, just narratives or even instruction manuals. It is sad.

I will also say, the level of writing here is likely in the 90th percentile. It helps that these boards are dominated by college alumni. Go to NBA boards sometime and read that garbage. We give each other crap about grammar sometimes, but the truth is RARELY do we deal with not understanding text on here. If someone comes on that is unreadable they are crushed to the point they don't want to come back. Really, I think that is a good thing.

I tend to debate that. There are a number of consistent spelling and grammatical errors on this board is almost shocking.

Too many times I see the mix-up of "there", "their", and "they're". More so, the difference between "to" and "too" (though that may be a spelling error).

[stophorseabuse]

Titan, man, I am telling you. Even with those errors, it is not even close. These kids all need to go to the school for kids that can't read good.

I wish their/there/they're errors were major mistakes. Those don't even lost points these days. If you took one point off for each error of that type kids would have negative grades. ON A ONE PAGE PAPER!

[XUFan09]

Titan, man, I am telling you. Even with those errors, it is not even close. These kids all need to go to the school for kids that can't read good.

I wish their/there/they're errors were major mistakes. Those don't even lost points these days. If you took one point off for each error of that type kids would have negative grades. ON A ONE PAGE PAPER!

*lose
:D

But I don't disagree with your premise. What's interesting is how paper-buying is making it worse at a supposedly higher educational level. Here's a fantastic article:

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/

[waggy]

Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun could lose a lucrative bonus for winning the national championship if the team's NCAA Academic Progress Rate score doesn't meet standards.

From the New Haven Register:


UConn should learn in a few weeks whether it meets APR standards, but it’s a virtual certainty that the program will fall short of the standard score of 925.

That means Calhoun could suffer a double-whammy: Not only could his bonus be kept from him, but per his contract, he must also donate $100,000 to UConn’s general scholarship fund if the men’s hoops program fails to meet APR standards. Calhoun’s total loss would be $187,500.

Calhoun was not available for comment Thursday.

The Huskies would also lose at least one, and most likely two scholarships for next season (on top of the scholarship they’ve already been docked by the NCAA committee on infractions).

According to the new five-year contract Calhoun signed in May, winning the national championship was a bonus of three months of his base salary, which was $350,000 this season. The contract also states, "These payments will only be made if the NCAA Academic Progress Report ("APR") standard for the men's basketball team has been met for both the most recently completed academic year and the last reported four-year rolling average."

The New Haven Register also notes that the Nate Miles situation once again could come back to haunt Calhoun because of the APR hit.


For the 2008-09 season, for instance, the Huskies had an APR of 844, but a four-year average of 930 -- barely above the 925 standard, but enough to avoid penalties.

What will hurt the Huskies this time around is the amount of players who left the program ineligible, and not on track to earn their degree. Once again, the program will get burned by Nate Miles, who was expelled from the school in fall 2008. His departure has counted against UConn’s APR score for the last two academic years, and will continue to do so for the next two.http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/30122/jim-calhoun-could-lose-ncaa-title-bonus

[XUFan09]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-uconnreputation

Calhoun and Kemba are defending UCONN's academic reputation. Debate whatever you want about that, but specific to Kemba Walker and why this thread was started, his response to the one-book comment:

"'That’s just what people want,' Walker said. 'They want to bring us down. Regardless of what they say, I’m still graduating in three years, so that comment means absolutely nothing. I’ve read a lot of books.'

He said he was talking about loving a book so much that he just sat down and read it cover-to-cover."

Now judging from a lot of comments, this is a sentiment probably shared with a good portion of this board. He read the books he had to, but this one was unique in that he read it out of his own initiative. I guess he was either misquoted at first or he himself phrased it poorly, to make it sound like he had really only read one book.

[SixFig]

I guess he was either misquoted at first or he himself phrased it poorly, to make it sound like he had really only read one book.

Maybe if he had read more books he would have phrased it better in the first place:D:D:D

[GoMuskies]

"'That’s just what people want,' Walker said. 'They want to bring us down. Regardless of what they say, I’m still graduating in three years, so that comment means absolutely nothing. I’ve read a lot of books.'


What the hell is he talking about? HE was the one who said he'd only read one book. People didn't make that up out of thin air to "bring UConn down".

[XUFan09]

Maybe if he had read more books he would have phrased it better in the first place:D:D:D

Lol SixFig, I was thinking that. It's like, come on, Kemba, you get interviewed a lot, so you should know to be careful about how you say things.