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The Malik Monk situation is a little different. The Monk's spent a couple years milking the locals and committing recruiting infractions by trading on the kid's name and gaining favors for the family from local businesses.

Monk was telling Arkansas coaches he wanted to play at Arkansas, his brother kept pushing for business deals. Marcus sees Malik as his shot since he failed himself to become a pro baller. There was a request for impermissible benefits the morning Malik signed w/ Kentucky. Irwin and the sports guys know it because the Arkansas staff were livid a couple were around to overhear an argument, only Mike had the balls to go on the record. Marcus attempted to assault Mike at a basketball game and none of the other sports writers stuck up for Irwin.

Quite the pussy bunch we have in Arkansas, it's why they may be the worst collective bunch of sports media in the country.

This is a good post. And what makes all this worse, in my opinion, is that we had Clay Travis on local radio not too long ago talking about how Calipari pays players. Well now the official narrative coming out of the Arkansas media is that he is some internet troll and nothing more.

bullshite. We KNOW this happens. I know that journalism is basically dead in the new information age, but most of the Arkansas media personalities are like the worst of the worst. Just ridiculous.

That being said, I agree with the guy who says its time for Mike to hang it up. He does a good job of reporting what he thinks is important, but good god he is hard to listen to. I'm pretty sure when they have him on the radio shows someone just gives him a topic and lets him go while they go down to the bar and grab beers or something.

On and on and on and on...about whatever.