Sporting News/Fox Sports’s Matt Hayes always has a great mailbag during college football season, now it looks like I have a favorite mailbag for college basketball Gregg Doyel‘s over at Sportsline. This week:

Regarding your article “Big O called on to be temporary superhero,” you are
way off base regarding the current status of the University of Cincinnati’s
basketball program. The intestinal fortitude of Bob Huggins will only make the
UC basketball program stronger at this juncture. Successful participants in
sports step up and perform better during difficult times and are true winners.
Those that can’t successfully handle adversity are only able to write about
sports.

Ask the inside of Huggins’ car about his “intestinal
fortitude.”
…
Why do you have to bash Bob Knight? How about just praising Mike
Davis? No doubt Davis took over a tough situation, but he took over from a guy
who never cheated.

I’ll take your sentences in order: It’s fun; I could, but I’d also
like to bash Knight; and Knight’s crimes against humanity are as shameful as
some cheaters’ crimes against the NCAA.

There is also a great fill-in-the-blank form for hate mail suggested by one of the readers. For a more serious story, check out his latest about when coaches pull scholarship offers.