Brought to you once again courtesy of Bob Marley, Tito's Vodka, and the complete lack of shame exhibited by grown men across the country Thursday after discovering their nephew's basketball goal could be lowered to eight feet. Tomahawks, reverses, and alley oops accompanied by the requisite chest pounding but not by the first whiff of irony. After a long, difficult season of poor match ups, the Arkansas defense walked out onto a soaked and sopping Frank Broyles Field on Friday afternoon to find that someone, finally, had lowered the goal for them. They took advantage.
William Burke was an Irish murderer in the early nineteenth century whose preferred method of malice was to smother his victims in order to avoid visible damage to the corpse.