The other day, Billy Gillispie was chased by a Louisville TV reporter down the halls of one Kentucky's practice facility. Gillispie pretended to be on the phone, and when that wouldn't get the pesky reporter man off his case, he took off running. It was hilarious and awesome and completely inexplicable, which is occasionally what local TV news should be. "Man killed at gas station" tends to get a little repititive.

And now, on the heels of rumor after rumor about John Calipari leaving Memphis to take the Kentucky job, Memphis' local Fox affiliate have stepped it up another notch. They're streaming video ... of nothing. The photo to the right there is a still, but it's basically what you see if you click through and watch the video. Some stairs, a little grass, a perfect-for-amateur-skateboarders railing. Apparently this is the front of Memphis' basketball offices, but it could be anywhere in the world. We'd never know the difference.

Every once in a while a person walks in and out of the screen. Then the screen gets fuzzy. If you stare long enough, you start to get dizzy. That's when I begin to think that Fox Memphis isn't covering a story so much as they're using modern methods of information delivery to create an esoteric artistic commentary on the transience of human life. And then I get a headache.

(HT: FirstCuts on Twitter)

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