If you feel like you’ve already had your fill of me complaining for the semester, you can stop reading right now. It’s time for another grab bag; welcome to the player hater’s ball.

Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Gather around, everyone, it’s time for me to honor those who have made me particularly upset over the past week or so. Here are our nominees:

Wichita State men’s basketball team: Never mind the fact that I had the Shockers bounced by Pittsburgh in the second round. This Wichita State team has been specially designed to annoy Creighton fans. Allow me to be extra petulant for a moment. This was supposed to be our year. Creighton University was set up to take the leap into national stardom.

We had the returning seniors. We had the All-American forward. Creighton’s schedule was such that they should have been favored in every game. But the Shockers had to ruin everything. For much of the Missouri Valley Conference season, it was Wichita State in first place. When the Jays reclaimed the MVC throne it looked like all was right in the world.

Creighton won the conference tournament. Creighton got a call up to the Big East. Creighton was given a No. 7 seed. The glow was back in Omaha. Things changed in the NCAA Tournament. Creighton went ice cold against Duke, and not in the George Gervin way. Against Gonzaga, the Shockers started hitting threes like they were Mark Price at the charity stripe. Only Florida Gulf Coast prevented Wichita from being the darlings of the tournament. Thankfully, the country has rallied around the more talented Louisville Cardinals.

Backlash against CBS: Speaking of the Cardinals, I have to address the Kevin Ware injury. Because Mr. Ware went above and beyond the call of duty in getting himself injured on television, the rest of us have to live with the consequences. How am I supposed to be an effective intramural soccer player with the constant fear of all of my bones trying to escape my body? Now every ache and pain could be a stress fracture ready to explode. I’m not saying that Ware was a glory boy just trying to get more Twitter followers, but I am saying he needs to think about the rest of us before he hurts himself again.

My gripe is not with Kevin Ware, though. I do have a problem with everyone bashing CBS’ coverage of the injury. There were very few people who caught it when it happened. The camera, and most eyeballs, followed the flight path of the ball instead of the defender challenging the shot. Heck, Jim Nantz had no idea Ware was down until Clark Kellogg said something. With the looks of horror on the court, CBS had to show what happened because it was news. They showed both angles of the play, and then it was gone. I thought it was handled tactfully.

If you don’t want to go looking for the injury, that’s fine. There shouldn’t, however, be some sort of moral high ground for not watching it. The injury is one of the major news stories of the tournament. People need to see what happened if it’s going to be talked about. Trust me, you are going to feel better about watching the injury video when ESPN makes you sit through a 10-minute Tom Rinaldi piece on Ware’s recovery. He probably won’t even be playing basketball by then either. I really don’t want to hear about how Ware lost his scholarship and started a rival cream puff shop next to Brian Zoubek’s.

I’d like to add Kobe to this list, but he actually had a good game last night. What a jerkface. I hate you, Kobe.