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Daily Buzz: 'We're not going to sit back and just take it in the shorts,' says Tim Floyd

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 2:49 p.m. ET

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One of the most efficient ways to torque off a stranger is to insult that person's city. This applies most anywhere, but there is perhaps nowhere the dukes come up quicker than they do in Texas, where UTEP basketball coach Tim Floyd is giving USC coach Andy Enfield a piece of his mind, a day after reportedly wanting to give him a piece of his fists in The Bahamas.

To recap: On Wednesday, Floyd and Enfield (and their coaching staffs) reportedly nearly came to blows, apparently over a beef stemming from comments Enfield recently made about Floyd and El Paso in a magazine. Specifically, Enfield told Men's Journal:

So ... Yahoo! Sports reported Floyd on Thursday got all puffy chested again toward Enfield, this time after UTEP upset Tennessee.

"I damn sure didn'€™t appreciate the comments he made last week publicly about the city of El Paso, Texas, where my grandparents were born and raised, where my father was born and raised and played at Texas Western, where I'€™ve lived 22 years in my life," Floyd reportedly said. "It'€™s a fabulous city."

But there is more to this story than some insults about hometowns, and it is a little difficult to tell exactly where it really started. Best we know, according to Floyd (who coached at USC from 2005-09) this has everything to do with Isaac Hamilton, a McDonald's All-American and Los Angeles native who signed a national letter of intent with UTEP in November 2012, but asked for his release this summer before ever playing in El Paso.

UTEP refused the release, Hamilton broke the LOI, and now he is in Southern California '€” but at UCLA, where he will not be allowed to play until next season. Enfield denies he continued recruiting Hamilton after he signed a letter of intent, which would be a violation of NCAA rules.

Floyd first made that accusation in July, and the whole stink seemed to have dissipated until Enfield and his magazine interview.

According to Sports Illustrated, Enfield approached Floyd at the Battle 4 Atlantis pre-tournament banquet Wednesday night in an attempt to reconcile, but the reconciliation failed and the two coaching staffs had to be separated.

Afterward, Floyd had this to say, according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Now, some links:

-- A rugby player reportedly broke a teammate'€™s jaw over a Rihanna autograph.

-- The Georgia equipment truck got stuck in a tunnel and the Georgia Tech equipment staff noticed.

UGA equipment truck stuck in the tunnel pic.twitter.com/nqWTih0IQ0

-- When's the last time you saw a mascot get carted off the field? Happened Thursday at Mississippi State.

-- Gerald Henderson blasted some poor woman in the face (with a pass).

-- Oregon is playing Oregon State, and the Beavers' kicker looked like this:

Oregon State kicker has a look poised to take over the world pic.twitter.com/38lXLE7Zpn

-- Mike Tyson talked to Arsenio Hall about having sex in jail. He also talked about Florence Henderson. Those two tales are unrelated.

-- After Thanksgiving dinner, Udonis Haslem went around taking pictures of his Miami Heat teammates while they were in food comas. Ray Allen was particularly blissful.

-- TMZ caught up with Lamar Odom at LAX and it went OK.

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