Most college basketball fans would not describe the Butler Bulldogs vs. Duke Blue Devils as their dream match-up for the NCAA title game. However, this game was anything but disappointing!. This match-up speaks to how close these so-called mid-major programs are to the traditional power houses of college basketball. This[…]
Read More »Butler–Duke–West Virginia–Michigan State. We’ve got a Final Four that pretty much anyone can get behind. I love having basketball to watch where I don’t care who wins. I love watching games that will have a happy ending for me either way. Even if your team lost on the way to[…]
Read More »Urban Meyer has such a skewed view of the world that it confuses even me. I’m not surprised by a lot of stupid behavior in the world of sports, but Meyer’s stupidity is VAST. The story goes that Florida Wide Receiver Deonte Thompson said to a reporter: “You never know[…]
Read More »Alright, I said before this even started that an atom bomb would probably be detonated over my bracket. Little did I know that there would be a “Fat Man”, a “Little Boy”, and a trio of “Baby Triplets”. It’s time we did some learning from this situation and figured out[…]
Read More »Ah, it’s springtime and March Madness is here. I can already hear the buzzer, the shrieking crowd as a big-name goes down—and the sound of some 14 seed setting off an atom bomb on my bracket… I love to pick my bracket every year, don’t you? Every year I think[…]
Read More »Colt McCoy’s arm stopped working in the 1st Quarter of the BCS National Title Game. Now he won’t throw for scouts at the Indy Combine, but he’ll still attend? Colt McCoy has a decision to make: Honesty or dishonesty. I’ve seen words like “alerted” attached to him NOT throwing at[…]
Read More »It’s been a while since I’ve put in an installment of “Conversations That Never Happened”. Considering the recent offseason events in the NFL it wouldn’t be right if we didn’t speculate the heck out of them, right? Who are we without a little salacious fantasy? I figure that we’ve got[…]
Read More »This isn’t just one, big “open letter”; It’s a couple open letters to teams that really need someone to speak the truth. I’m not saying that journalists in their towns aren’t doing a good job, but they also have to be politically correct—I don’t. I’m not going to be nice[…]
Read More »There are very few things in life that are perfect; the combination of peanut butter and chocolate in a Reese’s, J-Lo’s backside, and the NCAA College Basketball Tournament. Currently March Madness is 65 teams selected by a College Basketball committee (number crunching dorks). They have one play-in game, which only[…]
Read More »Have you ever played the game; one of these things is not like the other? If not, here is how it works. I give you a list and you tell me what doesn’t belong. Ready? A. Universal Health Care B. Rising Unemployment Rate C. Removing Soldiers from War D. College[…]
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