A Look At the Big Dance’s Best First Round Matchups, Part 2: South and West Regions

After taking a look at the Midwest and the East regions, it’s time to look at the tough first round matchups in the West and South regions. WEST REGION #8 Gonzaga – #9 Florida State. The Seminoles love to play defense and the Bulldogs love to get up and down the floor. It is interesting that the first two rounds of the [read more...]

A Look At the Big Dance’s Best First Round Matchups

The Big 12 champs Kansas Jayhawks are the overall #1 seed. Finally, March Madness officially begins. It’s time to fill out your brackets and hope to win whatever pool or pools you’re entering. What I’m going to do right now is pick out the most intriguing first round matchups in each region. First though, a complaint. How did West Virginia, who [read more...]

A Look At the Big Dance’s Best First Round Matchups

The Big 12 champs Kansas Jayhawks are the overall #1 seed. Finally, March Madness officially begins. It’s time to fill out your brackets and hope to win whatever pool or pools you’re entering. What I’m going to do right now is pick out the most intriguing first round matchups in each region. MIDWEST REGION Overall number one seed Kansas resides in the Midwest [read more...]

Ed Hightower, Big Ten Streal Conference Tourney Game from Michigan (with Video)

After Michigan’s Manny Harris scored his 22nd point in the second half to put the Wolverines ahead, 68-66, only 2.2 seconds remained between John Beilien’s team and a monumental upset of number seven Ohio State. However, the Buckeye’s Evan Turner took the inbounds pass and turned to dribble. Nearly 3.2 seconds later he hit a game-winning three-pointer to give the Buckeyes [read more...]

Notes: ESPN’s and the Press’ Silence Following Greenberg’s “Martin Luther Coon King” Statement Can Now Be Understood (and more)

Danica Patrick's #7 car after her crash in Las Vegas. First up a couple of more acrcane sporting mentions… The Danica Patrick-NASCAR experiment is over for the next four months. After three NASCAR Nationwide Series races, Ms. Patrick is headed back to Indy cars for the next four months. How did she do in her first foray into the 21st century version [read more...]

Tiger Woods, the Aftermath

The 12-step program for Co-Dependents of Sexual Addicts reads: 1. We admitted we were powerless over compulsive sexual behavior — that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God. 4. Made [read more...]

Short Notes – and even shorter thoughts: NBA Trade Talk; UConn in Peril; Warrant for Landis

By hook or by crook Canada wins a Gold. A promising sports weekend with multiple events at once —- stunk. -The NBA All-Star game was a dud. Over 100,000 people – 108,713 to be exact – witnessed one of the more boring All-Star games – and weekends – in recent NBA history. Deron Williams lost track of the score with the game [read more...]

Wait Wait Wait…. WTF did Mike Greenberg Say?!

The one morning I missed this fool he says this?! Believe me, there’s more to come…. …the “more to come…. Robert Littal of Black Sports Online is willing to give Mike Greenberg the benefit of the doubt? Littal writes: Mike Greenberg needs to address this immediately and not just with an apology, but an explanation of how it happened. Words like “Coon” are not [read more...]

Congrats to Alabama; Jim Leavitt Fired; Tech Alums Irate Over Leach Firing

Colt McCoy sits dejectedly on the bench after being knocked from the BCS Championship game. Congratulations to Alabama for their 37-21 win over Texas in the BCS Championship game ——– I guess. Though some alleged pundits want to downplay Colt McCoy’s getting knocked out of the game on Texas’ fifth play (Rob Parker), his leaving the game obviously took the air from [read more...]

NFL Week 17: Weak Games Act As Playoff Lead-In; All Wild Card Games Are Regular Season Rematches

Jay Ratliff and Wade Phillips celebrate Dallas' shutout victory over Philadelphia. The hottest team in the NFC is actually Dallas instead of Philadelphia, The hottest thing in the AFC was Lamarr Woodley’s mouth. In Seattle, the Seahawks wanted to make sure Tennessee running back did not get to 2, 000 yards on them, this after Seattle’s defense looked completely disinterested in [read more...]

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