Word on the street is that John Edwards swung by Barristers last night to watch the Duke-VCU game, and he and his entourage were cheering loudly when VCU hit that last second shot to win. A presidential candidate openly cheering against Duke? That is a guy I will go to the wall with. If he needs any volunteers for his campaign in Philly, tell him to look me up.
Liveblogging the tourney
Alright, so I’m gonna write about the early games as they happen. LIVE!!! Holy cow, the future is here. (Btw, I totally stole this idea from D-Mac, but there is nothing he can do to stop me.) Here goes:
12:41: Why is our game Georgia Tech vs. UNLV? In 1990, this would have been an AWESOME game, but now I really don’t care. I wanna see North Texas, who is beating Memphis 17-11. I did wanna see UVA, but that game is a blowout, 33-14.
12:45: Do you ever notice that this is the pre-eminent sports tournament of the year, and the stands are always completely empty for the first round games? Can someone explain that to me?
12:50: I’m glad that they’ve got the 2nd whitest black man* in America in the studio, Greg Gumbel. I think he has the all-time record for most hours spent in front of a television camera without ever once saying something interesting or informative. I’ve gone to the NCAA on Demand feature on Cbssportsline.com to watch North Texas and Memphis. It’s like watching a game on Youtube, but this Tech-UNLV game sucks.
*Bryant Gumbel is number one. Michael Jackson recently slipped to third.
12:53: Bill Raftery just said, his voice progressively rising, “His derriere has the presence, the power, the prowess to take it to the tin.” Bill Raftery, by the way, is my favorite announcer in all of sports. I’m not kidding. I love that guy. HE KICKS BILLY PACKERS SORRY ASS!!!!!
12:58: I wish Bill Raftery was my grandfather.
1:03: I wish Billy Packer was Dimeo’s grandfather.
1:04: I bet Billy Packer eats at Applebee’s all the time.
The Week in Review
Flew back in on Sunday, then went and played quizzo at Dark Horse on Monday and suffered a painful defeat. Finally got back into the swing of things on Tuesday at O’Neals, where the Young, the Old and the Restless shredded the competition, scoring 100 while the Number of Hula Chicks I Lei’d Last Week Is 74, finishing 2nd.
Can you answer the 5 toughest questions of the week? Read on.
I am an idiot
Duke in the Elite 8? They screw me even when they lose. What was I thinking? I hate myself. Oh yeah, and George Washington in the Sweet 16? Brilliant call, Goodtimes. Too bad they lost by 33 points. Our leaders after Day 1 are Indiana all the Way and Hoop Dreams, who both picked 15 out of 16 correctly.
Live Blogging Manana
Yo peeps. I’m gonna give a running commentary of the NCAA tourney tommorrow for the early games. Hope you’ll tune in. Oh, and glad that the NCAA decided to snub Mid majors like Drexel and Appalachian State so that deserving teams like Stanford could get in. They really put up an impressive fight in falling behind by 30 in the first half to Louisville.
Around the Horn
-Is it just me, or has Angelina Jolie gone from hottest woman in America to least attractive other than Tori Spelling in like two years? She looks like an alien with a broken jaw.
-Just because I stare longingly at George Bretts crotch doesn’t make me gay.
–Saturday is officially Hall and Oates Day in Philly. What? I can’t go for that, No, I-I-I-I-I-I, I can’t go. I can’t go for that.
–Jessica Simpson wants a baby. Which is kind of a coincidence, b/c I kind of want her to have my baby. What the hell, Jessica, let’s go for it!
The Metro article
Here’s the link to my article in this week’s Metro about getting fired.
Remember this one?
Here’s the highlight reel following that epic 1987 game between Indiana and Syracuse. I’ll never forget that game, with Steve Alford and Keith Smart vs. Rony Seikaly and Sherman Douglas. Give it a minute to start after the Hoosiers cut down the net. As for my favorite NCAA moment, I dunno, it might have been when Bo Kimble shot those left handed free throws and Loyola Marymount went on that improbably run to the FInal 8. I hate Laettner (who should have been kicked out of that game), and I have no love for NC State either, so I don’t really care about that one. Another game I remember was the West Virginia-Wake Forest game from a couple of years ago. That’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. And that Kentucky game where that guys three pointer hung on the rim for like 5 seconds. Any tourney memories you have?
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Around the Horn
–Sylvester Stallone gets busted for 48 vials of HGH. I can’t understand why people are upset about this. I mean, ROCKY DOESN’T REALLY EXIST. He’s a movie character. Who cares if he’s using HGH? It’s not cheating. I don’t think Clubber Lang is like, “Bulls***! I would have killed that guy if he wasn’t cheating!”
–Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott just had a baby. The baby is expected to look like Nancy Grace and be remarkably devoid of talent.
–Al Gore takes some heat in the scientific community for his global warming film. I still can’t understand the backlash against it. I mean, what if we take precautionary measures, and, uh, pollute the air a lot less? Who’s really against that?
-The Israeli ambassador to El Salvador has been removed: El Salvador police found Raphael in the yard of his residence, tied up, gagged with a ball and drunk, Israeli media reported. El Salvador sounds fun.
Devastating Loss at Dark Horse
Yeah, so last night I put together a fairly impressive team and set off for the Dark Horse to put Palestra Jon in his place. The team consisted of me, D-Mac, Smackdown, Trivia Art, and our buddy Jacques. Yep, three bloggers on the same team. The epitome of kool (with a K). Our team name was “We Mugged the 101 Year Old Lady”. We had attitude. We jokered Round One and got it perfect. After a so-so round two, we took the lead in the Speed Round by handing our paper in first. So we had a lead going into the final round. Then we crashed and burned. On two questions we really ate a sandwich. Both entirely my fault. For “What are the two longest running plays in Broadway history”, I thought Cats and Phantom of the Opera were too easy, so I went with Cats and Mousetrap. Then, on who is the oldest Hall of Fame baseball player still alive, I wrote down Yogi Berra, even though Jacques tried to convince me it was Phil Rizzuto. It was Phil Rizzuto. We lost by two to Palestra Jon’s team and finished 2nd. I’m still pissed. Damnit!