Final Four is fabulous

    Let us celebrate a Final Four that yet again proves TV analogies and hype - which fans buy into blindly - as off-the-mark as a Shack free throw.
    OK, we're stuck with Duke, but like the Yankees, Notre Dame, Lakers/Knicks, etc., it's a chance to watch the Dookies lose on a national scale.

In search of: Meyer's marbles

    Urban Meyer is in serious jeopardy of passing Lane Kiffin.
    Florida's head football coach went off on a sportswriter - it's heresy, I tell ya - for a remarkably innocuous comment made by a player.
    Meyer all but threatened the Orlando Sentinel's Jeremy Fowler, denigrated him, and pretty much made Kiffin look like a statesman.

NCAA, academics, the tournament, and apathetic parents

    Players in the NCAA tournament were no doubt eager to read about the discussions regarding academics, and tournament eligibility based on graduation rates.
    They’d have read about them when the debates started, but what with travel and practice, they didn’t have any time.
    Here we are in the most travel-heavy month of the college sports season – other than, well, all of college baseball – and there’s talk on one hand of expanding the tournament and talk on the other hand of basing eligibility on academics on the other.
    Man, those hands must be tired.
Graduation rates are a nice talking point, and it’s a nice thought, but it’s also little misguided.
    A degree isn’t as relevant as education, as desire, as attention spans, as integrity, as wanting to go to bed at least a wee bit more knowledgeable than when you got up.
 

Heeere's Mikey: The Debut

      Here it is, one man's non-Facebook, non-AOL, non-Myspace, non-Yahoo Messenger, non-iPhone, not-Twit entry into the world with this here, bl, nope, not saying it. Not using the B word.
      It's an onliiine colummmn. Not blog. Not logging anything. It's not a diary, or journal.
      Online column. Not everything on the friggin Net is a blog. A story is a story, a column is a column, etc. just like in the paper. Simply put "online" in front of it.