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.
And, yes, Duke plays quality basketball with high school All-Americans, proving that high school All-Americans can play hard and fundamentally sound.
But we have Michigan State, again carrying the banner of economy-batter Michigan, a program that is an elite one because of defense and work ethic and no one-and-dones.
We have West Virginia, also known as West Jersey, a team with city kids who have become adoptees of a rural state that loves its flagship university's sports.
And we have Butler, whose home is a shrine in TV sports movie history, the site of the legendary state championship game back in the 50s between Hickory and South Bend Central.
Will somebody please leave a ticket at will-call for Norman Dale?
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS
I'm guessing that the Braves will sell more tickets in the general right field area than anybody in baseball.
Heyward's Hounds? Jason's Junkies? ...
Will there be some entrepreneur who will shuttle golf fans back and forth from Augusta to Atlanta, where on of Tiger's Tarts is performing at the Pink Pony.
Between Tiger's Tarts and Jesse James' Jezebels, apparently skank is making a comeback.
And Madonna is due an album. ...
WVU will be America's Team for the semifinal against Dickie, er, Duke.
Duke spokesman and ESPN announcer Dick Vitale went off on Devil haters a little bit Sunday night, and it was what it was.
Vitale blindly loves Duke and its coach and has forever, so such a sermon is easily tuned out, especially by those in the coaching business. There are no halos hovering over Cameron Indoor.
One reason for Duke-hating, Dick, is blind Duke-defending.
Of course, let's be honest. Vitale loves everything that is college basketball, pure and simple. It is unconditional, intense and genuine, and that's not a bad thing. ...
Urban Meyer has apologized for his juvenile hissy fit toward an Orlando Sentinel writer.
Privately. In a 20-minute conversation. After a public tantrum.
Doesn't he kind of owe an apology in general? ...
There are still 14 men's basketball openings, including Charlotte, which dumped a 218-158 coach in Bobby Lutz a few weeks ago and is still looking.
Tom Izzo is 55 and a Michigan guy. He's not going to Oregon, which fired Ernie Kent (235-173). And nothing against Oregon, but the Ducks are allegedly offering the biggest contract in history with Nike money – speaking of skanky - so it makes one pull against ‘em. …
Mercer is up to 135 in two main college baseball RPIs, which is fourth-best in the A-Sun and in the state. ...
It's a new world on a football field in Tallahassee, observes Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel:
"Jimbo Fisher, before his first practice as FSU's coach earlier this week, cracked that Bobby Bowden's old coaching tower might make a good deer stand.
"Geez, Jimbo, you've already knocked off Daddy Bowden; now you want to take out Bambi's mother?"
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.
And, yes, Duke plays quality basketball with high school All-Americans, proving that high school All-Americans can play hard and fundamentally sound.
But we have Michigan State, again carrying the banner of economy-batter Michigan, a program that is an elite one because of defense and work ethic and no one-and-dones.
We have West Virginia, also known as West Jersey, a team with city kids who have become adoptees of a rural state that loves its flagship university's sports.
And we have Butler, whose home is a shrine in TV sports movie history, the site of the legendary state championship game back in the 50s between Hickory and South Bend Central.
Will somebody please leave a ticket at will-call for Norman Dale?
LOUGHDMOUTHINGS
I'm guessing that the Braves will sell more tickets in the general right field area than anybody in baseball.
Heyward's Hounds? Jason's Junkies? ...
Will there be some entrepreneur who will shuttle golf fans back and forth from Augusta to Atlanta, where on of Tiger's Tarts is performing at the Pink Pony.
Between Tiger's Tarts and Jesse James' Jezebels, apparently skank is making a comeback.
And Madonna is due an album. ...
WVU will be America's Team for the semifinal against Dickie, er, Duke.
Duke spokesman and ESPN announcer Dick Vitale went off on Devil haters a little bit Sunday night, and it was what it was.
Vitale blindly loves Duke and its coach and has forever, so such a sermon is easily tuned out, especially by those in the coaching business. There are no halos hovering over Cameron Indoor.
One reason for Duke-hating, Dick, is blind Duke-defending.
Of course, let's be honest. Vitale loves everything that is college basketball, pure and simple. It is unconditional, intense and genuine, and that's not a bad thing. ...
Urban Meyer has apologized for his juvenile hissy fit toward an Orlando Sentinel writer.
Privately. In a 20-minute conversation. After a public tantrum.
Doesn't he kind of owe an apology in general? ...
There are still 14 men's basketball openings, including Charlotte, which dumped a 218-158 coach in Bobby Lutz a few weeks ago and is still looking.
Tom Izzo is 55 and a Michigan guy. He's not going to Oregon, which fired Ernie Kent (235-173). And nothing against Oregon, but the Ducks are allegedly offering the biggest contract in history with Nike money – speaking of skanky - so it makes one pull against ‘em. …
Mercer is up to 135 in two main college baseball RPIs, which is fourth-best in the A-Sun and in the state. ...
It's a new world on a football field in Tallahassee, observes Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel:
"Jimbo Fisher, before his first practice as FSU's coach earlier this week, cracked that Bobby Bowden's old coaching tower might make a good deer stand.
"Geez, Jimbo, you've already knocked off Daddy Bowden; now you want to take out Bambi's mother?"
No comments:
Post a Comment