Welcome back for another installment of "I can't get back that 10 minutes of my life". If you hadn't heard, the final four has descended upon Houston this week. Typically this time of the year, we are wondering how Cinderella could keep the party going just one more game and possibly win the whole thing. This year, Cinderella brought her sister (and I'm not talking about Spinderella from salt-n-pepa). Every few years we see a non-powerhouse college make it to the final four, but seeing 1/2 of the final four represented by the likes of Butler and VCU brings about the obvious point. The talent in college basketball is more watered down than a happy hour shot of patron at the bowling alley. Butler was a Cinderella team last year, lost their ONLY NBA worthy player to the draft....and made it back? How's that possible? People were ready to boycott the tournament behind the fact that VCU aka the last team selected, made the tournament and now they are in the semifinals. Realistically, I think the winner of the Uconn/Kentucky game will dominate them in the championship game. However, I will be pulling for the "right" side of the bracket and hope vcu/butler can keep the glass slipper on 1 more night and win the whole thing. Then maybe the NBA and NCAA will finally do what's best for the quality of both leagues and change the NBA eligibility requirements from 1 to 2 years minimum of college. Until then, every NBA draft reminds me of Chris Rock's line after showing up to a bar late at night.... "I feel sorry for those guys who gotta pick a wife outta this bunch."
Side note, if anybody is keeping up with Dancing with the stars, shoot me a message when Ralph Maccio breaks out the crane. Either that or when another contestant decides to sweep the leg! 20 to 1 that one of those will happen.
I leave you with this finish of a foreign basketball game I saw a week or so ago. I have so many questions after watching this. Was his son playing? Did he have money on it? Did he NOT have a co-announcer? Would he have had anything left if the game went into OT?
Welcome back after a long hiatus off of blogging. I'm not sure what "person" that last sentence is in...if there are any English majors out there feel free to let me know. It is with a heavy heart that I attempt to pound out this blog. My beloved football (NFL) will potentially be shortened or non existent this upcoming year. Think of the fantasy, Sunday/Monday, and Madden video game implications! The average person finds it hard to understand how a 9 billion dollar a year (let me put that in numbers for you...9,000,000,000) corporation can't figure out how to split up the funds without coming to this. This = the NFL owners locking out the players. The main issues at hand are the owners want more return on their investment, 2 extra regular season games, and an adjusted rookie pay scale (aka the Jamarcus Russell rule). The players would like to remain close to the current structure which includes them getting 60% of the revenue while somehow figuring out how to compensate its injured and retired players with better health coverage/benefits. As a result of this stalemate, the NFL Players union disbanded and 10 players (including Brady, Manning, Brees) have filed suit against the NFL in hopes to prevent them from being locked out for the upcoming season. I'm no longer holding my breath for a normal season and will start reading up on "Pottery for Dummies"...or idiots if you will.
If you didn't fall asleep after reading that, NCAA tourney time is upon us. For those of you (like myself) who will figure out ways to watch this while at work...be advised, this year the games will be on a myriad of channels (aside from the usual CBS only) so you can choose which games you want to watch in it's entirety. Check your local listings...starts 3/15. I've filled out my bracket of integrity. You should put about as much faith in this playing out as I'm predicting as you would in Charlie Sheen making a coherent sentence during an interview.
I ran across this video, well it ran across me...I found it to be of the car wreck variety where you don't want to look but you can't stop looking. FYI, maybe you shouldn't watch while eating lunch.
