Since this is a country founded on the principle of independence, I would just hope that all the congressmen and women who voted against today’s healthcare bill please show THEIR independence by resigning their government-paid healthcare?
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Cornell enters the Sweet Sixteen as one of the biggest surprises, and probably without a lot of money bet on [...]
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Independence day?
March 22, 2010Brackets – flat out broke and busted…
March 21, 2010-
Obama’s speech to congressional Democrats today is already being considered one of the best of his presidency. Who’d a thunk yesterday that the President’s healthcare plan would be looking better than his brackets? (Obama picked Kansas to win it all.)
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Lots of headlines about the Northern Iowa upset of Kansas, calling it the biggest “underdog” victory [...]
The first weekend of Madness.
March 20, 2010Heady times in Northern California. In the NCAA tournament The Cal Bears beat Louisville, and St Mary’s knocked off Richmond.
But then there’s always the reality check known as the Golden State Warriors. Who managed to lose to San Antonio 147 to 116.
Actually Cal and Washington both advanced. As someone who has watched some [...]
Busted brackets…
March 19, 2010How bad a day was it for sports fans who had Big East teams going deep into the tournament? Some of them are so upset that tomorrow they might actually use their office computers for work.
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Three teams (Georgetown, Marquette and Notre Dame) upset in the first round, and Villanova barely escaped. Who knew that [...]
Post St. Patty’s toast…
March 18, 2010Still in the Irish spirit, here’s a toast…
“May your troubles last as long as your perfect March Madness brackets.”
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Serious thought – yes, I have them occasionally – on the eve of March Madness. Want to raise the abysmal graduation rates for NCAA D1 basketball? Tie scholarships to the number of previous year’s graduations.
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Not sure if [...]
St. Patrick’s Day…
March 17, 2010Where single men go out and pretend they are Irish, while also pretending that they don’t normally drink that much. Plus, since it’s March Madness, many of them will claim they know more about basketball than simply filling out random brackets. And then most of them will complain that “women don’t understand the real [...]
Longshot bets.
March 16, 2010Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner had their first debate Monday night, in front of an organization of Republican donors who pay a $10,000 annual membership fee. Or as the GOP calls them “the middle class.”
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David Beckham had successful tendon surgery which means there is a chance, a very slim chance, but a chance that [...]
Not-so-happy hour…
March 15, 2010That’s how NCAA bubble teams felt about selection Sunday when they found out their names weren’t on the list.
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But really, for teams like Illinois, Mississippi State, Virginia Tech, etc., I have two comments:
First, realistically the last teams in are the first teams out. So it’s not like the committee deprived any of these schools [...]
Approaching March madness…
March 13, 2010In fact, if you are reading this, shouldn’t you be working on your brackets?
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NCAA men’s basketball has been criticized for becoming basically a “one and done” rest stop for players on their way to the NBA. But there have been so many conference tournament upsets, which basically invalidated so many regular season results, that you [...]
Ducks in the Soup.
March 13, 2010Oregon running back LaMichael James has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for a domestic violence charge. And quarterback Jeremiah Massoli has pled guilty to second-degree burglary. Plus several other Ducks have been involved in “police incidents” this winter, some of them with charges pending. With all the different uniforms the Oregon football [...]
Go Cardinal…
March 12, 2010Actually, for the men’s basketball team most of this year it’s been “Go, please go. Far away.” But they have moments…like tonight.
Stanford men’s basketball team, 13-17, faced ASU, 22-9 in the opening game of the Pac 10 tournament, after having been swept by the Sun Devils in the regular season. And the Cardinal [...]
New York, New York…
March 11, 2010More and more staffers keep coming forward regarding alleged groping and harrassment in New York Congressman Rick Massa’s office. If this keeps up future similar incidents may be known as “Massa-bation.”
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At first the allegations against Massa came from only one male staffer. But the additional complaints change things – it is no longer just [...]
Special delivery?
March 10, 2010A 32 year old Kentucky woman , who says she didn’t know she was pregnant, successfully delivered her own baby in her laundry room today. Then the new mom even picked her other son up from school before she went with the baby to the hospital.
No, we don’t need sex education in school. Why?
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With [...]
The Hurt Locker and beyond….
March 9, 2010This year’s best picture winner, “The Hurt Locker” took in only $14 million at the box office. Which I think might be less than taking your family to a game in seats behind home plate at Yankee Stadium.
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“The Hurt Locker” took in only $14 million at the box office. Which could mean that more people [...]
And the award goes to…
March 8, 2010On Oscar night Americans always learn two things- First, the names of the winners of a number of awards. Second, with most most of the attendees wearing outfits that cost at least five figures (before jewelry), that money absolutely cannot buy taste.
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So congrats to Kathryn Bigelow, who won both best director and best picture for [...]
Pre Oscar thoughts….
March 7, 2010As with every year, while there were some excellent movies and performances nominated, there have also been significant omissions.
For example, in the acting category…why no nominations for…
Mark McGwire – for “I didn’t take steroids to help me hit homeruns.”
Bud Selig, for saying the era of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball is over. (And [...]
World records beyond the Olympics…
March 6, 2010Snuggies were placed on every seat in Cleveland’s arena before the Pistons-Cavaliers game, and fans were asked to put them on. Guinness World Records then certified it as the largest number of people wearing fleece blankets at once. The true uncertified record, however, probably still stands – any Giants-Dodgers night game at Candlestick Park.
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On the [...]
Sarah, we hardly knew ye…. Those were the good old days.
March 5, 2010Sarah Palin is apparently shopping a proposal around for her own reality television show. This might mark the first time that “Sarah Palin” and “reality” have ever been used in the same sentence.
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The reality show is being pitched as a series of one hour episodes. Which will all abruptly end after 38 minutes.
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Barry Zito hit [...]
Reality shows and unreal news…
March 4, 2010Peyton Manning reportedly had surgery to repair a pinched nerve. Actually, many people consider any kind of nerve surgery “karmic,” as for years the quarterback’s commercials have been getting on their last one.
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Charles Rangel, David Paterson, Eliot Spitzer. Just who do they think they are in New York. Chicagoans?
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Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad [...]
From medals to bubbles….
March 3, 2010How fickle are sports fans? In America the only numbers that matter have gone from US medal count of 37 to figuring out 64-65 teams in brackets.
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Canada is still celebrating their gold medal in hockey. American sorrow and depression over the loss can be summed up in one word – “whatever.”
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The San Jose [...]
