Approaching March madness…
In 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 have to wonder – has college basketball basically become the NBA?
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Carly Fioriana has now compared her Republican primary opponent Tom Campbell to a “demon sheep,” and Democratic senator Barbara Boxer to a giant blimp. Her former employees at HP grudgingly admit, however, that the campaign is a step up from staff meetings – where she referred to her critics as “doo-doo heads.”
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Natalie Randolph, a former player herself, was named head varsity football coach at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School in Washington D.C. This will make her Washington’s highest profile coach of an amateur football team. Well, besides Mike Shanahan of the Redskins.
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Utah’s House majority leader Kevin Garn has resigned. This was only two days after he admitted being nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago. No word on his future plans, though Garn may consult on a movie about the story, filmed by Roman Polanski.
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Matt Stairs, 42, is hoping to make the San Diego Padres roster this year, which will give him the record amongst position players for playing for the most major league baseball teams. 11 – plus the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Actually, Stairs is so old he can remember when the Pittsburgh Pirates WERE a major league baseball team.
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