Left Coast Sports Babe

While all #1 seeds made it to Sweet Sixteen, the only #1 seed left in NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament is Virginia, the #1 seed who was the first two be bounced by a #16 seed last year. Just like we all predicted.

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Chicago Cubs bullpen has an ERA over 10.00 in first three games. SF Giants have scored five runs in four games. Almost a shame Cubs don’t play Giants soon… in the “something”s gotta give” category.

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At least we DO know SF Giants are not going to go 0-162.

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Andrew Luck married his longtime girlfriend this weekend in Prague. Congratulations to both of them. But as a mom can I hope he trimmed his beard for the ceremony and pictures?

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Not that I can program it but thinking a million-dollar app might be one that on the last calendar day of ANY quarter automatically blocks all political fundraising emails.

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Rolling Stones have postponed US tour due to health problems involving Mick Jagger. What, doctors are afraid his fans might break something jumping up and down at this point?

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As a travel agent can’t wait for Monday now when clients ask me which is my favorite Mexican country?

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Trump says closing the border is “going to be a profit-making operation.”. Right. Like Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

But who was going to pay?  North Mexico? South Mexico? East Mexico or West Mexico?   This is SO confusing.

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Kellyanne Conway on Fox News this am, trashing Joe Biden, “I think (he) has a big problem here because he calls it affection and handshakes, his party calls it completely inappropriate…”
Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

Is Joe Biden my 1st choice for 2020? No. Am I against sexual harassment?. Yes. Do I believe Biden has cheated on either his of his wives or ever deliberately sexually harassed anyone. Also no.

The Giants Score A Run! The Giants Score A Run!

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And SF Giants after 2 games do have 1/3 as many home runs at Paul Goldschmidt did in one night.

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I love Renel Brooks-Moon, but she is NOT as NBC Sports Bay Area tonight said “the first woman baseball PA announcer.” Sherry Davis was that. #SFGiants

Anyone else beginning to think God has Duke in His or Her March Madness brackets?

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That moment when you say “Who’d have imagined that Auburn could beat UNC. And then you remember filling out that cat bracket.

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Warriors forward Jordan Bell got suspended one game for “charging a candle to assistant coach Mike Brown’s hotel bill.” He has apologized and said it was intended to be “funny.”
Two thoughts – 1. To earn a suspension, it must have been a heck of a fancy candle 2. Good thing Bell is better at basketball than he is at comedy.

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Greg Schiano just resigned from Patriots, saying he wants to spend more time on his “faith and family.” So let’s see a revelation from Penn State or Ohio State days? Or who has “something new and different” in the pool?

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Yet another tourist fell while trying to take a picture and getting too close to the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Maybe they should change the warning signs to something saying “Darwin Awards available here.”

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Crowds at Trump’s Michigan rally last night joined in a chant of “AOC sucks.”  Melania’s “Be Best” campaign is working SO well.

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Trump says he’s going to close Southern border next week unless Mexico stops ALL illegal immigration. So how’s that “Space Wall” going to work with airplanes?

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It’s such an “national emergency” that Trump says “it’s likely he’ll be closing the Southern border next week.  But first he needed to start his golf weekend early this afternoon.

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So what happens when someone explains to Trump what “does not exonerate him” means?

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Donald Trump in Michigan tonight, on wind power “If it doesn’t blow, you can forget about television for that night. I know a lot about wind.” Wind? No. Hot air. Definitely.

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From my funny friend Alex Kaseberg, on actor Jussie Smollett’s big week: “He had his 16 charges of staging a hate crime dropped. And today he was accepted to UCLA on a women’s soccer scholarship.”

Three of the nicest words in the English language “Baseball is back!” Happy Opening Day.

So SF Giants did get shut out on Opening Day in San Diego. On a brighter note, they didn’t get no-hit. #smallmercies

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Meanwhile Bryce Harper went 0-3 in his Phillies debut. So maybe Giants fans can console themselves – signing him wouldn’t have helped?

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Meanwhile Dodgers hit eight home runs in their opening day game.  Begging the question, by the time Los Angeles comes to AT&T Park on April 29, will SF have hit 8 home runs by then?

Texas Tech 24. Michigan 16 at halftime. Did NCAA not tell us preseason was starting early for football?

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Seriously though, four teams tonight scored under 60 points and one of those teams actually won. Thinking not only are these one-and-dones not going to class, they’re not learning to shoot a basketball either.

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Trump says no man has been better for Puerto Rico than he has. He could be right. Having no US president during hurricane couldn’t have been worse.

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Winning $768 million Powerball ticket sold in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Wonder what winner will do with money, after moving out of New Berlin, Wisconsin?

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On a brighter note Donald Trump did say now Special Olympics WILL be funded by his administration. How long until he blames Democrats and takes credit for saving it.

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Trump is as ready with a replacement for Obamacare as he is ready to release his tax returns.

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Jared Kushner today talking to Senate Intelligence Committee. This might be the first time “Jared Kushner” and “Intelligence” have been used in the same sentence.

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Too early to predict if Cory Booker will be Democratic nominee in 2020 – but how nice to hear positive adult town hall last night with policy ideas instead of another bullying Trump  ranting rally.

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Mueller’s report is more than 300 pages. Which means judging it on Barr’s four-page letter is like judging Harry Potter by the jacket blurb…written by Voldemort.

All the craziness in the US won’t go away this morning. On the other hand, it will be Opening Day. So all will be righter with the world.

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We all know real reason that Trump won’t throw out first pitch for Nationals Thursday. Game will be televised & we’d all see he wouldn’t be able to get baseball to home plate.

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AAF is threatening to fold.
And millions of Americans are going “The what?”

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Betsy DeVos is slamming media claiming they “spun up falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts” about her cuts, but then said she DOES favor eliminating Special Olympics funding because it enjoys “robust support from private donations.”
Some wondered why Trump appointed Betsy, now thinking if she were younger and prettier he would have married her.

And who’d a thunk we’d miss “thousand points of light?”

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Cory Booker –  “I would rather hang out with a nice atheist than a mean Christian any day of the week.”

My sense is Jesus would agree.

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A President who can’t resist retweeting even the least respected sources when they praise him would have already released entire Mueller report if it exonerated him. Period.

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Wait a minute, Mike Pence talking today how “the first woman and the next man on the moon will be American.” Uh, wait, and how would they be able to go into the Lunar module and for a moon walk together without chaperones. Does Mother know?

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How will we really know when Trump figures out how badly he miscalculated on getting rid of the ACA? There’ll be another caravan.

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Verified account @PeteButtigieg

For at least the 2019 season, pass interference — both offensive and defensive — will be reviewable.

And as a friend says, wanna bet the first call goes against New Orleans?

Though, seriously, as much as sports is serious, this from ESPN “NFL’s internal analysis also examined the impact of pass interference fouls that were later graded to be incorrect by the league’s officiating department. Between 2016 and 2018, 10.5 percent of incorrect calls were for defensive pass interference. But 24 of those plays ranked among the top 50 in impact on win probability. In other words, 10.5 percent of all incorrect calls represented nearly 50 percent of the incorrect calls that most hindered (or helped) a team’s chances to win.”

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NFL coaches voted 32-0 to expand replay coverage to allow some non-calls to be reviewed.
Heck, even Sean McVay figures next time it might happen to his Rams.

And in the owners vote, only Cincinnati voted against it. Because the Bengals can’t imagine getting close enough to another Super Bowl for it to matter?

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Four tweets from Trump this morning about Washington Capitals and captain Alex Ovechkin’s Stanley Cup Championship visit to White House. Well to be fair, this is only the second time a team in the Oval Office has been led by a Russian.

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Pablo Sandoval’s last AB for SF Giants better not be that silly strikeout in pouring rain. Just saying.

SF Giants are not sold out for Opening Day next Friday. Who’d a thunk fans wouldn’t pay sky-high “dynamic pricing” for tickets to watch that traditional rivalry between the Giants and… Tampa Bay Rays?

Robert Kraft is pleading not guilty for soliciting prostitution, and wants a jury trial. He does realize that, even without upcoming NFL rule change, that DOES mean video review?

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Betsy DeVos, defending her proposed $18 million cuts to Special Olympics “We had to make some difficult decisions.”
Well, yeah, $18 million per, Government Accountability Office, WILL pay for about five Trump Mar-A-Lago golf weekends.

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Mike Pence has announced goal of putting a man on the moon by 2024. Building that bridge to the 20th century?

“Be calm. Take a deep breath. Don’t become like them. (The GOP.) We have to handle this handle this professionally, officially, patriotically, strategically.
Let’s just get the goods.”
Nancy Pelosi to Democratic caucus this am.   You Go Girl..

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Meanwhile seems pretty clear, Trump will publicly claim he wants things released, but privately tell Barr & GOP “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome report?”#ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport

NFL will forgo usual opening-night matchup in which Super Bowl winner hosts Thursday Night Football, and instead open with Packers-Bears.
Is this league’s way of admitting Saints were robbed?

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Gronkowski’s agent said today Rob “is still a very young man. It wouldn’t shock me if he has a change of heart” on retirement.
“The first time is the hardest” responded Brett Favre.

Rainy sixth inning of a 1-0 Spring Training. Monday night game between SF Giants and Oakland As….. And everyone left in the stands should get a free baseball or something. All ten of them.

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NY Mets, after finishing Florida Spring Training, chose to have final preseason workouts in Syracuse, where they have new Triple-A affiliate. Noah Syndergaard & others were not amused; thinking it would be much easier on team to return to New York City before Thurs. opener in DC against Nationals.
It’s below freezing in Syracuse, team plane is delayed several hours, and won’t arrive until midnight.
This could be most Mets way to start a season ever.

Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have both donated about 100,000 cans of drinking water to flooded communities in Iowa and Nebraska. Good for them. But Must. Not. Make. Bud. Light. And. Coors. Light. Jokes.

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Yale has rescinded admission of a student whose family paid $1.2 million to get her in. Wonder if they get their money back.

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Gosh, Fox News website even finds room for poisonous baby toads story in Florida but isn’t covering Trump administration now trying to strike down ALL the Affordable Care Act. Guess it’s not like Republicans have pre-existing conditions?

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Let’s be VERY clear here. GOP and Trump administration are trying to outlaw abortion as early as 6 weeks, before a woman might know she is pregnant, as well as in cases where the fetus has no chance to survive more than a few days.
But as to pre-natal care, or ICU costs for a severely-disabled dying baby, well, then we’re on our own.
Once again, pro-life my ass.

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Your reminder, nobody claimed Richard Nixon burglarized Watergate himself; the House voted to impeach for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress.

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So a President, a lawyer and a porn star walk into a bar. And the porn star is the only one who isn’t a punch line.

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Talking about the Mueller Report when we’ve only seen the Barr Letter is like reviewing a movie when you’ve only seen the trailer!

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MLK -“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” I believe that, but can it shorten up a little now?

Never been so bummed NOT to have my bracket busted  – with Duke UCF game.

Those last shots UCF came so close to going in, have to wonder if God had Duke in his/her bracket.

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LeBron James had his 8th triple-double of the season tonight, and said, “I know we’re out the playoff race, but if I’m on the court I’m going to play how I play, and I play to win. So, I will never cheat the game. There’s such a thing called ‘game gods.’ And they’re watching no matter what you’re doing, and it’s our obligation to go out and be a professional, and that’s what I’m about.”

If the “game gods” are “watching no matter what you’re doing” presume they were also watching when James tried to dump most of his team and get Anthony Davis?

Noah Syndergaard is criticizing NY’s contract talks with Jacob deGrom and complaining that team will stop in Syracuse after Spring Training, instead of New York City, to workout before Opening Day.
So season hasn’t started yet and already Mets are in midseason form.

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Jim Jordan speaking for GOP this morning because, hey, if you’ll turn a blind eye to sexual abuse of young men, you’ll have no problem ignoring obstruction of justice.

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Dr.Dre brags “My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time! And I’m sure the $70 MILLION donation Dre made six years ago had nothing to do with it.

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And why would anyone doubt Mueller Report interpretation of the AG that Trump installed because Jeff Sessions wasn’t enough of a toady.

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Trump fundraising email already. “the Mueller Report proves what I have been saying since Day One: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION — COMPLETE EXONERATION.”
Fine, go ahead, release the report.

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Trump is apparently thrilled with Barr’s statement on Mueller report. Quick, can someone ask Donald publicly while he’s in a good mood about releasing ENTIRE report to make him look even better?

While we wait for the release of actual Mueller report instead of the Barr letter, why aren’t people focusing on fact that even Barr doesn’t deny that the report confirms that Russia was actively interfering in our election on Trump’s behalf?

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Mueller did not leak. Mueller report WILL leak. Period.

Sweet Sixteen almost halfway set, and no team higher than a 5 seed is in. So has Cinderella chosen spring break over March Madness?

LSU’s Tremont Waters won game for the Tigers against Maryland with a great shot with 1.6 seconds left. Although replays showed he clearly traveled. Maybe it was just Waters’ way of proving he is NBA ready.

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Last night  San Antonio Spurs  had come back from 19 points down on the road to take a 6 point lead with 4 minutes remaining against Rockets,  and James Harden went on a tear to end up with 61 points in a Houston win.

Tonight Steph Curry took the night off and the Warriors lost by 35, at home to Dallas?   Maybe this is Steve Kerr’s way of suggesting Curry is the league’s real MVP?

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Robert Kraft has released a statement saying he is “truly sorry,” but still won’t accept a plea for the standard wrist slap given to men arrested for soliciting prostitution.
And NFL complains sometimes that players need to take responsibility.

Robert Kraft apparently feels he is not guilty because he thinks he didn’t commit a crime in paying for sex. And in truth, prostitution is legal in many places. So why isn’t Kraft also leading the fight on behalf of NFL players suspended for smoking marijuana?

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Over 2 million survivors of California wildfires and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria had personal information accidentally released by FEMA, including names, addresses, birthdays, bank names, transfer and transit numbers.
Waiting for Trump to say that recently resigned FEMA administrator Brock Long did a “heckuva job.”

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So the “witch” in this witch hunt has been silent all day on Twitter. Maybe Mueller Report really poured water on him?

Thoughts for the night.
1. Everyone thinks they know what’s in Mueller Report
2. Unless you’ve actually worked on the report with Mueller you have no clue.
Everybody exhale.

When former Duke star & eventual asst coach Johnny Dawkins became Stanford head coach, his son Aubrey soon started at Palo Alto High School. Tonight Johnny, now head coach at UCF, with Aubrey on team, won 1st round March Madness for the Knights against VCU.   Good for them both.  

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And wait. I thought West Coast college basketball, except for Gonzaga was supposed to be awful this year. #Oregon #UCIrvine #Washington.

In particular, guessing UC Irvine stores are about to sell out of anteater merchandise.

So did both  Duke and UNC watch the Virginia vs  GardnerWebb game and decide that as a one seed in 1st round you only need to show up in 2nd half?

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Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby not going to White House for Stanley Cup championship visit. “I have to stay true to my values. I’m going to respectfully decline the offer.” Waiting for Trump to say “Who needs a goalie anyway?”

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Robert Kraft was caught on video tape, TWICE, paying a woman for sex acts. But doesn’t want to accept lenient plea deal that involves admitting guilt. I liked ‘I had no idea those footballs were deflated” better.

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Trump has a problem. Now General Motors says they are going to hire 400 workers at a plant north of Detroit. But to build more ELECTRIC cars. Does he applaud? Or condemn them for harming his beloved oil industry?

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Steve King, bragging about Iowans being resilient and helping each other after recent floods, which killed three people in Nebraska and Iowa  –  “We go to a place like New Orleans, and everybody’s looking around saying, ‘Who’s going to help me? ”

Uh, 1833 people weren’t looking around saying “Who’s going to help me,” because they were, you know, dead.  #Katrina

Anyone on social media please take a chill pill on Mueller report until we find out what’s in it. At this only definite thing is that we WILL find out what’s in it. Mueller’s investigation was only thing in DC that didn’t leak.

Some Trump fans saying Mueller Report would vindicate him. Okay, fine, then release the report. ALL of it.

So it begins – 64 challengers down to 1. Non-sports fans might be forgiven to wonder if March Madness is latest name for the 2020 Democratic primary.

Think if you claim credit for a March Madness bracket upset you should at least, without Google, be able to identify where the school you picked is located.

Most exciting ending of kind of meh March Madness day one was New Mexico State down two at end of game and passing up easy game-tying layup against Auburn in favor of a potential game winning three. The guy got fouled. then missed 2 of 3 foul shots. A buzzer non-beater?

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Most impressive upset so far, #12 Murray State easily handling  #5 Marquette. Oh please oh please can someone ask Donald Trump about Murray State. Want to hear him brag about saying he won all Murray’s electoral votes.

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Wow, In honor of Murray State blowout of Marquette today, can we temporarily change lyrics of that Steve Miller song to “Crash like a (Golden) Eagle?”

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Lamont Smith, former men’s basketball coach at the University of San Diego, has resigned as assistant coach at UTEP after being accused in college admissions scandal.
Many at ACC and SEC schools are shocked, you mean a potential recruit actually paid a COACH?  #ManBitesDog

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A former intern in Cal athletic department has accused unnamed football players, coaches and staff members of sexual harassment. This is not how the Golden Bears wanted to join the ranks of big-time football programs.

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My #FloridaMan item with my birthday is just a man trying to steal an ice cream truck. Darn, that’s cold.

Apparently Trump wants Patriots owner Robert Kraft to join the team at the White House despite Kraft’s prostitution arrest. Well, not like Kraft did anything really embarrassing, like taking a knee.

So maybe Trump still wants  Kraft to visit White House after his arrest is that Donald wants to warn the Robert privately not to tell anyone who recommended Orchards of Asia?

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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, instead of vaccinating his nine children, exposed them all to chickenpox.
Nine children! Guessing he’s also against scientific methods to prevent STDs and pregnancy?.

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So I guess GOP would have been fine with Hillary Clinton using WhatsApp?

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As the Ethiopian Air crash investigation continues, your reminder that Obama’s FAA head left office in 2017, and Trump, who brags about not needing people in many roles that must be confirmed by the Senate, hadn’t nominated anyone until 2 days ago.

Donald Trump, who today called John McCain “horrible,”  said controversy over him insulting the dead war hero and Senator is all the media’s fault, saying, he doesn’t bring it up, but “When they ask me the question, I answer the question.”

Now Donald about those questions on your tax returns?

(and of course, the reason the media asks, is that Trump started this with a weekend tweet storm including insults against McCain.)

Sacramento Kings blew a 25 point lead after three quarters in losing to Brooklyn Nets Tuesday. Did they get a commiserating phone call from the Atlanta Falcons?

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Then Wednesday Spurs lost to the Heat  (after beating the Warriors Monday , the Thunder lost at home to the Raptors, and the Rockets lost to the Grizzles. So maybe most of the Western Conference just decided to take a day off.

Oh yeah,  and the Bucks lost to the Cavs.    Did a whole lot of teams suddenly get spring fever?

So what the heck is Donald Trump going to do Thursday so that Americans pay attention to him instead of March Madness

@DevinCow parody account now has more Twitter followers than Devin Nunes. Sometimes I love social media.

Okay folks, if we can unite behind a cow, we can unite behind our eventual Democratic presidential nominee! #DevinCow

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Washington Post printed a Charles Kusner op-ed where he defends himself & Jared.   The Post refers to Charles as “founder and principal of Kushner Companies, a diversified real estate company.” Guess Post didn’t have room in the description for “disbarred ex-con who hired prostitute to seduce his brother, videoed it and sent the tape to his sister.”

Kellyanne Conway, defending her boss against her husband “You think he shouldn’t respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder? You think he should just take that sitting down?””
Well, actually, many actual medical professionals HAVE accused Trump of having a mental disorder…

Today Donald Trump at a rally in Ohio is again attacking John McCain. And he’s not being booed. Hillary was right #deplorables

And hey,  the funeral John McCain got was one all decent Americans wanted him to have. He was admired, loved even, across the aisle.  Guess that explains why Trump is still upset about it.

And finally,  SOMEONE in the GOP Senate hasn’t completely sold their soul, today anyway, Thank you Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson (on Trump attacking McCain.) “It’s deplorable what he said. It will be deplorable seven months from now if he says it again, and I will continue to speak out because there’s one thing that we got to do. You may not like immigration, you may not like this, that, maybe a Republican, maybe a Democrat. We’re all Americans

Mike Trout reportedly finalizing 12-year deal to stay with Angels for more than $430 million. Meaning Bryce Harper was highest paid player for less than 3 weeks. Hope it was worth 13 years in Philadelphia.

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Would make for an interesting March Madness competition if we had to name  at least one player on any of our chosen teams.

USC says it may expel students whose admissions resulted from the bribery scandal. If only the young men and women had TRUE athletic talent, some school would certainly give them a second chance..

Yeah, it’s full of many imperfect characters, but for movies you suddenly discover on TV on a random night, there are few more warmhearted and fun to watch than “Love Actually,”

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Trump said to reporters today “I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be.” This sort of BS would never happen if Lindsey Graham were still alive.

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Wall Street Journal says National Enquirer paid $200,000 to get “intimate” texts between Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Wonder how much it would take to get some of Trump’s.

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Reuters reports Vladimir Putin just signed new Russian law imposing strict fines and possible jail time for publishing “fake news” and online comments that show “blatant disrespect” for the state.
Times like this make us glad we live in a democracy. Oops, never mind.

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Your reminder that at this point a year before primaries started the favorites in polling for 2016 GOP Presidential nomination were Jeb Bush and Scott Walker.

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And May 2015 polling for 2016 GOP Presidential nomination – 10% each, Bush, Carson, Huckabee, Rubio, Walker. 7% Paul, 6% Cruz, 5% Trump.

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There is a rumor that Joe Biden will pick Stacey Abrams as his VP running mate out of the gate. If he does that,  even Anita Hill might vote for him.

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Trump fundraising email of day ”
“MS-13 gang members are murdering our citizens, caravans are surging towards our borders, and terrorists are threatening our national security. THE TIME HAS COME TO FINISH THE WALL”
Let me rewrite it for him “I encourage my fellow Americans to send thoughts, prayers and donations to families innocent people killed by a REAL terrorist in New Zealand.”

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So many brilliant minds on Twitter, who’s going to make Trump even more upset than usual by starting #TrumpCow account?

It’s that time of year. When you’ve paid almost no attention to college basketball all year.so besides quickly filling out a bracket with Zion and Duke winning it all, you go “why not? And just do a second bracket – a cat bracket  #MarchMadness

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Some outrage over schools in March Madness with sub .500 records in their conferences. Makes sense, with records like that teams should only be eligible for NIT, or playoffs in NBA Eastern Conference.

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San Antonio Spurs just clinched their 22nd straight winning season. Knicks fans are going “What’s a winning season?”

NY Giants GM Dave Gettleman, discussing the OBJ trade “Really and truly, you can win while you’re building.” Well, yes, but how many games is he talking about winning?

(or he could be talking about winning next year’s #1 NFL draft pick.)

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Australia now barring any visitor with a domestic violence charge against women or children from entering the country. Well there go any potential future plans for NFL Australia.

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Clayton Kershaw apparently won’t be ready for Opening Day. SF Giants fans are thinking ‘Take your time, don’t rush back for any Dodgers-Giants series in April either.”

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For all those who think religious beliefs SHOULD allow an AirBnb host not to rent to a gay couple, hope they are also okay with owners demanding to see marriage licenses for straight couples.

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Now Trump is calling Joe Biden “another low I.Q. individual!?” So is Donald’s dementia so bad he now thinks Joe is a black woman?

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Donna Brazile is joining Fox News. Because network didn’t already have enough people who are anti-Hillary Clinton? #WTF?

Watching hardcore Trumpsters and MAGAers agree with EVERYTHING Trump tweets makes it sadly more and more understandable why Jim Jones’ followers at Jonestown drank that Kool-Aid.

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For those lucky enough not to have a parent who has had dementia, Sunday’s Trump tweets were what “sundowning” looks like.

I miss having a President who would have spent today with his family and then filling out his brackets.

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Some days I almost wish Donald Trump drank alcohol – then we could put tweet storms like this morning’s down to green beer for breakfast.

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Advantage of Selection Sunday for March Madness being on St. Patrick’s Day  is Americans can all blame their soon to be busted brackets on beer and whiskey.

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Greet Shirts saying ‘St Patty says Ban Dolan” were being sold out Madison Square Garden today, but security was reportedly confiscating them. Way to go owner James Dolan -, alienate the few fans Knicks have left.

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Alabama is one of bigger snubs in March Madness so will be be heading to NIT. A shame for the team, but Crimson Tide fans will be able to salve their wounds when they get picked for next year’s CFB playoffs.

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Lakers vs Knicks this morning. And at the beginning of the NBA season who had this as a significant game in the quest for a lottery pick?

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All you need to know about Lakers season in one sentence: After Los Angeles lost 11 point lead in last 3 1/2 minutes of game, LeBron James had his game winning shot blocked by Mario Hezonja of the Knicks.

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So Trump is demanding comedy shows that attack him be taken off the air, while the shows of people who defend him be put back on the air.

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Mick Mulvaney defended Trump as “not a white supremacist” and someone who stands up for “religious liberty, individual liberty.” And why would anyone think otherwise of a President who talks of an “invasion” and implemented a Muslim ban?

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Not sure which is worse, Donald Trump being his usual sad petty self and attacking John McCain? Or McCain’s best friend Lindsey Graham not defending him posthumously?

Glad to see the GOP today criticizing Trump’s senseless posthumous attacks on John McCain. Oh, wait, never mind, they’re mocking Beto O’Rourke on Twitter for an 20 year old DUI….

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How long until Donald Trump appoints possibly newly-unemployed Jeanine Piero as a federal judge?

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Of course I would vote for him as the nominee but.Joe Biden tonight “I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the … anybody who would run.” Anita Hill says “Hi.”

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Early days, but thinking about a possible Klobuchar Buttigieg ticket. And one slogan/bumper sticker ‘Amy and Pete – because no one can spell our last names.”

That moment when Chiefs were feeling really virtuous as a team about getting rid of  Kareem Hunt  #TyreekHill

Umpire Angel Hernandez ejected Astros manager AJ Hinch for allegedly arguing ball and strikes, after the first pitch, in the bottom of the first inning of Friday’s split-squad game against the Cardinals.

So even though it’s only spring training, guess Angel is in full umpire  “all about me” form.

Donald Trump has been so maniacally focused on being the center of attention recently, not completely joking when I ask “What will he do to take back the spotlight from March Madness?”

To be fair, maybe Trump felt he HAD to have his veto ceremony today because on Monday Americans will be focused on something far more important to millions of them – filling out March Madness bracket

In New York, the NCAA March Madness tournament at least gives Knicks fans something to argue about. – if eligible would the team be at least a 5 or 6 seed?

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And what WILL Trump do to recapture US attention when people who couldn’t tell you the difference between a two and three point play suddenly become college basketball addicts.

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Trump response to latest massacre by right-wing terrorist – “I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.” Trump response to a handful of crimes by immigrants – “It’s an invasion of our country.”

So when do we hear from the Bikers Against Trump contingent?

And five words Donald Trump really does not want to hear – ‘Rick Gates is still cooperating.”

White killer (or killers) with multiple Muslim fatalities in New Zealand. And Trump is promoting Breitbart on Twitter. I miss having a President.

But if we stop laughing, or being snarky,  the bad guys win.

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Starting in 2020, MLB teams will only have 28 man rosters in September, instead of current 40.  So 2019 is last chance for those who tune in to those late season games just to see 17 pitching changes….

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Cleveland Browns GM John Dorsey said OBJ’s talent outweighs his challenges. Yeah, that worked out so well with Johnny Manziel.

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Facebook “Yesterday, we made a server configuration change that triggered a cascading series of issues. As a result, many people had difficulty accessing our apps and services.” Sounds better than “oops, someone hit the wrong button.”

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Trump on Senate resolution against him “I don’t know what the vote will be, it doesn’t matter, I’ll probably have to veto.”
Does he think he will be able to do the same thing with 2020 election?

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Today Howard Schultz apologized for saying yesterday. “I probably have spent more time — in the last decade, certainly — than anyone running for president, with the military.”
Maybe he was talking about all the time members of the military have spent in lines at Starbucks?

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Trump fundraising email of the day “Liberals in the Senate just voted against a National Emergency.” Uh, 12 GOP Senators voted against you too.

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French aviation authorities, not the US FAA, will investigate black boxes from Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. Yeah, Trump is really making America respected around the world again.

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Hallmark Channel just cuts ties with Lori Loughlin. But maybe Loughlin can star as herself in a movie about the College Admissions Scandal.

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Lori Loughlin’s daughters have dropped out of USC after it was reveals the actress and her husband paid their way in.

Over under on when they’ll be offered jobs in Trump administration or Fox News?

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Must admit, I talked briefly to an expert when I applied to Stanford. It was my high school guidance counselor in Florida. Her response – “Why do you want to go to Connecticut?” No joke.

If you think, as I do, that college athletes who cheat or commit serious crimes should be kicked off teams & expelled, then same should apply to any student who knew their parents paid and cheated to get them into college.

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On Wed. March 13,  Facebook and Instagram went down for about 6-7 hours. Forcing millions of Americans actually to work….

Of course, we are about a week away from the first round of March Madness.  So we might be approaching have a record for the most and least productive days in the same month.

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But yeah, the horror.  Facebook was down, and frustrated users have nowhere to post it.

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At least  Twitter kept working. Good thing, if it went down Trump would probably declare another National Emergency.

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Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson said it was a “bad decision” to post picture on Instagram account at 105 mph.    Uh, driving 105 mph AND posting it? At least two bad decisions.

Meanwhile, Drew Brees posted about his son’s flag football game.  #GoSaints

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Antonio Brown says his ultimate goal is to pass Jerry Rice as the NFL’s all-time leading receiver. Rice has 22,895 yards.   Brown, 31, has 11,207.   Before the Raiders traded for him did they check Antonio for concussions?

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When it says on a tube of hand cream “Please do not ingest” we either have too many lawyers or too many stupid people. Or both.

Not saying she did or didn’t cheat. But a black girl who raised her test scores in similar fashion to some of those caught this week, had HER SATs almost instantly flagged and invalidated.  https://cnn.it/2MTnsNs 

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With names of parents being released should be pretty obvious to their fellow students at Georgetown, USC etc, which kids had help during SATs and faked athletic resumes to get into college. Womp womp. #Karma

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So Singer claims he got 761 kids admitted to college through “side doors.” Sounds like there’s a lot more indictments, and maybe expulsions, ahead?

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And remember when an argument against affirmative action was too many qualified kids ending up in college?

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Marc Ragovin muses “If I had only pursued my tetherball career, I could have been a Stanford Cardinal.”

One Stanford coach (sailing) indicted today.   Another coach from UCLA .   Three USC coaches and Sr. Associate AD from USC indicted.

First time Cardinal and Bruins are glad to end up behind Trojans.

SEC schools and other football powerhouses must be smiling today. At least no one needs to bribe coaches for non-athlete students just to get admitted.

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Le’Veon Bell expected to sign 4-year, $52.5 million contract with Jets.  And the Giants trade Odell Beckham Jr. to the Browns for not much.   Looking like nothing is going to get in the way of New York football fans planning ski weeks or cruises in January.

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Los Angeles Lakers, at 31-36, are 6 1/2 games out of the final Western Conference playoff spot.  But just think, had Lebron only stayed in the East,  a team with that record would be 1/2 game out of the postseason.

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Meanwhile, Tim Tebow was cut today from Mets’ big-league camp, but still is ‘all-in’ on chasing his baseball dream. Well, if he’s only got AAA talent has he talked to the Orioles?.

Okay, does anyone think with people willing to pay millions to get their kids into college that there aren’t some Mar-A-Lago members & Trump donors about to be arrested?

So has anyone checked to see if Brett Kavanaugh got into Yale as an alleged top athlete in beer pong?

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What probably really upsets Donald about the College Admissions scandal more than anything?   These parents probably got a cheaper deal than he did to get Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric into Penn and Georgetown.

Donald Trump is very upset at New York. Well, not like he has any ties to the city for a life post-presidency.

And meanwhile, is he asking us to take all the computers out of Air Force One?

“@realDonaldTrump Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT. I see it all the time in many products. Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler is far better. Split second decisions are….

Warriors being beaten by lowly Suns last night might have been one of most embarrassing games of NBA season. Raptors in Cleveland  “Hold our expensive beer.”

(the Cavaliers, 2nd worst team in NBA,  beat Toronto, 2nd best team in NBA east, by 25.)

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Fox Sports hired Urban Meyer for new 2019 college football pregame show. Gosh, in most of country this might make ratings as good as ratings for this year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.

Getting over it is for wusses..  Mailed from a New Orleans friend.

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An Iditarod Musher lost a huge lead after he said he yelled at one of dogs and “then they wouldn’t go anymore. Anywhere. So we camped here.” So they couldn’t be bossed around. Who did the pack think they were, cats?

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Michelle Wie is engaged to Jonnie West, son of former Lakers star Jerry West. How long until all their future children will be offered scholarships?

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders wouldn’t discuss Trump checks to Michael Cohen. Amazed she didn’t say if they were real Donald would have written them to “Michael Lawyer” to save time.

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Trump says making “Daylight Savings Time permanent is O.K. with me!” Wait until someone tells him California is one of the states most in favor of it.

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What’s next, we’re going to find out that Cindy Yang also runs a chain of pedophile pizza parlors?

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U.S. Customs has seized 3,000 lbs of cocaine, worth $77 million, at Port New York/Newark. Build that sea wall?

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So who really cares that Trump called Tim Cook “Tim Apple.” But then Friday night he told donors that he said Tim Cook Apple, but the Cook was said softly. Now he tweets “I referred to Tim + Apple as Tim/Apple as an easy way to save time & words…””
Is there ANYTHING he won’t lie about?

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As Senate approaches a vote on Trump’s National Emergency declaration this from GOP Sen Roy Blunt ” think we’re universally for what the president wants to do, but there’s significant concern about using the emergency in this new way that sets a precedent likely in court that future presidents could use.”
Translation, we think Trump should be able to do whatever he wants, but God forbid a future Democrat can do the same thing.

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For some reason, Fox News isn’t covering Trump’s proposed $845 billion cuts to Medicare.

Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are engaged. Good for them. Who said ARod would never get another ring?

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Warriors managed to lose tonight, at home, to the  Phoenix Suns  – Klay Thompson said “So it’s ugly but I expect our crowd to be a little more into it. . . It doesn’t matter if we’re playing the Suns or the Bucks, whoever it is. We need that energy from them because we feed off that.”

Yeah, it’s a LONG season.   But if you need crowd energy to beat a team that had five road wins all season…?

(Meanwhile, the Spurs, still fighting to keep their playoff streak alive, did manage to beat the best-record-in-the-NBA Bucks in San Antonio. Wonder how much credit Pop gave THEIR crowd.)

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Lakers forward Brandon Ingram diagnosed with a deep vein thrombosis in his right arm and is done for the season. Making him luckier than the team’s season ticket holders.

A woman who hopped a fence at an Arizona zoo to take a selfie with a jaguar was mauled by the cat but will survive. The selfie might have looked good next to her shiny new Darwin award…

(Good follow-up news…. the cat is not getting punished.  Hoping she might even get a treat to compensate for the taste of stupid human.)

Anyone but me have a problem with state that can make or break a Presidential campaign also being state that elected Steve King?

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The owner of many spas in south Florida, including at one point Robert Kraft’s favorite Orchids of Asia is a Mar-A-Lago member and has advertised being able to get access for Chinese clients to the President and his administration.   Wonder if Orchids of Asia masseuses made Mar-A-Lago house calls?

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And somehow I think it’s much bigger threat to US national security to have brothel owners selling access for foreign executives to POTUS than to have transgender members of the military.

I repeat, I will vote for 2020 Democratic nominee no matter who she/he is. But why is Joe Biden, 76, too old, when Bernie Sanders, 77, isn’t?

It would bother me less that Trump supporters are so quick to forgive ALL his moral failings, if they weren’t same people who wanted to impeach Bill Clinton over a blow job.

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So how long until Devon Nunes tries to declare a national emergency over straws?

Sometimes I love the internet.   Go to Trumphotels.org   –  Worth the click, trust me.