The UNLV Runnin’ Rebels drew a No. 8 seed in the Midwest Region and will open play against No. 9 Northern Iowa at 4:10 p.m. Thursday at Oklahoma City. Hooray Runnin’ Rebels!  From mountains that surround you, to far across the sea, we’ll win with the Rebels of UNLV.  In honor of this monumentous occasion, let’s take a moment to savor the video above.  Let’s take a moment to reflect on the greatest college basketball team of all time.  Let’s take a moment to reflect on the best college basketball team I’ve ever seen.  The best college basketball team there’s ever been.  Better than Mean Joe Greene.  Let’s take a moment to reflect on the 1990 UNLV Running Rebels.  Thank you and God bless.                         Read More »

It’s midnight Cinderella but don’t you worry none ’cause I’m Peter Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party’s just begun.  -Garth Brooks

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  The new brackets are here!  The new brackets are here!  I’m somebody now!  Millions of people look at these brackets everyday!  This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, your name in print, that makes people.  I’m in print!  Things are going to start happening to me now.  Things are going to start happening for the Temple Owls now.  Heck, they already have.  By squeaking past Richmond, they just won the Atlantic 10 tourney  for their third consecutive season.  They won the Atlantic 10 tourney  for their third consecutive season by playing Fran Dunphy basketball.  A-10 Coach of the Year, Fran Dunphy basketball.  Team basketball.  Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit.  Team, team, team!  No one more important that the other.  Well maybe Juan Fernandez is more inportant than others, but still, so was Jimmy Chitwood.     Read More »

From Married With Children

Marcy:  What is going on here?
Al:  Foreplay.
Peggy:  No, this can’t be foreplay. I’m enjoying it.
Al:  And, I’m in the room

Al may not like foreplay, and Peggy may never get to enjoy it, but Utah State coach Stew Merril has a different take:

Peace out homies. Six two and even!

(ESPN 7PM ET)  I know what you’re asking.  You’re asking, women’s basketball?  Really?  Yes, really.  I’m watching this game for one reason and one reason only.  I’m watching this game with the hopes that the UConn women’s basketball team loses.  Call me old fashioned.  Call me male chavinist.  Call me a card carrying member of Riggs’ Pigs.  Call me what you will.  I don’t care.  I don’t like it when women announce pro games and I don’t like when women’s sports dominate Sports Center.  A win by West Virginia would put an end to UConn’s dream run.  It stops the insanity.  It’ll then be just one more day.  Of them losing.  Then, that’s it.  No UConn winning streak, no more women’s hoops on Sports Center.  Get your popcorn ready!

Peace out UConn!  Six Two and Even!

Admiral Ackbar: The man, the meme, the legend. He has warned countless numbers of impending doom through his Internet fame, and now his powers of deduction could be used to power the Ole Miss Athletics Department:

Peace out homies. Six two and even!

Life is so strange.  I don’t know why, but somebody, somebody has to cry.  There’s gonna be no dancing.  There’s gonna be no dancing.  There’s gonna be no dancing when they get home.  -Elvis Costello

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  By definition, bracketology is the process of predicting the field of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.  It incorporates some method of predicting what the NCAA Selection Committee will use as its Ratings Percentage Index in order to determine the 65 teams that will be lucky enough to win an NCAA Championship.  In this version of bracketology, I am detrmining some teams who won’t make the field of 65 teams.   The teams, as the kids like to say, who won’t be dancing.   

There was a time King David “danced before the Lord with all his might… leaping and dancing before the Lord.”  That was then.  This is now.  Now, it seems, there are more than a few former kings who will not be doing any dancing.  It seems there are at least five former kings who have found themselves stuck in the town of Beaumont.  Footloose style.  But not fancy free.  Read More »

Today’s top links from the wide wonderful world of sports and beyond:

• Ten Struggling College Football Programs and the Coaches Who Derailed Them (The Wife Hates Sports)
• The Tiger Woods Apology Soundtrack  (No Guts No Glory)
• Winter Olympic Flicks Worth Your Time  (Gunaxin)
• Alex Ovechkin’s Sheepishly Cool New Skates  (Puck Doctors)
• Biking Is For With The Birds  (Gajitz)

• Tiger Is An Inspiration To All Of Us  (Midwest Sports Fans)
• Ace Is The Place  (Tom Verducci)
• And You Thought Their Air Force Was Hot  (Unathletic Mag)
• From Mr. Irrelevent To Mr. Sweeden (View From My Seats)  (Josh Q. Public)
• Those Poor Silly Mets  (Hardball Talk)

Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!

(ESPN 9PM ET)  Rock!  Chalk!  Jayhawk!  Make no mistakes, down in College Station, Texas A&M’s fans will be loud.  They will be proud.  It will be bedlam.  Unfortunately, all that loudness and proudness will earn the Aggies is bupkus.  All that loudness and proudness will not get the Aggies by top-ranked Kansas.  Not by a longshot.   There’s a reason Kansas is No. 1.  They’re good.  They are in the middle of 10-0 run.  They are trying to join its 2001-02 squad as the only teams to finish unbeaten in Big 12 play and record its best regular-season finish since going 29-1 in 1996-97.  They lead the nation in opponents’ shooting percentage (36.5 percent) and are giving up 62.8 points per game.  In short, A&M doesn’t stand a chance.  Get your popcorn ready!

Peace out homies!  Six Two and Even!

(CBS 1PM ET)  There was a time, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away that the Illinois Fighting Illini were wallowing in the Big Ten doldrums.  Actually, it wasn’t that long ago at all.  Actually it wasn’t that long ago at all that the Illini struggled against mediocre teams.  It wasn’t that long ago that they seemed out-gunned against better teams.  It wasn’t that long ago that an NCAA Tourney berth appeared unlikely and a Big Ten championship seemed out of the question.  Just seems that way.  It seems that way because the Illini are now in a three-way tie for first place in the Big Ten.  It seems that way because they are now the hottest team in the country.  Today, the Illini will look to make it six straight wins when they host No. 13 Ohio State.  Get your popcorn ready!

Peace out homies!  Six Two and Even!

(CBS 1PM ET)  Today, Coach K will coach his 1,000th game at Duke.  Congratulations, Coach K!  Today is Coach K’s birthday.  Happy birthday, Coach K!  Both, auspiscious occassions.  Neither occassion is the reason I’m watching this basketball game.  I’m watching this basketball because I believe in my heart of hearts that the Terps can beat the Blue Devils for the conference lead.  It won’t be easy, but if Maryland can control the glass, they can win this game.  They must get a booty on a brother and box out Duke on the defensive boards.  Maryland can ill afford to let what happened to NC State happen to them.  Lord knows both teams can score.  Lord knows Duke leads the ACC in scoring margin and 3-point shooting percentage while Maryland is second in both categories.  Lord knows that.  But I know Duke also leads the ACC in rebounding margin, while Maryland is 11th.   Get your popcorn ready!

Peace out homies!  Six Two and Even!