Monthly Archives: March 2009

Men’s Basketball Tournaments/Women’s Basketball Tournament

March 18, 2009 – 10:36 am

I was only able to watch part of last night’s play-in game between Morehead State and Alabama State. Even if I had been able to tune in from the beginning, I am not sure I could have made it through to the end; that was one boring basketball game. There was a point in the [...]

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Something To Chew On Before You Go Out To Toast St. Patrick

March 17, 2009 – 10:39 am

Happy St. Patrick’s Day. For your information, today is also the birthday of: Bobby Jones (1902) Sammy Baugh (1914) Cito Gaston (1944) and Sam Bowie (1961) Yesterday was the final publication day for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in paper form. It will try to continue to exist online; another journalistic source is all but gone. I [...]

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Let The Games Begin

March 16, 2009 – 12:33 pm

Saturday was “Pi Day”. Selection Sunday was on the Ides of March. Today the focus has to be the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Let me start with a Quick Quiz: When and where was the first NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament game played? Which teams played? Answer below so no need to Google… If CBS is [...]

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Hash Is On The Menu Today…

March 13, 2009 – 7:01 am

This is the second consecutive month with a Friday the 13th in it. Mildly superstitious folks have taken note of that; triskaidekaphobics will likely not rise from their beds today. In an attempt to demonstrate that March 13th has been an ordinary day throughout history, I have compiled some of the things that have happened [...]

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A Surprise Quiz Today…

March 12, 2009 – 11:49 am

Let me begin today with a Quick Quiz. Which was the bigger error for MLS? A. Negotiating to bring David Beckham back to MLS for half a season after he made it clear that he did not want to play in MLS anymore. B. Bringing David Beckham to MLS in the first place and representing [...]

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Basketball Today…

March 11, 2009 – 8:41 am

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I had caught the Villanova/Georgetown NCAA Championship game from the 1980s on ESPN Classic and realized then that one of the things that created excitement for the game was that it was played in a basketball arena not in a football stadium with a hardwood court. I said [...]

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Facebook Fallout

March 10, 2009 – 9:47 am

Surely, you have read about the guy who was a gate-guard for the Eagles who was fired by the team because of a comment he made on his Facebook page. I am not going to reset the whole story but he was upset when the Eagles let Brian Dawkins sign with another team and called [...]

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Just In Case …

March 9, 2009 – 12:09 am

Just in case you missed it, the Iditarod started last Saturday. Just in case you have forgotten, Lance Mackey is on a two-race wining streak. Just in case you are interested, here is Greg Cote’s comment on the Iditarod from his South Florida vantage point at the Miami Herald: “The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race [...]

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NFL Improvements – - Part VI

March 6, 2009 – 8:49 am

Speaking at Rice University in 1962, President John F. Kennedy said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard.” That is the reason that I keep trying to come up with suggestions to make the NFL better. It [...]

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Soccer News Front And Center

March 5, 2009 – 12:08 am

I want to lead off with soccer today because it is now official – – David Beckham’s stay in the US with the mission to save soccer and to bring it to center stage in the US sporting cosmos has its end in sight. Beckham is currently on loan from MLS to AC Milan in [...]

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