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The four best days of college basketball have come to an end so now we must wait another four before the Sweet Sixteen games begin. At least we have games from the NIT, CBI and the CIT. Good luck!
Appalachian State +9
Virginia Tech -4.5
Cincinnati -3.5
Overall Record:
College Basketball 53-37-3 (2009-10) 250-186-9 (overall)
NBA 3-3 (2010) 47-39 (overall)
NHL 1-2
MLB 90-69-5
College Football
37-24 (2009-10) 142-115-1 (overall)
NFL 35-20 (2009-10) 138-92-5 (overall)
Has anyone been wondering why the lowly Washington Nationals would send their can’t miss number-one draft pick pitcher Stephen Strasburg down to the minors this past weekend? Initially it seems like a very dumb move when you consider Strasburg would bring a lot of attention to a team that needs it in the worst way and he would get people to fill the stands every time he pitched. These things are true, but the Nationals have actually put a lot of thought into this move and it makes a lot of sense when you really think about why they sent him down. The Nationals can delay Strasburg’s opportunity for free agency by an entire year if they play their cards right. Strasburg only needs to be in the minors for 20 days or more and it would prevent him from achieving enough service time to qualify for free agency at the end of his sixth season. Most baseball writers believe Strasburg will be up by early June at the latest which would be right about the time the Nationals season will officially be over since they will most assuredly already have 40 losses.
Sorry we didn’t have our picks up yesterday for the first day of the NCAA tournament. Here are the picks for today’s games. Enjoy another fantastic day of college basketball. Good luck!
Xavier pick’em
Morgan St. +17.5
Houston +9.5
Vermont +17
Gonzaga +1.5
Overall Record:
College Basketball 51-34-3 (2009-10) 248-183-9 (overall)
NBA 3-3 (2010) 47-39 (overall)
NHL 1-2
MLB 90-69-5
College Football
37-24 (2009-10) 142-115-1 (overall)
NFL 35-20 (2009-10) 138-92-5 (overall)
Unfortunately there isn’t any college games this evening, but things will be back to normal tomorrow with the NIT, CIT, CBI and the NCAA play-in game.
76ers -3
Hornets/Clippers over 201
Knicks/76ers under 212.5
Overall Record:
College Basketball 51-34-3 (2009-10) 248-183-9 (overall)
NBA 1-2 (2010) 45-38 (overall)
NHL 1-2
MLB 90-69-5
College Football 37-24 (2009-10) 142-115-1 (overall)
NFL 35-20 (2009-10) 138-92-5 (overall)
Much to my chagrin it has been since 1966 that North Carolina, UConn and UCLA will not be in the NCAA Tournament at the same time. In that year a small Texas Western (now UTEP) team won the Championship in one of the most controversial games in NCAA history.
Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins, won the 1966 national title with a 72–65 victory over an Adolph Rupp coached Kentucky squad. Coach Haskins started five black players for the first time in NCAA Championship history. At the same time Adolph Rupp a legend in NCAA basketball did not believe in having black players on his team.
This year in the NCAA basketball tourney we have more parody than we have had in recent memory and while the big schools who have owned the headlines are out it leaves us with schools such as Butler, BYU, Siena, Northern Iowa and so on to take the plunge into basketball immortality.
Is this the year when we get another George Mason in the Final Four? Or is there an opportunity to get 2 mid-majors in the championship game? The answer is YES! There very well could be a team like UTEP in the Final Four. That’s right! Coming out of Conference USA where Memphis has owned it the last 5 years they went 15-1 and are on their way to the dance to maybe shock the world once again.
The Jay Bilas’s of the world says that there is no parody this year. OK, we do still have Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, and Syracuse at the top. But what about New Mexico in the Top 10, Butler #12, and Gonzaga and Kansas St bouncing around the top 10 as well?
If you break it down, Kentucky is relying on three freshman and a senior to carry them and all the pundits say that they are the team out the top 4 that could fail first. Duke is relying on 3-pt shooting and when they run into a team that is faster, quicker and bigger underneath they will get humbled. Kansas is solid and Syracuse has its moments of forgetting that you can be beat in any game, case and point, LeMoyne at home in an exhibition game and twice to Louisville who may not make the field of 64.
So, who will fill out the Final Four along with Kansas? Remember, the only time all the top seeds made the Final Four was 2 years ago so don’t count on it happening again for a while.
3-1 yesterday so we are gunning for another good day today. Tons and tons of games to be played so enjoy the mayhem. Good luck!
NC State/Clemson over 131
Western Michigan -2
Ohio +5
Overall Record:
College Basketball 49-33-3 (2009-10) 246-182-9 (overall)
NBA 1-2 (2010) 45-38 (overall)
NHL 1-2
MLB 90-69-5
College Football 37-24 (2009-10) 142-115-1 (overall)
NFL 35-20 (2009-10) 138-92-5 (overall)
Howard Stern’s Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant is over and the winner is none other than mistress #4 Jamie Jungers. Jamie Jungers won the pageant rather easily over Jaimee Grubbs and Loredana Jolie. Jungers raked in $75,000 in cash along with an exquisite black diamond ring and was so happy with the results she took time to thank God, her family and even her little dog Apple. Grubbs won $15,000 for second place and Jolie won $10,000 for participating in the “beauty pageant.” Below are some of the highlights from the big event.
– El Tiger didn’t use rubbers with Jungers for the 18 months he was with her. Tiger’s nickname for Jungers was “Jamie Juicers” and I’m sure your imagination can figure that out.
– Tiger flew Jamie Jungers in coach when he wanted her to meet up with him. One would think when you are a billionaire you might splurge a little.
– Tiger asked Jungers about a three-some and she told him she would entertain the idea “if your wife is involved” so Tiger never brought it up again.
– Jolie said Tiger was “very into role playing” so he would put his best suit on and have several foreign naked chicks hang out with them in a hotel room and order them to do things.
– Jolie also said she dated Bruce Willis and Michael Jordan and neither was as large as Tiger.
– Jaimie Grubbs was up last and she confessed that she and Tiger had sex two days after the birth of one of his kids.
– Grubbs was the only one of the three mistresses that didn’t know Tiger was married when she met him.
– Grubbs truly felt that he would leave Elin for her once she found out he was married and all this went down when she was 21 years-old.
The Big 12 tournament and Conference USA tournament get underway today and there will be two more tournament invitations given to the Big Sky and the Northeast champion. Good luck!
Nebraska +10.5
Houston -12.5
Louisville -6
Oregon +2
Overall Record:
College Basketball 46-32-3 (2009-10) 243-181-9 (overall)
NBA 1-2 (2010) 45-38 (overall)
NHL 1-2
MLB 90-69-5
College Football 37-24 (2009-10) 142-115-1 (overall)
NFL 35-20 (2009-10) 138-92-5 (overall)
Howard Stern and gang have been promoting the ‘Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant’ for quite some time now and tomorrow the long awaited event takes place. Initially the contest was going to include four unknown contestants, but recently one of the alleged mistresses decided to pull out of the event. (wonder if Tiger had anything to do with that?) To date no names have been leaked which in this day and time is very impressive. The winner of the contest will win a handsome ransom of $100k from AshleyMadison.com and a 3.5 karat black diamond ring from Steven Singer Jewelers.
Betting sites like Sportsbook.com has posted odds on possible contestants. Sportsbook.com currently has the odds of the winning contestant at:
Loredana Jolie (5-2), Cori Rist (5-2), Holly Sampson (3-1), Joslyn James (5-1), Jamie Jungers (5-1), Jaimee Grubbs (5-1), Kalika Moquin (8-1), Michelle Braun (8-1), Julie Postle (8-1), Theresa Rogers (20-1), Mindy Lawton (20-1), Rachel Uchitel (20-1)
The pageant will only be able to be heard on The Howard Stern Show offered exclusively from Sirius/XM radio.
Who exactly is this guy Joe Lunardi and why does every college coach need his help these days?
Joseph Lunardi (AKA Joey Brackets) has been a fixture on ESPN and ESPN.com since his first Bracketology was pushed online back in 2008. His first post collected over 250,000 hits the first day and now it routinely receives millions from the second week of the season until the final selection of NCAA tournament teams. The busiest days are of course this coming weekend from Friday through Sunday at 6PM EST prior to the selections when he is adding and subtracting teams that have folded during their conference tournaments.
Lunardi correctly predicted all 65 teams to appear in the 2008 NCAA Tournament and correctly selected 63 out the 65 teams in the 2009 field by placing both Creighton and St. Mary’s incorrectly in his final bracket on March 15. Last year Lunardi only incorrectly left Arizona off his bracket so needless to say he really knows his stuff. A lot will be determined in the next few days and you can rest assured that Lunardi will be all over the action and constantly updating his predictions for the tourney.
According to Joey Brackets here are the latest bubble teams:
Last Four In
* Memphis
* Arizona State
* San Diego State
* Illinois
First Four Out
* Washington
* Seton Hall
* Rhode Island
* Ole Miss
Next Four Out
* Dayton
* UAB
* Mississippi State
* Minnesota