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Deja Vu, Again?

March 12, 2010 by

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.

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Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant Winner

March 10, 2010 by

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.

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Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant

March 9, 2010 by

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.

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Yo! Joey Brackets

March 9, 2010 by

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

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College Basketball Bets of the Day – March 9th, 2010

March 9, 2010 by

The Big East tournament kicks off today and another three teams will win a bid to the NCAA tournament. As each day passes the excitement and anticipation builds. 2-0 yesterday and looking to have another solid day today. Good luck!

Troy pick’em
Oakland pick’em
UConn -4

Overall Record:

College Basketball 45-30-3 (2009-10) 242-179-9 (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)

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Remembering Hank Gathers

March 5, 2010 by

It was 20 years ago yesterday that we lost one of the best college basketball players of all time in Hank Gathers. Gathers left Philly and the east coast so he could go play for little ole Loyola Marymount and ex-pro head coach Paul Westhead. Gathers alongside Bo Kimble would end making the Loyola Marymount Lions a must see college basketball team and a pure joy to watch. In the 1988–89 season, he became only the second player in history to lead NCAA Division I in scoring and rebounding in the same season. Gathers averaged 32.7 points and 13.7 rebounds per game. The next season would be his last because on March 4, 1990 he collapsed with 13:34 left in the first half of a West Coast Conference tournament quarterfinal game against Portland. Hank collapsed just after scoring on an alley-oop dunk that put the Lions up 25–13.  He was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital at the age of 23. An autopsy found that he suffered from a heart-muscle disorder, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

I remember watching this specimen of a human play a few times in my days and I truly have never seen a team play the way the Lions did. They typically shot the ball within 10 seconds of gaining possession and their defense was a full court press designed to force their opponents into a frenzied up-and-down game. Loyola Marymount own the records for the 5 highest scoring games in NCAA history including the blowout of reigning National Champ Michigan 149-115 in the second round of the 1990 tourney.

Hank was so good at everything on the court except for foul shooting. When he finally had enough of those woes he started practicing shooting his free throws left handed. He became proficient and increased his FT% considerably because nothing was going to beat Hank.

Hank’s life unfortunately ended too early and he is just another example of how life is really too short.

Check out the cut of the 30 for 30 story to be aired on ESPN:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4960817

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Olympic Ecstasy

February 27, 2010 by

It was widely known coming into the Winter Olympics that Olympic village would be locked and loaded with 10,000 condoms for the athletes to use at their leisure. Well, unfortunately 10,000 weren’t enough because the amount didn’t last the full two weeks and another shipment had to be requested. When you break that down it means roughly 14 condoms per athlete were used and based on the looks of some of the athletes I don’t think they are all joining in on the fun. I’m sure a decent amount of condoms are being taken home for souvenirs, but it seems the stigma attached to all the partying that goes down at Olympic Village is very true. I wonder how many condoms our favorite American female downhill skier (seen above in zebra print) has used over the last two weeks?

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Ohno Makes American Olympic History

February 22, 2010 by

Apolo Anton Ohno won his seventh Winter Olympic medal yesterday on the short track 1000m. Ohno wasn’t looking good with three laps to go considering he was in last place, but as usual he made a big push and captured third place for a bronze medal. Apolo is now being referred to as America’s most decorated athlete ever of the Winter Games because his seventh medal broke a tie with speed skater Bonnie Blair. We should point out Blair captured five golds over her career and to date Ohno has two. Ohno can add to his illustrious Olympic career because he still has two more events to go with the 500m and 5000m relay.

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So Long Raleigh, It Has Been Amazing

February 19, 2010 by

Here it is, my final weekend living in Raleigh, NC. The town I was introduced to StoneColdJZ and right now my feelings have become sullen, but at the same time exhilarated.

I will continue to write on this site, but I will provide you a lil more west coast bias than normal and hope for a rise or two from those of you who are staunch Big East or ACC freaks.

I thank StoneCold for introducing me to the NC State Wolfpack who I have adopted as my 3rd favorite team behind the UCLA Bruins and the Pacific Tigers.  I thank Dexineffex and Gresh for introducing me to the second coming of USC in attitude by trying to shame me into accepting UNC as my Triangle team.  I thank Dwyer for not trying to conform me into a ‘Cuse fan and I have a special shout out to Chasey who tried to force me into rooting for his team, err, teams like LSU, South Carolina, Penn State and Youngstown State or was it Grambling? Not sure, but it has been excellent sparring with you all.

I will catch you next week from the shores of Long Beach, California where we will again begin the verbal jabs of who is and who is not good, bad, nasty, arrested or cheating.

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Happy St. Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2010 by

I sure hope all of you have something planned for your partner on this special day. If you don’t I suggest you run out and at the very least get a card and some flowers or candy. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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