| Holy Penguin, Batman! |
| "Back to reality ... oops there goes gravity" - Eminem |
| Look Ma ... no hands! |
| 11th Annual Great American NCAA Basketball Pool (be afraid, be very afraid) |
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| KENTUCKY SURVIVES! |
| Well, the Kentucky folks certainly breathed a big sigh of relief tonight as the heavilly favored Wildcats narrowly escaped with their NCAA lives in a surprisingly close game against an upstart Wisconsin squad. Going down to the final minute, Wisconsin's failure to convert at the free throw line proved to be their downfall as Kentucky pulls out a 63-57 victory. The theory goes that a team can't win the NCAA championship without having their backs to the wall at least once during the tourney. Kentucky now has theirs under their belt. Look out. |
| In the other early game this evening, the luck of the Irish finally ran out as Notre Dame got mowed down by the Arizona Wildcats 88-71. The Wildcats seem to be back on the schnide after getting pushed to the max by Gonzaga last weekend. Both Wildcat teams incidentally now have that "backs to the wall" victory on their resumes now. |
| The game was not without quite a bit of controversy however. In one of the most spectacular dirty tricks ever seen in the history of sports, a group of hooligans, believed to be Universtiy of Wisconsin physics majors, launched what they termed "Operation Flubber." Through unknown means they somehow managed to cause the force of gravity to suddenly go haywire throughout the evening. As you can see from these still photos, the ball seemingly had a mind of its own. The NCAA has opened an investigation. |
| Some of the interesting things that comes out of this pool are the rather strange email addresses some of you have. For instance, in going through the sheets I couldn't help but notice the email address of Adam "Sandler " Jabs who apparantly goes by "oholypenguin" when he's on AOL. Adam? Dude? "oholypenguin"? And, oh .... before I forget ... special thanks to Nancy Hills brother in law who correctly points out to me that it was actually the JAPANESE who bombed Pearl Harbor, and not the Germans as I mistakenly claimed in my last update. |
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| And I have to confess, these 10 pm start times on the other games are killing me. No way I'm staying up to watch those things to a conclusion. My only hope was that by the time I hit the hay that my Kansas squad has already put the big hurt on the Dukies, but as I type this on my way to bed at halftime they're tied 35-35. Jack "Hobson" Dennehy is avidly pulling for Pittsburgh over Marquette as you can imagine, but they too are knotted at 34-34 at the half. |
| Standings will be updated by Saturday morning by the way. As I mentioned previously, I will be in Orlando on business Sunday through Wednesday next week and will not be able to update things until I return. However, I will be phoning in the top 5 or so to Bill Corcoran who in turn will post them on the sites message board. So check there sometime on Monday to see who is atop the standings. |
| Yeah, hey ... happy 9th birthday on Friday to Lauren Dennehy by the way. Take pity upon me. I've got 6 of her little friends sleeping over my house tonight. And I have to make them all pancakes in the morning. I live in hell. Jack "Hobson" Dennehy, nobodys fool, is getting the heck out of Dodge though and will be sleeping over his cousin's house. Hope these girls don't mind watching NCAA basketball ... cause thats whats gonna be on tonight! Congratulations to Assistant Commissioner Corinne "One Sheet" Watterworth on the purchase of her new home. (nobody tell her about the mass murder that took place there in 1961 and the story about how the place is now haunted) |
| Shoutouts to my peeps: |
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| Don't forget to check your own scores and let me know if you have any discrepencies. Also don't forget that we're putting new cover memos on all the new TPS reports. Riiiiiight. Best regards, The always evil Gary Bettman |