| The Wiggles: No intelligent life down here, Captain. |
| I'll take "Idiots who've never won their own pool for $200, Alex." |
| Laettner: At least his was legit! |
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| Hey, know what was cool? Before the tourney started, ESPN Classic had been replaying some of the great dramatic NCAA finishes from the last 15 years, give or take. Well, Jack and I had been watching a few of them during the week � the Christian Laettner |
| buzzer beater of all buzzer beaters in OT against Kentucky in the 1992 Eastern Regionals, UCLA's Tyus Edney dashing the length of the floor to beat Missouri in the 2nd round of the 1995 tournament, etc., etc. So, they get to UConn and Tate George's dramatic shot against Clemson in the 1990 Sweet 16. Now, veterans of this pool know I hate UConn in a big way but, man, ya have to admit that was something else. Yep, just 1 second left and UConn is able to fire a length of the floor pass to George who somehow manages to get a shot off � and swish! Or does he? Thanks to the miracle of digital TV and Tivo, Jack and I were able to go back frame by frame and it shows that WITHOUT A DOUBT that time had expired before the ball left George's hand. Damn refs! If only they'd |
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| made the right call, it could've changed history. And maybe that program doesn't take off and win those two National Championships and I don't have to hear all about it from my Windsor, CT co-workers. Oh well, I'll have to just content myself to revel in their stunning loss to the Wolfpack instead. |
| UConn stick a fork in the Huskies, baby! |
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| (woo hoo!) who got upset this afternoon by the NC State Wolfpack. They join #2 Wake Forrest (lost to West Virginia), #3 Oklahoma (Utah), #3 Gonzaga (Texas Tech), and #4 Boston College (UW-Milwaukee) who all lost on Saturday. And best of all, with the exception of Oklahoma, who got flat out whooped by the Utes, they were all exciting games. Edge-of-your-seat, came-down-to-the-last-minute exciting. Texas Tech rallied back from a 13 point deficit to knock off Gonzaga, who can now officially be labelled 'underachievers' in the NCAA world by the way. Boston College trailed closely throughout their game with Wisconsion-Milwaukee. And in the game of the weekend (and really of the tourney so far) Wake Forrest lost in DOUBLE overtime to West Virginia in a game that saw both the end of regulation and the first overtime involve desperate scrambles to tie the game, with each team trading "threes" back and forth like they were going out of style. |
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| Dave "family bragging rights" Allard Craig "probationary member" Antas Don "Stuck livin next to Screamer" Legere (1) Glenn "The Consultant" Beauregard Jeremy "Schaap" Zottneck Tony "Don" King (1) Bill "Perils of" Pawlina Brian "asterisk" Farrelly Cassie "Richard" Burton Bill "Louisville Cardinal fan" Corcoran Corinne "please lose my phone #" Watterworth Dave "The Skipper" Reitzel" Marc "the pool's alltime $ leader" Pine |
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| Well, after a slow start, the floodgate of upsets has now opened wide with many a favorite ending up getting knocked off this weekend faster than Jeopardy contestants on "Ken Jennings Week." The latest to join the ranks of the vanquished was #2 UConn |
| Good stuff. Oh wait. I forgot ... with the exception of Texas Tech I didn't have any of those. Shoot! Well I guess that explains why I only have 8 teams in the Sweet 16. That's got to be my worst showing ever. Well, on the bright side, at least Ken and I have the same pick for the finals. |
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| So like I said ... my 2 year old shut my PC off on me this morning. Kid caused me to lose my entire update I'd been working on. It |
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| seems he wanted me to come watch a sickeningly upbeat little show called "The Wiggles" with him and didn't feel I was giving him the appropriate level of attention. He kind of registers fairly high on the cuteness scale though so it's hard to get ticked at him. "The Wiggles" are a different story however. They remind me of something you'd see in the off Broadway production of "Star Trek: The Musical." And they're always so goofily happy and upbeat ... it's enough to drive ya nuts. To make matters worse I'm battling a nasty cold or allergies or something so the Wiggles was NOT what the doctor ordered. But I sucked it up and came through for the Matt man and watched some Wiggles despite not feeling 100% and I sucked it up and typed out an update tonight. All for you. My faithful pool particpants. Yep. |
| Yeah, yeah. I know ... "Oh, cry us a river, Commish!" Or better yet, you could just refer me to: The "Care-o-meter." |
| Well, through 2 rounds, Dave Allard continues his winning ways. He follows up his "Best 1st Round" victory by managing to hold on to first place. A look at the leaderboard shows the following: |
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| Chris Reilly Dennis Fardy (1) Dave "Ahhhh ..." Bach Dan "Hopefully Harris doesn't read this" Sheedy Bill "Phil" Collins Dennis "can he catch Fardy (1)?" Fardy (2) |
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| Hopefully he's not related to any of The Wiggles! |
| Well, that's a wrap for tonight. Next update sometime later this week. You can catch all the previous updates here. |
| The Commish |