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March 17, 2002 |
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To contact Commissioner Dennehy please email me at: |
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For current standings click the button below
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[email protected] |
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You are visitor number |
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"Baby, if you've ever wondered,
Wondered whatever became of me.
I'm living on the air in Cincinnati ... "
- "WKRP in Cincinnati" theme song |
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Yes, we certainly are wondering what happened. But not to Les Nesman and Dr Johnny Fever and the rest of the gang over at WKRP. Oh no. We're wondering what the heck happened to those Bearcats of Cincinnati who, if I heard the boys at CBS correctly, have bowed out in the second round for the fifth consecutive season after getting knocked off by the #8 UCLA Bruins. Not sure whats worse ... Coach Huggins' success rate at winning NCAA Tournaments, or graduating "student athletes." Cincinnati makes Nolan Richardson and the Arkansas Razorbacks look like MIT in terms of the later. |
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My apologies for the sudden shift in information delivery. The formatting and sending of emails had proven to be quite the royal pain in the, uh ... well, you know where I'm talking about. This geocities free website thingy was reccommended to me by a friend and it proved to be quite easy to do. So, until further notice, all updates, etc will be posted here. Interested in reader feedback on this issue, so please let me know. If you're having trouble reaching the site or just with computer issues in general,, perhaps my friend here can be of some service. Greg Sioch, this means you. |
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"Hey, its me Steve, from next door ... " |
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Geez, what a whacky tournament thus far. If you've got 10 of your Sweet 16 left, you're actually in decent shape. The Commish is in the clubhouse with 10 out of 16, BUT (!) I've got 7 of my final 8 still on the board. My one giant leap of faith I made in this tournament has come through BIGTIME, as I've got #12 Missouri winning another game. By rights that should have been vs Cincinnati, but now I've caught a break and its against UCLA. And I think I may be the only person in the pool who has that by the way. The leader board stacks up as follows after two rounds: |
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Merz "Mom of my buddy Screamer" Martin
Bill "His BU pick is hurtin'" Curtin
Corinne Watterworth #2 (yeah, this won't last)
Lisa "fomer pool champion" Allard
Chris "C Mac" McGurrin#1
Holly Merrell "E, merrilly, merrilly, life is but a dream"
Chuck "Barney" Miller
Peter "I was robbed to pay Paul" Parsons #1
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Now, the way things stacked up after Friday's games, it proved to be quite the hassle to determine who the winner of the award for best first round score was. As it turned out eight individuals tied for the best score of the first round, successfully guessing 25 games correctly out of 32. It took me quite awhile to determine who won as we were forced to resort to the tiebreaker of whoever called the biggest upset. But, as everyone knows, this is a major award so it paid to do it thoroughly. The eight folks who were tied by the way were: |
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It's a major award! |
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Diane "rookie luck" Ansty
Lisa "any relation to Brian?" Dennehy
Sherry "Chasing" Eighmy
John Halferty "and the Beaver Brown Band"
Holly Merrell
Joseph Nesbitt
Peter Parsons #1
Duane "War and" Pease |
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The biggest upset of the first round turned out to have been #13 UNC-Wilmington's defeat of #4 USC. However, none of the contestants got that one correct. Next up were three #12 seeds who beat #5 seeds (Creighton, Missouri, Tulsa). Sherry Eighmy actually nailed all 3 of them and was the only person to do so. The Mrs got 2 out of 3, missing on Creighton. Sherry thus has been declared the first round winner and will receive the hearty sum of $25 for her efforts. Sherry's winnings will be distributed on Thursday of this week in order to allow folks time to review their sheets and bring any discrepencies to my attention. |
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Hey! Lets talk a little more about abbreviations, okay?! Turned out we had a bit of a problem with the Mississippi State vs McNeese State game as a few folks just put "MS" and others put "MSU." The ruling of the Commissioner's office was that those folks who indicated "MS" were marked as losses. Those individuals however who marked "MSU" were awarded a win as in the opinion of pool officials, "MSU" is the generally accepted abbreviation for Mississippi State, even though both schools are technically MSU. |
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Something else I need to get off my chest ... the tagteam combo of Doreen Jankowski and Lynette Dauphin are definitely trying to drive me nuts this year. First off, for reasons I can't fathom, on two of their combined three sheets they wrote the names of the teams and then circled them. Circled them? Whats up with that? Their sheets look like, well ... like theres a bunch of bubbles or something. Trust me, you've got to see it, but it looks like bubbles.
Next, they had Duke beating Notre Dame this past Saturday ... which they did. However, apparantly so impressed with the Fighting Irish's performance they have decided to have them play a rematch this coming week. Yes, it seems they felt that ND would pull off a neat trick and somehow emerge victorious in Saturday's game between Indiana and UNC-Wilmington, and thus setting up their historic rematch with Duke. |
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Well, that'll do it for this time around. Keep checking back for further updates throughout the week.
Regards,
The Commish |
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PS - Those individuals who have a pretty "pink" colored box next to their name in the column labelled "money" on the standings spreadsheet, well, you know what thats all about. Get your dough in or else you'll be sleeping wit da fishes. Like my associate over here. |
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