This weekend is one of them few times that the NFL gets outshone and I’m here for it. The Shield has become ubiquitous and rarely takes a backseat to anything anymore. The Kentucky Derby? Take your silly hat back home with you. The Indy 500? An Irsay DUI would get more coverage. (you know it’s just a matter of time) To me it’s just international competitions (Olympics, World Cup, etc.) that overshadow football.
The college ball tourney is so full of interesting stories that the coverage still doesn’t seem forced to me, even after watching for 48-ish(?) years. Remember that dude that was fat? Remember that dunking team? Remember that halfcourt shot that rimmed out? Me too! (sorta)
To The Games!
Arkansas/Kansas: (7:10 EST) Down year for the Rows of Corn. Kansas? A 7th seed? I’ve no idea why residents of the state expect better than just out of habit.
Yale/Texas A&M: (7:25 EST) I believe Skull and Bones aquitted themselves quite nicely last year in the tourney but it could have been the year before. As Heidegger once said, “Time is a small monkey that is jumping up and down on my shoulder and making annoying screeching noises”.
Drake/Mizzou: (7:35) These mid mid-level Midwest teams…smh.
Utah State/UCLA: (9:25) Despite the higher seed, Utah playing in Rupp Arena in Kentucky has the overwhelming advantage, vibes-wise. (god, I hate that ‘vibes’ is a thing)
Omaha/St. John’s: (9:45) I’m going out on a limb here and guess that Pitino is going to outcoach his counterpart this evening.
UC San Diego/Michigan: (10:00) I’ll guess that Patrick Swayze’s favourite rag-tag band of rapscallions (Wolverines!) is going to take down The Fightin’ Thongs.
UNC Wilmington/Texas Tech: Wilmington’s was the shop where I took one of my first girlfriends. She let me rub my elbow on her boob while we both sucked on an Orange Fizz.
Btw, the NHL is countering with a whopping 14 games this evening.
Do your thing.
Found a funny
Drake University:
Like me at the Casino, UC San Diego was doing great until they started to think.
HOX!
Well, the Knicks lost, the Rangers lost, the Nocturnes lost, but St. John’s is up 21, so someone’s gotta win out of my teams, I guess.
UC Whale’s Vagina making a game of it against WOLVERINES!
An upset would be rock-ing?
A Michigan Man finds a 12 upsetting a 5 rather gauche
Oh, no. Not that.
This is pretty cool.
Tell him your favorite movies of his are easily Garfields 1 and 2.
It’s Maine with a wild, and apparently planned, deflection to win it halfway through the second OT.
Could have used 2 more OTs, but UConn couldn’t have asked for much more.
Queues David Letterman voice singing Federiko Federiko to tune of Figaro Figaro
Northeastern and Maine going to a second OT to see who gets to play UConn in the Hockey East final tomorrow. Rooting for at least 4 of these.
Alright, I’m home. Multiview, engage!
(TV goes Quadbox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwPFQXQHNk
https://youtu.be/up6BvPQNjQc?t=26
Of course its the Fulham man who scores against Canada.
I’m imprssed that Utah State was able to recruit 2X All Valley Champion Johnny Lawrence to play for them.
Did he sweep Mara’s leg?
Overheard during that last Media Timeout (Artistic Interpretation)
What Dojo Are You Fighting For – Cobra Kai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHxuij9Rm-4
Me, watching the NCAA Tournament after what WVU went through the last four days.
The phrase, “OHAMA” has become a catch-all here for the shift commander/lieutenants on duty to check something immediately and/or assistance needed ASAP.
I get the feeling there may be a few extras of that shouted overnight, regardless of whether or not some Yinzer is in trouble or not.
As long as those guys don’t start tea bagging anyone.
Someone’s getting teabagged in this game…
Stranger Things have happened than Drake doing well at a Big Dance
I’m just glad they were able to finish.
Danny Sprinkles would be a great coke dealer name
Especially if he’s also a stripper
https://twitter.com/JoshGrahamShow/status/1902817203298185658
Hurley: “How fun would it be to bring Syracuse back….”
Me: “Watching games on the edge of my chair, shaking with rage while trying not to vomit for the fourth time, my wife taking the kids to her mother’s and threatening not to return, all while trying to remember what my #shamebet was with a guy who disappears hobos in Northern Ontario? Yeah. Yeah. SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!!!!”
I would give up a three-peat for the UConn men in return for the UConn Men’s Hockey program winning Hockey East and getting to the Frozen Four.
Which is a pretty easy thing, since I think the UConn men’s ceiling this year is getting by Oklahoma in the first round before getting absolutely ass-blasted by Florida in the second.
You and Gatoraids need to make a #ShameBet!
OK, I’ll take Florida -Eleventeen.
I’m sorry, but why?
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1902768747049283622
Because?
Good a reason as any.
and Pete Rose is still banned.
Guess who’s off tomorrow and plans on being Vodka tanked by 2pm PST.
THIS GUY!
I’m going to make sangría before I go to bed and start drinking it as soon as I wake up.
I’mma do that, but with opium. Y’all enjoy UCSD/Michigan if it’s good.
Big deposition in the morning and poker tournament at night. I’ll be sober as a Baptist all day, so goddamn the lot of you.
Uhhhhh, brandish the ‘Club?
GET A NAME LOSERS! THIS ISN’T FUCKING SOCCER!
Utah Soakers
..
I have one of those in my car but I never use it, because I drive a standard and maybe like 1% of car thieves know how to drive stick.
Also I drive a 15-year old car with 260K miles on it, which really cuts down on the theft-appeal.
Chameleon XLE 2025
https://streamable.com/m7omz
Ooh, I just realized I had Arkansas winning that in my DFO bracket. Go me!
I’m bummed that an SEC team pulled off an upset. I was hoping for the entire conference to underpeform spectacularly.
That’s what the ACC is for.
I did not.
Bill Self just isn’t the same now that everyone can pay players.
Not that that would have made any difference against a Calipari team.
Kansas exposed naked as a Jaybird cuz they got pantsed
it’s a PIRATE life foar meeeeeee
Yarr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVokojoF_lY
Finally, a game that is legitimately going down to the wire.
aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhhhh!
That Yale/Texas A&M fan interaction has to be some Yale anthology students dissertation
Is there anything even the least bit redeeming about the state of Arkansas? Like maybe a person who lived there invented pork rinds, or something?
Apparently Levon Helm and Johnny Cash are from there.
Joey Lauren Adams was cute.
Uh, Scottie Pippen?
Scottie Pippen’s voice?
That man has some bass.
The University of Arkansas has a good literature program. I’m told.
Well, I mean, they possess the only three books in the state that aren’t the Bible
When my brother went for his MFA it was between Arkansas and Alaska Fairbanks.
He chose Alaska, but said he was surprised at how appealing the Arkansas program was. The dealbreaker was apparently “the rest of the State”
Your brother coloUred so good he got his MASTER’s in it??
No one can convince me that Arkansas is populated by anything other than hogs and hog farmers and hog farmers’ daughters and their disgusting inbred subhuman hog-man hybrid offspring.
and the SEX GODDESS that is Gov. Huckabee Sanders!
I already mentioned her.
And 2 of them are coloUring books
It’s absolutely beautiful, the parts I’ve been in. Like West Virginia. Gorgeous scenery, but you wouldn’t want to live there.
Drake loving that Mizzou low age of consent
Drake hasn’t prevented scoring like this since putting hot sauce in a condom
Evening Folks.
Get your shit together, Pirate Kansas
like Arkansas can count past 75
Gotta be my favourite Rick and Morty thing:
So, guess what commercial jingle I played the original version of at the wedding I played last night!
(Answer will come later)
ooooh ah ooooo, pop n fresh dough?
Valtrex “it’s all about suppression?”
Clap on!, Clap off, the Clapper
“Good vibrations?” – Deanna Favre
“Does it involve baby back ribs? I love that song” — A. Reid
K-A-R-S Kars 4 Kids!
WE HAVE A WINNER! No, seriously. Real (non “doNATE”) song. If you hate yourself enough it’s called Little Kinderlach.
holy shit, Bastard Man is PSYCHIC
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aromts0OiHs
Taking tomorrow off like the hero I am.
our company gives us a day off a month ,normally they do like 3rd Friday of month and happens to nicely give us march madness Friday off. they did change to give us the monday after super bowl for February which was surprisingly thoughtful
This Kansas vs. Pirate Kansas game is pretty good.
aye, matey
Before I got old I was better with my dingus and my guitar
If you (rightfully) hate that, you are really gonna hate the whole “aura” thing that is all the rage in the NBA right now.
Woo! I don’t follow the NBA at all these days.
It’s actually a lot of fun. I’ve been dining out on Luka Doncic fat jokes every night, much like Luka Doncic dines out on pierogies every night.
using quad windows to listen to the TNT crew halftime and post game segments, not quite not quite Hansen Red zone level of engagement
Yale isn’t (and never will, tbh) going away.
When anyone at the foul line spins the ball in their hands before shooting? They’re going to sink it because they’ve obviously got their routine down right after 10’s of thousands of practice shots.
Pictured, Armed&Hammered in the WarHammer Universe.
https://bsky.app/profile/geftokingmongoose.bsky.social/post/3lkrjqzs2ac2i
I suppose I should try to make friends with Gef there.
love the new please dont harass the players after losing a bet commercial. lets see how it turns out
[doxxes the people who produced the ad so bettors can harrass *them* instead]
My bracket is currently ranked 14,355,610.
I a wild coincidence my two other brackets, one where I took straight chalk and one where I just went complete banancakes, (UConn wins that one), are both tied at 4,994,564.
UConn just curb-stomped BU 5-1 to get to the Hockey East finals, where they’ll play either #1 Chestnut Hill College or Maine.
I can’t emphasize how much I never expected to see this. When I was a student, back in the days before coloUr TV, when we walked to class in the snow, and uphill both ways, UConn hockey, (and it was just hockey, because we didn’t get so much as a club team for women until my third year) (I still miss you, Valerie with the insane hockey-player’s ass), was playing in an outdoor rink, (roof, no walls), that seated a few dozen people and rarely needed to do that, against like North Adams State, in February.
Now they’re fighting for the top spot in the best NCAA hockey conference. It’s insane.
It’s not insane, it’s #whitealumniNILmoney.
And God bless it, too.
Just like the cows in your driveway.
“She let me rub my elbow on her boob while we both sucked on an Orange Fizz.”
Shouldn’t it have been the other way around?
What game are you watching?
I want to switch over to it.
An elbow on an orange fizz?
Wofford down by 9 and you know how tenacious (and annoying, to be fair) Terriers can be.
Give Terriers a chance!
Do the Terrier dance!
I find Bill Self so aggressively off-putting, even though I have no real idea why.
He’s an overrated coach whose best days are behind him now that all the illegal stuff he (allegedly) used to do to get an advantage is legal for everyone?
Appropriate in the very early going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHPkJkBS1vE
Pig sooey!
The neck brace is great, and deserves the attention it’s received. For me? The extra is the road-rash.
I like to imagine him reciting the Bad Santa line – ah loved a woman who wasn’t clean…
That was Pope Urban the Meyer’s excuse.
So fitting he’s named after the popes.
Fall of the Pigs is much less rockin’ yo…
Wofford running their offense thru a white fella with a receding hairline that is huffing and puffing with 9 minutes left in the half. I don’t like where this is going.
I love the focus on fans of teams like McNeese or Wofford-they rarely make it to the tourney so they’re completely jacked and a win means so much to them.
First EVAR tourney win for McNeese. Good on them.
More NIL for their manager with all the vibes. Eh Scotchy? Vibes yeah?
/will have head on swivel when by railyard.
Zags did it. I reckon I am going to take the fighting Caliparis. +5.5