This N That- A veritable Mount Rushmore of collegiate head basketball coaches have now become wallflowers at the “Big Dance” as their teams failed to advance past the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Iconic Duke headmaster Mike Krzyzewski, two-time Michigan State NCAA champ Tom Izzo, defending championship coach Jay Wright of Villanova and double-dipper Rick Patino (Kentucky 1996 & Louisville 2013) are now benched for the remainder of this year’s tournament.
Hey hockeyheads, a dogged fight for the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference is currently playing out with the Columbus Blue Jackets, Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins jockeying for the division title and overall top seed heading into the playoffs. The Jackets are the new boys on the block, the Caps have been the most consistent team all year long and the defending champion Pens have perhaps the best player in all of hockey, Sidney Crosby, on the ice. Going to be very interesting.
So, 50-year-old rookie pro golfer Steve Stricker cards an event-low 63 on Saturday to take a three-shot lead going into the final round of his Champions (Senior) Tour debut. Strick’s tooling along with visions of the Tuscon Conquistadores title dancing in his head when fifty-eight-year-old journeyman Tom Lehman sneaks up from behind on Sunday to snatch away the victory by one stroke. Stricken!
Potty Train- My, have you happened to notice the proliferation of the use of the F-word by the young collegians competing in the basketball tourney? On numerous occasions one could see the word being mouthed by several players. Seemed like after fouls the foul word presented itself faster than Faye Dunaway blurted out “La La Land” at the Academy Awards.
Is it just me or do you agree that “eff-word” conveys a more subtle meaning than the aforementioned version? And here I was of the opinion that our coming-of-age Millennials were eschewing vulgar language, alcohol, drugs and their parents due to the I-phone phenomenon. With two Mills of my own I can vouch for this cultural shift. It’s all good.
It looked like Faye stopped by the Hollywood Wax Museum on her way to the awards show for touch-up as she was nearly unrecognizable to this fan of hers.
Fast And Furious- The Michigan Wolverines are the feel-good story of the tournament to date as they survived an aborted takeoff on the runway, took the Big ten tournament by storm and have advanced on to the Sweet Sixteen.
That World Baseball Classic (WBC) is a distraction and possible detriment as players risk their health for the upcoming Major League Baseball season to play in a tournament with no real significance.
Why do women professional golfers not take their caps off at round’s end to acknowledge their playing partners, as do the men on tour? (Must be a hair thing!)
And who said #9 seed Roger Federer was getting long in the tooth as he took down fellow Swede Stanislaus Wawrinka (#3) at Indian Wells this past weekend in straight sets?
Those man-buns being sported by several NCAA hoopsters are a relatively new look and seems as if they once had conehead ‘dos then whacked them down several inches.
Is Nascar’s Joey Logano getting a little bit big for his britches?
Don’t look now Left Coast football fanatics but the New England Patriots have made a plethora of positive off-season moves, which portends another Super Bowl championship waits in the wings.
Expect UCLA freshman Lonzo Ball’s father LaVar to get increasingly louder and more irritating as the Bruins hopefully trudge their way to the Final Four.
Michael’s gonna go bury a three at the local park right now. Feel free to throw out a challenge at [email protected].
