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Tuesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.........(Author unknown)
13) Coaches generally get fired for losing, but Tulsa just fired Doug Wojcik for not winning enough, in other words, not making the NCAA tournament, which in turn hurt ticket sales. Wojcik is a high-quality person who played at the Naval Academy with David Robinson. Tulsa’s sports programs are in limbo because of the conference-juggling that’s going on- they haven’t found their landing spot yet. Don’t see how firing Wojcik helps them at all.
12) Tulsa has been burned in past by coaches leaving for greener pastures: Tubby Smith, Bill Self, Buzz Peterson. Next time that happens, we’ll think about Wojcik before we criticize the coach who bolts.
11) Over the last two NCAA tournaments, first round favorites of 3 or less points are 6-19 against spread. Lower seeded teams that are favored are 0-5.
10) Over last three tournaments, single-digit first round favorites are 15-42 against the spread. Maybe that’s why the spreads this March seems so much lower than usual.
9) More than 70% of the rum sold in this country comes from Puerto Rico.
8) Must be nice to be rich; had Eldrick Woods gutted out the last seven holes Sunday and played par golf, he stood to make $76,000. That’s more than I make in a year. For the record, his last drive went 321 yards.
7) Sergio Garcia got a 12 on a par-4 hole Sunday. Freakin’ 12. Not good.
6) Packer backup QB Matt Flynn is now a free agent, and will cash in as soon as the Peyton Manning drama is resolved. Browns/Miami/Seahawks all whiffed on Manning, so they’ll be in the market for Flynn, who dazzled in his only two NFL starts.
5) Mets have five guys out with oblique injuries, so now they’re reviewing their daily workout program. Brilliant. Here’s a hint fellas; too much weightlifting.
4) Big X hasn’t had a Final Four team since Kansas won national title four years ago. Jayhawks/Missouri are expected to get there this time around.
3) Long Beach State is a popular darkhorse this month, but the Big West hasn’t won a tournament game since Pacific won first round games in both 2004/2005, and New Mexico is a tough draw for the 49ers.
2) I’ve had a theory for a few years that CBS does some handicapping of its own when they pick TV times for games; for instance, I don’t think they put games they think are potential upsets on in the afternoon, they want those games for prime time, which is why I’m surprised the Harvard-Vandy game is a 4:40 tipoff. Lot of wealthy alums from Harvard, which hasn’t been in the tournament since 1946, and they’ve got a pretty good team- fully expected that to be a 10pm tipoff.
1) Teams that took lot of investment action as soon as the lines came out Sunday night:
UConn, opened +1.5, now -2
Alabama, opened +2, now -1.5.
Michigan State, opened -17.5, now -20
Belmont, opened +6.5, got bet down to +4
Kansas opened -12, got bet up to -15.
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Tuesday's six-pack
Basketball budgets for some of the mid-major programs that are in this year's NCAA tournament.........thanks to Yahoo! Sports for these
-- Creighton Bluejays, $4.8M-- One of two teams in tournament where it is OK if the coach buys his star player a car (its his son).
-- Harvard Crimson, $990,000-- Library has bigger budget.
-- Memphis Tigers, $6.7M-- Off to Big East next season.
-- Murray State, $1.6M-- Will make lot selling apparel if they can get to Sweet 16 this season, a lot like Boise State does in football.
-- St Mary's, $2.2M-- Need their defensive stopper back this week.
-- VCU, $3.2M-- Fighting off bigger schools to keep coach Smart
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FROM ONION SPORTS
http://www.theonion.com/articles/spate-of-offseason-kicker-suicides-blamed-on-traum,27569/
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Len’s Top 5
http://thatssports.com/
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Vintage Commercial -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWzo3raPuQ&feature=related
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Actual Headline -
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-cannon-death-california-idUSTRE82604920120307
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RETRO TV -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3LXYw7z2w&feature=related
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Biggest first-round upsets in NCAA history -
http://network.yardbarker.com/colle...10283068?linksrc=home_backyard_image_10283068
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“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”
(Lewis H. Lapham.)
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An Island of Vampires -
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/03/an-island-of-vampires/
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UFO 'squadron' over Japan -
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981177306
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Sea otter getting ready for a party tonight -
http://www.wimp.com/seaotter/
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OUCH -
http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6737027/godzilla-the-turkey-hates-lady
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http://network.yardbarker.com/all_s...10262302?linksrc=home_backyard_image_10262302
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f4_1330973446
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IDIOTS -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e4_1331333517
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http://killmydaynow.com/wp-content/...oiletSigns52PICS_17CB/FunnyToiletSigns_23.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XBFaG5zGY&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82360051/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZyWbotIfNM&feature=related
.
Tuesday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but.........(Author unknown)
13) Coaches generally get fired for losing, but Tulsa just fired Doug Wojcik for not winning enough, in other words, not making the NCAA tournament, which in turn hurt ticket sales. Wojcik is a high-quality person who played at the Naval Academy with David Robinson. Tulsa’s sports programs are in limbo because of the conference-juggling that’s going on- they haven’t found their landing spot yet. Don’t see how firing Wojcik helps them at all.
12) Tulsa has been burned in past by coaches leaving for greener pastures: Tubby Smith, Bill Self, Buzz Peterson. Next time that happens, we’ll think about Wojcik before we criticize the coach who bolts.
11) Over the last two NCAA tournaments, first round favorites of 3 or less points are 6-19 against spread. Lower seeded teams that are favored are 0-5.
10) Over last three tournaments, single-digit first round favorites are 15-42 against the spread. Maybe that’s why the spreads this March seems so much lower than usual.
9) More than 70% of the rum sold in this country comes from Puerto Rico.
8) Must be nice to be rich; had Eldrick Woods gutted out the last seven holes Sunday and played par golf, he stood to make $76,000. That’s more than I make in a year. For the record, his last drive went 321 yards.
7) Sergio Garcia got a 12 on a par-4 hole Sunday. Freakin’ 12. Not good.
6) Packer backup QB Matt Flynn is now a free agent, and will cash in as soon as the Peyton Manning drama is resolved. Browns/Miami/Seahawks all whiffed on Manning, so they’ll be in the market for Flynn, who dazzled in his only two NFL starts.
5) Mets have five guys out with oblique injuries, so now they’re reviewing their daily workout program. Brilliant. Here’s a hint fellas; too much weightlifting.
4) Big X hasn’t had a Final Four team since Kansas won national title four years ago. Jayhawks/Missouri are expected to get there this time around.
3) Long Beach State is a popular darkhorse this month, but the Big West hasn’t won a tournament game since Pacific won first round games in both 2004/2005, and New Mexico is a tough draw for the 49ers.
2) I’ve had a theory for a few years that CBS does some handicapping of its own when they pick TV times for games; for instance, I don’t think they put games they think are potential upsets on in the afternoon, they want those games for prime time, which is why I’m surprised the Harvard-Vandy game is a 4:40 tipoff. Lot of wealthy alums from Harvard, which hasn’t been in the tournament since 1946, and they’ve got a pretty good team- fully expected that to be a 10pm tipoff.
1) Teams that took lot of investment action as soon as the lines came out Sunday night:
UConn, opened +1.5, now -2
Alabama, opened +2, now -1.5.
Michigan State, opened -17.5, now -20
Belmont, opened +6.5, got bet down to +4
Kansas opened -12, got bet up to -15.
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Tuesday's six-pack
Basketball budgets for some of the mid-major programs that are in this year's NCAA tournament.........thanks to Yahoo! Sports for these
-- Creighton Bluejays, $4.8M-- One of two teams in tournament where it is OK if the coach buys his star player a car (its his son).
-- Harvard Crimson, $990,000-- Library has bigger budget.
-- Memphis Tigers, $6.7M-- Off to Big East next season.
-- Murray State, $1.6M-- Will make lot selling apparel if they can get to Sweet 16 this season, a lot like Boise State does in football.
-- St Mary's, $2.2M-- Need their defensive stopper back this week.
-- VCU, $3.2M-- Fighting off bigger schools to keep coach Smart
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FROM ONION SPORTS
http://www.theonion.com/articles/spate-of-offseason-kicker-suicides-blamed-on-traum,27569/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Len’s Top 5
http://thatssports.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vintage Commercial -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWzo3raPuQ&feature=related
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actual Headline -
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-cannon-death-california-idUSTRE82604920120307
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RETRO TV -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np3LXYw7z2w&feature=related
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Biggest first-round upsets in NCAA history -
http://network.yardbarker.com/colle...10283068?linksrc=home_backyard_image_10283068
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”
(Lewis H. Lapham.)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An Island of Vampires -
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/03/an-island-of-vampires/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UFO 'squadron' over Japan -
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981177306
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sea otter getting ready for a party tonight -
http://www.wimp.com/seaotter/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OUCH -
http://www.collegehumor.com/embed/6737027/godzilla-the-turkey-hates-lady
----------
http://network.yardbarker.com/all_s...10262302?linksrc=home_backyard_image_10262302
----------
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f4_1330973446
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IDIOTS -
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e4_1331333517
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://killmydaynow.com/wp-content/...oiletSigns52PICS_17CB/FunnyToiletSigns_23.jpg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XBFaG5zGY&feature=player_embedded
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http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82360051/
----------
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZyWbotIfNM&feature=related
.