Wednesday's morning offering: Big white stiffs strike again

Written by TiVo on March 08, 2006

Those of you that virtually ignore college basketball for most of the winter, then frantically try to catch up in early March so your brackets don't look wack, you have a kindred spirit.

And now is our time.

Having watched the last three minutes of UNC-Duke on Saturday night, part of the CAA title game on Monday and a few minues of the West Coast Conference final later that evening, I feel I'm now qualified to share my insight.

Peer into this conversation, ripped straight off the Rotogods message boards:

10:23 p.m
TiVo: Wow, the Zags are down nine in the WCC final to Loyola-Marymount.

This after UNC-W damn near drubbed Hofstra, only to see their 22-point second-half lead cut to 4 before hanging on.

(gets mid-major weight up in preparation for winning mad tournament pools)

Father Time: Up to 13. It's madness!

Vo, you going to the DC games?


11:11 p.m.
Father Time: Zags up one. Ten seconds left. Marymount with the ball...

Father Time: Aaaaaaand the big white center misses a wide open layup. So...SO solly Malymount.

BartenderMan: (yawn)

(pours another drink.....)

TiVo: The end of that game, for LMU, was 9 seconds of the worst last-second offensive series I've seen (since dude dribbles into a 3-man trap in the corner) and they still got a layup out of it, then nutted.

Gonzaga = sweet 16 tops. Either that or the WCC is a pretty good conference, since the last two games were 1-point wins.

ROTOGOD OF THE DAY
Well, I've been in love with Charlie Villanueva's game since I traded him away a month or so ago for Kyle Korver, and I can't seem to work out a deal to get him back.

But the man this is week doesn't affect roto at all.

Seriously, Gene Upshaw's pimp hand is way strong.

Jason Whitlock apparently agrees with me, as does Leigh Steinberg, who told USA TODAY on Wednesday that the prospect of an uncapped year was basically supposed to scare the owners into getting their ish together.

And they will. And come Thursday (pleeeeeze) T.O. can hit the motherfuckin' bricks and LeCharles Bentley can come to papa.

DICK MOVE OF THE DAY
The Patriot Act was really renewed?

DAILY REASON TO HATE ROTO
The unannounced 'nah, I'm not gonna play tonight.'

Witness:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- With Yao Ming emerging as an offensive force, the Houston Rockets didn't need Tracy McGrady on Tuesday night.

Really, that's great AP Sports Writer Jon LongPolishLastName, but some of our languishing fantasy teams did!

(Wants Paul Pierce back from El Amin)


OXYMORON OF THE DAY
Seeing "Breaking News" and "Barry Bonds used steroids" on the same TV crawl lines was amusing, even to a benefit-of-the-doubt type dude like me.

Sounds like this book will be taking him down in flames. I have no idea how you respond to a book sourced mostly from court documents, although I'm reading that most of the 200 interviews are anonymous/unattributed.


TODAY'S SONG I CAN'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD
Talib Kweli's Drugs, Basketball & Rap, feat. Planet Asia and Phil the Agony.


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-- Written by TiVo on March 08, 2006