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THUD!

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There went a million brackets...as UMBC manhandled the top ranked Virginia Cavaliers!!!...wait a minute, you are telling me...that University of Maryland-Baltimore County ...won?...what?...I will go on record to tell the entire Crazy Horse Nation , that I have never, ever, heard of this U before... They are the Chesapeake Bay Retrievers ...shortened to just the Retrievers...yup, and are apparently widely known for having the best CHESS teams in the country...they play in the American East Conference with the likes of Vermont and Maine and Albany...man...they have a famous alumnus, Kathleen Turner ...you know she has been a movie one...as well as playing Chandler Bing's father, turned into a woman on Friends...I digress... So how the Heck Harper did this happen?... Virginia is a ball control team ...both on O and D... the parallel is to what the triple option is in football ...as long as they set the tempo, it is their game... fall behind and they don't have the syst...

The Wayward Wind

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How's YOUR bracket?...some minor upsets, I suppose...until Buffalo, yes, BUFFALO!,  knocked off Arizona...the Pac 12 Champ and rep for this side of the Rocky Mountains...well, it is down to Gonzaga...the little U out of Spokane...left...and they barely won...let's just say that there is NO westerly wind... Maybe there is some justice in the huge loss by 'Zona...with the FBI case looming large in their backyard...the NCAA is turning their collective heads, until the end of the Big Dance...before proceeding with the expected boatloads of sanctions, fines, and court sessions that will dot the map of the collegiate world...there was some mention of the aforementioned talk, as Sean Miller's team got ripped apart by Buffalo...Rams?...NO!, it's the Bulls!... Back to the brackets...my team is still alive...and no...NO!...way can I say with any certainty that this will end up the way I want...er, guessed it might... Staying in hoops...the Blazers won their 11th strai...

Let The Games Begin

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The Big Dance has begun...the 4 play in games are done...and we are down to the 64...best? teams in the Nation...your bracket is perfect thus far...and so is mine...you can find these frays all over the pixels...let's discuss... The final one last eve was the UUUGGGLLLYYY match between the two that arguably shouldn't be there... Syracuse and Arizona State ...the Orange won...here is an odd thing...they were the LAST team in...yet were ranked 11th by the crack committee...shouldn't they have been 16th and LAST?... I have seen a lot of league tourney games this past 2 weeks...and I have this to ponder...why don't more teams play zone? ...the offense that most have, is very poor...not nearly as fine tuned as their man to man offense...and this...why don't these teams press more?...oh well... Other... Look who is the early leader in the Arnold Palmer T in Orlando...yup, it is Tiger Woods...3 under after 8 holes...is he back?...you do the judging... The si...

641

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How is it going for ya?...the tip of what's to come...happened in Pennsylvania for the open House of Rep seat there...and after, 99% of the VOTES counted ...the Demo, Conor Lamb , is leading by 641 ...not hundreds, or thousands...just 641 more people who voted for him , rather than the Repub...CNN or one of them, has called him the winner...this 33 year old...not sure how this works, but a recount seems inevitable...stay tuned for this one...still, he was the huge underdog...so it was said... Prez T was in town yesterday...to gander at the 8 prototypes of the WALL...don't think he was too enamored... he wants them to be visible through ...and none of them were... 'we need to see what is on the other side' ...and this one... 'the Mexicans can climb them walls real well' , well something like that...off he went to LaLa for a fund raiser...at the owner of the Tampa Bay Bucs (NFL)...minimum of $35,000 a plate...hmmm, isn't it surreal that many of these P...

More Madness

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Yes m'am, there are other things that have much more MADNESS than collegiate hoops...of course, I am referring to what is happening in the White House ...must be time to sweep the floor...as the Secretary of State dude , Rex Tillerson , got his pink slip from the Prez... replacing him is the current CIA bloke, Mike Pompeo ...listen here, there is no way possible for the average man or woman to know who is in the elite positions of our, make that OUR , executive branch of the government....no way... Madness ...more of it... it is being said by (2 law professors from Yale, a janitor from New Jersey, and a CNN newscaster) that Pompeo may have a rough time being ratified, er confirmed , by Congress...wait, isn't that term an Evangelical one?...holy moly, Easter is a coming...I digress...this is off the topic, but how many people (percent wise) still go to church?...Tuff answer to make...I read that 40% of the masses here, pray daily...really?...no one says how many go to c...

Monday Moaning

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The Bracket was announced for the Big Dance ...hmmm, cuz CBS, coupled with TBS , now has the flagship rites...it is referred to as 'March Madness' ...whatever...the intro to the teams that made it... were listed alphabetically prior to giving the nation where they were actually playing...so the snubs knew right away.... I know...I stated that if you are feeling the snub ...you were like 69th and 70th in the nation, well...maybe you should have been 40th or 41st after all....here are two examples...I may have changed me mind... Apparently there was a message that was sent loud and clear...it made no difference when teams won their influential to the committee games ...ah ha...let's read into this...those who finished strong...no big deal!...I say POOH to that...if you lose a gaggle of games at the end of the regular season...out with ya...and...for the poor conferences out west...all of them... MWC, WC, and the Pac 12...you have nothing for the committee. ..nothing...

68 in the Big Dance

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The bracket is to be completed today...some call it 'March Madness' ...and in it, will be SIXTY-EIGHT college and university hoops squads ...listen teams, if you get snubbed, you are like 69th or 70th in the nation...no snub...and there you go...filled with the power conferences...some get like 8 in... tricky, monetary fiasco , if you ask me ... I like that the conference tourney champs get an auto entry...haven't they always?...but like our San Diego St Aztecs , for example... won the Mountain West T! ...but, would not have been in, otherwise...the top team, Nevada, will get in due to its overall record...so that means POOF to some other power conference 'bubble team' ...one of their squads, that has like 10+ losses...but had quality wins along the way...if it smells to you, it does to me, too... The $100,000 kid at Arizona ... and his coach ...are bouncing their way into the T, too... Sean Miller , the coach, gets to parade up and down the sideline...even t...