2. I will move to any state in the nation to send my kids to the Brock, Bears, SB, Zappall, D4P, Shorofsky school. But I'm wondering if we can get Kotter too. (He can also teach PE, covering both Poker and basketball (see Fastbreak).)

1. Rafting on the Rogue River
2. Hike around Crater Lake
3. A day on the dunes at the beach
4. Tour Oregon campus
5. Downtown Portland and Powell's book store, catch a show that night.
6-7. Hike Columbia River Gorge (two days)

Their longest trip of the year was to Nassau.

In The Bahamas.

Bring your SAT scores and prepare to engage in some wide-ranging philosophical discussions during that one. Those players are likely a bit smarter than the OSU-Memphis guys tipping off later.

I don't think he was trying to say that USC has a higher than normal PARP (Perspiration Above Replacement Player).

I have a lot of hatred toward him.

As I learned from reading a Bill Simmons column about He Who Shall Not Be Named, P----- has worked EVERY Final Four on TV in most people's memories.

I don't even remember who NBC used before him. When I tried to look it up in old newspapers, the Final Four games were such a minor event that the papers wouldn't state who was working on TV. Curt Gowdy was doing the play-by-play until the late 1970s, when Enberg took over and was teamed up with McGuire and P-----.

Beautiful weather up here, we'll see what happens this afternoon.

NBC only showed three of them and used these pairings:
Jim Simpson and Tommie Hawkins
Dick Enberg and P-----
Curt Gowdy and John Wooden

The East Regional was only shown locally and highlights were cut in.

I believe that before P-----, Gowdy either called the championship game solo or used Jim Simpson to do interviews.

I hate it when they bring in guys like Brown who are announcers from another sport. Just like I would hate it if I was an NFL fan and Joe Buck was announcing. The announcers are always more knowledgeable when they actually focus on one sport.

His basketball acumen is limited to him yelling "Get Shorty! Get Shorty!"

Outside of that, I think he's human valium.

You will be receiving a beating unlike any other.

{backs away slowly}

Grouchy, I don't mind. High-handed is okay. Conceited and intolerant is not cool. I am ambivalent regarding irascibility.

Anthony Atkinson for God!

That game needed Gus Johnson.

Bummer

[checks online]

Bulldogs!

All hail the Lord Jeffs!

SPRINGFIELD, Ma. (AP) -- Anthony Atkinson scored 10 points in the final 45 seconds, including a layup at the buzzer, to give Barton College its first NCAA Division II title with a 77-75 victory over defending champion Winona State.

Barton ended Winona's two-year, 57-game winning streak and survived a review of the final play by the officials.

Winona appeared poised to repeat as champion when Zac Malvik made two free throws to put the Minnesota school ahead 74-67 with 45 seconds left. Two straight baskets by Atkinson made it 74-71, then Jonte Flowers of Winona hit one of two foul shots to put his team in front 75-71.

Atkinson scored on a layup with 19.4 seconds remaining, then stole the inbounds pass and made a layup to tie it 75-75 with 11 seconds left. Atkinson forced a turnover, raced down court and delivered the winning basket just before time expired.

Actual sequence of events:
Winona State leads 74-67 with 45 seconds left.
Atkinson scores on layup with 39 seconds left to make it 74-69 and then commits a foul.
Winona St's Zach Malvik misses and Barton rebounds.
Atkinson scores on a jumper with 25 seconds left 74-71.
Barton's Errol Frails steals the inbound pass, gets it to Atkinson who scores and is fouled. 74-73 with 21 seconds left.
Atkinson misses the free throw.
Atkinson fouls Jonte Flowers of Winona State with 19 seconds left. Flowers misses the first and makes the second, 75-73 Winona.
Atkinson scores on an up and under layup with 11 seconds left. 75-75.
Barton's Bobby Buffaloe makes a steal as Winona brings the ball up court and leads a pass to Atkinson who lays the ball in as the buzzer sounds. The ball leaves Atkinson's hands just before the light on the backboard comes on. 77-75 Barton.

This had better show up on YouTube, by the way.

Three cheers to Bob ripping He Who Shall Not Be Named.

The headline writer on the Barton website likes exclamation points:

"Atkinson free throw sends Barton into NCAA D-II National Championship game!!!"
"Atkinson's buzzer-beating 3-pointer vaults Bulldogs into Elite Eight semifinals!!!"

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ONIONS!!

Please stop, Bill.

Now that I've said that, watch Kansas win by 30.

James Brown went to Harvard as an undergrad. Len Elmore went to Maryland and then Harvard Law.

Len Elmore is just boring as all get out.

I think it was 1992.

Len and Verne don't say much here.

Thank you

lightweights.

If UCLA beats Kansas, those same standings will hold.

If Kansas wins, mikewyz takes over the lead.

http://tinyurl.com/2wud9e

Greg Oden is less than a month older than the youngest of my brothers. He appears to be older than my father.

He was born the year Kirk Gibson the National League's MVP, and the Dodgers won the World Series in an upset romp over the Oakland Athletics.

That year, the first ever George Bush was elected President. Mikhail Gorbachev began his program of perestroika. The Iran-Contra scandal raged. Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced for blowing the whistle Israel's nuclear weapons program. The Soviet war in Afghanistan ended. Michael Dukakis rode a tank. The Iran-Iraq War ended after an estimated 1 million were dead. Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Wimbledon won the FA Cup. Wrigley Field saw its first-ever night game. Wayne Gretzky became a King.

I received a yellow Schwinn for my eighth birthday.

Howland's lack of faith in Westbrook is really going to hurt in this game.

Monetery Chris. Remember him? He's in a tie for 12th. I remember when he was he was big.

I'll start – Darren Collison is worse than Mike Penberthy.

Vera Farmiga did it!

If you're a Kansas fan, the Griddle is nominally nonpartisan.

That said, I also predicted that "The Departed" would win best picture, in the long tradition of the Academy giving awards to second-rate work of great artists because it has ignored said artists' earlier greatness. (See Newman, Paul -- "The Color of Money".)

1. Isn't fatter.

2. Still has teeth.

Aaron Afflalo is pretty good at basketball. (Should I not say that?)

And I don't know what I missed, but I'm pretty confident that we have no business leading this basketball game.

There seems to be a bit of mind control and humiliation involved.

127 -- UCLA pulled it together a little bit, and Kansas fell apart a little bit. I wouldn't say the Bruins have been lucky, or outplayed in particular.

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UCLA is 5 of 13 on 3s.
Kansas is 1 of 1 on 3s.

Shipp has 3 turnovers and 3 steals, so I guess he's even.

Wright has 4 turnovers and 3 steals.

8 assists for Kansas, 4 for UCLA.

UCLA with 15 rebounds, Kansas with 10.

http://tinyurl.com/2k2kvp

appears to indicate no attempts.

Mata's career stats:

http://tinyurl.com/36hzae

say the same.

Personally, I'm disappointed. Both of these men have been involved in some blow-outs. How can they not have tried a three, if just for the novelty of it? Even Kevin Duckworth shot a few threes. (10 in one season, once!)

http://tinyurl.com/2u4hno

If Mata or Oden ever tried one, it would likely be an end of the half heave or something with the shot clock running down.

Ben does not seem like the type to endorse such shenanigans.

That's probably why I don't coach athletics.

Tajuan Porter has tried 242.

I think Yoda might have some advice for these young men:

"Control, control! You must learn control!"

So - who was the (white) guy who came in and shot - and made - one three-pointer and then left?

Don't the Bruins seriously need people who can shoot in there?

He'll be back in at some point.

The 1939 team was just called The Tall Firs because they were exceptionally tall for the time. Two guys were 6'4" and the star was 6'8" Slim Wintermute, whose real first name was Urgel.

Wins over Oklahoma and Texas at Treasure Island, California.

A win over Ohio State in the championship game in Evanston, Illinois.

Wins over Seattle and USF in Corvallis.
Wins over Kansas State and Duke in Kansas City.

Ducks rule and Buckeyes drool!

Jay Bilas would have done the exact same thing

Wins over TCU and St. Louis in Kansas City
Wins over Santa Clara and St. John's in Seattle.

Wins over Western Kentucky and Georgia Tech in Louisville.
Wins over NYU and Cal in San Francisco.

. . . and the men's are (informally, at least) the Sagecocks.

Dirty!

And rugby? Yeah, I wasn't good at rugby.

Run, you stupid clock! Run!

But I think that Alaska has a respectable black population.

Providence vs. Austin Peay in 1987 (back when the Friars were coached by Rick Pitino and Billy Donovan was the star) and by UConn against Boston U in 1990.

http://tinyurl.com/kvppt

2006 winners:

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Bronze: Michelob Light, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis, MO

Which doesn't rhyme.

That is not defense. That is assault.

Your steals may vary.

Sincerest apologies.

UCLA's leading rebounder today:
Josh Shipp

Or at least since they started keeping track of the stat.

Three days after Aaron Afflalo was born, the first-ever Nintendo was released in the United States.

In that year, the first Briton made a cell phone call. Ronald Reagan started his second term. "We Are the World" rocketed to #1. The first truly successful implant of an artificial heart was performed. The first-ever blood test for AIDS was approved in the US. Americans were taken hostage in Beirut. Mikhail Gorbachev took power. New Coke was born, and flopped. Route 66 was shut down as a cross-country entity. 9000 people died in a massive earthquake in Mexico City.

38 football fans were killed when a riot broke out at Heysel Stadium in Brussels after a Euro Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. Don Mattingly and Willie McGee won MVP awards. The Kansas City Royals closed out what was otherwise a top-flight World Series with an 11-0 blowout of the Cardinals.

I moved from Bend to Portland and was taken to Disneyland for my fifth birthday.

I am a happy, happy, happy man.

WOOOHOOO!

I think he was trying to maintain the focus on the Bruins.

If North Carolina and Florida win, jkm 1927 will lead.
If North Carolina and Oregon win, El Lay Dave will lead.
If Georgetown wins, Trojan Ron will lead regardless of the outcome of the Florida-Oregon game.

Interestingly, none of these people can win the whole thing.

So enjoy it while you can people, soon you will be off with the Monterey Chrises of the world.

I need to analyze this further.

Bill Self may not give us any credit, but his hairpiece knows what really happened out there.

If North Carolina and Florida win and then advance to the final and North Carolina wins, Diane Firstman wins.

If North Carolina and Florida win and Ohio State and Florida meet in the final and Florida wins, Bama Yankee wins.

If North Carolina and Florida win and Ohio State beats Florida in the final, jkm1927 wins.

If Georgetown and Florida win and Florida beats Ohio State in the final, Trojan Ron wins.

If Georgetown and Florida win and Ohio State beats Florida, Suffering Bruin wins.

If Georgetown and Florida win and UCLA beats Ohio State in the final, Dodgergabe wins

If Georgetown and Florida win and Ohio State beats UCLA, sonic death monkey wins.

If Georgetown and Florida win and UCLA beats Georegetown in the final, maligNED and beLITTLEd wins.

If Georgetown and Florida win and Georgetown beats UCLA, "it goes up to 65" wins.

If Oregon and Georgetown win and Georgetown beats UCLA, Hythloday wins.

If Oregon and Georgetown win and Ohio State beats UCLA, Sam DC wins.

If Oregon and North Carolina win and UCLA beats Ohio State, Dodgergabe wins.

If Oregon and North Carolina win and Oregon beats Ohio State in the final, minus the orange wins.

I'm tired.

I took the dog (a basset hound) to the beach for a walk.

Basset hound = chick magnet

Bruins Make Final Four. Brock Pours Beer On Self.

News Alert

Sometimes this gets tweaked to make some teams play in certain areas and to avoid problems like having BYU playing on a Sunday.

Although they still screw that up at times.