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Okay, I’m going to get something off my chest and I believe it merits consideration.  Because we are in “the high holy days” as I call this time of March and it’s as good a time as any to bring this up.

I’m watching the NCAA basketball tournament.  Maybe it’s just me but it’s DISGUSTING watching so many young men, at the height of their sports careers, who are festooned with TOO MANY tattoos.  I’ve seen some of these guys who have both arms completely inked.  Some have tats on their necks.

WHY?!??  What is the purpose of all those tattoos??

These are healthy young specimens, in the prime of their lives, and they are completely destroying the symmetrical beauty of their bodies by marking them up.  It absolutely takes away from appreciation of their presence on the court.

Why would anyone do this to themselves?  Have they considered ...

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“One Shining Moment” is the song that CBS uses in the final moments of their annual coverage of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, to recap the highlights of the road to the championship.  All well and good… except that there won’t be an NCAA men’s basketball tournament this year because of the coronavirus epidemic.

So I, foolish I, took it upon myself to address this curious situation…

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…how many of y’all didn’t have your NCAA Basketball Tournament brackets thoroughly broken after this weekend?

I’m not much up to speed on sports of late. But watching the agony from brackets getting busted in full gory on my Facebook front page has been pure comedy gold!

Even though I don’t have a dog in this hunt (I would have rooted for my alma mater Elon if it had gotten into the Big Dance for the first time) I have to say: from the getgo this has been a weird weird tourney. Probably the most topsy-turvy one in recent memory....

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As much as I have to be cheering for Duke, I would not mind it at all to see Butler win the whole thing.

Maybe that has a bit to do with the fact that I’m feeling tonight’s game is going to be eerily reminiscent of the 1983 NCAA Championship between “invincible” slam-dunk powerhouse Houston and a scrappy little team from North Carolina State coached by an Italian kid from Queens named Jim Valvano....

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The first thing that popped into mind when I read this was, “Is this what it takes to make sure Chapel Hill never again has to play in the NIT?”

(rimshot)

I can tell already that I’m going to get heaps of grief from Chad and Eric about that 😛

The NCAA is now pondering the idea of expanding the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament from 65 teams to a whopping 96 schools going to the annual tournament. Under the proposed plan the National Invitational Tournament would be discontinued, the top 32 teams would receive byes and whole new brackets would be created for the embiggened tournament.

This sounds more like a hella big mess than the big dance, if you ask me. The current system ain’t perfect, but it’s about as nicely balanced as there’s likely to be. Enlarging the field to 96 teams would ...

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Dear management and staff of WFMY:

I am a life-long viewer of WFMY. Yours is the station that I have most associated with well-produced television. Growing up our own television was always tuned to one of two channels: the local PBS affiliate for Sesame Street and Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Channel 2. Until the time I was 8 years old I didn’t even know that there were other stations that did news, weather and sports. I will always fondly remember Lee Kindard’s hosting of The Good Morning Show, Sandra Hughes is one of the all-time most classiest ladies in the history of anything (Lord willing I will finally get a chance to meet her someday) and whenever the weather has taken a turn for the worst or (even better) threatened snow that would cancel the schools, WFMY was there. I still remember people like Arlo Lassen (whatever happened ...

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