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 “Finally, payback for what Christian Laettner did to us.”

(Referring to the legendary 1990 east regional final during the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, and Laettner’s buzzer-beater that sent Duke past University of Connecticut by one point in overtime.)

Congrats UConn.  This was a legendary game too, and you played amazing.  I was rooting for Duke but I wanted to see a good game more than anything, no matter who was competing.  You deserve this win.

Best of wishes going on into the Final Four....

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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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It really shouldn’t have been any surprise, that the Bad Bunny performance would be so ridden with vile content (in whatever language it was “sung” in).   Or there was one person who is now a bit more educated on matters than I had been before this morning.  I understand now, and I see that “entertainment” like what happened at the Super Bowl is just going to continue and grow increasingly worse.

It turns out that ever since 2020 or so the Super Bowl halftime shows have been produced by Jay-Z.  The guy who made an unconscionable amount of money rapping about gangs, drugs, sex, violence… you get the picture.  I will never understand why it is that some of the most negative aspects of the human condition are so commonly deemed to be high art to be praised by all.  But we are far from the glorious years of ...

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I refused to watch the official Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny.  Seeing a grown man in a dress who has burned the American flag on a number of occasions isn’t anything I was interested in.

I did not watch the Turning Point halftime alternative either.  I was told that my doing so would be “supporting hate”.  Even though those making such accusations are responsible for more hate than anyone else in America right now.  But I digress.

So what did I see instead?

I opened YouTube and started up the legendary In Living Color halftime special from 1992!

From a time when it wasn’t demanded of us that we be angry enough to hate others without reason.  It was a better age.  More joyful and innocent.  In Living Color‘s halftime spectacular was a stroke of genius on the part of Fox Network and 34 years later ...

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For the past six days we’ve been watching it like a hurricane, churning ever closer and gaining strength along the way.  It has become the perfect storm: nothing like this has happened before and nothing like it will ever happen again.  We are bracing for a collision of gargantuan proportions and no matter who wins it will be a battle for the ages.

Tonight, Duke plays North Carolina in the NCAA Basketball Tournament semifinal.

The two teams have never played each other in an NCAA tourney.  The last time Duke played Carolina was on their home court in Durham.  Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game and Carolina beat them by double digits.

Tonight could be Krzyzewski’s final game ever.

I hope not.

I want to see him in the final on Monday night, playing against either Kansas or Villanova.

I want to see the Duke team giving their coach one ...

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 They are the team I now want to see take it all:

Go Peacocks!!

(And dude with Seventies mustache for the win!)

Amazing game Saint Peters played last night against Perdue.  Now hoping they’ll send North Carolina home tomorrow.  Either Saint Peters wins the tourney, or I want to see it come down to Duke and UNC… with Coach K leaving triumphant.

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 I probably wouldn’t be so fired-up ANGRY about this if I hadn’t been a swimmer in high school…

Above you see a photo of Emma Weyant.  She’s been a swimmer on University of Virginia’s team.  She also earned silver as an individual during the Olympics.  And in a sane world she SHOULD be recognized as the top women’s swimmer in America.

Instead that recognition goes to someone who was ranked 500-something last year in men’s swimming.  And then “Lia Thomas” (real name William Thomas) decided that he was a woman.  Even more so, that he was eligible to compete in women’s swimming.  And the University of Pennsylvania decided to indulge him that fantasy.

“Lia” proceeded to blast all competition out of the water (almost literally speaking).  With the musculature and endurance of a male biology, no woman has been able to compete with Thomas.  It has been as lopsided a ...

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It’s been awhile since I really followed college basketball.  It’s still the sport dearest to my heart, mostly because I remember cheering on the ’83 “Cardiac Pack” team at North Carolina State as they won the national championship under coach Jim Valvano.  And on the twenty-fifth anniversary of that game, I paid a visit to Valvano’s grave to leave flowers.  In high school I thrilled to watching Duke win back to back national titles after so many tries by Mike Krzyzewski (hey, I finally spelled his name right!!).  One of these days maybe I’ll get to see my alma mater Elon University go to “the Big Dance”.  And then everyone will be asking “Elon?  Where’s THAT?” just like we did with Gonzaga.

One person who knows basketball… and I mean REALLY knows it… is my lifelong best friend Chad Austin.  He’s been finding some good stuff lately and sharing ...

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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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