February is gone! Time to move on to the juggernaut of a month that is March. March has to be in the hall of fame of months. It boasts the NCAA Tournament, St. Patty’s Day, and that first day it’s nice enough to play basketball outside. What’s not to like? Still the February reared its [...]

Apparently Barack Obama shot hoops with the UConn Women’s Basketball team yesterday.  Although reporters were not allowed to film the pick-up game, it appears that Barack did not lose to a girl:
Who won? Point guard Renee Montgomery offered the only report.
“He did!” she said. “The president can shoot!”
Whew, that would have been a bad one.  [...]

Somehow the three days to start this week always seem to go faster than the days between the Selection Show and the first round games. That could be due to the two days it took me to recover from a trip to Nashville where I did little other than watching games and watching live bands in bars. Regardless, it’s time for the second weekends of the NCAA Tournament and it promises to be a great one.

The Hawks beat the Sharks in a shootout last night, 6-5.  That’s good, because if they had blown a 4-1 lead, then lost, I would have lost it.  [Sun-Times]
Bradley, after this buzzer-beater the other night, advanced to the final of the CollegeInsider.com Tourney last night.  How many of these tournaments are there? [Tribune]
Cuauhtemoc Blanco is [...]

Some slogans, ad campaigns, and catchphrases just get old.  I’ve always thought March Madness would be one of those things.  Great advertising tool and apt name for a time of the year every sports fan can get into, but it’s so omni-present this time of year from everything from sports shows to used car ads.  [...]