Notre Dame and Gonzaga both have big games tonight — at Seton Hall at 5pm MDT, a crucial game for the Irish’s bubble hopes, and vs. St. Mary’s at 9pm MDT for the WCC lead, respectively — and of course, USC hosts UCLA on Sunday, hoping to reprise the 21-point beatdown the Trojans laid on the Bruins at Pauley last… Read more »
My favorite ad of the night: Here’s the story of how the ad came together, including this nugget: to film the ad, Leno “enter[ed] the Ed Sullivan Theater during the taping of Letterman’s show [last Tuesday], when there’s often commotion from fans on Broadway, but Leno wore a disguise: ‘A hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses and a fake moustache,’ says Burnett…. Read more »
I’m billing this as a “live chat” rather than a “live blog,” since I don’t know how much I’ll be participating in it, what with girls being awake for much of the game. But, at the very least, my occasional tweets will appear automatically in the chat window below.
[WARNING: Political ranting ahead, with some profanity. I’m pissed off.] I’ll be the first to admit that, as a relatively new Coloradan, I don’t pay as much attention to state politics as I should. But tonight, on my commute home, I heard a story on Colorado Public Radio about the current budget debate — and it made me furious with… Read more »
Continuing on with the discussion in my prior tweets and links and longer blog posts about the possibility of NCAA Tournament expansion, I want to expand on something I proposed in comments the other day. If the NCAA is absolutely dead set on expansion, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way. The wrong way is to… Read more »
I’m not a man prone to big shows of emotion (excepting, of course, rage) or speaking about things with dramatic flourishes. I don’t tend to run very hot or very cold and therefore lack the emotional reserves to pull that sort of thing off. So please, bear that in mind as you read this. When I go heartfelt, it can… Read more »
In response to my prior tweets and blog posts condemning the potential expansion of the NCAA Tournament to 96 teams as “unspeakably dumb, absolutely ridiculous, totally insane, utterly indefensible, wolf-face crazy,” and so forth — and lamenting the possible end to the mystique of the quixotic 16-versus-1 game — Andrew last night e-mailed the following response. I don’t agree with… Read more »
One of the greatest annual subplots of the NCAA Tournament in its 64-team (and 65-team) format, IMHO, is the question of whether a #16 seed will finally do the unthinkable and knock off a #1 seed. It’s never, EVER happened, and it rarely even threatens to happen, for the simple reason that #16 seeds — the champions, often the unexpected… Read more »
In a shocking turn of events, when you keep cutting your revenue, you are unable to pay for services. The right-wing economic theory of cutting taxes to solve all our problems? Yeah, doesn’t really work. [Bumped. -ed.]
In case you haven’t heard, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, which means six more weeks of winter. In other news, Nancy Pelosi saw her shadow, which means six more weeks without health-care reform. Also, Barack Obama saw his shadow, but insisted he inherited it from George W. Bush. Scott Brown saw his shadow, but announced it’s not his… Read more »