[Originally posted around noon Monday; bumped to top. -ed.] I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have any serious emotional investment in Butler. I don’t claim any “ownership” of this team or its tournament run. Like the sidebar at right says, I’m simply on the Butler bandwagon. When I went out to the grocery store after Saturday’s game,… Read more »
Whatever happens in Indianapolis tonight between Butler and Duke, I think Chicago’s Mark Buehrle has already clinched SportsCenter’s “Top Play” of the day: Last season, he pitched a perfect game. This season, on Opening Day no less, he starts things off with a perfect play. Nice. Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure I know one thing that won’t be a “top play,”… Read more »
[Bumped. Originally posted Sunday at 1:41 PM. -ed.] From what I’ve seen on Twitter, SportsCenter and elsewhere, the “expert” consensus appears to be that Duke simply has too many offensive weapons for even Butler’s excellent defense to contain. The same people who never believed Butler could make it this far, and who still fundamentally don’t understand how they’ve managed to… Read more »
[Sorry for the delay in getting this full update online. I blame fatherhood!] Matt Wiser clinched victory in the 15th annual Living Room Times men’s NCAA pool Saturday night when Duke beat West Virginia in the second national semifinal. The Duke-WVU game was a winner-take-all LRT pool showdown between Wiser and Sharon Greggs. If the Mountaineers had won, Greggs, a… Read more »
From @denverpost via @CapturedBlog, here is a fantastic, Big Picture-worthy photo gallery from yesterday’s Final Four games. A few highlights: Bwahahahaha. Sparty sucks. In all seriousness, congrats to Izzo & Michigan State on a phenomenal run in the tournament. … Now: GO BUTLER!!! BEAT DUKE!!! (Again, full gallery here.)
My ability to live-tweet during Saturday’s games will, I suspect, be considerably limited, for toddler-related reasons. Nevertheless, I will once again be confining my tweets, and any comments thereon, to the window below. In addition, tweets (including retweets) from Kyle Whelliston, Andy Glockner, Pat Forde and Seth Davis and Mark Schlabach, and Butler student Sarah Black, will also appear automatically… Read more »
I’m back from Spring Break (Woohoo, Spring Break! Take a look at these! They’re jiggling for you! Say goodbye to these Michael because it’ll be the last time you’ll see them!) Ahem…anyway, I was crippled by guilt over having abandoned you guys without content for oh so long, so I had to make it up to you. And how better… Read more »
Generally speaking, the world is a terrible place filled with wretched injustice everywhere you turn. And, if I understand my television and local editorial board correctly, it has only gotten worse since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare aka The Single Worst Crime the US Government has Ever Committed Against Its Citizens including McCarthyism,… Read more »
You may die because of a gene patent that should never have been granted. The owner of that patent owns the gene that exists in your body. It’s private property. Well, according to the late Michael Crichton anyway. Good golly, that sounds frightening. What should and should not be patentable has been the subject of debate – and legal disputes… Read more »
