Posts Tagged ‘Syracuse’

Now that I’ve got your attention, let’s talk NCAA basketball.  I know what you’re thinking.  “Wichita State?  They’re a #9 seed.  Who in their right mind would make such a bold (and crazy) statement?” Okay, that’s a legitimate question.  Maybe I’m not in my right mind.  Or maybe I just don’t believe that Wichita State […]


Well, we’re down to eight teams in the NCAA Tournament, and who could have asked for a better set of matchups?  We all know that the tournament started off a bit shaky, with so many top dogs going down early.  But the cream has risen to the top and we are left with the potential […]


Now that the results of round one have been officially logged, I, like most people across this fine country, find myself sifting through the carnage of my brackets and thinking to myself, “Next year I’m paying more attention during the regular season”!  (Of course I won’t, since football runs all the way to early February, […]


Everybody was telling me to wait one more day before I announced my picks for the NCAA men’s tournament.  I even had a feeling in my gut telling me the same thing.  All I had to do was listen and I’d be okay.  But NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  (A little John Belushi humor there.) I had to go ahead […]


The brackets are set, 68 teams are in and at least fifteen more are grumbling that they should have been in if only .……. well, you can fill in the blank with whatever you want.  I just want to get on with making my picks.  There’s a couple of reasons for that.  First, if I […]


It’s that time of the year again.  The office pools will be coming soon.  Everyone has their favorite teams and their spoiler teams set.  The allegiances will be exposed as some people will pick their alma maters or their childhood favorites, over riding the logic that would normally tell them that they’re crazy to pick […]