It's March Madness, baby! Yesterday's games at the Bart were OK.

Game 1 was an upset. Wisconsin-Milwaukee with head coach, Tony Soprano, beat Alabama. A lackluster effort by everyone involved with Alabama. The team, cheerleaders, band, and mascot, "Big Al" all looked like they would rather be somewhere else.



In Game 2, Boston College thrashed Penn. BC was not going to let a 13 seed beat them.



In the third game, Wake Forest played the first 18 minutes as if they were sleeping, but eventually whipped Tennesee-Chattanooga.



The best game of the day was the last one, as West Virginia won on a fast-break dunk in the closing seconds to beat Creighton. Things wrapped up with some Midnight Madness.



I saw these celebrities: LeBron James, Wayne Embry and Boston Globe sportswriter, Bob Ryan.

Best Team: Boston College looked really good on Thursday.
Worst Team: Alabama. Terrible effort and coaching. They didn't get out of the 2-3 zone until UWM had torched them for many, many threes.

Best Band: I'm going with West Virginia on the basis of "Time Warp".
Worst Band: Creighton. They didn't too much of a pre-game, because of logistical trouble in their band area...too many drums.

Best Mascot: A fairly weak bunch. But I'm going to go with Baldwin, the Boston College Eagle mascot. Deductions for break dancing, but points for a cool surfing thing he did with the cheerleaders, where he was actually the surfboard.
Worst Mascot: Creighton. Hard to fire up a crowd wearing a Blue Jay outfit.

Best Cheerleaders: Boston College. 2 really cute ones.
Worst Cheerleaders: Creighton. I am not picking on Creighton, but their whole game package seems to espouse some sort of Midwestern values when life was simpler, but the group seemed like they were a kind of drum corps cheerleading outfit.

To be fair, many of these schools may be on spring break and I'm not sure the full squads were represented.

Ashley Judd is writing a guest column about her Kentucky Wildcats during the NCAA tournament. But she's in South Africa this weekend and can't see the game in person.

Meal of Links

Looks like Lil Kim is headed to prison for perjury. Lying to the grand jury is not a good thing.

The Playstation Portable has some manufacturing concerns. Get yours early, they will be hard to find.

In Florida, some drivers hit some cows on the frreway. Last night, while leaving the Hanna Garage after March Madness, I saw a Holiday Inn Express courtesy van hit a pizza delivery car and tear off its front bumper. Humorous because piiza guy kept driving with bumper dangling in front.

Exercise Yard

The Congressional hearing on steroids took place yesterday. I have this Tivo'ed and will watch to see who looked good or bad.



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