Looking ahead to tomorrow's March Madness games, here are the teams I have winning in the Sweet Sixteen.

Thursday's Games:

Xavier, North Carolina, UCLA Tennessee,

Friday's Games:

Wisconsin, Kansas, Memphis, (I already lost Marquette, need Stanford over Texas)

How to stop the No. One seeds

Meal of Links

Rick Astley talks about "Rickrolling". It is such an odd phenomenon, but funny. Even the anti-Scientologists, Anonymous, use it at their protests.

The Raconteurs album, "Consolers of the Lonely" dropped yesterday. I've heard two tunes, thus far. "These Stones Will Shout" ends up sounding like The Who and the almost title track features Meg White-like drumming. I need to listen to a bit more before judging it. A not-so-good review followed by a good one.

Finally, judge shows are Emmy-eligible. I like "Judge Joe Brown", unless "Judge Judy" gets one of those lifetime-achievement awards a la the Oscars.

Flirting in Japan. I really think so.

One of my favorite documentarians, Errol Morris, has as his next subject, Abu Ghraib. I wonder if he still films the UPS Whiteboard commercials, which are very popular.

Every "South Park" episode is now available online. That's a good thing.

This week's presidential pardons. Under Bush, there have not been that many, 157 at last count.

Exercise Yard

Domo arigato, Manny!

















There is something to be said for watching baseball from Japan before you go to work. Nothing like seeing Manny crush one in the early a.m. We don't get a lot of live sports in the Eastern time zone.

You get the occasional Formula One race, the British Open, breakfast at Wimbledon (and the French Open, I suppose), British soccer, and I think that's about it. So, it's good to be "looking live' at some sport in the morning.

A recap of this morning's game.

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