A Little March Madness May Contribute to Sanity

This year's NCAA Basketball Tournament has been especially unique. There's a real possibility that all #1 seeds will make the Final Four which has never happened before. A team that went 0-16 in their conference two years ago (Texas A&M) is still alive. Well, I'm going to go through some things about the tournament so far. Let's rock this bitch!

-CBS comes back from break with a Fall Out Boy song. Way to go CBS, welcome to 2006.

-Literally after 15 seconds of one first round game CBS switches to another one. After, I spend the next 10 minutes trying to find the other game and when I did it wasn't in HD. What's the deal CBS? Can't afford those HD cameras in each region?

-Somehow Greg Gumble doesn't bring up during three halftime shows that Kellogg picked Stanford to win. In case you didn't know Stanford was losing by 50 at one point. Gumble was probably to engorged with his sandwich to notice (if a camera adds 10 pounds he must have had 20 on him).

-No player this year has a mustache and I'm disapointed. I don't care if a cop mustache, a porn mustache or an Adam Morrison 'stache that a player grew because he lost a bet, WE NEED IT!

-Danny Ainge sitting next to Kevin Durant's mom in the stands was classic. He had the "Believe Me This is Just a Huge Coincidence" face going. It was like it was an extra feature on the "Blue Chips" DVD.

-If I wanted someone to host my studio show I'd pick James Brown in a heartbeat. But to call a basketball game? Not so much. There's a flow to basketball games that announcers just have to get used to. Years ago NBA fans had to suffer through the Bob Costas/Al Micheals Era, so I guess it's fair that NCAA fans have to get through the JB Era.

-The Big Ten started out so well in the tourney this year. To bad the only team left now is Ohio State and they were a flagrant foul call away from possibly losing that game. Let's face it Illinois was probly the last team in, Purdue was facing an Arizona team in a down season (Indiana was also facing a team in a down season, Gonzaga), Wisconsin should have been a 4 seed at best, and if Marquette's best player wasn't sitting on the bench who's to say Michigan State would have won. Before the tournament I was 50-50 on who was worse, the Big Ten or the Pac-10. I just hope OSU gets knocked out soon so Big Ten fans will just have to watch the Women's Tournament for their defense and fundamentals.



-The Hanes commercial with Micheal Jordan and Kevin Bacon bothers me. What the hell is going on with this commercial? Why them? What do they have in common? Why does it kinda make it seem like they're dating? And why is Jordan slumming in underwear ads with the guy from "Tremors"? Doesn't he have enough money? I'll be honest: this commercial freaks me out.