But think about the children

A friend of ours who shall remain nameless (because he has used their services) showed us the newest luxury hotel.

Amenities include -

Five star luxury.

Suites separated into zones to minimize stress and noise including day and night light dimming features.

Complete air changes occur in each zone every four minutes, roughly five times more often than the flow in the average home.

Daily serving of two premium meals and a snack, and daily housekeeping.

Central high-pressure, hydro-cleaning system with added sanitizers in the water.

Grooming and bathing salons.

Reception area with retail boutique.

Sounds nice, right? Somewhere you would like to stay? Well you can't. They will toss you on your arse if you tried to make reservations for yourself and the little woman. Why? Is it only for White people? Only for Jews? Only for well heeled Black people? Nope. It is for animals. That's right, citizens.

Introducing the Tipton Luxury Pet Hotel.

While children starve to death and nearly half our country has little to no health insurance take comfort that your fucking pet will be pampered.


Pets welcomed. Homeless humans? Fuck you.

Happy Friday.

Top 10 Most Embarrassing Moments - #1

(Ed. Note: We will be doing a 10 part series, one a day on the 10 "most embarrassing" moments in college basketball. Now "most embarrassing" is subjective and we will admit it is only what's embarrassing to us. Also the time frame for this is since Dr. Naismith, whippersnappers.)

Moment #1 - Coach Dave Bliss tries to create drugs at Baylor

In what has to be the most chilling moment in college basketball, this sad sordid tale deals with a star player's disappearance and subsequent death and a coach's attempt to cover the whole damn thing up by lying. And this was not just some run of the mill lie, no sir. Bliss created the mother of all lies by saying that Patrick Dennehy was killed because he was dealing drugs.

Excuse me, I think I'm gonna throw up...



Bliss has been banned from coaching until 2015, but to us that will be too fucking soon.

Duke, the bracket killer

We didn't have Duke in as a National Champ. But we had Duke going far. They seemed to be on fire throughout the season. But they also seemed to have a late collapse. Then going in the tournament they almost get beat by Belmont, and now fall to West Fuckin Virginia.



Oh well. Not like Coach K has to worry about his job. But still. I'm not mad, I'm just shocked that I was so wrong about them.

Wow, Donovan is pissed...

Florida is the defending National Champ and are back to back NCAA Tournament winners.

This year they failed to even get IN to the tournament.

And Billy Donovan is beyond angry. Conniption fit would more accurately describe it.

Coach Billy Donovan, feeling like his players had settled into a state of complacency and entitlement, banned them from Florida's $12 million facility. He also told them they couldn't wear any Florida attire.

The Gators... found themselves fighting to get back into... the team locker room, the practice court, the video room, the weight room...

Donovan was also contemplating releasing a pack of rabid dogs to disembowel his players heartless carcases, but decided against it for insurance reasons.


Better luck next time, big guy.

I'm so fustrated!

This time sickness has grabbed a hold of me and has prevented me from giving a decent post. You don't want to know the details.

But in the meantime... I don't report much (if at all) on Women's college hoops, but this was too good to pass up. (HT: Sunday Morning QB)

Michigan was leading the game by 18 points, but Wisconsin came back and end up beating them. That would be eligibility for the Always Be Closing award, however since I don't follow what the women do, I can't really give that prestigious award out.

Below is Michigan's coach after the game. Saying he was angry is like saying the Sun is kind of hot.

True true...

I jacked this from EDSBS because it so symbolized San Diego State's season...



And now we find out one of our leading scorers has been suspended for the rest of the season.

San Diego State men's basketball coach Steve Fisher announced Monday that junior forward Kyle Spain has been suspended for the rest of the season.

Spain, the team's second-leading scorer, was suspended indefinitely on Friday for unspecified violations of team policy.

Unspecified means smoking pot. I have no confirmation of this but all my sources in San Diego are saying so. And I tend to believe my sources more often than not.

Geez... Just... Geez...

On another note, a great article that I read on SI that kinda backs up my belief that Indiana's Sampson will not be fired this season.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Getting rid of coach Kelvin Sampson might not be the solution to Indiana's problems. It's a move that might just create a bigger mess.

There's no guarantee the NCAA would reduce Indiana's potential penalties if Sampson was fired, and the university, which has spent the past decade paying millions of dollars to fired coaches and athletic directors, could wind up in another costly split-up.

According to the contract signed in April 2006, Indiana pays Sampson an annual base salary of $500,000. With five years left on the deal, the cost could reach at least $2.5 million.

Yikes. No good ending to this horrible marriage in the near future.

Happy Friday?

The power of Duke

But first... Do you think Kansas State is in hell anymore?

Anyways, I've been the first one to say that the Blue Devils do great in conference but they always choke during March Madness.

I've said this so much I have even went to Vegas to prove it out.

But this season seems different. I did a little number crunching and Duke has been beating up on opponents by an average of 22 points. To me that is saying something. This is not the Duke or last year or the year before then. Something is more sinister, more angry about them.

Maybe they have been reading my posts constantly bashing them.

This article from ESPN seems to agree with what I'm thinking.

Krzyzewski scoffed at the notion that his program ever flies under the radar, ("Otherwise, these people wouldn't be out there or in our place trying to beat us," he said)...

I'm starting to think Duke is gonna bust some heads open come tournament time.

What are they seeing that I'm not?

Let's do some role play, shall we?




You follow college basketball and you write about it. And you are making predictions about who is getting into March Madness. And you are looking at the Mountain West.

"Hey, San Diego State is #1 in the conference right now. All the teams basically suck, so the conference will be a single bid deal. Ok, SDSU will get in. Next conference!"

But wait! They lost to Cal, St. Mary's, Arizona and Northern Colorado at HOME. They haven't started their road trips to places like BYU and UNLV yet, teams that have traditionally rock the bells on the Aztecs. And trap games with TCU and New Mexico await.

If I had to pick the MWC right now it would look like this...

Auto bid: BYU (deeper and WAAAAAAAAY more talented than any other MWC team right now)
Bubble: UNLV and New Mexico (The Running Rebels for their strong conference tournament play and UNM for a somewhat strong schedule)

Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Aztec fan. See the front page of my blog? But I'm a realist. Maybe a disappointed realist. So when I see other people put SDSU in... It makes me pause. Maybe they are right. I could be wrong. I could be a Paladin with 18 charisma. And I would be happy with that.

But the numbers and history are showing me something different.

UPDATE: SDSU 56, BYU 59!


Kinda says it all.

I'm officially giving up now?

A 69 to 77 loss to Cal.

A 64 to 69 loss to St. Mary's.

San Diego State can't seem to close the important games. I can't give us an Always Be Closing award because we've never lead by a great deal in these games. We just can't seem to stop making the ticky tack penalties that puts the other team at the free throw line!

From the North County Times -

The free throw prowess exhibited by the San Diego State men's basketball team on Saturday afternoon was hardly worthy of the Wizard of Westwood. And it sure was costly.

"You've just got to knock down shots when it counts," lamented junior wing Lorrenzo Wade.

In the end, San Diego State missed not only a chance to post a new best record in the program's Division I era through 10 games, but to earn a solid nonconference, neutral-site victory for their NCAA tournament resume.

Geez Louise that says it all. Fuckity.



Oh, and Steve Fisher? The season has officially started over now. We are 0-0 at this point, ranked 331st. Pick these kids up and start teaching fundamentals. FUNDAMENTALS! Or else Arizona will OWN us in two weeks!!!



May be slow posts for today/tomorrow because of work/blogpolling. The usual crap...