Wow, WTF happened?

So I was sitting here ready for a post update and all of a sudden...



Work hit me HARD. I couldn't get up, let alone breathe. Now here I am unable to get back those 9 hours of shit storm punishment.

Onwards...

Iowa Mr. Basketball 2007 decides he hates playing for a suck ass team and bails.

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State freshman forward Clayton Vette is leaving the Cyclones for personal reasons.

Coach Greg McDermott said Thursday he doesn't anticipate Vette returning to the program.

Don't forget they had another guy leave this year too. Being 4 - 4 kinda blows.


Please, don't leave me!

UPDATE: At least the ineligible German kid will stay.

Alabama pleased as punch that their players graduate.

Alabama coach Mark Gottfried takes great pride in his record -- of graduating players.

"It's easy for some people to forget that these guys are student-athletes," Gottfried said. "That's why they are here, to get their degrees."

Kinda sad when we're rejoicing that the kids finish school, ya know?

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George Mason's AD Tom O'Connor became the new chairman of the NCAA Selection Committee.

"Five months from now, Tom O'Connor will go on national television and explain why some bubble teams made the NCAA basketball tournament while others didn't. For many disappointed fans, he'll be the face of the big bad organization that has their team on the way to the NIT."

Ok. I'll start my letter right now...

Dear Mr. O'Connor:

A pox on your house for not selecting San Diego State! May your balls legs shrivel up and fall off. May you come home one day and find your wife in the embrace of a well endowed Black man! May a yet unknown disease afflict you to make your hands swell to the size of catcher's mitts, preventing you from mercilessly typing another team to be excluded from the big dance.

Yours in disgust,
March To Madness

I bet you George Mason will get in even with a 16-20 record...


Soon to be the most hated man in college basketball

Next up, Stanford's Brook Lopez has been declared academically ineligible for the upcoming season.

"Unfortunately, I have failed to live up to academic requirements and I take full responsibility for what has happened," Brook Lopez said in a statement.

Dude, all you have to do is go to class and play basketball. How hard is that? I had to go to class, scrounge for financial aid, take odd jobs and I had time for 3 girlfriends! Not all at once... Well, the good part is if he gets his shit together he will only miss a handful of game.

Color me relieved. < /sarcasm>

Keep hope alive!

[Ed. note: Post was delayed because of possible "terror" alert alarm here in the building I work in downtown LA]

"You did not vote for failure."
- Pres. George W. Bush

First in the queue:

The NCAA is starting to look at academics for Division 1-A basketball teams. Now I do like this on the surface. Look, these kids are getting a free ride and all they have to do is play basketball and go to class? Then at the end of 3-4 years they get a degree? Give ME a deal like that as I look at my student loan bill.

The part that makes me chuckle is NOW they find it important to look at and institute the APR (academic progress report) for basketball. Call me cynical but was it OK for low grad rates a year ago (or longer)? And do I think this will help? Fuck no, just like schools came up with easy or fake classes to help their star players pass, they'll find a way around this shit.

Next, I think there is still a little itty bitty tiny bitterness from Kansas State fans after Bob Huggins pumped and dumped them after one season...


We are in HELL!!!

Oh, and here is a bonus Wednesday Moment of Zen for ya courtesy of Lindsay Lohan. Safe for work unless your co-workers hate Ms. Lohan and her covered, bouncing mammary glands.