Your Wednesday Moment of Zen

March to Madness presents... I don't care

Technically NSFW... BlackBerries are sexy

Satire, defined

IMAGINATIONLAND, NC -- On the heels of his historic unanimous selection to the AP preseason All-American team -- in which he received one vote from every single one of 72 voters -- and his team's unanimous No. 1 preseason ranking, Tyler Hansbrough was selected Monday to the NBA All-Star Team and the Baseball and Football Halls of Fame, the Real World/Road Rules veterans squad, Survivor All-Stars, and as Dick Vitale's first ever lifetime captain of the P-T-P'ers.

He was also awarded top honors on every Bravo game show, including Top Chef and Project Runway; was given the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for "Excellence in Basketball"; received the McArthur Genius Grant; and was elected, in a last-minute runoff landslide, to the Presidency of the United States of America.

Hansbrough is currently recovering from a shin injury that should sideline him for a few weeks. His shin was named "Awesomest Shin Ever" by the North Carolina University Hospital medical staff.

From the most excellent blog The Dagger.

Non blogpoll poll

Hey kids, the 2008-2009 preseason top 25 coaches' poll is out!

UNC at #1? Natch... UConn at #2? WTF?! Duke at #5? Meh... Kansas at #23? What have you done for me lately?

Everything else does not surprise or deserve much comment from us. The funny thing is that we have to start shaking off college football around this time which causes some confusion. Por ejemplo, when we saw Arizona State at #15 we were like "Say whaaaaa?! They suck!" Then we had to remind ourselves that we were thinking about football. Apologies.

I think the preseason blogpoll will be about the same as the coaches' for the first six team. But expect absolute chaos after that such is the case with these things. Voting takes place for said blogpoll November 3rd with the eventual release later that week or early next week. Stay tuned my friends.

Your Wednesday Moment of Zen

March to Madness presents... Look up there!

NSFW... I bet you're not looking up there

2 miles an hour so everybody sees you

"Headlights blinking cause your battery's drained,
Armor All on your tires and a big gold chain.
They tell me don't drink and drive, I say what is this?
Pass the Heineken and mind your business.
Roll up a fat one and pass it around."

- LL Cool J
The Booming System

Looks like someone took that song a little too far...

(Southeast Missouri State forward) Calvin Williams was suspended from the team Saturday following his arrest early Friday morning on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, driving without a license and driving without headlights.

(A Cape Girardeau Police Department spokesman said) Williams consented to a search of the vehicle. During the search, a bag of leafy substance, believed to be marijuana, was found.

The best was that Missouri State's AD Cindy Gannon was at a wedding when she found out about this mess.


Psssst... Your basketball team's season just got a whole lot worse.

Bo Ryan, entertainer

You know, at first this Wisconsin midnight madness clip caught us by surprise... Crank dat.



Bu then we thought "Hasn't coach Bo always been a 'ham' for the camera?"



Yeah, thank you YouTube. Always keeping things in check. Coach, maybe one day you can funnel that passion for making people smile into a winning season...

Btw, if we are starting to post on the weekend that means we are getting closer and closer to the start of college hoops!

Lute Olson is a spaz

Well, lets see here...

First the Arizona head coach quits on his team to get a divorce. Then he fires his interim coach for failing to live up to his expectations while he is on leave getting a divorce. Then he comes back with a soon to be NEW wife.

Now he quits on the Wildcats again...

Arizona basketball players filed out of their new practice facility Thursday night with a look of bewilderment.

Their coach, Lute Olson, had just announced his retirement while they were in practice — less than a month before their first regular-season game.

Sakes alive these kids deserved better than this guy. Can you sense the W - T - F in their words?

"I don't know (anything)," forward-center Jordan Hill said before UA began practice.

"I haven't played for him, so I can't talk about him," said sophomore Jamelle Horne, who played under interim coach Kevin O'Neill last season. "But I still don't know what's going on."

"I hope he's all right," said David Bagga, a UA senior walk- on. "I'm still kind of lost with what's going on. I hope he is OK..."

Now the parents!

(Freshman Jeff) Withey's mom, Debbie, said she was a bit upset she had to hear the news of Olson's resignation...

"I just got done crying to my husband," she said Thursday. "I feel totally stupid that (being a top 30 recruit) that we stuck it out. And we're the stupid ones. We listened to people."

Added the mother: "I felt betrayed..."

Lute, you'll burn in hell for this.


That's right baby...

UPDATE: Olson had a stroke, so he stepped down. Lo siento, Lute.
(HT: Rush the Court)

In other less dramatic news, Ohio U forward Maurice Pearson has been suspended for shooting sorority chicks on campus with an Airsoft gun. We'll just leave that with no comment. Happy Friday.
(HT: NCAA BB FanHouse)