Anger management

First, yeah we're happy the Aztecs won last night. But that is not why we are talking about it here. Actually we love what the journalists came up with to explain the win...

Spain drains 19 for SDSU

Nice. (cue 70s porn music)


Oh my! You just caught me getting out of the shower. *giggles* Word has it you draiiiiiiined 19 all OVER those Lions. Mmmmmmmm, got any more left for little ol' me? Do it for SDSU...

Charlotte University 49ers coach Bobby Lutz has issues. His player gets fouled hard and no call. Yeah, we would be upset too. Maybe even yet at the refs. But would we run over to the opposing coach and give even him a tongue lashing too?

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte has publicly reprimanded coach Bobby Lutz for going through Pfeiffer's huddle and yelling at coach Dave Davis during an exhibition game Thursday.

Lutz was upset after Charlotte point guard DiJuan Harris hit the floor hard, but no foul was called. Lutz came on the floor to check on Harris, argued with an official and received a technical foul. Lutz then stormed to the Pfeiffer bench and shouted at Davis.

Easy there, Tex. Just an exhibition game.

Basketball is starting to destroy football

Duke (4-5 in football), NC State (3-6 in football), Clemson (4-5 in football), Virginia (5-5 in football) all have good reason to turn their heads away from the awful play on the gridiron and towards the possibly pleasant play on the hardwood this November.

But hey, what about the winners? Wake Forest (6-3 in football), Virginia Tech (6-3 in football), North Carolina (7-2 in football)?

Even those fans really don't give a shit...

Nearly three-quarters of the unsold tickets come from a 4,000-seat block set aside for the visiting team. North Carolina has accounted for approximately 1,100 tickets, which is less than the 1,200 both N.C. State and Wake Forest sold for their games last month.

An educated guess as to why sales would be so tepid for fans of a 7-2 team enjoying its best season in a decade? Well, the top-ranked Carolina basketball team opens its season Saturday at 4 p.m., meeting Penn in the Dean Dome.

College hoops. It's FAN-tastic!

(HT: EDSBS)

Your Wednesday Moment of Zen

March to Madness presents... The Spoon

NSFW... W - T - F

C'mon, really?!

Seen on CBS Sports College Basketball home page...

Is this game really the only game worth watching? That matters? What, someone tell us!

2008 - 2009 preseason Blogpoll

Here is the official consensus top 25 Blogpoll -

1) North Carolina
2) UCLA
3) Connecticut
4) Louisville
5) Pittsburgh
6) Michigan State
7) Notre Dame
8) Texas
9) Tennessee
10) Gonzaga
11) Oklahoma
12) Memphis
13) Duke
14) Purdue
15) Arizona State
16) Davidson
17) Miami (FL)
18) Marquette
19) Wake Forest
20) Georgetown
21) Florida
22) Wisconsin
23) USC
24) Baylor
25) Villanova

Everyone's vote can be found here.

UNC was the consensus #1 pick (no duh). We got criticized for not having Duke ranked on our ballot. We've defended our view on Duke before, but we'll summarize again:

Duke for the past 5 years have come in strong and loaded and has consistently underperformed. First round and second round exits galore. We take tournament performance into consideration when ranking teams. Really, does Duke deserve a #5 AP ranking or a #13 Blogpoll ranking when they can't get out of the second round of March Madness (or gets beat up in their conference tournament)? Of course once the season starts and they start winning games we will rank them. But not a second before. So...

Duke = meh

That is all.

How did you spend your off season?

Us? Well...



Not saying we were proud. It was just the lethal combination of SAD/BORED/BOOZE IN THE HOUSE.

The season for us starts today. Go Aztecs, beat Point Loma. Hey, we won last year, right? Are we going to regret saying that? Probably.

Miscellaneous thoughts and the final countdown

First, the news...

UCLA forward Nikola Dragovic angry over the inferior quality of opponent, tosses ex-girlfriend down stairs, misses game.

The 20-year-old Dragovic of Belgrade, Serbia, went to the apartment he shared with the woman and found his belongings had been dumped out front, police officer April Harding said.

"He and the ex-girlfriend began to argue. He got mad and pushed her down," Harding said.

Dragovic was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of misdemeanor battery. Bail was set at $20,000.

The arrest caused him to miss No. 4 UCLA's 76-42 exhibition victory over Biola.

Dayton transfer Desmond Adedeji celebrates making the starting lineup at center, subsequently gets arrested and jeopardizes position.

Stony Brook University police charged a student who is expected to start at center for the school's basketball team with driving while intoxicated yesterday morning.

Desmond Adedeji, a 6-foot-9, 305-pound transfer student from the University of Dayton, was pulled over on the campus' South Drive at 6:15 a.m., a police spokesman said.

Binghamton University's Malik Alvin gets punished for practicing safe sex...

Binghamton University basketball player Malik Alvin has been suspended from the men's team until legal matters related to an incident last month at Wal-Mart are resolved.

Vestal police have charged Alvin, 20, with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, after an alleged incident with a Wal-Mart employee who police said confronted Alvin for alleging leaving the store without paying for a box of condoms.

Hey, did you know you can book the Duke cheerleaders for your next event?

(pause)

We were gonna show a picture of the current squad, but... Just click on the link if you wanna see.

So, we are approximately one week away from the beauty of college hoops. We must say that this off season was HORRIBLE. People thought that all we did was talk about AP news clippings. We do talk about games and teams and such, you know. Like original content! For example, today we will be posting the preseason blogpoll. And starting in about a week we will begin our Always Be Closing and This Is Sparta awards. So I guess we are trying to say hold on baby, the season is almost upon us.