Northwestern should have stayed on the bus.
The Illini will be pulling for the Spartans tomorrow night.
The Bulls’ trip to Cleveland was a little ugly.
Hey, we need more boombox stories! These never get old!
Sergio wants to win the fifth starter spot and Dusty turns into Chris Darden.
Sammy regrets the inference that he can be replaced.
The Cubs are going to run Ryne Sandberg up the flagpole!
Phil Rogers says it’s an older, quieter, Sammy. I guess Phil has chickens in his house, too.
Rick Morrissey says Dusty’s the Cubs’ leader. See, it’s insight like this that you can’t get from anybody but Prericktable.
Sammy and the chickens.
Weber Grills sent 1,000 orange aprons to the Orange Krush. Nice touch.
Mariotti puts down the doughnut to pretty much just type out a transcript of Sammy’s press conference yesterday. Nice work. I’ll call the Pulitzer people.
The Wizard of Roz says that the Cubs are in effect the wild card favorite in Vegas. And at most places you can get the lowest odds on them to win the World Series, but he doesn’t mention that. Oh, and he seems surprised that Alex Rodriguez is the early favorite to lead the AL in homers. Yeah, he hasn’t done that since…2003. And he did it in 2001 and 2002, too. What a shocker!
Marc Stein is shocked that the Kings would trade Chris Webber! Why, he’s been so key for them. Remember those big games six and seven against the Lakers two years ago when Chris came up huge, and dug that hole in the court to hide himself in?
The only downside to Randy Moss leaving the Vikings is that he absolutely owned the Packers. He just killed them. That was always fun to watch.
John Donovan likes the Twins in the AL Central again, and not so much the White Sox. The scary part? I agree with his order of finish one through five.
America’s finest news source says that a Wyoming man is being pressured by Miller Brewing Company to drink responsibly.
Of course Sosa has chickens running around his house! Have you ever been to the DR!? There’s probably more chickens and stray dogs than there are people in the damn country! And don’t forget about the potholes; ask Grandpa Moises about those…
The Dominican Republic: Where rabies isn’t a disease.
It’s a way of life.
Thank god for the potholes. I need the body shop work to make my gas station profitable.
Sosa said yesterday that “I dont think anyone can replace me (on the cubs)”. After corked bats, leaving early, declining numbers for the past 3 years and agreeing to bat lower in the order and then complaining about it, lets hope he’s right!!
I resent that inference.
The best team may not often win the NCAA, but boy, is the road paved with gold for U of I once they reach the tournament.
They’ll undoubtedly be a #1 (even if they lose to OSU and in the Big-10 tourney), and essentially be granted that #1 seed for the Midwest region.
First & Second Round? Indianapolis.
Regional Semis and Finals? United Center
Final Four? St. Louis
Not since Duke would play at the Dean Dome in Rounds 1 & 2 and then East Rutherford, NJ has a team had such a home-court advantage. And even then Duke wasn’t always lucky enough to also have the FINAL FOUR in their area (I think. Jake can correct me on that one).
If ever there was a year for the Illini to be a #1 seed, this would be it.
Actually, the Regional Semis and Finals will be at the old Rosemont Horizon. Tickets will be extra hard to come by, and I doubt you’ll find much other than orange in the stands.
Come on Andy, No love for my column again?
Not only will Illinois be a number one seed, but they’ll likely be THE number one seed overall and unless UNC is the last number one seed they won’t face the Heels until the finals. Unless of course, Roy drives the Heels into a ditch. Like he usually finds a way to at least one game too early in the tourney.
Oh, and Wenny, if I’m linking to one pithy NBA column, it’s going to be Kelly’s not yours.
If Rashad McCants intestinal disorder is serious, then tarheels won’t be going anywhere but back to North Carolina.
McCants probably caught that after he borrowed one of my needles.
Andy, I could give a shit about North Carolina right now.
Roy, I know it’s been…
Hey, two Dicks!
Mike — Duke cut down the nets in both 2001 and 1992 in Minneapolis, and 1991 in Indianapolis. If they weren’t completely jobbed they would have cut down last year’s in San Antonio. The failed to capitalize both times the Final Four was nearest their own backyard (1994 in Charlotte thanks to a Scotty Thurman rainbow three and 1999 thanks to Trajan Langdon’s ill-advised, botched coast-to-coast attempt in St. Petersburg).
Regardless of the next two weeks — Illinois enters the field of 64+1 as the top-ranked #1 seed. And they will have deserved and earned a home-court advantage throughout that aren’t always available to a particular #1 in any given year.
Personally, I’d concern myself much less right now with the three other potential Final Four teams, and much more with the teams likely to find themselves on the 8/9 line for Round 2. The rest will take care of itself — and teams like North Carolina will be long gone, regardless of McCants’ disorder of the week….
Jake, what have you been watching? With McCants tarheels can beat any team in the country. Yes, even Illini.
Apparently, they can’t beat Duke. Or Santa Clara.
Well good thing they wont have to play them in the tournament.
you said “pithy” and not “pissy”, right?
Thought you all might like to know: On his show today, Jim Rome compared Sammy Sosa to O.J. Hey, maybe Sammy’s the oh-so-elusive real killer!
That 1994 NCAA final lost cost me a chance to win some good money in a bracket pool. Yes, I was only 10 when the 1994 tourney rolled around, but I had begged my dad the last year to let me enter the bracket pool, but he had said no because I…
1) Did not have the money ($10 to enter).
2) I wasn’t old enough.
So, I saved up my money and got a year older and entered the pool in 1994, and I had picked Duke to win the NCAA Tournament in the final game over Arkansas. I was in second place, but the Dukies had to win for me to win the first place money (It was $210 if I remember correctly). And, the next three people picked Arkansas to win the title, so if Duke lost not only would I not get the first place money I wouldn’t even get any money at all for getting second, third, or fourth.
Needless to say, I still hate Scotty Thurman.
As for this year, Illinois would be following a very similiar pattern to Syracuse two years ago. Syracuse played in Albany in the Regional final and semifinal rounds, and Oklahoma (#1 seed in their region) was hopeless in the Regional Final game considering 80 to 90 percent of the crowd was favoring Syracuse.
I am also concerned about the 8/9 teams, because the NCAA likes putting one or two of those fiesty mid-major teams on those seed lines and there is one that no Illinois fan wants the Illini to face simply because we would NEVER hear the end of it if the Illini lost to this certain mid-major team. Hint: They are also from Illinois and they are from the Missouri Valley Conference. If that isn’t enough, we got our coach from there. And this school’s fans have the most severe inferiority complex this side of St. Louis Cardinals’ fans.
BC, can you give us another hint???
I think BC’s right, because I don’t have any respect or appreciation for any of Illinois’ mid-major schools, especially that certain school located in a certain town that starts with a C, ends in an E and in between reads arbondal.
That 1994 games escapes my memory.
It was the same day Tuffy Rhodes had a hat trick against Doc Gooden. It was my first Opening Day. By the time we made it back to DeKalb (I don’t remember having driven back, but there was no blood on the car so it must have gone ok), I was in no position to watch the NCAA Championship. Not that I didn’t try–I watched it, I just never had any recollection of doing so.
Good times? Sure, I assume it was.
Sammy means that the clubhouse will be a disaster without him around to hold it together. The juice made Sam a little crazy… unless he really is talking about the chickens taking over his house while he’s playing baseball this spring.
Hey! Do I finally get to buy 6 tix?
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