Hello, people. I’ve been banding about fifty half-baked ideas and writing for the past few weeks, and felt that returning to this format would be a good way to clear my head of at least some of these demons. I used to write a column called the Friday Night Pimpslap, and I’m going to continue [...]

With a look at Oregon’s win over Creighton in the CBI, Zach celebrates the diversity of postseason in college sports…

Distracted by the perpetual moving process and the haunting images out of Japan, Zach finds his own solace in one man’s long-sought rise to the top…

  It’s Tuesday, and after several weeks of being away, it’s time for another edition of Rich’s Rants.  This week, I’m only going to be talking about one topic – how the automatic bids in college basketball are flawed and how they make the regular season pointless.   How dare I say that?  Well, what happens [...]

According to an article from the Wall Street Journal (yes, it’s 4 years old but it doesn’t change the math), the odds of having a perfect bracket through two rounds is.. wait for it.. 1 in 13,460,000. Of course that didn’t stop autistic teen Alex Herrmann from absolutely nailing the first two rounds in his [...]

The first number one seed to fall, the Kansas Jayhawks simply let Northern Iowa hang around too long before losing 69-67. Kansas seemed shocked, even though they were down big in the second half. I guess they simply thought Northern Iowa would hand them the win. And with that loss, I think I heard brackets [...]

Wisconsin pulled it off 53-49 late, but this game was a lot closer than it needed to be, and Wofford had a legitimate shit at winning, but once again, missed free throws down the stretch really cost them dearly. Also shaky ballhandling as you’ll see in the video below: Lots of upsets and near upsets [...]

Texas had a chance to beat Wake Forest, going up fast in OT, but missed free throws down the stretch killed their chances. Check out the video below to see how overtime played out late: And if you’re curious how it got to overtime, check out this post, where there’s a video.