This morning, shortly before noon, I went to my car and found a screw nailed inside the rear-left tire. When driving last night, I thought I felt something weird, but nothing looked bad… not until half the tire was deflated this morning. A trip to the repair shop to plug a hole quickly turned into [...]
The one upside of UCLAs six seed is that they were unprotected (meaning, they were not guaranteed a spot close to home). The Bruins traveled to Philadelphia, the longest distance traveled by any single team in the tournament. I made it up to Philadelphia for the first round versus Virginia Commonwealth. Tomorrow, UCLA plays Villanova. [...]
There’s no doubt in my mind that the Big East was the best conference in college basketball this season. With that said, there should never be an instance where one conference has 3 number one seeds. While it’s a problem bigger than just this tournament, the Big East needs to be cut in half. 16 [...]
In many ways, UCLA basketball in recent years has a number of parallels with the collapsing global economy. The mid 2000s showed promise of a new day with limitless potential. 2007 came with a slow down (a final four instead of a national championship game birth) and the late-2008 collapse of this year’s Bruin team [...]
If you haven’t seen all of this, you really need to catch up. It’s not just hillarious, but much like Jon Stewart’s confrontation with Tucker Carlson on CNN’s Crossfire, Stewart is finally asking the questions that need to be asked about modern TV journalism. March 4th .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png’) !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}.cc_title a{color:#868686;text-decoration:none;}.cc_links a:hover{color:#67bee2;text-decoration:underline;} The [...]
It’s amazing that it’s March 2nd (Happy Birthday Mitch, btw) and we get our first really, really good snow of the season. Spring will be here in a matter of weeks and here today we get a freezing cold day with a good six inches of snow. Wonderful.