Your bracket is busted. It’s a fact. Northern Iowa, Butler and St. Mary’s destroyed about 90% of the nation’s brackets. But yet, some of us with busted brackets still have a chance of winning our pools. How can that be? It’s actually very simple, your picks were the exact same picks as everyone else in the country. So you aren’t alone when you say you have just one Final Four team remaining. (more…)
While Ole Miss missed out on the NCAA Tournament this year, there still has been plenty of excitement coming from the Oxford campus in recent months. The Rebels are looking for a new mascot to represent their sports teams, since the school gave the ax to Colonel Reb in 2003 (due to his resemblance to a plantation owner of the old Confederate South). The popular choice to take over the role of mascot is a bit surprising unless you stood in line for two days to see The Phantom Menace. Yes Star Wars fans, a movement has swept the university to make Admiral Ackbar, the Supreme Commander of the Rebel Alliance, the new Ole Miss mascot.
Like any groundswell of support that arises nowadays, the push for Admiral Ackbar has come from the Internet. There are Facebook and Twitter pages and a website —www.notatrap.org — named in honor of the brave soldier’s “It’s a trap!” warning that he gives to his troops on Endor (for all you non Star Wars geeks, that’s the planet where the cuddly Ewoks live). The site makes it’s point pretty strongly by asking “Who wants a Colonel when you can have an Admiral?”
I can’t imagine why, but not everyone is thrilled with the idea. According to the trusted TMZ, some students are threatening to transfer and parents of prospective students are saying they won’t send their children to Ole Miss if the Admiral becomes the new mascot. There is no timeline for an official decision on the issue, but it is sure to be a battle that will rival the “Clone Wars.” Until the next Behind the Mascot column, “May the force be with you.”
USC athletic director Mike Garrett essentially called the cops on his men’s basketball program.
Which immediately raises this question: Would he ever do that to his football team? (more…)
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Although the game still goes on, the sports leagues have been doing their part to help the tragedy in Haiti, which remains in a state of chaos following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
Major League Baseball, its clubs, its players and fans have quickly jumped on board and pitching in..
Let’s kick off my initial post for the Chick Trinity with a little foray into the world of college football. If you know absolutely nothing else about collegiate sports, you should know this: Tim Tebow is the Holy Grail of all pre-professional athletes. (Bad pun? That’s just the start, my friends.)
For those of you not in the know, Tim Tebow is the University of Florida’s quarterback, and, for Gators fans, the Second Coming of the Messiah. Almost literally. Baby Jesus Tebow was born in the Philippines to mother Pam who was a Christian missionary at the time. While pregnant with BJT, doctors used drugs to wake her up from a coma to treat her dysentery. That’s right. Dysentery… not just for the Oregon Trail anymore! The doctors expected the baby to be stillborn and urged Pam to terminate the pregnancy to save her own life. Pam refused and the world welcomed Timothy Tebow. It has yet to be proven, but I imagine He was then visited by Three Wisemen in the forms of Joe Namath, Dan Marino and Mother Theresa. (more…)