I find myself otherwise engaged tonight as does TheMomCat. I’ve asked BobbyK to check in from time to time, please be nice to him and make your own fun.
My predictions so you can point and hoot are Louisville over Kentucky and Ohio State over Kansas. I like Louisville because of their Big East connections, Ohio State I don’t like at all but I like Kansas less.
Joe Nocera wrote a piece that everyone is talking about-
Orwell and March Madness
By JOE NOCERA, The New York Times
Published: March 30, 2012
Athletes are “student-athletes,” a phrase coined by Walter Byers, the man who turned the N.C.A.A. into a modern powerhouse, because he feared that some states might try to classify football and basketball players as employees. College sports follows “the collegiate model,” a term coined in 2006 by one of Byers’ successors, Myles Brand. Realizing that amateurism was becoming outmoded, he needed a new concept that would allow athletic departments to continue exploiting athletes while denying that is what they were doing.
The essence of “the collegiate model” is that college athletes are students first, and that college athletics is secondary to academics. One can then ignore the fact that during this three-week tournament, the N.C.A.A. will reap around $800 million, while the players who make that possible will get nothing. They’re students, after all.
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Calipari, complained Emmert, was “throwing away the collegiate model.” But, he’s not, because in the big-money sports of football and men’s basketball, the collegiate model is a fiction. Rather, Calipari is dispensing with the hypocrisy that everyone else goes along with, including our basketball-mad president, who allows himself to be interviewed while filling out his March Madness brackets, but can’t bring himself to utter a word on behalf of the athletes that college sports so ruthlessly exploits.
Regional Final Results-
| Result | Seed | Team | Record | Seed | Team | Record | Region |
| 70-77 | 1 | Syracuse | 32-2 | 2 | *Ohio State | 28-7 | East |
| 72-68 | 4 | *Louisville | 27-9 | 7 | Florida | 23-10 | West |
| 82-70 | 1 | *Kentucky | 36-2 | 3 | Baylor | 30-8 | South |
| 67-80 | 1 | North Carolina | 32-6 | 2 | *Kansas | 31-6 | Mid West |
Tonight’s Action-
| Time | Seed | Team | Record | Region | Seed | Team | Record | Region |
| 6 pm | 1 | Kentucky | 36-2 | South | 4 | Louisville | 27-9 | West |
| 8:30 | 2 | Ohio State | 28-7 | East | 2 | Kansas | 31-6 | Mid West |
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now for some march madness commercials.
camera guys try to catch people chewing gum.
Kentucky in white
Ketucky comes back for early lead. 8 to 2. time out called already.
Time to reboot.
Kentucky comfortably ahead 16 – 8 but fouling a lot.
Kentucky converting on their foul shots.
10-20 Kentucky.
as far as the March Madness commercials go, I’m underwhelmed.
Louisville gaining on Kentucky lead. Only behind by 6 points now. 26-20
encourages dog adoption. (to deliver you beers at a party)
3 and 1
you need a new … whatever.
I’m just not feeling these Final 4 ads.
It’s like they’re not even trying.
These sports spectacles are supposed to be a celebration of American Consumerism Consumptionism.
Why am I not inspired?
Weird Al’s cousin says feed it.
32-37 Kentucky. 18:40 left to play.
Louisville having trouble establishing any rhythm. Kentucky is starting to just dominate now. Unless Louisville can get something going soon, this is game is going to get out of reach for them.
from points 13 down. 8 – 0 run. Offensive rebounds the story. 4 point game.
yawn.
apparel. buy buy buy!
Wildcats back up by 4. 8 minutes left.
their new machines to their old ones. The old ones are so much more attractive. Who are they trying to fool? themselves?
5 minutes left. 51-58
Nothing left to do now but foul. 4 minutes left.
7 point lead Kentucky
Both of these teams are missing more than they’re hitting though.
And thats an improvement compared to how the game started.
These teams have finally started to play.
Kansas is really struggling.
29-36 17:26 left in the game.
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