Mine are already blown; I heavily bought the MSM's Big East bulls*** and the Syracuse loss last night imploded my final chance at the money.
Oh, well, life goes on and there are much more important matters to deal with, right?
Sigh.
"Workers drop ball at tourney’s tip-off" by D.C. Denison, Globe Staff | March 23, 2010
The annual basketball tournament often called March Madness has become the focus of thousands of office pools, in which workers compete by picking the teams they think are going to progress through each round.
I admit, this is the one down time -- such as it is -- that I avail myself during the entire year. I have been on this non-stop for four years and this respite is needed.
Related: Last Day For the Boston Globe
I guess I do lie about one thing, dear readers, but at least I admit it.
The odds of a “perfect pick’’ are almost impossible, and this year’s first two rounds ended Sunday with an unusually high number of upsets....
And great games.
That's what makes the whole month-plus so enjoyable for yours truly.
That left some to start their workweek under a cloud of despair....
I guess I'm not like them because sometimes I find myself rooting against myself(?). I love basketball! It is a CELEBRATION of LIFE! The RUNNING, the JUMPING, the TEAMWORK!
Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., an outplacement consulting firm, estimates that workers distracted by March Madness this year could cost employers as much as $1.8 billion in unproductive wages during the first week of the tournament alone.
First of all, how could they even know that (yeah, I do smell something)?
And seeing as the employers generally bend labor over here, who cares?
The firm said workers get less distracted as the weeks go by and their picks are picked off.
Do I detect a smile from management there?
Indeed, Quick Hit Inc.'s, Samantha Smith, who runs the office pool at the Foxborough company that creates online football games, said that although productivity at the company took a hit last week, as “virtually everybody’’ was making picks and following the games on their computers, she expects a rebound of productive work this week.
“So many people have been eliminated,’’ she said. “Many of them would probably just as soon work.’’
Like a lot of Americans that are out-of-work.
Hey, you weren't retiring by hitting the pool anyway, slave.
And this must be an important issue if the Glob saw it fit for an editorial:
"College basketball: As coach thrives, game suffers
I hadn't noticed.
The ghosts of fouled Final Fours keep following John Calipari — and haunting the integrity of big-time men’s college basketball.
Why don't worry about your own lying, war-promoting ass first?
With Calipari two games away from another Final Four with the University of Kentucky, the National Collegiate Athletic Association this week upheld the penalties it imposed on Calipari’s 2007-08 University of Memphis team. The team played in the national championship game, but the NCAA later determined that its biggest star was academically ineligible. The team’s 38 victories were stricken from the books, and the school must return $615,000 in tournament revenue to the NCAA.
Yeah, and the bane of Calipari-coached teams -- missed free throws -- sank 'em in the loss to Kansas.
Now what about that other stuff?
No war-looting or bank frauds to opine upon, Glob?
If only this were the first time a Calipari team faced such penalties. In 1997, the NCAA voided the 1996 Final Four appearance of his UMass team, and the school had to return $151,000 in tournament revenues, because its biggest star received illegal gifts from an agent.
Sort of like campaign kickbacks, 'er contributions, 'eh?
And DON'T WORRY, Marcus Camby, ALL has been FORGIVEN HERE!
We LOVE YOU and THOSE TEAMS for giving us the GREATEST ERA of UMass basketball we will ever know!
Besides, there were worse trouble-makers on the team who shall remain anonymous, Mike Williams.
Smarting Memphis officials are now weighing whether to chase Calipari for his $360,000 in performance bonuses during the voided season.
How is tracking down all that missing bank and war loot going, BG?
While Calipari has never personally been implicated for wrongdoing, neither has he been held accountable for the troubles on his teams.
Okay, I have one name for you, MSM: George Bush
Hello?
Basketball-rabid Kentucky has made him the most highly-paid college basketball coach in the nation with an eight-year, $32 million contract.
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Insulting New England elitism need be removed?
Also see:
- Around AmeriKa: South Carolina Disses the Disabled
- Around AmeriKa: The Devil Went Down to Georgia
- Around AmeriKa: MSM's Mississippi Burning
- Around AmeriKa: Loony Louisiana
But he’s a poor role model.
Yeah, too bad MSM shits all over the good ones.
Among the teams in the Sweet 16, Kentucky graduates the lowest percentage of its African American players — 18 percent. The college game is tough on athletes: graduation has become a remote possibility, and illegal gifts of a few hundred dollars will disqualify them. Meanwhile, coaches are paid in the millions.
So what are they saying, pay the players, too?
When a John Calipari can reach such heights, it’s a sign of how low the college sport will sink.
Well, he did coach OUT HERE and the Globe has NEVER LIKED WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS (unless some favored political candidate needs us).
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Did Cal just call foul?
That is why I like the high-schools, folks; it is the PUREST FORM of BASKETBALL!
And yet even that is being spoiled by the creeping tide of culture.
Oh, and much to the Globe's chagrin, Kentucky is one step closer now:
Kentucky 62, Cornell 45
Look, it is JUST a GAME, okay!
I get upset by losses
"Cornell confronts suicides, reputation; Lookouts posted on campus bridges" by Mary Esch and Michael Hill, Associated Press | March 18, 2010
ITHACA, N.Y. — The steep, rocky gorges bounding Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, add to the beauty of this school of 20,000 students in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region. Students must cross over at least one of them to enter the main campus town. The bridge over that gorge is a busy crossing, as students who live on campus use it frequently to visit shops and cafes. But the gorges, at least 100 feet deep in some places, also have figured into student suicides and very likely contributed to Cornell’s reputation as a “suicide school.’’
Probably going to be more now.
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"Ex-NYC coach is indicted in Hub rape; Alleged incidents took place in 1976" by Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | March 26, 2010
A former standout New York City high school basketball coach was indicted yesterday on charges that he raped a 14-year-old boy twice decades ago during a trip to Boston for a
No, coach, I'll pass on the ball game, thanks.
Related: New York Basketball Coach Commits Fouls
More like a couple of technical fouls, readers.
They get you TOSSED OUT of the game!
Bob Oliva, who resigned last year as longtime basketball coach at Christ the King Regional High School in Queens, was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury on two counts of rape of a child, which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison, and one count of disseminating pornography to a minor.
Now, see, if he had not resigned.....
Oliva is accused of showing the boy pornography and raping him while they were staying at the Sheraton Boston hotel between July 31 and Aug. 1, 1976, according to the Suffolk district attorney’s office.
Oliva, 65, of Lynbrook, N.Y., has not been arrested and will be summoned to court to face arraignment, officials said. No date has been set.
So a PERVERT is WANDERING AROUND on the LOOSE?
Related: The State of Massachusetts is Sick
F*** it, let God sort 'em out.
Oliva, “looks forward to coming before the court and clearing his name,’’ said his attorney, Michael Doolin of Boston. “He hasn’t done any of these acts of which he’s been accused.’’
Then why did he resign a legendary career?
Doolin said the charges only surfaced several years ago, which he said a jury should consider.
“I think that Bob Oliva is a guy who has had an impeccable career,’’ Doolin said. “He’s a very well respected, very decent guy, and I think he’ll be found not guilty of these charges.’’
Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents the alleged victim, Jimmy Carlino, said, “My client feels that the indictment in and of itself speaks volumes about the substance of the allegations.
In an interview last year with the New York Daily News, Carlino, now 48 and living in Florida, alleged that Oliva sexually abused him over a period of years during the 1970s when he was a teenager growing up in Queens and Oliva was a basketball coach and tavern owner....
Sort of a strange combination, no?
He didn't work at the school, huh?
And may I just watch the game please, Glob?
Stop PROFANING MY WORLD!!
The Globe reported earlier this month that, according to sources familiar with the proceedings, a roster of New Yorkers with connections to Oliva had testified before the grand jury. The sources requested anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret.
Oliva resigned in January 2009, after Carlino made the rape allegations.
Before that, Oliva enjoyed legendary status in New York’s high school basketball world.
He coached Christ the King’s boys’ basketball team for 27 seasons, winning five city championships and amassing a 549-181 record.
And he is tossing it all away because of a kid's lies(?)?
At least two of his players made it to the NBA, Lamar Odom of the
That is the SAME JAYSON WILLIAMS that is now in JAIL, readers!
The Rev. Robert Hoatson — a Catholic priest and cofounder of the Road to Recovery, an organization that offers support to victims of clergy sexual abuse — said that he is counseling Carlino and that Carlino was relieved by Oliva’s indictment.
“He still has mixed feelings, having liked this guy for so long and now having him indicted,’’ said Hoatson.
I'm $tarting to $en$e that there i$ $omething el$e involved here, reader$; do you know what it i$?
My feelings wouldn't be mixed, readers.
I think the coach would be going for a slam dunk.
