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-- Monday, March 17, 2003 --

March Madness and the West Bracket of Death

Wow. What a week of college basketball. Duke picked up it's fifth straight ACC title by coming back from 15 down to beat NC State in a rematch of last year's championship.

Of course, after that Duke got screwed. They got placed as a number three seed in the West Bracket (aka: the Bracket of Death). Not only is the West packed with competitive teams (Arizona, Kansas, and Illinois to name a few), Duke should have been a number two seed. Who gets it instead? Wake Forest, the same team that lost in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. It's complete bull shit.

There are a few other problems with the bracket, but I don't want to sit here and type the whole thing out so I'll just mention that some deserving bubble teams (Boston College and Texas Tech) got left out and BYU is scheduled to play on a Sunday if it somehow gets to the Sweet 16 (a problem because the school's religious practices prohibit them from playing on Sundays). In short, the selection committee was on crack when it made up the field of 65.

In other news: There's also some war thing going on in some country across the ocean. I think the US may somehow be involved. But who cares, this is college basketball season, right?

I actually read a post on the ESPN college basketball message board wherein the writer actually said he doesn't care about the war in Iraq because a) it doesn't involve him in any way and b) he doesn't live in a city that will be targeted for retaliation. Yes, this guy lives in the United States and he doesn't give a damn that we're about to go to war. Today's youth isn't stupid, it's just ignorant --- OK, so maybe a little bit of both.

By the way, what is wrong with this freak who was photographed and placed in the MSNBC story I linked to? What kind of warped human being smiles when someone gets on TV and says that the nation the viewer is currently sitting in watching the news is going to attack the country he's from and probably has family in? Oh, wait, that's one of those flat-screen wall TVs he's got hanging there isn't it? No wonder! He's rich!

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