BOSMA’S BREAKDOWN
It’s bracket time. Pour yourself a green beer, fill that sucker out and sit back and enjoy the ride. March Madness is finally here.
We’ll start there, but the sports world is turning at a feverish pace… so just hold on.
NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament loves Duke
There’s no question Duke has the easiest road to the Final Four. If you think there’s any question about that, hand your bracket to a girlfriend or someone who knows very little about college basketball and ask them to name off all the teams that person has heard of. Chances are the other regions will be getting much more love than the south. In fact, I guarantee it.
Put Duke aside for a second, though. How does Ohio State (the best 2-seed) wind up in the same bracket as Kansas (the No. 1 overall seed)? There’s no question Kansas has the toughest potential slate of games with the level of talent the NCAA committee through in their region. Kansas will only have to play one of the solid teams in the lower half of their bracket (OSU, Georgetown, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Oklahoma State), but look at the potential matchups awaiting them in the second round and Sweet 16: UNLV, Northern Iowa, Michigan State, New Mexico State (meh), Maryland, and Houston (meh).
That’s the toughest road to the Elite 8 in the bracket. I don’t have a clue what the NCAA committee was thinking, but at least it’s not the BCS.
The Jets feel slighted again
The Giants won a coin toss to open the new Meadowlands stadium and the little brother Jets are none too pleased. Since the Jets came into the league in 1970, they’ve played second-fiddle to their “big brother.” The Giants will open the stadium on Sunday, with the Jets playing on Monday Night Football and it appears the Jets feel like it was cheap shot from the league for all the reasons above and they didn’t have a member of the organization present for the coin toss (as if that would have mattered).
The simple solution to this problem should have been taken into consideration by the NFL’s scheduling committee long ago. Regardless of what the scheduling criteria was for the 2010 season, an exception should have been made for the Giants and Jets to open the season playing each other. Nothing should have stopped this from happening.
Tiger to return at the Masters
Great. Just win so we don’t have to read 5,000 “Will Tiger ever be what he once was” stories. If you really want us to believe in you again, Tiger, you’ll make sure we’re not subjected to these stories.
We’ll finish this rundown Twitter-style…
Ovechkin suspended two games for hit on Campbell
Campbell is out 8 weeks and the NHL does a mini-crackdown on Ovi. Love the Hawks, but the hit wasn’t brutal. Don’t go overboard with this.
Tyson is for the birds
Iron Mike is getting his own reality show ab his racing pigeons. Pigeons are nasty, so is Tyson… What a great combo. Must-see TV for sure
Jamarcus Russell misses first day of offseason workouts
Russel=bust, fat, undeserving. Al Davis described him as a “great player.” No wonder this organization is digging its own grave.
Is there any conceivable answer as to why Ohio State or West Virginia didn’t end up in Duke’s bracket?
