I'm not totally sure, but I think Clarkson may have just jinxed both Memphis and Kansas

Good thing I'm off to Scotland from Saturday until next Wednesday, so I won't have to watch one of those perennial powerhouses UNC or UCLA win it all. Yawn.

Of course, with the internet broadcast, maybe I'll be up at 2AM watching the final.

I think there may be some haggis in my near future! Will and Leslie just let me know if you want me to bring some back for you.

"Don't look back. Somebody might be gaining of you."

For those of you who have long since counted me out, I have done some math as they taught me at Central Elementary School in Rock Hill. Lauren and Georgia Tech math could prove me wrong, and it would not be the first time, but the Hipster Pickster is still alive and well at least until the first game is played on Saturday. I have three teams left in the final four and picked Memphis and Kansas to win Saturday with Memphis winning the championship. No one ahead of me has this deadly duo in the finals nor do they have Memphis winning it all. Therefore, if I am correct for these three games, I pick up 400 points and finish with 1270. Jeff would pick up 120 and finish a distant second. Leslie and my RPI method pick would also pick up 120 and finish behind me. None of the other leaders, including the Mysterios Crawford, would get any additional points. No team this year has beaten Davidson this year and then lost their next game. So Kansas is a shoe into the finals. Memphis is the place I was married and where Will and other famous personages were born. How can they lose? Only if they eat too many ribs from the Rendezvous waiting for the game to start could they possible lose. Therefore, my bracket is much alive and well. I am not sure if anyone can win if they lose any of the remaining games so my chances are as good as anyone's.

Half explanation

Todd, your chair throwing insight only captures part of Dodie's picture. What about the "plus" sign? I think that Dodie is trying to say that Bob Knight's throwing chairs has been a positive thing for basketball. Unless the "plus" sign is really a cross, in which case Dodie's point must be that Knight has been unfairly crucified for his throwing chairs, by those who don't understand him. Unless the "plus" sign is really a stylized tree in winter, in which case Dodie's point is that chairs are made from trees. Cricket in NYC. Just another sign that we need to tighten up our immigration policy! Looks like UNC is the favorite among our crowd. I also take it that means we'll all be rooting against them!

Without citing sMaCkDOWn, NYC Schools add Cricket League

City adds sport; suggest new al-time best player.

On Wednesday, the Department of Education inaugurated cricket as its newest league sport, with about 600 high school students playing on 14 teams during a 12-game season. The first matches, held in Queens, featured teams from John Adams, Richmond Hill, Aviation and Newcomers High Schools.

The Department of Education said New York is the only public school system in the nation to offer competitive cricket.

“The grass-roots American kids who are not 6-foot-10 and 300 pounds can play this,” he said. He pointed out that perhaps the best cricket player in history, Donald Bradman, who played for Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, was 5-foot-7.

I don't get it.

Someone (Dodie?) explain the chair to me. Is the plus sign supposed to be there? It shows up in Firefox but only half of it appears on Explorer. 10:34 update: Wait a sec. Bobby Knight throws chairs. Right? Right? Hey, does this guy know basketball or what!