Farewell to Duke

I've been feeling pretty silly about my tourney predictions. I'm like the Washington, DC weathermen. I forecast a foot of snow and blizzard conditions, and when the day comes there's a few flurries in the morning and a fair amount of sunshine.

I'm talking about Bradley. I said they shouldn't be in the tournament and that their spot would have been better suited for Maryland. Since that statement, Bradley advanced a couple rounds into the tourney until losing recently, and Maryland lost the opener of the NIT tourney at home, to a middle school class.

Oh well. The good news is Duke is gone. We won't have to see Redick cutting down the nets. I know some folks wonder why I feel about Duke the way I do. Dan Wetzel, a columnist for Yahoo! Sports recently wrote about Duke's loss and I feel this column best represents my feelings.

Wetzel

It may seem immature, but here goes: Ha Ha Duke! You lose!! Ha Haaa Ha Haaa Ha. I'm JJ Redick and my poop is made of gold. I'm going to buy an Escalade with my poop bricks. No one can beat me because I have paid off all the refs with rings and coins made from my precious poop. Behold mortals, your basketball god walks near.

Okay, got that off my chest. Way to go LSU.

Brotherly Love

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Now Tank Carter has even more time to think about how much he enjoyed that Super Bowl party.
A judge increased jail time from six months to five years for the brother of Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tyrone Carter because he failed to report to prison on time for driving with a revoked license. Tank Carter went to the Super Bowl instead and said he had no regrets.
He was to report to a Broward County prison on Jan. 6, but decided against it when his brother told him the Steelers had a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.
"Even knowing what I know now, I would do it again. It was the greatest game in my life," said Carter, who watched the Steelers beat Seattle from the 50-yard line in Detroit on Feb. 5 and partied with rapper Snoop Dogg after the game.
Tyrone Carter said he would have done "the same thing" for his brother.
The two have been close since growing up in a rough section of Pompano Beach and winning the Super Bowl meant "we finally made it together," Tyrone said.
On Tuesday, Broward Circuit Judge Stanton S. Kaplan upped the jail time.

Hmm...which brother got the raw end of this deal? He best be thrown the greatest coming home party EVER! They've got four and a half more years to plan for it too.