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Normally I hate Jemele Hill columns on ESPN, because she is such an unabashed Kobe nutrider. But when she talks about race, she’s almost always spot on. Continue Reading »

Picking the winning bracket in your pool is a very difficult task. Fortunately there is a lot of history to analyze and pretty much every conceivable angle has been studied, broken down, analyzed, analyzed again, written about, discussed and so on and so forth. But even with all this data being readily available, people continue to fuck up their brackets.

Why? For starters everyone thinks they are a sports genius, they have the inside track on some team or some player, they know where all the upsets are going to happen or they want to impress their friends by picking some “sleepers.” The truth is, the teams earned their seeds for a reason. So no matter how frisky Cal State Fullerton looks, there is a reason they are the #14 seed and on the flip side, there is a reason Wisconsin is ranked #3. I am aware that the 14 seed has upset the 3 seed before, but historically speaking, the #3 seed wins 84% of the time. So there is an outside chance that your Fullerton pick will net you some points in the first round, but it’s a big risk and you have to keep in mind that winning your pool is not based on one game but rather the entire bracket…and mathematically speaking, you’re more likely to suit up for one of these teams than you are to correctly predict the outcome of every game.

That is a perfect jump off point for my “awesome winning list”

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My Padres are/were in China playing the Dodgers. Originally this post was going to be a rant on the fact that they played to a tie!! Then I navigated my way over to the Home Run Derby website and came across something much more interesting, namely pictures of Chinese cheerleaders.

More pics after the jump.

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I know that every other site on the web has made their NCAA bracket post, but I bucked the trend and waited until 10pm on Monday to write my first post.

I will make a few posts over the next few days in order to cover all my points.

• Will I have new and interesting insight? Probably not.
• Will there be a link to download a bracket? Most likely.
• Will there be an official “Hey Brewer Tournament Challenge?” Not unless I can come up with a cool prize for the winner
• Will I be ranting about USC drawing K-State in the opener? Most definitely
• Are you gonna read what I wrote? You should…after the jump

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Forget NFL free agency, the best part of the NFL off-season is the open tryouts for cheerleaders. Last week we had the Patriots cheerleaders.

This week we’re featuring some of the ladies who attended the Eagles open tryout. Thank you philadelphiaeagles.com for putting up these great pics.

More pics after the jump:

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Actually I should say ho’s like Smush Parker…or maybe it’s Smush Parker that likes ho’s. Regardless, here is a vid I cam across on YouTube that features what I can only imagine is some downtime during a photo or commercial shoot.

Also, how had I not noticed that Smush Parker looks just like D’Angelo Barksdale?

Well, believe it or not, the Yankees released Billy Crystal today. In a not surprising move, they elected not to keep the inexperienced infielder/designated hitter after his short lived, yet highly famous strikeout. I must admit, after reviewing the at bat, I was actually a slightly impressed he made any contact with the ball whatsoever, managing to foul a couple of 50mph pitches off the end of his bat. Although, at the same time, I think I have faced more wicked pitching in the softball cage at Family Fun Center.

Billy’s first, and last, at bat:

A buddy of mine emailed me this morning with this charming item from True Blue L.A.:

I’ve disappeared for the week because I’m down in Vero Beach right now, and I don’t really have internet access. I’ve got pictures and all that fun stuff queued up that I’ll be able to post in a bit. For now, all I have is one fairly interesting story.

I was talking to a guy that slings hooch at one of the local speakeasies and had Derek Lowe walk in a couple of nights ago. In addition to being with a very beautiful woman, he went on a fairly long rant about why he hates Vin Scully. D-Lowe thinks he’s past his prime and he just tells stories instead of actually calling the game.

I can forgive pretty much anything, but this might be way too big of an offense. Lowe can join Elijah Dukes on the bad citizen list.

I’m not sure what is awesomer: The fact that I just made up the word awesomer, the full flip/near decapitation, the dedication to complete the story, or the Canadian accent. You decide:

Billy Crystal was signed to a minor league contract, for a day, by the NY Yankees. Yesterday he got to live out his dream and get an official Yankee AB. He promptly struck out. Some sports columnist said this was a ‘mockery of the game’ and ruined the great tradition of the Yankees. Others have said this is not a big deal and it is all in fun.

I’m not sure I know how I fall on this matter. In the interest of full disclosure I must state that I loathe the Yankees and I’ve never found Billy Crystal particularly funny (excluding his cameo as Miracle Max in The Princess Bride which was brilliant):

I think overall it is a fun gimmick and I have no problem with it.  Other celebs have done similar things in Spring Training such as Garth Brooks.  My only reservation is that it becomes a thing ‘to do’ for celebrities. Billy Crystal is well known as a huge Yankee fan, he even made a pretty awful movie about Maris’ 61 HR year. But I fear the day when we’ll see Justin Timberlake in a Cubs uniform or Kid Rock in a Tigers uniform or Bill Gates in a Mariners uniform. People whose amount of money and popularity is inversely related to their talent and contributions to American culture should not be given access to play baseball just because they want it. If this comes to pass, then my hatred of the Yankees and Bud Selig will only grow and we can look back at Billy Crystal and curse him for what he has done.

Or none of this will happen and this story will be forgotten by May.