The Swamp

Fuck, I hate seeing a game decided by idiotic refs. And, yes, there is an enormous difference between Illinois being tied (or up one) and being down four, with less than a minute to play. That was disgraceful; not even a close call, really. Yeah, and there was a very similar missed call at the end ...

You can all breathe a sigh of relief. UVA has won again in the NIT, beating St. John's 68-50. One more win and UVA heads to MSG.

46 of UVA's 68 points came from freshmen. The future's still looking pretty good in cville.

Scottie wrote:Is the dog included? Canine 'photobombs' every picture of Craigslist property listing

That was hilarious.

Just a stunning fall. Before his early, amazing success at ucla, he was damn successful at Pitt.

I read that SI article a while back, but I still don't really understand what went wrong.

I just tuned in. Holy shit! I don't think I've ever seen a soccer game like this.

Pretty cool.

So what did that guy do to his guitar to make it play like that? He's not strumming anything and he doesn't appear to be hitting the strings hard at all. It's almost like a keyboard.

And Scottie, is there a way to make the embedded videos a little bigger?

I haven't looked up the numbers but #1s are something like 120-0 versus #16 seeds all-time. Wouldn't ya' think that at some point that's gotta break? The #1s can't stay undefeated forever and the kids that play this game get more athletic every year. Some day I hope to see it happen. What's funny (...

Johnny Hotcakes wrote:Basketball in the groin.

Right in the golden bears!

Scott Fucking Wood! That's what NC State needed. Game on.

Grasspenis wrote:If I've learned anything from the Swamp, Shirls, it's that a lot of songs that you can't stand seem to get stuck in people's heads.

We built this city! We built this city on rooooock and rollllllll!

This is a classic N.C. State performance. All that talent and they look like a bunch of idiots. Yup. Their top six players are easily top ten in the country, talent-wise. When they care and play well, they are scary. I figured they'd focus enough today to get by and then turn on the gas against Ind...

howard wrote:Wisconsin playing ugly. Rebels playing dumb. Henderson 1-11 first half. Too bad you can't run-your-mouth the ball into the hoop.

A no-nonsense, disciplined team like Wisconsin seems like the worst possible opponent for Henderson. Not gonna fall for his antics.

Speaking of SF, I almost died (traffic came to a sudden stop ahead of me, slammed the brakes, ended up swerving a bit to the right, and luckily the lady flying down the right lane in her Audi was paying attention (and driving an Audi?, QUATTRO!!!) and was able to miss me) with that fucking Foxygen ...

sancarlos wrote:I chuckle every time I see Dave's "Shirley" avatar.

Yeah, I'm thinking of sticking with Shirley. She makes me happy.

This is fascinating - it's a view of internet usage around the world throughout a day. Red/yellow is high usage while blue/green is low. http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18i61q6227twfgif/original.gif http://gawker.com/5991667/this-illegally-made-incredibly-mesmerizing-animated-gif-is-what-the-interne...

ZMan wrote:Whenever you have the time... ZMan

Damn, I preferred you as ztest. Probably the stats geek in me.

Hell, a lot (all?) of arenas actually play music DURING play now as well. Not the whole time, but after a made free throw or something, they'll blast some Smash Mouth until the other team gets the ball over half court. Really fucking annoying.

To clear it up, LED tvs are still LCD screens. The difference is in the backlighting. LED TVs use ... LEDs! Other LCD screens use florescent backlighting. LED lights allow for thinner screens and apparently better contrast. A pretty good breakdown - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387377,00.as...

Deep Throat made $600 million? Damn.

BTW, I loved that Crimson win even if it did cost me my first Sweet Sixteen casualty.

Rush2112 wrote:and wouldn't call Harvard "the smart kids" the administration removed a lot of entrance obstacles (and smart kids wouldn't have been caught cheating on a take home open book test.)

I'd be willing to bet they have the highest average SAT scores in the tourney.

Good recall on the 1987 tournament, Dave. I sure as heck had to look up that reference. I read about it a little before I posted. Watching, it dawned on me that their careers overlapped (Amaker was point on that great '86 Duke team and Alford won the title in '87), so a quick Google search turned u...

howard wrote:
Shirley wrote:Is Harvard going to win an NCAA Tournament game? Craziness.
Nope. Not without any Chinese kids.

I don't know. The smart kids are looking pretty damn poised right now.

Amaker can get revenge for Alford ending his college playing days in '87.

Is Harvard going to win an NCAA Tournament game? Craziness. I find it funny that Mizzou has maintained their tradition of underperforming in the tournament no matter who their coach is. (In fairness, they are only an 8 seed, but still.) 9. So they technically didn't underperform in the tournament a...

Yeah, great post, Bapo! The Swamp doesn't get enough long-form posting anymore. I'm with you on the NBA Experience. I find all of the extra crap really cheapens the game. It's like they know the game itself isn't entertaining enough. And the thing is, it could be, but all the fake cheering, loud mus...

Is Harvard going to win an NCAA Tournament game? Craziness.

I find it funny that Mizzou has maintained their tradition of underperforming in the tournament no matter who their coach is. (In fairness, they are only an 8 seed, but still.)

Damn, that St. Mary's game got interesting in a hurry. Would have loved to see that last shot go in for Dellavedova.

And we're rooting for this Davidson upset, right?

Something to remember is that Stevens is an Indy boy. His family is here. He has built a solid program here. I listen to radio interviews with him all the time. I don't think he is a guy who is going to chase the big money. And I don't think Tom Crean is going anywhere anytime in the near future. I...

Is Brad Stevens not going to move on to a bigger program, unless the Hoosier job opens up? Coach K's replacement. There's a very strong sentiment for that around here. Some people think it might be a contest of whether Roy Williams or Coach K retires first - whoever gets first shot gets Stevens.

Glad I didn't pick Valpo.

A co-worker just stopped himself mid-piss to pull out his wallet to try and pay me for the office bracket pool. I didn't have any change on me. Hope he washes his hands before he makes it down to my office later. How do you stop yourself mid-piss? Once I start, I can't stop, although I guess I have...

"don't tell me the score" For people who want to see the highlights not knowing what is going to happen or how it ends up. When I clicked through, I picked a game and it took me to a page with the score in 40 point font (along with highlights, stats, etc). Is it just that the scores aren'...

This is fascinating. It's a TED talk on de-extinction of species.

(hope this doesn't brand me as a religious zealot)

DC, I'm actually with you on dunks in general. I especially fail to get why people get so worked up about "getting dunked on." In many cases, the guy who got dunked on was the only defender with the balls to actually try to stop the play. I hate that it's considered a bad thing to not conc...

Our difference of opinion may come down to this. I think dunking over a player who is 6-10 inches shorter and 50-80 pounds lighter from five feet away is actually something that dozens of high school and college players can do pretty routinely. I've watched a lot of basketball in my life and I have...

I hadn't seen the dunk until just now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm_t6OfBF7Y I don't think that was nearly as good as DeAndre Jordan's. And no, there most certainly are not many high school kids who could throw down a dunk like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTkN2q6sUUk That's just ridicu...

I have hardly watched any college basketball all season, and then watched most of the Big10 and SEC tournaments. I can't be the only one who wants to strangle Marshall Henderson? Here's a few more who want to strangle him (I just wanted to post this again): http://nbccollegebasketballtalk.files.wor...

This is a very cool piece on where the best basketball players come from and where they go to college . That's an article I always meant to do on my site, but never got around to it. I always suspected that Virginia both produced an inordinate number of great high school players and also failed to g...

Wow is Jay Bilas a whiney douche. Get me a violin for those poor teams in major conferences who didn't get in because they only schedule Ithaca College out of conference. It should only matter who you play outside of your conference? Did I say that? Other things matters too, like wins, I guess. One...

FredRomero wrote:Wow is Jay Bilas a whiney douche. Get me a violin for those poor teams in major conferences who didn't get in because they only schedule Ithaca College out of conference.

It should only matter who you play outside of your conference?

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