Brett Favre was a great QB.

OK, Its been said. Everybody can stop verbally blowing him now.

I know thats not the popular thing to say. I know He's "Americas QB". I know this is a basketball blog but because of this crap I cant hear or see anything about bball without a reference to Favre(Dukie V- "Brett Favre was great Baby!! If he played basketball I'd blow him right after my one true love coach K".)

I also know that its been 24 hours of nonstop #4 everywhere you look in the sports media.

Does anybody really care what Phil Simms thinks about Favre retiring? Would Phil Simms give a shit if he wasn't being paid to talk about it? I dont think so.

Another thing, why is it that Favre "Heroically overcame drug addiction" but Lindsey Lohan is just trashy or a rock star who does drugs is considered the scum of the earth?

Its BS thats why.

I want to point out that I enjoyed watching him play. I think he was one of the best ever blah blah blah. Im just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaalllllllyyyy freaking tired of hearing about it.

So please sports talk radio,internet, and ESPN can we knock the 24 hour Bavre watch back to a couple hours a day so I can get back to enjoying my beloved college basketball?

OHSAA Playoffs at Cintas

Great Division 1 basketball playoff games scheduled for tonight at Cintas Center. Princeton versus St. Xavier at 6:15 and Withrow versus Huber Heights Wayne to follow. I try and catch high school tournament action when I can and tonight I will be able to attend. Of course we all know about Yancy Gates and I look forward to seeing him in person again. But there will be plenty of other D1 talent on the floor tonight with Gibler and Loesing from St. X already being committed to Loyola (IL) and Wofford respectively. Chris Grimes, Anthony McBride, and Troy Long from Withrow may all have legitimate D1 dreams too. I am not sure of the talent at Huber Heights Wayne but given their record I am sure there will be some head turners. Princeton has some great athletes too and I will be pulling for them and their departed coach Bill Brewer to win tonight.

The Most Wonderful Time of Year

For me the most wonderful time of the year is March. You can keep Christmas, you can keep opening day for the Reds, you can keep Monday night football, you can keep the first day of spring, give me March in all her glory. Cornell is the first official entrant to the Madness and tradition always tells us the Ivy League will give us the first because they award the regular season champion with a ticket to the 'Big Dance'. All the rest of the conferences are money driven and therefore have their own postseason tournaments which I am so very grateful for. Now through Selection Sunday we will have all the basketball we can stand. I would watch every game if I could of all the tournaments but alas I need to go to work and the family deserves some of my attention. I look forward to the announcing of the NCAA brackets like a young child looks forward to Christmas Eve. It is great knowing your team is in, but the suspense of being on the bubble and getting in is great too. What is more fun is analyzing your team's matchup and trying to figure out who the Final Four will be. I am not a big bracket filler out guy. I am always away from the office so I do miss that aspect of March Madness. But I generally do a few with friends and family and usually I don't do well. I let my heart get in the way too much. The first four days of the tournament, nothing matches it in sports. I bunker down in front of my selected television with coolers of beverages and mountains of salty snacks. I take extended vacation (no crap) every year to watch the tournament. I use the first few days of the week for the 'honey do's' around the house and I warm up with the NIT in the evening. Noon on that Thursday of opening round though is what college basketball is all about. You can throw rankings out the window, the talking heads can finally prove how little they do know, and just pull like hell for all the Cinderella's out there unless your team is playing against Cinderella. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year.

the good thing about this weekend for Bearcats fans

I cant embed the video. they have it disabled but here he is folks. The Newest recruit for next season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWJkFEAegQ

Welcome to UC Dion.

11 Straight

Eleven straight victories for the Musketeers, A10 title in hand, the most regular season victories ever (25), and nobody on the team is very happy. After the ten point win against George Washington the coaching staff decided to hold off on the net cutting ceremony for the regular season title because they were not happy with the effort of the team. It is obvious Coach Miller is not letting this team settle and they were surely on 'cruise control' against GW. The lack of concentration and focus can be clearly seen in the free throw shooting stats for the night. A bright spot for me was the play by Jason Love and his effort was rewarded with his first double double. The team effort will need to be much better Thursday night against a good St Joes squad looking for a signature victory. I also think Drew returning to practice full time this week will be just what the doctor ordered. His ankle is near 100% and upper respitory illness moreso limited his effectiveness Saturday night.

Recruiting updates: Brad Redford and Kenny Frease teams continue to play in their respective state tournaments. A state championship for Brad will most likely result in him winning the coveted Mr. Basketball award, but if he wins and Draymond Green's Saginaw team wins the title too in their division I see it going to the Michigan State recruit. Dominique Buckley (Iowa State commit) and Paul Williams (UD recruit) are the other candidates. Buckley (a point guard) was all but a Muskie commit. Insider information you have to pay for on Rivals revealed that he was coming to Victory Parkway until a last minute visit (as a courtesy) to the Cyclones. That same article detailed how wacky recruiting can be. The staff worked their ass off landing Frease, Redford, and Walsh but Mark Lyons commit was a complete shock. They hadn't been recruiting him that hard and on his first visit to campus he made it clear if offered he was coming. He is from the same area as Lionel Chalmers so he knew all about the Musketeers. Recruiting and scouting surely remain an inexact science.