DBD 3.16.10 You ever seen a grown man naked?

I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense. … And he says that lots of times, you don’t even run down court. And that you don’t really try… except during the playoffs.

I like my coffee black…like my men.

How about this phamplet on famous Jewish sporting heroes?

I speak jive.

There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

The Bears WILL be playing in the Women’s NCAAs! And at Berkeley, too! The Baylor Bears, that is.

BERKELEY, Calif. – Highly-seeded Baylor and Georgetown head a field of four teams coming to Berkeley this weekend when the University of California plays host to first- and second-round games in the 2010 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.

Haas Pavilion will welcome four participants to the Memphis Regional for first-round games on Saturday, March 19, at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. PT. Fifth-seeded Georgetown will face 12th-seeded Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion Marist in the early match with fourth-seeded Baylor and 13th-seeded Fresno State taking the courts in the second contest. The two winners will tip-off a second-round game at 6:30 p.m. PT on Monday, March 22. Fans can visit www.calbears.com/ncaa2010 for complete information.

Team practices on Friday, March 19, are free and open to the public and will run from noon-4:15 p.m. PT. Georgetown will practice from noon-1 p.m.; Marist from 1:05-2:05 p.m.; Baylor from 2:10-3:10 p.m.; and Fresno State from 3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Georgetown (25-6, 13-3 Big East) earned an at-large berth into the championship and will make its first appearance since 1993. The Hoyas advanced to the Sweet 16 in their only NCAA appearance that season. Georgetown won 16 consecutive games from Nov. 11-Jan. 23 and is guided by sixth-year head coach Terri Williams-Flournoy. Freshman guard Ta’Shauna “Sugar” Rodgers leads the team with 18.2 ppg with junior guard Monica McNutt putting in 11.4 ppg. Senior forward Jaleesa Butler averages 6.1 rpg to pace the Hoyas on the boards.

Marist (26-7, 15-3 MAAC) received the automatic bid into the tournament by virtue of its Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament title. Led by eighth-year head coach Brian Giorgis, the seven-time defending MAAC regular-season champion Red Foxes will make their fifth straight appearance in the tournament and sixth overall. Marist advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2007. Senior forward Rachele Fitz leads the Red Foxes with a conference-high 18.0 ppg and ranked fourth in the MAAC with 8.2 rpg. Junior guard Erica Allenspach had the MAAC’s top three-point shooting percentage (.424) as she made 56 out of 132 attempts this season.

Baylor (23-9, 9-7 Big 12) makes its school-record seventh consecutive trip to the tournament under 10th-year head coach Kim Mulkey. The Lady Bears won the NCAA title in 2005 and advanced to the Sweet 16 in 2004, ’06 and ’09. Baylor is the national leader in blocks (7.3 bpg) thanks in part to Big 12 Freshman of the Year and Co-Defensive Player of the Year Brittney Griner. Gringer averages 18.8 ppg and has turned away 183 shots this season. She also led the Lady Bears in rebounds with 8.6 rpg. Senior forward Morghan Medlock checks in with 10.8 ppg and 7.3 rpg. Baylor is making its second visit to Berkeley this season after defeating Cal, 69-49, at Haas Pavilion on Nov. 22.

Womens swimming to defend National Title:

Defending NCAA champion California competes in the 2010 NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by Purdue from Thursday, March 18, through Saturday, March 20, at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center in West Lafayette, Ind. Cal head coach Teri McKeever will bring 12 Golden Bears – Lauren Boyle, Erica Dagg, Alexandra Ellis, Colleen Fotsch, Blake Hayter, Sara Isakovic, Liv Jensen, Katie Kastes, Caitlin Leverenz, defending 100-yard butterfly champ Amanda Sims, Heather White and Hannah Wilson – to the national meet.

McKeever, named the 2009 NCAA Coach of the Year after leading Cal to its first national title, and her Bears left for Indiana on Monday morning.

NCAA Championships Information Please visit the official NCAA Web site for these championships at this link:

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-swim/champpage/w-swim-div1-index.html

The site includes links to the live results, ticket, hotel and restaurant information. Team rosters and the meet’s psych sheet are available at the live results link – http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-swim/champpage/inc/div1/w-swim-div1-results.html.

Jahvid scores a 24 on the Wonderlic.

How come the words “canard” and “canary” have different pronunciations for the second “a.” It’s spelled “canar” up to that point, but the “ar” sound is choads diff!

Scottie posted this in the other thread, but you mighta missed it.

Lane Kiffin is currently dominating his matchup in Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive. He so sex-ay! Me-ow!

And he’s a 16 seed, too. Can you say Cinderella? DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?!??!

ATTENTION CARP! ATTENTION CARP!

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST HOLES! I REPEAT! THE WORLD’S BIGGEST HOLES! (Caution: An ad autoplayed when I clicked on the link so be carefulsies).

Here is #1:

I just want to tell the both of you good luck . . . we’re all counting on you.

 Do you know what it’s like to fall in the mud and get kicked… in the head… with an iron boot? Of course you don’t, no one does.

Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We’re bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We’re coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine: When will you be back?

Ted: I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

What can you make out of this? [hands paper]
I can make a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl.

Just read in the Chronicle that lovely, funny, engaging English professor Charles Muscatine has died.

I know there aren’t too many Humanities types on here, but he also taught English 1 when I was in school, so didn’t know if some of you might have had him. Bit of a living legend he was.

Wilner on Duke conspiracy theory:

And the Jayhawks did get a raw deal: The selection committee blew it, big time.

But the biggest blunder — and I’d give the Guerrero committee a C- overall — clearly was the treatment Duke received.

I suppose you could make a case for the Blue Devils being the third overall seed, ahead of Syracuse. That’s a debatable matter.

What is not debatable is that Duke received a stunningly soft draw, especially compared to Kansas.


Compare the high seeds in each region:

Duke gets faltering Villanova as its No. 2, while KU gets rolling, Evan Tuner-led Ohio State.

Duke gets erratic Baylor as its No. 3, while KU gets Big East runner-up Georgetown.

Duke gets fading Purdue as its No. 4, while KU gets ACC regular-season champ Maryland.

Duke gets fair-to-middling Texas A&M as its No. 5, while KU gets nobody-wants-to-play-em Michigan State.

The committee is supposed to balance the brackets, not weigh one down with powerhouses and softened one up with lightweights.

In a word: Abominable.

Unless you’re a conspiracy theorist, and then you might think …

The NCAA is entering a critical phase in regard to its financial future, planning to opt out of its CBS contract this summer (with three years remaining) and enter the open market …

The tournament is responsible for more than 90% of the organization’s annual revenue, which is then distributed to its member institutions …

The prospects for a TV contract as lucrative as the current CBS deal are not bright. There’s a good chance that the open market will result in the NCAA taking a hit (on a per-year basis) unless the tournament becomes a more desirable entity …

Which is the only reason the NCAA is considering expanding to 96 teams — to provide CBS or ESPN with two more days or games to televise. More inventory means more revenue …

The other development that could make the tournament more desirable as it enters the negotiations phase is, of course, a spike in ratings for this year’s event …

And no team moves the needle like Duke …

Imagine the ratings if Duke were to meet Kentucky in the Final Four and Kansas in the title game …

Oh, my.

(A cynic would point out that the Blue Devils have underachieved so completely in the NCAAs in recent years that they need all the help they can get. But I won’t be that cynic. Nope. Not me.)

I’ve known committee members over the years and have always thought it operated with the utmost integrity — that politics were not part of the four-day selection and bracketing process.

And I would never think the committee consciously set about trying to help Duke if it weren’t for:

1) The softness of Duke’s bracket, especially when compared to those of the two teams that were seeded higher than the Blue Devils (KU and Kentucky, which also has a rough road ahead), and

2) The looming TV negotiations in which nothing short of the NCAA’s financial future is at stake.

And that combination … that here-and-now collision of forces … makes me wonder, just a teeny tiny bit.

Wilner thinks Cal would trade places with UDub:

Which tandem would you rather face?

(Here’s one way to look at it: Cal is a one-point underdog vs. Louisville while UW’s a two-point dog vs. Marquette; those games are about even in terms of the challenge facing the Pac-10 pair. But playing Duke in Florida and playing New Mexico in Northern California are not equivalent challenges. Not close.

(Here’s another way to look at it: Ask Washington Coach Lorenzo Romar if he’d trade places with Cal. The answer, even from someone as classy as Romar, would be: Hahahahahahahahaha!)

Which team has a better chance to win two games? That should be obvious.

And here’s the thing: Cal got treated fairly by the committee. The Bears were in that No. 8-9 range, which meant they had to be bracketed with a No. 1 seed, and all the No. 1s were in the eastern and central regions.

But Washington … well, let’s just say that the Huskies were fortunate — they were treated very, very, very well for a team that had one non-home win of any consequence …

I mean, how does Marquette feel? All the Golden Eagles did was win the same number of league games as UW (11) while playing in a light-years better conference. (They also played a much tougher non-conference schedule.) And they have to fly more than halfway across the country to face a team playing a day’s drive from its campus.

… So yes, Old and Young Blues: You have reason to wonder why your team didn’t get treated as well as Washington — or better.

TRUCKEE – Residents and town officials in Truckee aren’t laughing at a snow sculpture of a penis erected by producers of MTV’s “Jackass” this past Saturday.

According to the Sierra Sun newspaper, the producers of the popular MTV series built the sculpture sometime between 2PM and 3PM Saturday evening in front of Truckee’s train depot on Donner Pass Road.

Truckee town manager Tony Lashbrook told the newspaper “Jackass” producers approached the city about a permit to film a sculpture in the town and was asked if the statuette would be pornographic in nature.

Lashbrook told the newspaper, while response from residents wasn’t overwhelming, “we got enough” phone calls regarding the statue.

An American preacher incites Uganda to protest homosexuality and possibly even pass a law making homosexuality lethal

Raiders say we’ll see a slimmer JaMarcus Russell

It remains to be seen whether Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell has whipped his fabricated case of “lethargy addiction.” But it’s quite possible that he has beaten his Ho-Ho habit.

“You’ll be surprised when you see him,” Brown told Raiders play-by-play announcer Greg Papa, via Jerry McDonald of InsideBayArea.com. "It’s quite a bit of weight that he’s lost. . . . I don’t want to pin it down and say how much he lost but it will be a significant difference when you see him compared to last year.


“The most important thing is he’s getting in shape. Not only losing weight, but getting in shape. He’s watching his diet, he has special meals brought in that he’s eating, and we have one of the Raiders, a former player there with him to monitor him and make sure things are going fine. The weight thing, he’ll get it down. He’ll get it down.”

Hasiak’s back on the reservation:

UCLA’s offensive line, a weakness in recent years, received a big boost this week when guard Stanley Hasiak was reinstated from indefinite suspension, according to the LA Daily News.

Hasiak, a highly touted 2009 recruit, looked like a candidate to start as a true freshman before his combustible personality got him into trouble. He left the team for personal reasons at one point and was involved in a number of altercations with teammates.

Hasiak will participate in spring practices, which begin April 1.

Deep South Sports, who brought you Bama FotW, has gone off the reservation. They go out with a bang:

Did I say good? Actually business was not good, because minor-league blogging doesn’t pay.

Call me the “Crash Davis” of the Blog-o-sphere.

Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once – the 21 greatest days of my blogging life. You know, in the show you never ask to come on Finebaum’s show, somebody calls and asks you. It was great. You get linked on deadspin like every other day, your comment threads take on a life of their own, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

Ok, those last two don’t apply. Even so, it was time to move on. My life was changing and the blog suffered. But instead of putting DSS out of its misery, signing the DNR and getting on with life, I drug things out. Clinging to the good ole days, like some pseudo-journalistic Brett Favre type asshole.

To do this thing right, it has to be your calling, your lifestyle. Unfortunately, that lifestyle doesn’t play nice with the non-internet world: A career, a wife, a kid, not being fat. Something had to give. It was fun while it lasted, but as you know, all good things…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35886780/ns/technology_and_science-security//

Unless something happens soon, this is set to be the most disappointing DBD in a while.

REAALLY REALLY NSFW