Chip Shots: Committee's Accuracy Makes Vegas Sweat

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Chip Shots: Committee's Accuracy Makes Vegas Sweat

Committee's Accuracy Makes Vegas Sweat

Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Terry Leach:

Looks like the NCAA mens basketball tournament committee was right on in their seeding of this years tournament. Does the possibility of having all four number ones in the final four excite you or make it dull? It's sad there are no underdogs this year. Vegas must be a little nervous.
With the fine showings of schools like Southern Illinois and Butler, there are some that want to do away with the designation "mid-major." Perhaps, "Schools that scare the crap out of the upper seeds but rarely beat them."
Tubby Smith promises to "earn respect" and bring a winning program to Minnesota where there never was one before (okay, a CLEAN) winning program. There's nothing like the first day of a new job and then it all goes downhill from there. Perhaps Tubby should have called Dennis Greene and asked him about his experience with the Arizona Cardinals.
Steve Alford arrives in New Mexico and gets tornadoes. The locusts should be arriving next week.
A University of Kentucky spokesman says AD Mitch Barnhart will "talk to as many people as it takes to find the right coach," Loosely translated, this means "As important teams get knocked out of the tournament, Mitch will be leaving a voice mail on the coaches cell phone as the coach walks off the court. BTW, Big Blue nation, Barnhardt's basketball teams never had a winning record when he was AD at Oregon State.
On the UK job, Billy Donovan would be foolish to take it as he has built his own little empire in Florida and really has no reason to leave. I think your leader in the clubhouse is John Calipari. Billy Gillispie from Texas A&M may also be in the mix, but his track record is a bit short for Kentucky. I think the Bruce Pearl rumors are outrageous.
I don't know where he's going (Iowa, Michigan) but I get the feeling Vandy coach Kevin Stallings is gong somewhere.
Nolan Richardson, defrocked coach at Arkansas, is going to coach the Mexican national team. Of course in Mexico, they think "forty minutes of hell" refers to a border crossing.
It appears John Danks will get the fifth starter spot for the White Sox. This is akin to having the little Dutch Boy put his finger in the dike. Of the pitchers the Sox have trotted out this spring, none of them (Danks, Haegar, Floyd) have seen remotely ready for this role and all qualify for the 2007 Danny Wright Award, long on promise, short on results.
Major League Baseball is really starting to act like it thinks it's the NFL. Please forward the wayback machine ahead fifty years to 2007.
The New York Mets are holding a contest for fans to pick an at bat theme song for third baseman David Wright. Sadly, "Swinging" by John Anderson is not among the choices.
Tomorrow is here today for NASCAR. Actually, tomorrow was here yesterday.
Joe Paterno will pass Amos Alonzo Stagg for most consecutive years at the same school (42) this season. In order to protect the 80 year-old from another horrific injury like the one suffered at Wisconsin last year, JoPa will be coaching from a Popemobile.
In addition to more fences, we apparently need bigger jails. Memo to GDub: Can't you send Chaney to Home Depot?
The greatest movie that ever was almost never was, at least with the cast that it had. I can't imagine Gary Cooper or Henry Fonda saying "Here's looking at you, kid."
The environmentalists say that because Knut, the cute German baby polar bear was abandoned, nature intended for him to die and he should be killed. Nature also intended some of these environmentalists to be in an institution, but that's probably not going to happen either.
Looking for your piece of the pie on the gravy train? Like to ham it up? Are you a big cheese with a beefy neck and a salty tongue who wants to make some serious cabbage? Your list awaits.
There will no longer be three hots and a cot at the Marion County (KS) jail. Prisoners will be changed room and board. Officials feel that making prisoners pay may act as a deterrent for repeat offenders. Yeah right, as in "I better not rob this liquor store because I can't afford a night in jail. They want $3.50 for little bag of potato chips!"