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3/28 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Big East Bias

Ryan and Vin demonstrate their east coast bias predicting the 3rd and 4th round of the NCAA tournament, who would be the best player to come out in the NFL, and the Heat’s winning streak.

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This week’s topics include:

  • The NCAA tournament
  • NCAA tournament predictions
  • Florida Gulf Coast
  • Whether LeBron could lead a mediocre team to the NCAA championship
  • Which player would be the best to come out as gay in the NFL
  • Old people driving

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3/14 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: 2012 Tourney Picks

Ryan and Vin pick the first two rounds of the NCAA Men’s Tournament using their patented picking method.

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This week’s topics include:

  • St Patty’s Day
  • Who drove Mike D’Antoni out of NY?
  • Santorum Sweeping the South
  • Top 10 Names in the NCAA Tournmanet
  • The 2012 NCAA Tournament Picks
  • Dead Man’s Switch

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A slightly biased, completely justified analysis of Klay Thompson’s case for Player of the Year

This article comes about due to a recent piece I read on Yahoo! about BYU’s Jimmer Fredette being a “worthy candidate” for college basketball’s annual John R. Wooden (Player of the Year) award. I have no problems with that assertion and even support it. The main reason for my aversion to the article is my undying faithfulness to the Washington State University basketball team; especially Klay Thompson, and the limited amount of consideration he is getting for the award.

Don’t get me wrong, he is on the midseason list of 30 finalists and any coverage of Cougar basketball this season has been chock full of praise for the junior shooting guard (one announcer even raved, “Thompson might just be the best pure shooter in the nation.”). And yes, I am biased. I’m a senior at WSU and a huge fan of the basketball team. Waking up before dawn and camping out in the snow to be first in line for the games is a regular occurrence for me.

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Life After Bobby

September 10, 2000 – The gloomy weather in Bloomington, Ind. on that fall day could have been considered a bad omen. Every Hoosier’s worst nightmare was occurring in the swampy marsh of Dunn Meadow. Robert Montgomery Knight, the General, was giving his farewell speech to a group of angst-ridden and drenched student protesters. He did it in classic Bobby Knight fashion, but the day was far too sad to ponder such a triviality. What was to become of Indiana University basketball?

This was our nightmare.

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4/1 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: March Madness Part 3

More March Madness talk and calling bs on Roger Clemens and Pete Rose’s sex life.

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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness
  • Is Tom Izzo a Top 5 coach?
  • Expanding to 96 teams next year
  • Final Four Picks
  • JaMarcus Russell shows up to camp at 290
  • McNabb to Raiders?
  • Miscellaneous: Porn star at the Masters, Guess the State, and things that surprise nobody.

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3/25 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: March Madness Part 2

We discuss what might be the best opening weekend of the NCAA tournament since the field expanded to 64 teams.
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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness
  • The best finishes from first weekend
  • Northern Iowa’s huge upset over Kansas
  • Vin jinxed Syracuse
  • New NFL OT rules
  • Tim Tebow should’ve prayed for a higher wonderlic score
  • What happened to the Ben Roethlisberger case?
  • Miscellaneous: Guess the State, penis sizes across the country

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48 + 1 thoughts from the 2010 NCAA Tournament

After watching 98.6% of the NCAA basketball tournament over the last 4 days (hey, the NCAA wrestling finals are on too as I discovered when I inadvertently switched to ESPN), I’ve concluded this has to be the best opening week in tournament history — well, at least in my tournament watching history. (There should be a rule that people who weren’t alive at the time should not be allowed to try to argue some nonsense such as YA Tittle was somehow the most underrated QB in NFL history or wax philosophic about the heyday of John Wooden. If you did not exist, you should not be able to comment on a team or player of that era.)

After upsets galore on opening day, the tournament gave us a tremendous OT win by Purdue over Texas A&M to end the weekend. Oh, and there was that little matter of Northern Iowa beating Kansas in between.

So, in honor of opening weekend, here are 48 + 1 thoughts (do the math) on the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Some are good, some are mediocre, and some are clunkers — yep, just like the games.

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Memphis, not Calipari, will be villified longer

Nice try, Gary Parrish. Very nice try.

But if I were to say you were wrong, it would very well diminish the meaning of “wrong” for future generations, and I don’t feel comfortable doing that.

You are past wrong, beyond wrong if you will. You are located somewhere between fool and foolish, probably closer to the previous than the latter.

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NCAA May Have Just Crossed the Line from Absurd to WTF?

This is the NCAA. This is the NCAA you and I pretend to love because, really, what would we do without college football? You breath and die by the fall, right? I know I do.

But I also know that this is the NCAA.

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How’d it get so sunny in Philadelphia?

I used to (and still do) daydream about what would have happened if Joe Carter doesn’t hit that home run, if Ronde Barber doesn’t intercept that pass, if Robert Horry doesn’t make that three in game 2 of the 2001 Finals, if Scott Stevens doesn’t leave Lindros in a crumpled heap on the ice.  I daydream because I can only hope for those things not to have happened in a (better) alternate universe.

But now things are different.  I think about the wicked line drive off the bat of Zobrist that hangs just enough to settle easily into Jayson Werth’s glove.  In my nightmares, that line drive gets past Werth for extra bases.  I think about Levance Fields’ desperation 75 foot heave that clangs off the  backboard and  ricochets harmlessly to the floor.  In my nightmares, that ball goes straight into the hoop.

It’s so much better to imagine the worse case scenario knowing that in reality, the good guys win. As some wise man once said (on this site, no less), it’s easier to write joy and anger.