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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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4/8 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Madness Review, MLB Preview

Reviewing the 2010 NCAA Tournament and a look at the baseball season.

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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness – what might have been
  • McNabb traded to Redskins
  • Baseball preview
  • Tiger Woods’ new creepy commercial
  • Miscellaneous: Tiki Barber trades up and what would happen if Ernest Borgnine met Larry Fitzgerald

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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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College Basketball

April is the Cruelest Month

By Ryan McGowan

If, as T.S. Eliot once wrote in The Waste Land, “April is the cruelest month,” then March is the second cruelest, but only if you happen to hate basketball.

(Which, since basketball was invented in Springfield, Mass., makes you un-American and probably a Communist.)

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College Basketball

Breaking Down March Madness

This was my Monday night at Costco….

 

Meltable Cheddar Cheese……going to need some of that…….chili…..better grab three cans…..buffalo wings…..that’s a check……blue cheese dressing…..gotta go back and get some blue cheese dressing……hmmmmm….mozzarella sticks…welcome aboard…..jalapeno poppers….gotta get some sour cream…..tortilla chips….are we sure two bags are enough…..salsa…..a given…..guacamole…..that’s a check…..wow…….tough decision…….Yuengling……..Sierra Nevada Pale Ale……Yuengling…..Sierra Nevada…….Yuengling….Sierra Nevada……gotta go with the Yuengling…..better stop and apologize to the Sierra Nevada and promise them a trip to my refrigerator at the A’s impending World Series victory……..

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Sweet Sixteen 2009

By Trevor Freeman

With March Madness right around the corner….God Bless the NCAA Tournament, we decided to do a little preliminary analysis for those of you pining for the moment that the bracket is revealed.  Over the past month, I have sat down and watched as much college basketball as humanly possible.  I formulated the sixteen teams that I think look Sweet Sixteen worthy.

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Favor: The Gift and The Curse

By: Maurice K Dixon

It’s nice to know when some pick your team, but it makes me a little uneasy when all pick my team as the next one to cut down the last arrangement of nets. Honestly, I don’t have an issue with the experts’ opinions. I have issues with the increasing expectations because they add to the pressure, which if mishandled could evolve into shortcoming.

The North Carolina Tar Heels (college basketball’s outright No. 1 at the start of the season) or “my boys” – the group of talented ball players I have repeatedly referred to in first person (we) over the years – are expected to win it all. The analysts have all said it. The columnists have all written it. The magazines have all printed it on the front pages.

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