Here’s your answer.
Ever Wonder Why We’ve Never Had a Black President Til Now?
Mar 9th, 2010 by Flop
Ben Roethlisberger to be charged with stupidity
Mar 9th, 2010 by Michael Street
Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback and two time Super Bowl winner Ben Roethlisberger may be charged with stupidity along with the charges of sexual assault he was hit with earlier this week. The violation of stupidity was handed down by the Common Sense Police who are working with investigators in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the alleged assault occurred in a night club.
An anonymous source with the Common Sense Police who has inside knowledge of the investigation told EJSIC the following: “We don’t care much about the girl. She probably deserved it, but we’re worried about Big Ben. This is twice in the last year he’s been charged with sexual assault. He has to understand he’s a famous person, people know him, he’s kind of a big deal. He just can’t show up to a club in Nowheresville, Georgia and expect to not be known.”
“Big Ben has to know that when the cameras start flashing, it’s time to get the hell out. An athletes worst nightmare is pictures on TMZ. That’s why we’re down here cooperating with the investigation. If we find enough evidence, we’ll slap Ben with a violation of common sense.”
Another source close to the investigation said Big Ben’s attire is playing a role. The quarterback was photographed wearing a black shirt with a gray devil figure on the front leading some investigators to think a devil’s three way may have occurred. Stay tuned to EJSIC for any breaking news that may occur.
Luke Warm Linkage
Mar 9th, 2010 by Flop
99 problems, man. 99 problems.
- Report: Alan Iverson facing gambling and alcohol issues. You’re kidding. Let me guess… he’s got a few illegitimate kids floating around too, right? (yep.)
- Keith Olbermann and Bill Simmons have managed to thrust themselves into a blood feud a thousand times more interesting than either of them might be on their own. Here are a couple quotes to wet your pallet:
Simmons: “KO, please know the feeling is mutual. You’re my worst case scenario for my career in 12 yrs: a pious, unlikable blowhard who lives alone.”
Olbermann: “… anybody who could write as many words without saying anything of consequence really should throw around the word “blowhard” as frequently as he would a street sewer cover.”
- Tiger’s mistress was cheating on him with a UFC fighter. I can’t decide whether this is sad or hilarious.
- Yao Ming’s wife gives birth to a beautiful 7 foot 196lb. baby girl. You’ll be throwing it in the ocean for a while, Yao.
- Detroit plans to save itself by bulldozing itself. Don’t forget to leave the good parts. Wait a second…
- Seriously. Stay the @#$% away from Chat Roulette:
Roy’s Favorite Fan Heads to Duke
Mar 9th, 2010 by Flop
Duke fans can be insufferable, pretentious and generally annoying, but sometimes they do something that you can’t help but applaud. Just such an instance happened during Duke’s rout of UNC at CIS over the weekend, when the Cameron Crazies snagged a front row seat for Brian King.
For those of you that have been hiding under a rock the past few months, Mr. King is the Presbyterian fan that Roy Williams had carted out of the Dean Dome for yelling, “Miss it Deon!” during one of the senior’s free throws.
The Charlotte Observer has a write up on the whole situation here, if you want to check it out.
“I had a lot of people reach out to me after what happened … and now that time has passed, this just looked like fun,’’ he said.
King, who is from Concord, attended Presbyterian but grew up a Duke fan; his family even had season tickets to games, “although this is a lot better seat,’’ he said, smiling.
The truth of the situation does come out a bit right there. Did Roy sense that he was Dukie in disguise? I digress… Either way it seems that Brian was very grateful and held no ill will towards Ol’ Roy.
“The whole thing is something everyone can laugh about now.”
You got that right, Brian. Well done, Dukies.
[Hat tip to Anthony Wireman]
2010 NCAA Tournament – Every At-Large Candidate’s Resume
Mar 8th, 2010 by Shred Torn
I’ve compiled the resumes for every single team that can consider itself an at-large candidate. To date, 9 tickets to the dance have already been punched:
Atlantic Sun: East Tennessee State
Big South: Winthrop
Colonial: Old Dominion
Ivy: Cornell
MAAC: Siena
MVC: Northern Iowa
OVC: Murray State
Southern: Wofford
WCC: St. Mary’s
Bubble teams should be happy that Cornell, Old Dominion, Siena, Northern Iowa, Murray State, Wofford, and St. Mary’s all won their conference tournaments. Likely Old Dominion, Siena, and Northern Iowa would have made it in as an at-large had they lost, but the some of the others would have at least been in the conversation. St. Mary’s would’ve been an interesting debate, but as their coach Randy Bennett promised, they “removed all doubt”. Anyway, now that these teams are locked into the tournament, I needn’t post their resumes. In line with this post, I’ll compile a Bubble Watch and Bracketology as soon as I can, constantly updating it as Conference Tournament results from Championship are coming through. For this, I included any team that I thought would at least be in the conversation if they made it to the Tournament Final and lost (this explains the inclusion of UConn, Minnesota, Washington, etc.).
Without further ado, let’s get to the resumes…
Template
<Conference>
<Team>
Overall: a team’s overall record, with an asterisk if they have played one or more games against non-D1 opponents
Conference:
Out-of-Conference:
RPI: (used data from statsheet.com)
SOS: (used data from statsheet.com)
Notable Wins: my general guidance for this was any team that is definitely a lock or safely in as an at-large, or any team not one of the “last few in” beaten away from home (“vs.” means neutral site, “at” means road site, others are home games)
Key Losses (RPI 125+): I used 125 because that was an approximate value in which a loss to a team of RPI 125 or greater would be a real weighted factor in the committee discussion
vs. RPI Top 25:
vs. RPI 26-50:
vs. RPI 51-75:
vs. RPI 76-100:
vs. RPI 101-150:
vs. RPI 151-200:
vs. RPI 201+:
Road/Neutral: combination of a team’s record on the road and at neutral sites, regardless of “semi-home”/”semi-away”
Trending: on a stop light system (red/yellow/green), my assessment of how a team is trending. I know the committee doesn’t use the last 10/12 games as a valuing factor anyway, but this is my attempt to capture what I think is some subjective assessment of a team when a committee member will look at their schedule and see a lot of Ws or Ls recently
AP Poll: this is used in the committee room this year
Coaches Poll: this is used in the committee room this year
KenPom: this is used in the committee room this year, from Ken Pomeroy of Basketball Prospectus
Sagarin: this is used in the committee room this year from Jeff Sagarin of the USA Today
Here’s your bible for the next week when you want to make your case for a team to be seeded on a line or be in or out.
Conference Championship Central
Mar 8th, 2010 by Michael Street
ESPN has dubbed the week of March 8th, Championship Week as countless college basketball conferences crown a champion. The winners receive an automatic bid to the upcoming NCAA Tournament. The following has a link to every conference tournament bracket as well as which team is the top seed and that teams current RPI from realtimerpi.com. Finally, it will include a list of all possible at-large teams from each conference.
America East
Bracket
Top Seed: Stony Brook 13-3, RPI 128
Possible at-large: None
Atlantic 10
Bracket
Top Seed: Temple (15)
Possible at-large: Xavier (19), Richmond (28), Rhode Island (30), and Dayton (42).
Atlantic Coast Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Duke (2)
Possible at-large: Maryland (20), Clemson (24), Wake Forest (34), Georgia Tech (35), Florida State (39), and Virginia Tech (55)
Atlantic Sun
Winner: East Tennessee State (125)
Possible at-large: None
Big XII
Bracket
Top Seed: Kansas (1)
Possible at-large: Kansas State (5), Baylor (10), Texas A&M (12), Texas (25), Oklahoma State (27), and Missouri (32)
Big East
Bracket
Top Seed: Syracuse (3)
Possible at-large: West Virginia (6), Villanova (7), Pittsburgh (9), Georgetown (14), Louisville (38), Marquette (48), UConn (50), Notre Dame (64), South Florida (67)
Big Sky
Bracket
Top Seed: Weber State (79)
Possible at-large: None
Big South
Winner: Winthrop (178)
Possible at-large: None
Big Ten
Bracket
Top Seed: Ohio State (29)
Possible at-large: Purdue (17), Michigan State (26), Wisconsin (18), Illinois (73), Minnesota (78)
Big West
Bracket
Top Seed: California-Santa Barbara (103)
Possible at-large: None
Colonial Athletic
Bracket
Top Seed: Old Dominion (37)
Possible at-large: William Mary (58)
Conference USA
Bracket
Top Seed: UTEP (44)
Possible at-large: UAB (41) and Memphis (51)
Horizon League
Bracket
Top Seed: Butler (17)
Possible at-large: None
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Siena (40)
Possible at-large: None
Mid Eastern Athletic Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Morgan State (108)
Possible at-large: None
Mid-American Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Kent State (43)
Possible at-large: None
Missouri Valley
Winner: Northern Iowa (23)
Possible at-large: Wichita State (47)
Mountain West
Bracket
Top Seed: New Mexico (8)
Possible at-large: BYU (21), San Diego State (33), UNLV (45)
Northeast
Bracket
Top Seed: Quinnipiac (137)
Possible at-large: None
Ohio Valley
Winner: Murray State (62)
Possible at-large: None
Pac-10
Bracket
Top Seed: California (22)
Possible at-large: Washington (53) and Arizona State (54)
Patriot League
Bracket
Top Seed: Lehigh (162)
Possible at-large: None
SEC
Bracket
Top Seed: Kentucky (4)
Possible at-large: Vanderbilt (11), Tennessee (16), Florida (52), Mississippi (57), and Mississippi State (61)
Southern Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Wofford (78)
Possible at-large: None
Southland Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Sam Houston State (75)
Possible at-large: None
Southwestern Athletic Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Jackson State (197)
Possible at-large: None
Sun Belt
Bracket
Top Seed: Troy (120)
Possible at-large: None
The Summit League
Bracket
Top Seed: Oakland (60)
Possible at-large: None
Western Athletic Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Utah State (31)
Possible at-large: None
West Coast Conference
Bracket
Top Seed: Gonzaga (36)
Possible at-large: St. Mary’s (46)
Luke Warm Linkage
Mar 8th, 2010 by Flop
Can you guess which of these @##es is Oscar worthy?
- Here’s the Oscar list from last night’s Academy Awards for those that care. If that’s not “Metro” enough for you, here are some pretty dresses to look at.
- On the heels of Sandy Bullock’s Oscar win for The Blindside, here are the worst sports movies of all time. Ladybugs FTW!
- Want to see a Taiwanese CGI recap of the bizarre Ole Miss mascot swap? It’s not a trap. I promise.
- The UCONN women have tied their own historic streak with 70 victories in a row. What I found most amazing about it is that none of the victories were by less than 10 points. Can you imagine how much better your team would have to be than the rest of their sport to NEVER lose by less than 10 points? Mind-boggling.
- Bored with basketball, a couple of Playboy playmates decided to start making out at a Chicago Bulls game. Seriously.
- ‘Skinput’ turns your body into a touchscreen interface. It’s not nearly as kinky as it sounds.
- Ingenuity or ignorance? You be the judge:
College Basketball Top 25 3/7/10
Mar 7th, 2010 by Flop
March 7th, 2010
Pre-season poll, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12, Week 13, Week 14, Week 15, Week 16
So, without further ado, here are our rankings (votes – first place votes). Week 17 begins tournament play for all teams that haven’t started already. The final regular season record of top 50 wins and losses is listed for each team. The records and stats come from realtimerpi.
1. Kansas 29-2 (15-1) (125 – 5)
…..vs. Top 50: 11-2, Last 10: 9-1
…..Next week: Big 12 Tournament
2. Kentucky 29-2 (14-2) (118)
…..vs. Top 50: 4-1, Last 10: 9-1
…..Next week: SEC Tournament
3. Syracuse 28-3 (15-3) (117)
…..vs. Top 50: 7-3, Last 10: 8-2
…..Next week: Big East Tournament
4. West Virginia 24-6 (13-5) (106)
…..vs. Top 50: 6-4, Last 10: 7-3
…..Next week: Big East Tournament
5. Duke 26-5 (13-3) (102)
…..vs. Top 50: 8-4, Last 10: 9-1
…..Next week: ACC Tournament
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