Casual Saturday

As I continued to postpone packing, I was flipping through the channels and I came across the CBS Sports channel who was replaying some of the early round games of this past NCAA basketball tournament.

The one I caught was Clemson Villanova. The perfect example of an awesome game that quickly goes forgotten amidst all the chaos of the first four days, arguably the most exciting in sports. Villanova, the 12 seed, won the game behind their chaotic zone, and a heroic performance by Scottie Reynolds, capping it off with a four point play in which he banked in a three after he got his defender in the air.

The officials were fairly bad, when they did choose to blow their whistles, but that wasn't so often, so the game had a nice flow to it. A few things did come up though that made me scratch my head.
1) Someone from Villanova managed to accomplish that illusive feat of wedging the ball between the rim and the backboard with a jumper. But somehow, that's a jump ball, which is stupid, that should obviously be the defensive team's ball.

And 2) A Villanova player cramped up after he went up for a dunk and was fouled. But the rules allow Villanova, not the opposing team like in the NBA, to pick someone to shoot the free throws. What a joke.

Oh, and 3) The one thing the NCAA did have on the NBA, at least in this game, was adequate room on the baselines between the game and the photographers. You could park a jumbo jet in the space that the cheerleaders and cameramen were apart from the court. How many times did KG or Paul Pierce go head over heels on top of some cameraman because they were too close to the floor, just like the soccer advertisements are too close to the pitch on the endlines, especially at like Fulham, Chelsea, Everton, etc..I get them all confused.

Kudos to Carlos Sastre. He earned it I guess. Le Tour is Bad ASS.

I also watched some of the replay of a Milan Classic, the game with Inter in which Dida was hit with that flare. He was kind of nonchalant before that, as all of this shit is raining down upon him, almost as if he was expecting to get hit, if you can watch the replay, check it out, bizarre. And I know its bad to stereotype, but those Inter fans are thugs at best. I mean good lord, how stupid and bad of losers can you be? I can see why all these Italians get killed with their riots, they have no sense of shame.

Gegegegegege, That's all folks, ne videm v praze