Saturday, March 26, 2005

You won't find any basketball in this post.

My investment in the NCAA tournament, slim to begin with, is now concluded with the loss
of the you-know-who to those other guys. A friend, who is more philosophical about these things, said he thought they played well, it was a competitive game . . . I just hate it when those
dynasty schools prevail, supporting all the conventional wisdom and the "curse" ideology. There was a great post on Slate.com about teams in the tournament that we all hate, and this dynasty school was one of them--in large part because of their famous fan, Ashley Judd.

Anyway, last night's loss, combined with a certain Russian breaking his wrist the other night in yet another squeaky loss against the Wizards--the Wizards!--I might be done with basketball this year altogether. Or not--all it takes is a win to turn such fatalism around. I'll just have to engage in "light viewing"--only letting my mind settle peripherally on the game at hand, so that if it starts to go badly, my thoughts can just fly away.

2 comments:

  1. But Duke lost. Duke! That has to give you some hope. I'm more depressed that West Virginia lost. They were the last Cinderella team. So now I have to root for Michigan State, even though I chose Illinois to win it all. My other favorite, Kansas, lost in the first round. Happy Easter!

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  2. Yes, it's true that we were amazed by the Duke loss. I think it's that I have so little knowledge, and therefore, so little investment, in the NCAAs unless it's a team I know. It's weak, but it's me. Happy Easter back at ya.

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