Spent this weekend watching NCAA basketball.
Some thoughts:
-Glad to see UCLA squeeze by Texas A&M. Although it seems a number of sports pundits have got UCLA pegged to win it all, the Bruins seem to have some current vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Plus they've gotten some lucky breaks, along the way. I don't know if they can muster their capabilities to be able to beat the other top seeds, if they get to the Final Four, let alone to the round before that.
-Sorry that I missed the 2nd half of the Davidson-Georgetown game. Obviously, a complete turnaround, and I didn't get to see the resurrection of Curry's hot hand.
I wonder how the Wildcats match up against their next opponent, the Badgers. So far, some of the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage is to be found, online, at USA Today. I think I'll check, there.
-I don't do brackets 'cause I never pay that much attention to most of the teams during the regular season -- so how can I figure out who will win and lose during the tournament?
-How much of a factor does good coaching play? Since I don't follow the game, religiously, I don't have a good feel for who are the best coaches and why.
Sort of related to this is wondering how well John Wooden's approach would work in today's environment.
-About a week ago, one sports blog discussed what schools had the hotter cheerleaders, and, therefore, would be bigger distractors to officials.
What strikes me about many of the pictures in that blog and what I've seen on tv, is how unstylish many cheerleading uniforms seem to be, both women's and men's. I'm sure there's been discussion over the years and elsewhere on the web (or "in cyberspace" -- LOL, does anyone say that anymore?).
And yet, there are so many frumpy uniforms that look like they were designed a couple decades ago (if not more).
I just thought of something... to cut down on costs for new cheerleader uniform redesign, why not have it as one of the challenges on Bravo's "Project Runway"?
Posted by: raacluse at March 26, 2008 01:42 PM