With Leather picks the winners of the weekend’s biggest matchups every Friday. And then we give ourselves a hearty high-five. Home team in ALL CAPS.
Saturday. No. 23 FLORIDA STATE over No. 12 Clemson. Clemson has a rich and proud tradition of tanking down the stretch. That first-round loss in the NCAAs can’t come soon enough.
KENTUCKY over No. 18 LSU. How is it possible that LSU has only played 8 road games all year?
Ohio State over No. 16 PURDUE. The Bucks are just 8-7 in the Big Ten right now, and I’d almost prefer they didn’t make the tournament. That conference seems to send way too many teams every year.
DEVILS over Panthers. The Devils have Martin Brodeur back, plus their record at home stands at 21-10-5-2-15-6. Four of you will get that joke.
Reds over RED SOX. If I can pick preseason college basketball, surely I can pick preseason baseball.
Sunday. No. 6 LOUISVILLE over No. 8 Marquette. I saw AC/DC in Freedom Hall once. It was rad.
No. 9 Michigan State over 20 ILLINOIS. There should be a rule that says if you finish a game with less fewer than 40 points, you’re out of the Top 25 for the rest of the year.
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I mean…she’s in Haiti…buying condoms…did I miss something? It must feel good to the natives when one of the ten dumbest white girls in the world saunters into town and tells you how to live your life. YOU DON’T OWN ME! But, um, I am for sale. Name your price, baby.
WEEKEND PICKS are coming. Keep your birka on.
I hate bullshit power rankings, so I make up my own.
1. Megan Fox. Go ahead, give yourself some sugar. You’ve earned it.
2. Twitter. Still holding steady in the two-spot, and I swear, we have no idea who’s doing the Rick Chandler tweet.
3. Albert Haynesworth. Just got paid. It’s Friday night…
4. Olivia Munn. She’s a bit short for me. If they ever made a 6-foot version of Olivia–a sort of “Giant Olivia,” if you will, that would be the greatest thing ever.
5. Honolulu. Playing Hard-to-get with the NFL? You go, girl!
6. Dead Broadcasters. Now if somebody would just strap Joe Buck into a wheelchair and roll him off the upper deck, we’d truly accomplish something.
7. Stephon Marbury. He’s playing for the Celtics tonight. Probably should have mentioned that earlier.
8. Golf’s Mike Clark. Tiger killer! Whatever.
9. Bacon. Mmmm, that’s some good eats right there, now.
10. The Theme to NBC’s Meet The Press I could see myself stabbing a Roman emperor to this song. Or an enchanted woodland creature. Or whomever I think deserves it.
Just as birds, fish, and women are drawn to shiny objects, I can’t resist the high-resolution photo galleries that Boston.com regularly rolls out. This one of spring training photos shows that really good photography can make meaningless games and stretching exercises look… well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “interesting.” But there’s at least a chance that some of these will be the coolest/most artistic/whimsical photographs you see today. Safe-for-work photographs, I mean.
Good afternoon, ESPN. Hey, we’re calling for 50 Cent. He’s a big fan of SportsCenter and he wants to come on. He does? Yeah. He…wants to come on SportsCenter…as an anchor? Yeah, we were thinking more like an analyst, you could ask him questions, and he could give you his opinions on sports. Fitty has opinions on sports? Well, no, not really. Sounds great. When can he come in?
Saint Andrew’s Net is With Leather’s daily link dump. It took a half day today so it could sleep in. And this is Nicole Barrett, btw…
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