Wow, quite exciting NCAA tournament matches last night.  And at least we'll get to see some higher-seeded unknowns play in the Elite Eight, like #3 Oregon.  Oh, forget it.  How are we supposed to taunt the NCAA Selection Committee with catcalls of "Your seeding acumen is laughable!"  Anyway, no surprise that the the only Jesuit institution left in the tourney cheated to win.  

[Jeff] Green squeezed between two defenders, spun and banked in a short, off-balance shot with 2.5 seconds to play to lead Georgetown to a 66-65 victory over Vanderbilt in the East Regional semifinals Friday night.  Replays seemed to suggest Green traveled by picking up his pivot foot. None of the three officials saw it that way.

I have no love for robber barons or their universities, but methinks some minions of Pope Benedict XVI discussed how traveling infractions apply to Catholics with the three officials before the game.  If Clark Kellogg can recognize a violation, the only way to explain the referees' blindness is that the fix was in. 

North Carolina also cheated by scoring 18 points in a row without letting USC score any.  That's not very sporting.  Future psychiatrists will undoubtedly be trained by watching Tim Floyd's descent into madness during the second half. -KD

Ohio State narrowly escaped elimination by defeating #9 seed Xavier 78-71 in overtime in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament today.  If you're like me, you were rooting for the underdog, hoping Thad Motta would receive his comeuppance, wondering how old Greg Oden really is, and wishing Gus Johnson encounters a slow, painful death.  If there is a basketball god, he (she?) clearly does not believe that St. Francis Xavier should have been beatified like the Catholic God does.  Also, this hoops deity clearly favors a certain bookie in Chicago and harbors a grudge against your Assistant Editor.  O, great and powerful Naismithovah, I beseech thou to tell thee how I've offended thou's grace.

Alas, this year's tournament has produced a dearth of underdogs to applaud, and if Virginia Commonwealth and Winthrop fall in the round of 32, this tourney could become boring.  Almost, not quite.  It's still a thousand times better than spring training baseball and regular season NBA (except this).   Two Jesuit institutions face each other in Winston-Salem at 5:45 EDT when Georgetown meets Boston College.  If my hypothesis is correct, expect a natural disaster at Wake Forest. -KD

Gonzaga baskatball players Josh Heytvelt and Theo Davis were picked up last night after police found pot and 'shrooms in their car during traffic stop:

[Cheney Police Cmdr. Rick] Campbell said police pulled the car over because its tail lights were not working.

"It was close to midnight. They needed to have their lights on," Campbell said.

Fucking pigs, man – they're always throwing their legal mumbo-jumbo like 'Probable Cause' around.  Don't they know you don't need tail lights on when you're 'shrooming?  Your peripheral vision increases by like a lot of degrees man. 

Campbell said the amount of marijuana was only enough for a misdemeanor, but possession of mushrooms is a felony.

First, these upstanding young men were probably going to distribute these 'narcotics' to sufferers of glaucoma and other such ailments as an act of mercy like their patron.  Second, if holding 'shrooms is a felony, who wants to come over for Magic pizza tonight? -KD