Tonight’s the Night

3/30/09 6:04 PM

Tonight, the most important game that I will have witnessed in my young life will take place.  My beloved Gonzaga Bulldogs square off against the North Carolina Tar Heels, my least favorite entity in all of sports.  How can this be so important when it’s only a Sweet Sixteen game, you ask?  Not only does this mark the paramount good versus evil game for me, but I also feel a particular import to this year’s Zags team.  Since last year’s disappointing first-round exit against Davidson (how does the NIT taste, Steph Curry?), I’ve told myself that this would be Gonzaga’s year.  The most talented big man in the program’s history, Josh Heytvelt, is a senior, as are gritty, physical point guard Jeremy Pargo and long-range bomber Micah...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

3/30/09 6:04 PM

The first week of the NCAA basketball tournament is without a doubt, hands down, the best thing that sports has to offer.  When I tell people how much I love March Madness, most just assume that I’m being sarcastic and exaggerating to a ridiculous degree.  Nope.  I actually believe that the three best days of the year -- every year -- are (in no particular order) Selection Sunday and the first Thursday and Friday of the tournament.  16 games each day; make or break, do or die, win or go home for every single team still playing.  There are no tomorrows in March -- only today matters.  In March, you’ve got to give 110 percent; leave it all on the court.  And you know what? Every single one of these pathetically tired clichés are...

Grayson for President

3/5/09 11:51 PM

Trey Grayson is a man that all politicians should aspire to be.  Intrepid, cavalier, not afraid to speak his mind at all times; yes, Mr. Grayson certainly is a man for our troubled times.  Don’t recognize the name?  Until this past weekend, that would have put you among a vast majority of Americans, sports fans or otherwise.  Now Grayson finds himself quite the minor celebrity among college hoops fans. Grayson, for those who don’t know, is the Secretary of State of the great state of Kentucky, where Wildcat hoops takes a backseat to nothing and no one.  This week, after Kentucky’s loss to LSU in the last 10 seconds of the game off of a Tasmin Mitchell three -pointer, Grayson blasted A.J. Stewart, a junior forward for UK, saying, “Maybe A..J...