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GOOD NEWS: ORSON HAS SURVIVED DAY 1

Oops Pow Surprise — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:16:44 +0000

Our intrepid blogger-in-chief is still in Las Vegas, fearing the local breakfast fare (”The eggs are rubbery, the steak is attempting to walk off with your luggage, the fruit sits under heat lamps and the sausage is on ice.”). If there are many more games like last night’s Duke-Belmont struggle–another sure sign than God is dead–then we may begin to worry. Meanwhile over at 35S, open threads and liveblogs galore! That is, unless you want to go to the teams’ fan sites and just read things like “Yeah!” or “Nice shot!” or “Call the foul!” over and over. Didn’t really think so.

CALL US RAINBOW 7: LAS VEGAS FANDANGORAMA

Orson Swindle — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:12:04 +0000

We’re off to Vegas to cover the first weekend of the tournament for The Sporting News, and it promises to be Con Air awesome, minus the Nicholas Cage Skynrd locks. Follow our descent into madness–and really, the aim is to destroy this gig and never, ever let anyone come close to our rapid mad post rate ever again–one of several ways.

The Sporting Blog. Not only does it have our interview with Ric Flair, but it will have our posts on what Vegas during the first weekend of March Madness looks, feels, smells, and feels like, including the part where we wind up drinking $2000/bottle cognac from goatskins with the sheikhs of Dubai at a live man versus panther death match in the hills of Nevada.

Step One, this. Step Two, fire up laptop. Step three: MASSIVE PROFITS.

Flickr. I’ll be posting photos live from the fracas, as well, so keep up by following here.

Twitter. For those too ADDled to even get through this blog post, we’ll be posting on the EDSBS Twitter feed muy rapido all day and most of the night.

Your guest host will be Oops Pow Surprise from Black Heart, Gold Pants , a demented gent who promises to not only provide the Curious Index, but an installment of “Things Black and Gold People Like,” the latest in our series of fan profiles. We will usurp the Iowa jokes by saying the only one we know for sure: meth.

Godspeed. And wish the same to us. If we fail to come back from this mission, know that we went to bat country happily.

SEPARATED AT BIRTH???

Stranko Montana — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:42:47 +0000

Thank’s to our brilliant and faithful reader Doug’s observation, we are left to wonder if Adam Morrison might not have a brighter future in Hollywood than in the NBA.

How’s his jumper?

Give him some grillz and this pose would strike fear into the heart of even 007.

MUSTACHE WEDNESDAY UPDATE!

Stranko Montana — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:29:03 +0000

If only he played football instead of basketball we might have renamed Mustache Wednesday to Morrison Wednesday. Despite his poor choice of athletic acheivement, Morrison’s pube-stache alone is worthy of our Wednesday praise. So it is with some sadness that we update you on the obvious, which is that Morrison is likely going pro and leaving the ‘Zags in his tear stained rear view mirror.

Definitely a member of the Collegiate Mustache Hall of Fame.

GO GATORS!

Stranko Montana — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:43:03 +0000

EDSBS’ OFFICIAL CINDERELLA TEAM IN SWEET 16

Stranko Montana — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:46:42 +0000

Did you see those Vols walking a little funny after this weekend’s big upset? Perhaps it was because they got too much of the Shocker! Yes, that is right. Brought to you by the heartland of America is this year’s best Cinderella team, the Wichita State Shockers. We here at EDSBS couldn’t be more behind their efforts to keep on surprising their opponents with their own unique way of taking care of business. Long live the Shockers!

We hope to see these big foam fingers present at this years’ Sweet Sixteen.

DOINK GOES THE BOOMSTICK!

Stranko Montana — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Yet another college sport is in the midst of, get this, a playoff to determine a national championship as the Super Regionals are finishing up nationwide to determine the 8 teams which will meet in Omaha for a double elimination tournament. It has us again wondering how much fun a college football playoff could be. We’d be willing to give up the 12th game and conference championships…. wouldn’t you? As we watch, though, we can’t help but wish they would just make the switch to wooden bats (and get rid of the DH). There is just something wrong about that annoying doink of an aluminum bat which replaces the beautiful crack of an ash Louisville Slugger. Oh, if only we could rule the world… or at least the NCAA. Disappointing as it may be, a savy college sports anchor could incorporate it into their broadcast as a catch phrase… just please footnote us when you use “Doink goes the boomstick” when calling a homerun.