March Madness and Miami Going for History

March Madness

The madness started up about a week and a half ago and I'm ashamed to say that I never watched one first- or second-round game. Apparently some 15 seed from Florida upset a two seed? I never watched but it's because of a tournament result like that that I'm glad I didn't put a bracket together this year.

Since grade seven I've put together a bracket and have never come close. By the end of the tournament I usually feel used, have low self-esteem, and struggle to look at myself in the mirror. Not this year. I conscientiously made the decision to refuse the evil temptress that is NCAA basketball for the sake of my emotional health. I shunned the tournament, and spread nasty rumors about it to others.

Of course none of this is true.

The only reason I didn't make a bracket this year was because I was so invested in school that I found out the tournament was starting the day it actually started. To any of my two readers who have ever questioned by basketball credibility: you win.

I've tried to watch as many games as I could. I watched a few third-round games and what I've seen so far has been pretty damn good. Games are close, the tempo is quick, and Aaron Craft is hitting game winners. I watched UNC jump out to an early lead against Kansas while I was working only to have the channel changed to a rerun of Bar Rescue. I don't know what's worse: that someone actually changed the channel from a tournament game between two big-name programs, or that I didn't object whatsoever because I can't get enough of Big Jon Taffer. My only beef with him? The success of his show spawned the unwanted bastard child Car Lot Rescue. Give your head a shake, Spike TV, Tom Stuker isn't fooling anyone with that cowboy hat.

I'm so behind this year with the tournament that I probably won't start taking it seriously until the Elite Eight. That's still a round a half away so I have some time to prep.

The Heat going for history

Miami is going absolutely nuts right now, having won 25 games in a row. They're only eight more wins away from tying the all-time record set by the 1971-72 Lakers. Can they do it? Is Lebron James the best basketball player ever? Did my response phrased as a question add any meaningful insight to this topic? Probably not, but with how well Lebron and the Heat are playing right now, my money is on that they'll at least tie the record.

If Miami beats Charlotte tonight, which they should, their only "scary" game is against the Spurs in San Antonio. I put scary it quotations because aside from maybe Denver (the Nuggets are on a crazy win streak of their own), I'm not sure any team can run with the Heat.

I want Miami to break the record only to say that I was alive when it happened and witnessed it.

Selfish? Does a duck have wings?