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Mar 17 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Evening Day 2
Even worse than I imagined. It all gets easier after the first two rounds. It all gets easier after the first two rounds. It all gets easier after the first two rounds. Tonight’s Games Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region 6:50 TNT 1 Kansas 28 – 4 16 USC 25 – 9 …
Mar 17 2017
The Wearing Of The Green
O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground! No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his color can’t be seen For there’s a cruel law ag’in the Wearin’ o’ the Green. I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me …
Mar 17 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Day 1
The Broadcast of the Women’s Tournament is organized a little differently. All the games share the one channel, ESPN2 (not even the good one), and you don’t get to see the whole game because they concentrate on the most competitive in a given time slot and merely sample the others. Unless you’re the UConn Huskies. …
Mar 17 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Afternoon Day 2
You want to see Basketball? Watch the Women. Today’s Games Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region 12:15 CBS 7 Michigan 24 – 11 10 Oklahoma State 20 – 12 Midwest 12:40 True 3 Baylor 25 – 7 14 New Mexico St. 28 – 5 East 1:30 TNT 8 Arkansas 25 – 9 …
Mar 16 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Evening Day 1
Been busy. Still am. Tonight’s Games Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region 6:50 TNT 6 Maryland 24 – 8 11 Xavier 21 – 13 West 7:10 CBS 1 Villanova 31 – 3 16 Mt. St. Mary’s 20 – 15 East 7:20 TBS 7 St. Mary’s (Cal.) 28 – 4 10 VCU 26 …
Mar 16 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Round of 64- Afternoon Day 1
Did I mention my early meeting? Thank goodness I got this done. Last Night’s Results Seed Team Record Score Seed Team Record Score Region 16 UC Davis 23 – 12 67 16 N.C. Central 25 – 9 63 Midwest 11 USC 25 – 9 75 11 Providence 20 – 13 71 East Tonight’s Games Time …
Mar 15 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In- Day 2
Ugh. This is such a slog. Were I not thoroughly snowed in and did I not have a very early meeting tomorrow I’d be headed for the border and you’d never hear from me again (a relief to many I’m sure). As it is I’ll not be paying much attention tonight. Once done it’s much …
Mar 14 2017
March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In- Day 1
Ok, we’re going to try and do this as we have in recent years, publishing results from the previous round and listing the upcoming games. Each team is linked to its home site and record from there so you can see how they’ve performed this season (which is not an indicator of how they’ll do …
Mar 13 2017
Driverless Cars
The concept is insane on it’s face. Not that driving takes that much skill in routine conditions like staying on a highway, but complicated situations abound. I challenge you to navigate to Boston’s Logan Airport at rush hour with emergency vehicles fighting for a clear path to whatever emergency they were resopnding. Not that I …
Mar 13 2017
John Oliver on Health Insurance Reform
Please. A Cure for Cancer is Healthcare reform. Both Obamacare and Trumpcare are about forcing people into a captive marketplace where Monopolistic and greedy plutocratic Mega Corporations are guaranteed 20% profits by denying and rationing care except that which is most lucrative for Big Pharma, Big Hospital, Big Diagnostic (tests cost more than you think …
Mar 12 2017
Destroying Democracy Since 1982
A Neo-Liberal’s Manifesto By Charles Peters, Washington Post September 5, 1982 While we are united by a different spirit and a different style of thought, none of these people should be held responsible for all of what follows. Practicing politicians in particular should be presumed innocent of the more controversial positions. When I use the …