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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
NCAA fevah, baby! (THUR OPEN THREAD)
The NCAA tourney is now underway. Charlotte Observer metro columnist Tommy Tomlinson is liveblogging today’s action.
If you’re like most college basketball fans, this is your favorite time of the year when it comes to sports, and you’ve probably filled out at least one set of tourney brackets. Me? I picked Kansas and Duke to go to the final game, with Duke winning, of course 
Howsabout you? Let’s hear some predictions. Who will be the Cinderella team(s)? Where do you see a big upset happening?
Update 1: In case you can’t get to a TV to watch the tourney, go here and select the game you want to watch.
Update 2 – 8:37 PM: The second half of the Duke game is progress and Belmont is giving Duke hell. I feel like I’m having a nightmare while I’m wide awake.
Update 3 – 9:23 PM: Whew. It is not supposed to be like this in the first round. I said last week during the ACC tourney that if Duke played in the NCAA tourney as bad as they did this past weekend, they weren’t going to go very far. They’re still not playing at their best and they better get it together if they want to go far this month.
Hats off to Belmont for a heck of a game, but no thanks for nearly giving me a heart attack!
Update 4 – 9:49 PM: Here are my tourney picks.
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Bucky Badger all the way, with the big 1st-round upset being Siena over Vanderbilt, and Kansas not making the Sweet 16 (full bracket LINK).
Durn it; I lost the link to my full bracket.
Well Dear, it looks like Duke is going to lose to Belmont.
I will agree with Kansas tho. 
But they win in the end. 
– Lorica
What a heart-stopper. I was barely saved from losing my first Elite Eight team (I usually start losing them on Friday).
steve, if I had a chandelier, I would have been dangling from it the last five minutes of that game. You can bet Coach K is giving going off in the locker room right now.
So far I’ve gotten one wrong (KSU beat USC).
Only 1? I knew I gave my Day One luck to somebody. Instead of my usual 14-2/15-1 performance (invariably followed by sub-.500 days), I’m already staring a sub-.500 performance in the face, as I am 5-6 through the early-evening. I’ve even lost a Sweet 16 team (my Cinderella Kent State; I still say Kansas won’t make the Sweet 16).
5-6?? No way. That’s usually my first day luck.
steve, just posted my tourney picks (PDF) in an update.
2008 is turning into an unmitigated disaster for me. I didn’t even hit .500 straight-up in the NFL playoffs, and everybody I’ve backed in the Presidential Pool has flamed out (with the possible exception of the NRE Spring Hill campaign, and even there it took a month of Rush and Operation Chaos to begin to bear fruit there).
Now it’s my turn to grab the asprin and the Tums. Bucky thinks playing 5 minutes of ball a half is going to get it done.
steve, what game are you watching?
The Badger-Cal State Fullerton game, of course.
The Worst Station in the Nation is only carrying 2 games on its digital signal, mostly because it’s too cheap to give its weak-sister station its own digital signal
Enjoy, steve
Time for me to get some sleep.
I’ll try to enjoy.
G’night, ST.
That was a bit of a nail-biter, but the defense stepped it up in the second half. Wisconsin 71, Cal State Fullerton 56.
Congrats on 15-1. The nightcaps did save me some; I ended the day at 10-6, with just Siena missing from my Sweet 16.
I’ll be back tomorrow (and my bracket will be WAY back).