126th Edition - 3/29/07

126 - Nerd alert. In the massive multiplayer online role-playing game RuneScape, 126 is the highest combat level achieveable.

• NCAA Tournament: The IF's and the BUT's

OK - Let's crank up the old scenario generator and take a closer look at who could win the -
*1st Annual The Daily Score NCAA Tournament Pick'em Competition Spectacular*

IF -
If Florida wins it all, AE (Andrew Edwards) wins. Period. End of story. And I come in second. Which is good, because I do NOT want to win this prize (yes, the prize is still a secret).

IF -
If UCLA beats Ohio State, Mark Lubbat comes out of nowhere and wins the whole thing.

IF -
If UCLA beats Georgetown, AE still wins. Damn, that boy is good. Good and terrible. Hmmm, it appears that line is only funny in my head or while watching "Coming to America."

IF -
If Georgetown beats Florida, good lord, it's AE again.

IF -
Ohio State beats Flordia, you'll never guess ... The fiancee wins it. Actually, she ties with DP (Dave Pohl), and the tiebracker will actually matter. This is funny on many levels, one of which is DP and I were both in dead last after Thursday/Friday first round action.

IF -
Ohio State beats UCLA, Dave (Denver Dave, Banana Hands) wins it and the fiancee comes in 2nd.

Hmmm, I guess the only BUT is ... I could write down all the senarios, BUT it would have been easier just to say AE will probably win, or maybe not.

• The Hawkeyes: Bruce Pearl doesn't like us

After not being considered for the head coaching job when Dr. Tom Davis left, after making Tennessee a winning program and after making over $1 million a year -- Bruce Pearl has decided to stay at Tennessee and not consider the Iowa coaching position. All in all, for him, it was a good choice. Though he was my top choice mainly so I could see a Big Ten team try and score lots and lots of points.

• Cubs: Prior will be great ...

For the Triple-A Iowa Cubs. Yup, that is where Mark Prior will start the season. In the minors. I am wishing that Wood and Prior were elsewhere just so I could have something else to think about this close to opening day.

Something else to thing about ... The Cubs starting outfield for opening day - Alfonso Soriano in CF, Matt Murton in LF and Jacques Jones in RF. I am happy with these decisions.

• Peyton Manning is not Peyton Manning

The Bears fan who lost a bet and was willing to legally change his name to Peyton Manning, was denied by a judge. The judge decided it would be too confusing for the real Peyton Manning. Sounds to me like it would be too confusing for people to try and understand what kind of idiot of a Bears fan (or any human being for that matter) would be something like this, and then try and follow through on the bet.

• Stuff

I finally remembered ...

*Saturday Night Live
It was a good one. Peyton Manning's United Way commercial, the dancing coach, Manning holding a rock and the NCAA Tournament Bracket sketch which reminding EVERY man about the woman in their life ... it was all good stuff.

For the season: 9-7

Funny: John C. Reily, Hugh Laurie, Alec Baldwin, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Rainn Wilson

Not Funny: Dane Cook, Jaime Pressly, Matthew Fox, Annette Bening, Jeremy Piven, Forest Whitaker, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

*More SNL
I interviewed Shia LaBeouf yesterday and he was the first person I interviewed who was about to host SNL (April 14). Needless to say, we talked about sketch ideas for a couple minutes.

*Lost was great last night. It was a good stand-alone episode, and it had enough creativity will the flashbacks. LOVED the ending.

*Harry Potter - new cover