Butler 57, Duke 53
Butler basketball can be soporific, but every red-blooded American should be rooting for the mid-major underdog tonight. For the Duke-haters (personally, I’m agnostic): An impressively comprehensive take-down from SB Nation. For those who can’t wait for football season, here’s a great (and completely unrelated) article on the relative value of draft picks.
Today is Opening Day (I won’t insult the collective intelligence of the Ordinary community by explicitly naming the sport.) That college basketball chooses to encroach on it is even less excusable than the customary 15% graduation rate, and answers the question from the other thread of whether a Hell is still required.Report
As a rabid Dook (also know as the University of NJ at Durham) hater, I must ask why did the NCAA place Dook in the easiest of the four regions? Is the NCAA really that desperate for ratings?
Also I have to give Obama a big FU for going out to the mound to make the opening pitch at the Nats game and putting on a Sox cap. And to top it off, he throws like a girl.Report