Ramon's News & Views: Hitting it in the Sweet Sixteen Edition

After the tour quits, it's time to make more hits... Taking a well-deserved lead after the first week of games is Grady and Melvin, who have only missed three games in the South and East regions and have racked up the points thanks to moneyball teams Missouri, Marquette, and Maryland... Speaking of Missouri, has any coach in America ever put it to Frank Broyles harder than Mike Anderson, straight getting it done yet again in the NCAA tournament? Good call, Frank. A lot of people picked Missouri to go this far but have them being stopped by the Caliparis. Not so fast, my friends... The Brady family does not get the credit it deserves from the sports world for its pioneering use of artificial turf... The big-money-grip team in the tournament so far has been Western Kentucky, which provided a six-point bounce as the kids say for anyone who had them in the upset and as a moneyball team. But I can promise you that back in the day Western Kentucky would still be so rattled from the heckling it got at the Sun Belt tournament that it would have been a quick exit... Will these lame commercials for something called "The Masters" ever stop? This is supposed to be some exciting sporting event they do somewhere?... The art of MCing has reached its low point with the work of Plies... If Michigan State somehow makes it to the championship game, I am going to throw up on your bracket and mail it back to you, Three Boys on Antibiotics... From Bonner Bobblehead Fan: "Just curious, who other than me knows who Vinegar Bend Mizell is? For that matter, what is 'the Doobie Sullivan Orchestra'?"... Looking back, maybe Discount Records really was a better way to get music to the people... Yeah, watching the NCAA tournament is great, but nothing says the weekend like Old Spice ESPNU lacrosse. Next stop, the regionals.


Sweet Sixteen standings

118 - Grady and Melvin
115 - Mean Gene the Vaccinator
115 - Ballistic Bulldogs
115 - Chief Goodwill
112 - University of Gondwanaland
112 - Three Boys on Antibiotics
111 - Mr. Lawson's House of Pain
111 - The Party Starter
110 - The Stimulus Package
109 - Aunt Jemina's love for eating at Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles while once again losing the Dr. Judo NCAA Tournament
108 - The Creature Who Calls Himself Trelane
106 - Sleepless in Russellville
105 - Purple Cat
104 - Hottie Hog
104 - Who Watches Pygsterio?
103 - L.R. Pound
102 - Sam Dellinger
102 - UnTouchable Force Organization
101 - The Teacher
101 - Late Night With Vinegar Bend Mizell and the Doobie Sullivan Orchestra
100 - Danger Bro 1, Johnny Speed
99 - Everybody's Bitch
98 - Ouzo Effect
97 - DJ Jazzy Josh
94 - D. Romeo
93 - The Karaoke Master
92 - Exposition Headache
91 - Nice Guy Eddie the Partyball Courier
89 - Bonner Bobblehead Fan
85 - Danger Bro 2, Jack Turbo
23 - My imaginary friend "Curt"

X - More Cowbell