Make college basketball sixth.

As a sports fan in general who enjoys sports because of the COMPETITION & the journey to the end of a game, I find it appalling that a sports writing conglomerate representing my one time hometown would write that gambling would save the NCAA Tournament....

I don't gamble, I played basketball & I watch it for the enjoyment it gives me.... I understand the difficulty of the game & what it takes to put that ball in the basket with someone trying to stop you but they can't, that's the thrill of it, the difficulty of it.... If it was easy, everybody could do it, so said Tom Hanks in "A League of Their Own"....

To write that the only way to enjoy a sport is to gamble on it is sad & harmful.... There are those out there that believe in what your group writes just because you have a forum to spew your supposedly informed insights....

Do I watch college basketball ???? No I don't, I saw my beloved Tulsa Hurricane basketball program burned to the ground & then the OU implosion stole away what was left of my college hoops enjoyment....

Basketball, I love the game, playing it, watching it, teaching it & I do it because it's my passion & to see a bunch of goobers such as yourselves write in a CITY NEWSPAPER that you only have to watch to last couple of minutes to know what happened is throwing down the gauntlet....

Football is a nice sport to pass the time on until basketball season begins....

There's a front page story on USA Today confirming what we said yesterday -- college hoops is sinking fast. The regular season means nothing. Near-illiterates on the way to a pro team start for many clubs.

While on the subject of craziness, here's further proof that homers have zero credibility.

At the OSU pro tryout day, they give homers stopwatches!

One OSU homer had receiver Blackmon running a 40-yard dash in something like 3.9, or roughly the speed of light. The OSU homer said his stopwatch actually had the OSU catcher running the 40 in less than 4.4!

Then the pro timers put out the real number: 5.1. Good, not other-worldly.

A homer with a stopwatch should be against the law.

The homers are now saying that Weeden is a first-round pick. High as 12, 13, no lower than 20-something.

Please.

Exactly.

I'm guessing redriver fell off his soapbox and can't reply to your insightful post; in fact I'd lay 2-1 odds on it. . . ;)

Mr. Picker,
What are your thoughts on the 4 play-in games this week. I think it's ridiculous and that they should go back to 64 teams.