Bracket Still Intact

- I'm happy to say my NCAA bracket is still intact as I still have 7 of my Elite Eight left and all my Final Four. The only team I missed was Wake Forest who did not see getting smoked by Cleveland St. in the opening round.

And for those keeping score at home Ms. Skeelo still has all 8 of her Elite Eight still in.

- While Wake had to be the biggest disappointment as a team the performance of Arizona St. star James Harden had to be the worst by an individual. He was absolutely disgraceful in his two games. The only reasonable and acceptable excuse for his shitty performance is an injury he has not told anyone about.

He is their best player and one of the top five players in the college game. For him to go pointless in the first half of each game, not take the ball to the basket, and then dish off as soon as anyone got near him was awful to watch. I was really high on this guy all year and now if the Raptors even considering drafting this guy I will go nuts on draft night. Simply awful.

- I'm not too sad to see Curt Schilling retire given that he has been hurt the better part of 4 years. And the fact that he is such an obnoxious and arrogant ass. But there is no denying he can pitch and was a clutch performer. While the bloody sock game in '04 with the Red Sox is his most talked about I think his performance in Game 7 of '01 for the D'Backs vs. the Yankees was more impressive. He only threw fastballs the whole game and even though the Yanks knew it they still couldn't hit him.

Is Schill a Hall of Famer? I say he's borderline. His stats really were not overwhelming and he never was a perennial All Star. He was a great post season performer (11-2 and the before mentioned great games) but so was John Smoltz and Smoltz has far more impressive regular season accomplishments. If I were a voter I may elect him in his fifth of sixth year of eligibility but not before and maybe not even then.