Daggers to the heart

You remember 2051 years ago plus one day, the Ides of March in 44BC: Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back by a group of noble Romans who thought Julius was getting way too big for his britches. Well, today I feel kinda like JC must have felt as the Winthrop Eagles delivered a bunch of daggers to my heart as they toppled the Notre Dame Irish. The Eagles knocked them to the deck and got out to a 20 point lead. CBS decided the heck with showing this game and switched to the Wisconsin game where the Badgers were losing badly as well. But wait a minute. Here come the Irish with a magical rally that saw them taking the lead with a mere 2:21 left to play. Hurray, hurray! But the rascally Eagles were not to be denied, subduing the Irish with a flurry of baskets and finally winning by 10 points, their first tournament victory. This was such a big story that it ended up being the lead story on the Washington Post's front page, lead tournament story. Darn it all. At least this Irish team came back and had a good shot at winning, unlike the football team which has been an embarrassment, a hugh embarrassment, with their bowl game defeats.

New worthy item from the north: Eric's sweety, Colleen, picked Virginia Commonwealth to beat Duke. Don't imagine too many people did that. Eric explained that she hates Duke and of course will do everything in her power to see them retire as soon as possible (which is kinda like the way I feel towards that once and former General up in Bloomington, whom btw, also tasted defeat in his first game).

So, the Irish had a bad day. Tiger did too, shooting a 3 over round of 73 and happy that he came in under 80 with the way he was striking the ball. Oh well, tomorrow is another day. Hope to see you out at the golf course where we might be able to control our own destiny, at least for a little bit of time.

Good luck to the Vikings, and, very reluctantly, to the Winthrop Eagles...