Weekend Wrap...

--Well, everyone had to see it coming. After becoming the worst team ever to receive a one seed in the NCAA tournament, then getting the easiest draw of any one seed (and becoming the only top seed to make the Final Four), the zebras ensured good television ratings for next weekend with some horrible officiating down the stretch against Baylor.

First, the atrocious block/charge call that took the ball away from Baylor was bad, but then the fact that Duke hit the go-ahead three pointer right after that was even worse. Next, with the game all but wrapped up for the Blue Devils, Jon Scheyer can't handle the contact on a foul and swings an elbow at two Baylor players. No call there, but when one of the Baylor players says something to a Duke player right afterward, instant technical foul.

Total joke, game over. Duke weasels its way to its first semifinal since 2004. If you can't earn it, rig it.

--Speaking of horrible officiating, PYB spoke to someone who officiates Big 12 and Pac 10 hoops. They get $925 a game, travel is covered AND they get a per diem. This is what they pay the worst officials in college basketball? $925 a game, and he said he works three or four games a week if possible. We are definitely in the wrong line of work. That is an easy income of $40-50,000 of incremental income for doing a bad job, must be nice. We will be applying soon, very soon.

--Not sure which is more confusing here.....how Santonio Holmes goes down the same road as Ben Rapelisberger by getting in trouble for the second time in a year? Instead of laying low after his weed arrest last year, he busts some chick in the face w/ a cocktail glass. Or when did Anshonoe become a name? Or how the hell do you pronounce Anshonoe? We thought Anshonoe was one of the battles of the Civil War...

--The Poor Man's Ostertag is headed to the NBA. Apparently, playing in the league no longer requires hands, footwork, jumping, coordination or agility.

--The flameout everyone knew was coming happened Sunday night, as the NU women ended it's blip-on-the-radar screen 'dream season' by getting blasted by Kentucky. Should be about 2025 before we hear from them and all the 'die-hard' bandwagon fans....anyone else remember Heavy P & the Boys from the mid-1990s?

--NU baseball loses two of three at home against Oklahoma....can they fire Mike Anderson yet? Hopefully five seasons of continued regression will prove enough.