Oh my goodness... I cannot believe this year. I am not the most talented NCAA tournament bracket picker. I am the first to admit that I don't know the teams or their relative strengths well enough to make more than an uneducated guess at filling out the bracket. But I enjoy pitching in my five dollars to the club and hope for the best. I think it's like playing the lottery, but for me it's a quick pick. Okay: here is what I predicted, at least for the Final Four... Texas bea...

Q: How did I know Kobe was innocent in his rape charge? A: He's never made a pass in his life. To prove that I was right all along, Kobe Bryant stunned the basketball world last night in an 81-point romp against the Toronto Raptors. His Lakers won the game and embarrassed the Raptors 122-104. It was a hideous, atrocious display of team sports. Team sports, schmeem sports, as far as Kobe Bryant is concerned. His selfishness and showboating is doing nothing for his team, except drag it ...

All right, lately (the past few years) it has been very difficult with work and school to get into televised sporting events. But this year, I want to try my hand again at following the sporting scene. My first love to watch was basketball, with football and baseball behind. I am also enamored of hockey, because it's fast-paced and exciting. But low-scoring, like baseball. Football and baseball are slow and low-scoring, and Arena Football is not a real sport. So the NBA season has beg...