@ScottVanPeltIsMyHero: The Duncan thing was great. We were both psych majors, and while we didn't have any classes together, I always saw him around the psych building. He was a true scholar-athlete, which was cool.

@ScottVanPeltIsMyHero: Well, welcome to the hell that is Demon Deacon basketball.

@FirstDerivative: I remember really liking Independence Day, but the idea that a city-leveling super-weapon could be jammed by an F-16 was as silly as Bugs Bunny stuffing his fingers into the barrel of Elmur Fudd's shotgun.

@ScottVanPeltIsMyHero: Are you a Wake alum? Forgive me if I've asked before.

@FirstDerivative: It's been a grotesque decade. I can't fully disown them, but I've been following the Spurs and Hornets a lot more closely, just for the Wake connection.

@ScottVanPeltIsMyHero: As a former Knicks season ticket holder, I wish nothing on Marbury but herpes and failure, but it's not as if a coattails championship would validate Steph's career.

@Jay Cutler's Insulin: I can't speak to your comments in particular, but I know my shit is working (which is rarely) when a comment generates a lot of "replies."

@parsley sagehenbait rosemary and thyme: I don't know if it's just nostalgia (which I experience more and more as I get older), but that looks fairly frickin' awesome.

@Weed Against Speed: Fainting on TV sucks, but not as badly as this . . .

"So, me and my buddy House were in Vegas, playing some blackjack, when . . . "

@Summerbabe: McFadden is Ricky Peral for the new millenium.

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Thanks Hank. Want to remind me of the day my dog got hit by a car?

@BoSox Siobhan:

Wake never disappoints me with their ability to disappoint me.

That PITT post was as likely written by a black dude as the Jim Crow laws.

@CardedForDissent: The fact that Wake is in the tournament makes me nervous about Wake, as usual.

Does this ref have Parkinson's? Nice jump ball, shakes.

@Arsenio Billingham: Nope. Can't claim a moral victory when you blow a 14 point lead.

I know American is just a 14 seed, but that doesn't make this tent-job any less pathetic.

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: Perfect. Since this appears to be some sort of grumpy-old-man club, can I assume the banquet starts at 4:30?