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Baylor's Going Dancing!!!

10:31 PM ET 03.16

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Yes, indeed. My Baylor Bears are going to the Big Dance. A couple of weeks ago it looked like a foregone conclusion that they'd make it in the NCAA Tournament but they sure did make it nerve-wracking. They lost eight of the last 13, including becoming the first team ever to have a first round loss to a 12-seed in the Big XII tournament.But even with that, they made it in. We're an 11th-seed with our first game up against Purdue. I think that's a winnable game. Why can't we be this year's George Mason? It'd be bittersweet for me if they made it to the Final Four though.…

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NBA Observations

09:17 AM ET 03.10

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I haven't written anything about the NBA since the season started. I was planning on waiting until the end of the regular season but too much has gone on for me to ignore so I have to drop some thoughts here.- First up, of course, is the Jason Kidd trade.From the moment Bobby Perez sent me a link at work describing the original trade, I was against it. In fact, I was so against it that I created a Facebook group urging the Mavericks to keep Devin Harris. For a brief time, I thought that Devean George and Jerry Stackhouse had saved management from itself but alas, my hopes were still…

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College football ramblings

11:02 PM ET 12.16

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As we await the bowls that are actually meaningful, a few thoughts on the college football season...Division I college football will crown its champion when the Ohio State Buckeyes square off against the Louisiana State Tigers in New Orleans on January 7, 2008. And that annoys the mess out of me.It's been discussed to death on sports TV and radio, and hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of words have been written about it on various sports websites: the BCS does not work: * for the first time in history, there's a very real chance that a team with two losses will become…

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