I Dislike Your Favorite Team

I greatly enjoyed being distracted all weekend from the fact that our country is starting up yet another war in the Middle East. College basketball is an orgy of overlapping excitements. Although my Sixteen is shattered, my Final Four is intact. What damn suckers picked Pittsburgh? They couldn't even win the Big East Tourney, fools!

Double-overtime games (SDSU), shock-foul conclusions (Butler), ecstatic upsets (VCU), gingerball heroes (WI) and badass finishes (AZ).

Lexicography
They'll call it the "Elite Eight." This is idiotic. The phrase contains neither alliteration nor does it rhyme. It is meaningless and pisses me off. How about substituting "Great Eight" or "Late Eight" or even "Inchoate Eight." Anything is better than something which is alliterative in print only.