at least memphis has that ESPN montage from early in the season where they talked about "perfection"

Well. College basketball season has ended. Congrats to Kansas, who didn't need Roy Williams to win a championship. The title may just allow the Kansas faithful to sleep a little better at night if Self decides to bolt in an Oklahoma-ish direction. At least Self, unlike Roy before him, got the job done before he took off.

By the way, just for Pete Calderone, I'll comment on Roy's choice of attire. I don't give a $#!% what what he wears(see what I did there?). But if I were a Kansas guy, I'd probably be pretty angry in a few weeks when the glow of winning the national championship has faded a little bit. Actually, I probably wouldn't even bother with being angry then. Roy leaving was the best thing that could have happened to Kansas now that they have that title. After all, it's been proven time and again that Williams is always going to come up short of a national championship so long as he does his own recruiting, and I doubt he would have let Matt Doherty come in and do his recruiting for him in Kansas.

I just hope that Mack Brown shows up to a UNC football game wearing baby blue if through some miracle the Tar Heels end up in the national title picture there.

With college basketball gone and the 'Canes having blown a seemingly solid lead in the Southeast Division to miss the NHL playoffs, I have nothing really to look forward to until the NFL draft. Sure, there's the NBA hitting its playoff stretch, but I don't care. Sure, I can watch NHL teams that aren't the Hurricanes compete for the Cup, but it won't feel good knowing how the season ended. Sure, there's baseball, but I don't want to watch a game with athletes that spend 95% of each game standing around wondering if their HGH shipment arrived in the mail while they were in the club house pretending that their non-Yankees, non-Sox team will get a mention in the national media for something other than the afore-mentioned HGH shipment being found by a down-on-his-luck reporter who just may be able to blow open this whole thing and redeem not only his career, but himself.

everyone named roy williams is a total douchebag

I know that Jay Bilas and Billy Packer think Tyler Hansbrough walks on water anyway...



Currently, Kansas is doing very well. Go Kansas.

UPDATE: Kansas is doing less well. Much, much less well. I blame Billy Packer, who declared "this game is over" about 7 minutes in.

UPDATE 2: Go to Hell, Carolina! For the record, Roy Williams has still won zero championships with his own recruits. This, of course, means that he still owes Matt Doherty a favor. Probably a dirty one.

desperately clinging to a slim lead in the league's worst division is still better than my football and basketball teams have done this year

I was pretty sure the Carolina Hurricanes were poised to give away the Southeast Division tonight after last night's poor effort against Washington(yes, I know that the refs screwed the pooch on more than a few calls but a few calls won't make up for a three-goal loss). We haven't played well against Tampa Bay recently and we haven't played well on the second day of back-to-back games. So I was prepared for the worst.

The 'Canes responded to those expectations by skating with the urgency they needed to have last night and played a heckuva game to keep their narrow division lead. If we take care of business on Friday or the Crapitals drop the ball(or puck, if you will) against the 'Ning tomorrow(here's hoping Tampa Bay was embarrassed enough to mess the Craps up) or Florida on Saturday(here's hoping Florida will be somethinged enough after playing the 'Canes to mess the Craps up) then it's off to the playoffs.

Once in the playoffs, who knows what will happen?

I know a lot of fans in a lot of sports say that, but NHL fans get to mean it.

Jesus is the source of my liberal bias, thanks for asking

My bus driver in Middle School was Ms Harding. There weren't a lot of us on that particular bus route due to I.E. Johnson being a magnet school and this group of riders being very far off from that section of Laurinburg. As such, we got a lot of time to talk. During one of these talks with my bus driver, I expressed my first Biblical opinion as it relates to politics.

It wasn't based on years of study. It was based on what I had been taught about God. Fortunately for me, I ended up being right because I had been taught about God by two parents who had based their teachings on years of study.

What that doesn't change, though, is that it was dangerous for me to base such a strong opinion on what someone else had told me I believe instead of my own study and experience.

I spent last week in Washington D.C. and New York City with 45 youth. While there, they attended seminars which (I hope) made them think about how our faith affects our political views. Each night, we broke down what we talked about. Each night, my shameless liberal bias went on display for my group of (possibly) impressionable teenagers.

I'm okay with that. They get the other viewpoint in their local churches plenty.

I did make sure to tell them that I'd be just as disappointed in them parroting the words I had without question as I would be if they were spitting out James Dobson's greatest hits. All I'm getting at is that your faith should inform your views, but that faith should be informed.