My people - my pale, pale people.  •  It is all coming together. For those in the pool, the answer is 6(a). See, the Morton lost today but so did Stirling. So that leaves Morton top of the league with two games to go. Automatic promotion. Respect: Stirling's the town where I learned about ska in …

I woke up this morning too early. I was thinking, as The Smiths played in my mind, "why am I running a sports pool that there is a 50-50 chance I won't see out, won't tally up the points, have lost interest in?" Is it because I have not watched one NHL game this whole season? Maybe it's because it …

The next question is one that has been long clamoured for so we better give in or we won't hear the end of it:  •  “5. Identify and put in order divided by conference the 16 teams that will make the playoffs. Ten points for each correct team minus one point of the number of places the team is out …

I hope this afternoon's conservo-socialist budget makes me feel better than the first two rounds of the NCAA did.  I picked seven of the final 16. I am done backing Albany as a good source of Cinderella story. Maybe I need to accept being bought is to be preferred to actually blindly guessing the …

Ahhh, late up on the first day of March Madness. Big TV sports days ought to be the reason for national holidays and if not, well by jimbo, I will at least make it a holiday for me.  •  So Syracuse won in the NIT last night against underwhelming odds and now takes on either San Diego State or …

I love running the sports pool. I often do things to make sure that I win - and I think I have statistically won this thing way about what I ought to have won it so be prepared. But this was no fix. Pure braininess and large luckosity. ESPN can tell you what happened and even throws in my new …

Sleeping nieces and other kidlies stand - or, rather, lay - between me and the computer. Just a brief note. I have signed up for one NCAA bracket run by Ian. My picks rock. Niagara is going to get into the final 64 and then smoke Kansas.  •  Which means the first question in this year's sports …

In a shocking turn of events, the Syracuse Orange are not in the NCAA basketball championships. Syracuse.com's immediate reaction?  •  “For those of you not believing it, yes, Syracuse IS NOT in. I'm shocked. I thought they'd be in for sure. But when you started seeing Purdue, Illinois, Georgia …