If you read my posts on a regular basis, you might be wondering why that despite all the sports talk I do, I haven't said a word yet about the NCAA Tournament.

 

(You might also be wondering why my last two posts came up el zilcho in terms of both comments and views. Don't worry, I'll get to that in the next post, you nasty little fuckers will hear from me, oh yes.)

 

Besides, everyone else on the planet (and probably the neighboring two) has talked about it this week. SportsCenter should be called NCAA Tournament Center for all the talking and tirading, the picks and prognosticating they've done over the last few days. (By the way, they picked the Louisville-Stanford game as one of the most intriguing opening round matchups. Louisville just won by 20, is that what they meant by "intriguing"?)

 

As for me, nope, I don't follow that stuff anymore.

 

It all stopped for me back in 1998. See, I got into college basketball by way of the NBA, and I got into the NBA via the Bulls, and got into the Bulls via Jordan.

 

So, when Jordan left the Bulls in '98, I stopped watching them, which also meant I stopped watching the NBA, which also meant my college b-ball watching days were over.

 

I'm not in any silly Tournament pools, or in any crazy bets (such as the one where you randomly pick one of the 32 games, and whoever wins that game, you stick with until they lose; a sucker's bet, unless you have the 1 vs. 16 game). I know so little about who's playing where and who's good, I feel as intelligent as a 3rd-grader who can't pick out the U.S. on a map. With labels.

 

Yet I still keep track of the scores, because work's boring enough, I figure I have to entertain myself somehow. That's how I knew about Louisville thumping Stanford. Aside from that, I know little else, and that's how I like it.

 

So please, feel free to go elsewhere for your Tourney fix. It's all a bunch of blather and hoo-ha, at least until the teams actually play. But what do I know?