Barking Carnival

Man, we can’t even excel at sucking. That honor, according to Forbes, goes to Atlanta, though it looks increasingly like Seattle will be passing them in the next couple of months. With the Rockets about to succumb to the McGrady phenomenon once again, and the Astros winding up for a truly hideous summer, we might [...]

In these times FRAUGHT with Peril and CONFUSION, it is imperative for a Free and Principled people to consider with all SOBRIETY the following troubling circumstances which were RAISED by the penultimate episode of the tele-visual gazette of John Adams:

Will President Adams finally find peace and happiness amidst family at his farm, Peacefield?
Can any creature [...]

For the first time since the writer’s strike began, we finally have all new episodes of NBC’s Thursday comedy block tonight. It feels like years have passed since the 7-9 period had fresh content from My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office and Scrubs.
I’ve missed The Office the most. The last episode was in [...]

OK, I’ve finally gotten over my depression/irritation over our loss to Memphis State in the Elite 8.
So let’s talk about hot cyborg chicks!

By your command…
Tonight is the debut of the first half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
With The Wire getting sent to the rowhouses, BSG is now the best drama on television. Given [...]

BRING IT!
First off, some thoughts on the Longhorns’ win…

My friend English Mark and I went to Baker Street Pub near Willowbrook Mall to watch the game. Actually, I went for the game, English Mark went for the Guiness and Crown & Coke. The bartendress there liked to dance around, like, a lot. This was pleasing [...]

Just as in the first round, Day 2 offered the more compelling contests.
In the Longhorns’ case, their contest was vastly more compelling than it should have been. For whatever reason, Texas took its foot off the pedal at about the 8-minute mark after playing some outstanding basketball. You do that against a 15 seed, and [...]

Happy Easter everyone.
I may be in a minority around here on this, but last night, I actually said “Poor Aggies” and didn’t mean it derisively. They played a tough game, and if they had any offense to speak of, they’d have won that game pretty easily. No doubt the Ags’ defense played a part, but [...]

(Apologies to TripsRight for any stepping on of toes I do here.)
The majors performed pretty much as expected. On the high end: The Big East was a last-second OT jump shot away from going a smooth 8-0. At the other end is the Pac-10, which split its six games. The Big 12 came in at [...]

A breakdown of this year’s tournament mascots.

Humans (21 total)

Ancient Peoples

Saint Mary’s Gaels
Southern Cal Trojans
Michigan State Spartans

Portland State Vikings

Ethnic Stereotypes

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Thieves, Malcontents, Rednecks, Scoundrels Seeking Their Last Refuges

Texas A&M Aggies

Indiana Hoosiers
Mountaineers

Mount St. Mary’s
West Virginia

UNLV Runnin’ Rebels
North Carolina [...]

A trip ’round the Internets for St. Patrick’s Day/Bracket Recovery Day

Congrats to the Lady Longhorns: #8 seed in Greensboro. They play Minnesota in the first round and if they win, all they have to then is beat the #1 overall seed, some team called UConn or something.
A Longhorn makes a pre-all Tournament team. It’s not [...]

Second half coming up. First half was pretty much what you’d expect from Texas-OSU.
Texas stats: 11-22 from the field (6-11 from 3), 4-7 from the line, 11 rebounds (1 offensive); OSU stats: 12-28 from the field (4-13 from 3), 5-11 from the line, 17 rebounds (8 offensive).
Going by those lines, I suppose I should [...]

Hi everyone. It’s time to tune into your local infomercial channel (here in Houston, it’s 51/Comast Channel 2). Your Studio 66 hosts are Doug Bell and Stacy King. Picture quality brought to you by Harold P. Warren.
Alternate hoops programming over on ESPN and the Deuce sponsored by Stuff White People Like: Wisconsin vs. Michigan, and [...]

We’ve had a trickle of college hoops coverage over the past week or so as the cannon fodder conferences have been playing and concluding their tournaments. But today we have:

Day One of the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC and Southland conference tournaments. If you’re in the Katy area, you can catch the latter. Stephen [...]

I trust that our erudite and tasteful readership has by now absorbed the magnificence of Sunday’s finale of The Wire.
“-30-” was the perfect cap to as close to a perfect television series as we’re likely to ever get. No other program has managed such a sprawl of characters, plot lines and themes as deftly as [...]

Just a bunch of stuff from the Internets.

Busy day at BON: awiggo has an appropriately unimpressed recap of the Nebraska game, HornsFan responds to e-mail (I especially like his Mack v. Rick stuff), and Horn Brain is begging you to abuse him with stats/analysis requests.
AeroPorcus requesting air clearance over Waco: A big basketball game between [...]

As you stumble into the apartment after going on your McDonald’s run in which you bought 14 Egg McMuffins, 2 coffees and a cinnamon roll, you could do worse than check out a few game-day hoops links

awiggo at BON has his pre-cap, in which it’s pretty clear he expects a Masked Rider-molesting. He might not [...]

Some stuff from the internets.

Connor Atchley, hobgoblin, makes the Deadspin College Basketball Closer. Also: Bob Huggins is a vision in mustard.
Connor Atchley, unsurprising Caucasian, also makes the 35 Seconds Tuesday Morning Roundup.
Connor Atchley, unmentioned by blog-God Dan Shanoff, who likens the Horns to the 2006-07 Florida Gators. Bonus blurbs on the Texas-Texas A&M game moving [...]

The world can be divided into two camps: Those who divide the world into two camps, and those who don’t. I’m in the latter group.
But that doesn’t mean I can’t make distinctions between those whom I’m not dividing into two camps. Take Longhorn Nation, for example. (WARNING: Gross over-generalizations ahead)
On one hand, you have a [...]