Aw Hell....and Other Points of Note

The Tigers released Gary Sheffield this morning. I'm kind of sad about this. I mean, the guy was 1 Home Run away from 500 and the Tigers cut him before he had the chance to get it. I always liked watching Sheff play ball with the Olde English D on his chest, but those days are now over. I hope for nothing but the best for Gary Sheffield.

Now, on a more positive note...THE TIGERS RELEASED GARY SHEFFIELD! Do you realize what this means?? This means Marcus Thames, one of my favorite Tigers in recent history, could be the new everyday DH!! This means BOMBS A FREAKING WAY!!!
That, of course, is my own wishful thinking. In reality, after trading prospect Rudy Darrow to the Braves (what is it with the Tigers constantly trading with Atlanta?) for extremely speedy outfielder Josh Anderson, what we will most likely see is Carlos Guillen taking more days as the DH with Anderson taking his place in Left. This is something that the fan in me disagrees with, but the baseball guy in me thinks could potentially work out. Anderson provides the Tigers with much needed speed on the basepaths AND a left handed bat in a lineup full of right handed hitters. All that is well and good, until I did a little more research on the guy and found out Baseball Prospectus had this to say about him: "Now 26, he's still nothing more than a fifth outfielder." Um, what?

So apparently Anderson kind of sucks? So does this actually mean Marcus Thames could be the every day DH and backup first baseman? Why did they go for Anderson again? Basically I'm saying I have no idea what could happen. Let's just hope my first guess was right about Thames as the DH and he'll hit like 97 home runs this year.

Speaking of the Tigers, what the hell are they gonna do about this starting rotation?? Going into the year, this is what we all had in mind...Verlander, Bonderman, Galarraga, Jackson, and Robertson, Willis, Miner, someone else. Not entirely too bad of a rotation. Now, with injuries and all that, it could look something like this...Verlander, Galarraga, Jackson, Some guy, and please God please let it be Rick Porcello. Bondo is still not ready and will start the season in the Minor Leagues rehabbing. Willis is on the DL with an anxiety disorder and Robertson, although he has pitched well this spring, sprained the thumb on his pitching hand apparently trying to barehand a throw from second. All I can tell you is this, Rick Porcello needs to be in the starting rotation. I would be perfectly happy with a Verlander, Galarraga, Jackson, Robertson, and Porcello rotation. Of course, I'm not Jim Leyland so my opinion does not matter.

The bullpen might just be the strongest part of this pitching staff. Eddie Bonine has pitched 14 spring innings and allowed one run and is 3 for 3 in save opportunities. Bobby Seay has a 1.42 ERA in 12.2 innings this spring. Clay Rapada is at 1.64 in 11 innings. Juan Rincon, who is my new favorite as the Tigers closer after Brandon Lyon gave up 4 bombs in a row last week, has pitched flawlessly this spring with no runs allowed in his 12.1 innings. Hell, even Fernando F-ing Rodney has earned the praise of Leyland. But the one wild card I want to throw into the mix is young fireballer Ryan Perry. The 22 year old rookie has a spring ERA of 0.84 in 10.2 innings allowing only one run and striking out 11. If you're Jim Leyland, how in the hell do you not give this kid a plane ticket to Detroit in a few days?

Enough Tiger talk. It's getting me a little too fired up for opening day (April 6th in Toronto, oh and by the way, if Porcello would in fact be the fifth starter, he would be the opening day starter at Comerica Park on April 10th which would be awesome). Let's talk about how my brackets went all "Boom Goes the Dynamite" on me.

In my Final Four, I had Louisville, Memphis, North Carolina, and Pitt. Well, Louisville got beat by State, Memphis by Mizzou, and Pitt by 'Nova. My only remainder is North Carolina. The good news is, they are on the opposite side of the bracket as Michigan State which allows me to root for the Sparties on Saturday.

And how cool is that? How cool is it that the Sparties are in the Final Four at Ford Field? With all the B.S. surrounding the state of Michigan right now, this could turn out to be a much needed distraction. And I can tell you this, I am a life long Michigan fan but I will guaran-damn-tee you I will be pulling for State with no hesitation at all. And for all you Michigan fans out there, if you are not rooting for State, you are assholes. Sometimes you just have to root for what's right and right now, being a State fan for a weekend is just the right thing to do. And if you have a problem with me saying this, then you are the asshole Michigan fans I am referring to right now.

Don't be a douchebag, root for the Sparties!

Sparty On!

Coug-tastic!

I know this is a few days old but the #9 seeded Michigan State Women's Basketball team beat Duke, a #1 seed on the Breslin Center floor. How did State get a home game as a #9 seed? Hell if I know, that's how the women's game is played apparently. Bonus points for the NCAA for allowing this to happen, knowing full well that Duke's coach left Sparty for more money and that the Breslin Center fans would of course boo her ass off. Suzy Merchant coached for a few years at Eastern Michigan and did a hell of a job which earned her the job at State when McCallie left. Playing a home game in the tourney against the number one seed aside, State made a hell of a hire.

In other news, the Lions have a new logo. It's pathetic. Other views available here. Leave it to the Lions to even screw this up. Granted, after going 0-16 they needed to do some re-branding but this is not exactly what I had in mind. I mean, it's the same logo with some white skid-marks on it. What the hell??? If you're gonna change the logo...CHANGE THE DAMN LOGO! Never ceases to amaze me as to how incapable this organization is to succeed.

Oh and the Pistons have lost 7 of 10. Yep, game over.

Oh and the Wings have won 4 of their last 5 and are tied with San Jose for the best record in the league. Boo-Yah!

And What Did We Learn...?

I woke up this morning feeling a little better about what happened last night. I still think Michigan got forcibly boned in the ass by the officials and I still think the CBS hum-job of the Griffin family was a bit much. But when I look back on it, if you tell me this time last year that Michigan would win a first round NCAA tournament game and then be an 8 on 5 powerplay away from going to the Sweet Sixteen, I probably would have laughed in your face. No matter what, this was a season of great success for Michigan basketball and I look forward to the years to come.

I have spent most of my waking hours in front of Mom and Pop's new flat screen and engulfed myself in HD coverage of the Big Dance since I got home around 4:30 on Thursday. With my brackets and a bottle of tobacco spit by my side, I watched every game CBS would allow me to watch. Needless to say, over this amount of time, I have learned a few things...

- Big East teams are entirely too good. UConn, L'ville, Pitt, 'Nova, Syracuse, are just peckerslapping teams on the way to the Sweet 16. West Virgina on the other hand decided to lose to Dayton but that's ok they were going to lose to Kansas anyway.

- When picking a bracket, you have to pick at least 4 upset games. Hamilton picked Cleveland State to beat Wake Forest. I picked WKU, Michigan, Maryland, and Utah State. 3 outta 4 ain't bad.

- The 8/9 matchups kill your brackets. I lost 3 of 4 only picking Siena correctly. Yeah, that's right. Screw you state of Ohio.

- The Axe Anti-Perspirant commercial was funny the first 8 times I saw it. Now it's just kinda gross and repetitive. Although the end of the commerical when the chick duck and covers away from the dude's armpit as they're walking on the beach still cracks me up.

- After watching all these games, there are plenty of good seats still available at every arena. Just a sign of the times I guess. I can't wait to see how many people don't go to the Final Four in Detroit. Then I can't wait to read the articles and the news stories about how people can't afford to go to games anymore.

- 15 of my Sweet 16 are still intact which leads me to believe that I am a great guesser!!

- Watching Michigan anything with my Dad is an experience unlike any other. Very creative guy.

- If you're so unathletic that you have to use a "Man Step" to get into the bed of your truck, you probably should just buy a Prius and call it good. All trucks are already equipped with "man steps" they're called tires.

- An Erin Andrews-less big time college broadcast, is a lesser big time college broadcast.

- Basketball officials have entirely too much impact on the outcome of a game. This is why that NBA ref gambled on games he was officiating, because he could steer the outcome that way with the occasional bullshit call. If a ref doesn't like a player or team, he can bone said player or team as much as he wants. It's un-fair but at the same time, that's what makes basketball what it is.

- Little brother Aaron picked the Sparties to win the title in the Tobacco Juice Pants Party pool...I can't wait to not have him win a free t-shirt.

- "Cocksucker," "Douchebag," and "Fuck," are the most common words in the English language for the first week of March Madness.

- I have grown to absolutely hate everything about Subway and their goddamned $5 footlongs.

- It's amazing how fast 30 cans of Busch Light can disappear when there's a good game on.

As of right now, Syracuse is beating up Arizona State which is good for me. The following teams will win today: Sparty, Cardinals, Jayhawks, Tigers, Panthers, Orange, Wildcats, and Musketeers.

Blake Griffin is Apparently Jesus

Michigan just lost to Oklahoma in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. My thoughts...

- CBS thinks Blake Griffin is Jesus and the greatest basketball player who has ever lived. It's like he was fuckin Tim Tebow out there. The broadcast team was blowing him, his brother, and his parents like a two bit hooker would blow a movie star. Unbelievable.

- The officiating in this game is what won the game for Oklahoma. Manny Harris sat out for most of the first half with two fouls. CJ Lee fouled out with about 6 minutes left. Sims was in foul trouble. Somebody on Michigan's bench apparently got T'd up after a traveling call on OU. If someone breathed on Jesus, it was called a foul. Absolutely pathetic. Let the kids play!

- Yes, I know Michigan had no business advancing to the Sweet Sixteen. They are not that good. HOWEVER, they played their asses off and I truly believe they were absolutely hosed by the officials and if John Beilien doesn't go absolutely apeshit in the post game interviews about the officiating...well, let's just say he has more restraint than I do.

- Anthony Wright (who??) had a great game and kept Michigan in it with Manny on the bench early. Kudos to him.

- I want to re-watch this game and count how many times Griffin's parents were on TV. I would set the over/under at about 20 which is just fucking stupid. CBS SUCKS!

- Coming into the game, I really liked Oklahoma and both Griffins. I liked the way Blake Griffin played especially. After the game however, I have decided that the Griffins are douchebags.

- After reading all the Michigan blogs all morning (before going to the driving range with Hamilton) and watching the interviews on Big Ten Network, I set myself up for being really pissed off when Michigan lost. I thought they had a chance and goddamnit, they did have a chance, which brings me to my next point...

- MICHIGAN GOT FUCKING SCREWED!!!

That is all. Now I will commence to drinking beer with Dad and Ben all while being pissed off about what just happened. I'll write something tomorrow or whatever.

Saint Patrick's Day Order of Events

Tomorrow is the day I've been looking forward to for entirely too long. Some might attribute this to alcoholism but that's simply not true. This is the last St. Patrick's Day of my college years. For the rest of my life, I will most likely not be able to go out and drink all day in the middle of the week so why not have a little fun with it right? The order of the days events will be as follows...

6:00 AM - Wake up, shower, eat oatmeal and slam cup o' coffee
6:45 - Get in car, drive to Buffalo Wild Wings for 7:00 pint of green beer
7:30 - Leave B-Dubs, go to class to turn in paper and take a quiz.
10:30 - Class is over, mass text messages to all people in my phone that live in Washtenaw county to encourage them to join me for a brew or seven at Powell's Pub. Drive to Powell's from campus, leave car there for duration.
1:45 - Unless the people I'm with tell me I can't leave, walk back to campus for 2 o'clock class.
3:00 - Walk back to Powell's. Irish Car Bombs and Guinness
5:15 - Back to campus for semi important class session which features me in front of a television camera from the late 60s for my broadcast class (ask teacher out for drinks after class)
7:00 - Walk to Pub 13. Resume attack on liver with Irish Car Bomb to get back in the groove
1:45 - Start thinking about exit strategy.
3:00 - Randomly find way home, drink water, pass out.
Sometime Wednesday - Find way to go get my car, drink pedia-lyte un-tag embarrassing facebook photos

Basically, this is the greatest plan ever and should result in drunken tomfoolery for the entire day. It's supposed to be a beautiful day so come on out and have a drink with me. You know you want to.

TOBACCO JUICE PANTS PARTY!

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Sign up by Thursday because, well, the games start Thursday. And remember

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Selection Sunday Boo-Yah!

Eleven years. The eleven year drought for Michigan basketball is finally over. But when you think about it...so what?

Everyone I've talked to says I'm an idiot for thinking this one lone thought: "I would rather win the NIT than lose in the first round of the tournament."

Granted, now that Michigan is officially in the tourney as an 10 seed facing Clemson in the first round (which is winnable but more on that later) I take that thought back. I am much happier seeing the Maize and Blue back at the big dance, early exit or not, I'm glad they're in. After all the bullshit this team has been through since 1998, the Ellerbe Era, the Tommy Amaker years, the Fab Five Forfeiture, and the NIT Championship, they are finally back to playing at the level required to make it to the Dance.

That being said...do I think they'll beat Clemson? Yes, I think they will beat Clemson in the first round but only if they get stupidly hot from behind the arc, or they give Sims the workload and let him take over the paint a la what they did against Iowa in the Big Ten Tourney. If A or B don't happen then see you later, nice job making the dance and enjoy watching from Ann Arbor.

As for the brackets. I will have available a group on either ESPN or Yahoo for you to join, with more info on that coming tomorrow. Grand Prize will be the T-shirt of your choice from the Tobacco Juice Store.

After watching the selection show and seeing Louisville as a 1 seed I have to say the committee screwed the pooch. Sure, they won the Big East (widely considered the Jesus of college basketball) but after watching them a couple of times this season, they did not overly impress me and I don't think they are a Final Four team and will lose before the elite eight probably to Wake Forest. Oklahoma or Memphis deserve that 1 seed over Louisville with UNC or UConn as the overall #1 seed.

Hamilton disagrees and says Louisville deserves the spot. Aaron still thinks the Sparties should be a 1 seed but he hasn't watched more than five minutes of basketball all year long. Too busy being superman to watch hoops. Dad throws his two cents about the tournament saying, "Eh, I dunno, I have to do my research."

Well do your research Dad and have Aaron or Mom help make you a Yahoo account so you can join in our bracket contest.

I'll put up another post with all the information later on this evening so you can join us in the Tobacco Juice Pants Party bracketology challenge!



It's a great day for Michigan Basketball. Now don't screw it up.

The Official St. Patrick's Day Survival Guide

In all of my excitement about St. Patrick's Day coming up on Tuesday, I have been telling random passerby about my plans which typically are met with looks of astonishment and bewilderment and other looks of shock. A question I'm usually asked is, "How in the hell can you do that?"

Surviving St. Patrick's Day, the most sacred of all the drinking holidays, isn't really all that big of an accomplishment. If you wake up the next day, you win. But if you want to really enjoy yourself and not puke all over the bar and possibly end up in the slammer for the night, stick to this strategy and you should find your previous criminal record intact and your clothes not covered in green barf.

First of all, in order to truly enjoy the day, you have to start early. Wake up around 6:30 (yes, there is one in the morning too) start a pot of coffee and take a slightly longer than normal shower. After getting out of the shower, and this is an EXTREMELY vital point, put on entirely too much deodorant and cologne and be sure to Gold Bond the boys (girls have no idea what I'm talking about here but guys, you know...you know) until they resemble powdered donut holes. This is a very important step because, think about it, you're going to be walking from bar to bar and eventually be smelling like stale beer and corned beef and the more coverup you have the better.

Now that you've got your stink prevention out of the way, pour yourself a cup of joe and if you have it, mix in some Irish creme then pour yourself a giant bowl of oatmeal because you're gonna need something in your gullet before you start this adventure. After having a cup or two, find your way to the nearest bar (I'm not advocating drinking and driving but c'mon it's two Irish coffees...if you're buzzed up by that you might want to not participate) for the early bird drink specials. Buffalo Wild Wings here in Ypsi opens at 7am and has quarter pints until 9am and then they're up to 50 cents which is still outstanding.

Now, in my own case, I have to go to class at 8am this year so this means I'll only be able to stay for one or two before heading down to campus. For those of you with the luxury of not having anything to do, this is where you post up at the bar and drink a few pints while the price is right. Just remember, St. Patrick's Day is a day of marathon drinking. I'll say this again and in caps because this is possibly the greatest piece of advice this blog post will give you...

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY IS NOT A SPRINT! IT IS A MARATHON! PACE YOURSELF!!
Nobody starts off a marathon in starting blocks and goes sprinting off. Those people usually die and that is not the objective here. The objective is to make it to last call without getting arrested or passing out.

That being said, when you're at the first bar of the day, you need to just enjoy yourself and those around you. The best friend for drunks on St. Patrick's Day is other drunks, so make some friends and watch SportsCenter. I would drink 3 or 4 pints of the cheap stuff in a borderline rapid succession and then switch over to a glass of some legit Irish goodness. Guinness, Smithwicks (pronounced Smith-ix), Killians, or something of that nature just to change things up. The key is this, you must enjoy drinking the good beer by drinking it slower than the swill green beer you've been drinking. Enjoying the good stuff is essential because it slows down your alcohol intake and allows your liver to take a breather while it processes the swill green beer you just pounded.

Another very important item to mention is eat as much as possible whenever possible. You have to have something in there to soak up the booze (hence the oatmeal). The food of choice is undoutedly going to be corned beef with cabbage and potatoes. I cannot stress enough the importance of eating a hearty lunch with, dare I say it, a glass of water. Just to kind of let your body rest for the afternoon of abuse it has coming.

After a big lunch, it's time to get back on that horse and start drinking beers again. The afternoon hours are a great time to get a little creative with the drink selection and Irish Car Bombs are usually on special. I mean, I'm just saying. That's what I would do. No more than three though, remember, it's a marathon.

The afternoon goes pretty much like the morning did. Drinking, drinking, and more drinking. It's pretty simple when you think about it. Just remember to enjoy what you're drinking and the people you're drinking with. St. Patrick's Day is one of those few days in a year that you can count on making friends while sitting on a barstool, so take advantage.

Right before the bar gets obnoxiously busy, make sure you eat another big meal of corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. Trust me, it will save your life.

Around 7 or 8 O'clock, you're going to start to feel the effects but this is where you have to push through it. I reccommend chewing as much tobacco as possible, but then again I'm an addict and throwing a dip in is my answer for everything. Slam a quick glass of water so nobody can see you drinking it then get right back on that horse and fight through it. Another good way of distracting yourself from getting overly wasted is to find some hot-ish chick (at this point they should all be hot-ish) to start talking to. Not flirting with so much but just having casual drunken conversation. If that leads to making out back by the dumpster or in the bathroom, you are probably better looking than me and that's ok. Distracting yourself from drinking more beer is essential to making it through last call.

If it's 11 o'clock and you're still standing on your own, you're doing great (that or you're pussyfooting with the beer and should be called out on it, drink bastard drink!). Now's the time to go back to the hot-ish girl and get her to do a Car Bomb with you and then see where the night goes. Just remember one thing, if she has a boyfriend, who just happens to be standing a mere ten feet away, don't be surprised if he gets a little fired up when she starts making out with you. And remember not to call the guy a cocksucker on the way out of the bar. Play nice.

Before leaving the bar, close out your tab, tip those that got you drunk well, and call a cab or throw up the Hail Mary at the last second and have some chick take you home. No matter what, you do not drive. You've been drinking all day remember? Not a good look. Upon arriving home you should probably drink about a gallon of water and eat a sleeve of saltines before passing out for the night.

If you follow this advice, you'll not only survive St. Patrick's Day, you'll thoroughly enjoy it and be able to tell your friends that you started at 7 and ended at 2 which will either win you praise or an intervention. Either way, it'll be fun.

OK, here's the schedule for the next couple of days...
Tomorrow - I dunno, something random.
Saturday - No post, St. Patrick's Day Warm Up (you have to train for a marathon, you can't just run it)
Sunday - Selection Show Live(ish) blog
Monday - My own St. Patrick's Day preview (where I'll be, book signings etc.)

They Have the Internet on Computers Now?

I'm back! Here's Brian Bellows!



I got my old laptop with the O.A.R. sticker on it back from the homeland and now I am able to blog again. Like I said before, blogging on the campus of Eastern Michigan University isn't exactly a fun experience. Unless of course I was sitting there outside a building or in a cafeteria just blogging about what I saw and being an asshole via Internet to all those around me. That would be one of the most entertaining blogs ever. Maybe one of these days you'll get it. But until then let's talk about stuff nobody really gives a rat's ass about.

Is it just me or has all this Alex Rodriguez hoopla absolutely sucked the life out of spring training? Typically I love watching SportsCenter this time of year to get some decent baseball coverage with season previews and the like but this year it's been all A-Rod all the time on the World Wide Leader. Whenever I turn on ESPN there's the bottom line telling me how many times A-Rod wiped his ass after his morning deuce. It was at that point when the "Too Much Information" line was crossed and I have decided to just not watch SportsCenter anymore. In fact, this is the last time I will even mention A-Rod until the Tigers play the Yanks in a three game set at CoPa April 27th-29th. From now until then the words A-Rod, Rod, Alex, Rodriguez, or DoucheTurd (as he will be referenced forever post embargo) will not be written in this space. THE ALEX RODRIGUEZ EMBARGO IS NOW IN EFFECT!

Speaking of the WorldWideLeaderInSports, I watched the last 20 minutes of Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN2 (the "Dos") and found them borderline entertaining. As you know (well, as some of you know) ESPN is located in Bristol, Connecticut and was absolutely PUMMELED with a winter storm which forced ESPN to email its minions telling them that unless you are absolutely essential personnel you are not required to attend work. This led Golic to an epiphany saying, "Basically if you're sitting up in bed wondering if you're essential personnel, stay in bed, you're not essential personnel." Personally, I think it's a trick that ESPN is pulling to see who they can fire for not being "essential to the success of the network." That's what I would do anyway. A pink slip for every empty cube. Save millions of dollars just like that. Boo Ya!

Speaking of saving money, let's talk NBA. Apparently the NBA is hemorrhaging money and is getting something around $175 million for teams that are in danger of folding. Where's your god now David Stern? I tell you what though, at this point the entire Association could fold because my interest in the game has reached Teal Era levels. When the Pistons changed to their unis to teal with the horse head on it I just stopped watching. And that's the level I'm back to now. The Teal Era dark age led to a revolution of sorts and resulted in a championship. I don't know what to name this period of Piston history. The Period of General Lethargy? The Great Debacle Era? The End of Days? I don't know but I have noticed one thing just like the rest of you have, they have won two games in a row with Iverson on the bench...BUT I still don't care. The day they traded Chauncey away will go down in history as the day the music officially died in Auburn Hills. That's like the Wings trading away Lidstrom or Drapes, you don't trade away the blood and guts of a successful franchise and still expect to win. I don't want to talk bad about Joe Dumars but c'mon man, you serious? That's like the Pistons trading YOU away. Remember when I said time will tell if it was a good deal? Time just called, he said it was an experiement worse than when my high school chemistry teacher blew his hand up in front of a classroom full of students when he showed them what sodium does in water. That actually happened. It was hilarious.

Is it just me or is it kind of fishy that they Chiefs traded nothing more than a 2nd round pick to the Patriots for Matt Cassel and Mike Vrabel? KC GM Scott Pioli had a HUGE hand in the success of the Pats over the years with Bill Belicheck so maybe Bill was just throwing his buddy a little "thanks for helping me win three Super Bowls" gift. The idiots on Cold Pizza's (which was hosted by Michael Kim and former US Soccer player hottie Julie Foudy this morning because apparently the regular cast isn't "essential personnel" oh and Foudy looked like it was the first time she'd ever done live-ish televison. Seriously, I was laughing my ass off at how bad it was. It was a slow mo hilarious car crash on repeat for the 8 minutes or so I watched) First and Ten "Two Live Stews" say it is most definitely collusion and called for NFL Commish Roger Goodell to get involved. I whole heartedly disagree with that sentiment. If Goodell gets involved he's blatantly overstepping his boundaries and that's something David Stern, Gary Bettman, or Bud Selig would do. It's one thing to install a code of conduct for your players, I'm cool with that and think it's a great idea but when you start telling teams how to trade and who to trade with, well then you're just kind of taking the whole play fair thing a little too far. If the rest of the league doesn't like what happened, too damn bad, you should have hired Pioli before the Chiefs did.

The Lions reportedly were close to stealing Jay Cutler away from Denver. I don't know how, but they found a way to screw it up. Great work Mayhew and Crew! I can't wait to see the Lions be the first team to ever choose a kicker with the number one pick in the draft. I can see it now, "With the first pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions select...Diet Pepsi Machine?" It's like everyone they hire for the front office there in Allen Park graduated with honors from the University of Dipshit.

A couple of quick hitters here before I go and do something else with my life (like attempt to graduate).

Michigan Hoops at Crisler is a fun time. Went with Rowe on Thursday to watch them beat Purdue. My only regret is not taunting the "Boiler Up" Chanters behind us more. Boil this (insert crotch grab here) bitches! Then in the schizophrenic style of Michigan basketball, they lost yesterday to Wisconsin and unless they win at least two games in the Big Ten Tourney (they play Northwestern Thursday and then upon winning they have to play State for the first time ever in the Big Ten Tourney which should be fun. Basically, the bubble may have burst but who knows, maybe they'll hit a hot streak and win the damn thing. Doubtful but you never know.

Michigan Hockey beat Ferris State Saturday to secure second place in the regular season CCHA standings and a first round bye in the CCHA tournament. The big news was Senior Captain Mark Mitera played in his first series of the season and in his first home game, scored a goal and had an assist after being injured all year. Talk about great timing. With Mitera back on the blue-line, Michigan could be poised to make a run at another National Title. Too early to tell.

Ok that's enough. Here's a picture of Official Hot Chick of Tobacco Juice Sports Elisha Cuthbert for those who made it through the whole post.

You're the best Bellows!

*UPDATE*
I, like a total asshole forgot to mention former Lion defensive end Corey Smith's fishing boat going missing in the Gulf of Mexico. AP just reported (1:15pm right now) the Coast Guard has found the boat with one survivor. Kind of a downer. Thoughts and prayers. More info HERE.
And HERE.