The Silver Screen Oasis

what the heck is with basketball when it takes up 3 or 4 channels, and is on all day and all night?

In my corner of the Universe, it's called Heaven.

Or it was until Saturday night when the Butler Bulldogs were robbed...robbed, I tell ya.

Go IU!

Anne:

While I am no fan of March Madness the NCAA has been able to build this juggernaut into a Super Bowl like atmosphere where it is more about the setting than it is the game. And they are lucky enough that this goes on for a couple of weeks. It helps that more often than not some small school, this year read Florida Gulf Coast, manages to knock off some big school much to everyone's surprise thus garnering even more attention.

With 68 teams starting out they have to have several outlets so those of us who aren't that thrilled with it all are going to get pushed out of the way.

This stuff is so popular I think ESPN alone had registered some nearly 2,000,000 brackets. With that Florida school winning only about 77,000 are left,

This will be the way for years to come.

(My deepest sympathies ChiO.)

Thank you, Movieman.

There is, of course, always some consolation. IU hung on to win. Illinois lost. And, best of all, Kentucky lost in the first round of the NIT. That alone makes the World right.

I like that this is not about a bunch of pampered millionaires who frequently get arrested. Yes, college athletes can be paid under the table. But officially, they do it for the school, the team and their own spiritual reasons. I like that some games are on late at night. That's when I watch TV. But I'm a man. No further explanation is required!

I, also, am OK with Kentucky being eliminated early. I hate the idea that that's the only college in the state with a basketball program. Does the name Louisville ring a bell?

I remember Darrell Griffith. I remember 1980.

Another season ending for me in depression.

MARCH MADNESS ... Win or Die!

I just can't stand it ...

The great German word Schadenfreude means being happy about the unhappiness of others. In other words, LOVING IT when Kentucky loses to Robert Morris.

Schadenfreude is a marvelous word, but it is not applicable here. No. It does not capture the meaning, the Weltanschauung, as it were.

Is it Schadenfreude to cheer the toppling of a despot?

Is it Schadenfreude to give thanks that a demon has been consigned to Hell?

I think not.

Schadenfreude --- I know.

But Weltanschauung? Uh-oh. I might not be smart enough to visit you in Chi-Town.

As Marx would say, Say the Secret Word and divide a hundred dollars — it's a common word....

The president picked Indiana to win it all. I think he could be right.

I wait until it is down to the ELITE EIGHT and decide then who will win it all.

Static? Doesn't sound like it.