ESPN may not be touting “Championship Week” just yet, but three conference tournaments are now underway: the Big South, Horizon League and Ohio Valley. Kyle Whelliston has the lowdown on those leagues. Scoreboard of all of tonight’s games here.
Meanwhile, SI’s designated bubble-watcher, Stewart Mandel, says this weekend’s Missouri Valley Conference tournament — which Becky and I will be at — has massive nationwide implications. Cool. :)
P.S. A pet peeve: when ESPN is showing conference-tournament scores on the scrolling scoreboard thingy at the bottom of the screen, would it kill them to include the seed numbers? Because pardon my ignorance, but I don’t know, off the top of my head, whether it’s surprising that Coastal Carolina beat UNC Asheville (no) or that Tennessee State is hanging with Samford (yes). Seeds would help.
Mark my words, this will the official motto of somebody’s blog before you know it:
[President Bush said,] “And the amazing thing about this world we live in is that there’s a kind of free-flowing, kind of bulletin board of ideas and thoughts out there in the ether space, sometimes landing on somebody’s desk and sometimes not, but always available. It’s a very interesting period.”
Take out the Bushist stumbles, and you have the potential for something like “BrendanLoy.com: a free-flowing bulletin board of ideas and thoughts out there in the ether space.” Heh.
UPDATE 2: What they announced is basically what I rumor-mongered yesterday, an iPod Boombox and a new Intel-based Mac mini… but the latter is without its coolest rumored features, the “TiVo-Killer” DVR application. Also, no iTMS movie announcement. So basically, it’s what I said yesterday, but without the exciting stuff. As David says, “Solid but not too exciting projects. Neither of which seemed unexpected, and neither of which seemed to fit the ‘cooler than new laptops’ rumor after MacWorld. Guess we still have to wait.”
The NDLS Class of 2007’s most exalted piece of meat, Dmytro “Fun Size” Aponte, a.k.a. “Pain from Ukraine,” boxes in the quarterfinals of the Bengal Bouts tonight. The bouts start at 6:30 PM, and the Alaskan Assassin’s fight will begin shortly thereafter. His opponent is, if I have this right, some sophomore named Carlson. You can buy tickets at the door, and all proceeds benefit the Holy Cross missions in Bangladesh.
