By Brick Stevens
SportingPress.com Basketball Intern
Bloodbath. The Brickster played it conservative on a day when the favorites were about as safe as a Twinkie in Byron Eaton's locker.
Cleveland State over Wake Forest? Please. No one saw that coming. Tell me one non-Viking alum, who picked CleSt over Wake Forest?
Instead of a halftime speech, Leonard Hamilton apparently turned on the locker room TV so that his Florida State players could hear the CBS halftime show declare it would take a miracle for the Badgers to overcome the 12-point halftime deficit.
I head into Saturday's second round with one loss already on the books, as Illinois is not around to beat Gonzaga. Need upsets from Texas and (!) Dayton.
SPORTINGPRESS.COM EXTRA:
BLAKE GRIFFIN ASSAULT PREDICTION
Oklahoma's national player of the year candidate has been tackled, kicked, punched in the groin, elbowed in the face, knocked out and judo tossed. The Brickster predicts the martial arts action will continue today when a Michigan player today will pull a set of nunchakas from the back of his waistband and wave them around, Bruce Lee-style. Sadly, he winds up hitting himself in the head and knocking himself out.
Close enough. Plus I have $300K on your Thursday picks. A little less on Friday, but I'll take it.
Posted by: Honorary Infallibility | March 21, 2009 at 01:16 PM
You bet $300,000 on Brick's Picks?
Are you insane?
You could have spent that $300,000 at the Sporting Press Company Store and gotten some official Sporting Press logo sportswear and accessories. Think how great you and your family would have looked wearing SP-logo sportswear and ballcaps while drinking your morning cup o' joe out of an official SP-logo coffee mug.
You could have purchased extra merchandise, left them in the bags, and sold it on eBay in a couple years as rare collectors items.
Instead you gambled it away and based your decision on the random mutterings of a guy named "Brick."
Think, man. Think.
Posted by: Wild Bill Aronson, SP Publisher | March 22, 2009 at 07:40 AM
Dolt. Can't you read gibberish? God!
Piss poor writing due to being hideously drunk. I meant to point out that I made $300K on the Brickster's Friday picks.
Most of it will be spent at the SP store, I swear.
Posted by: Honorary Infallibility | March 22, 2009 at 04:44 PM
It's a shame that Sporting Press ran off Otzi. That mummy could pick!
It was amazing how Otzi had his brackets ready before the NCAA even announced the pairings. Otzi even had all the scores right.
Yeah, Brick's good but I miss the good ol' days. A pity that SP made fun of Otzi's ass.
Posted by: Brick's good, but... | March 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Otzi is welcome back to the Sporting Press fold anytime.
Posted by: Wild Bill Aronson, SP Publisher | March 25, 2009 at 08:16 AM
Otzi might be persuaded to come back, but you have to apologize for making fun of his ass first.
Otzi is one sensitive mummy.
Worse, he has gotten so distracted by all the female mummies, it will be hard to bring him back into the fold.
Posted by: Otzi....maybe | March 25, 2009 at 09:01 AM
Going to Liberty in Virginia.
I swear to God this is the truth.
Posted by: Blake Griffin to Transfer | March 31, 2009 at 09:43 AM
North Carolina in a runaway.
Attaboy Brickster.
Posted by: Can't nobody pick 'em like the Brickster | April 07, 2009 at 08:52 AM
Why else would they have failed to update their site since March 21st?
Posted by: Sporting Press Hijacked by Pirates! | April 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Let's hope so. God knows the Sooners couldn't smite them.
The dread phrase: “losss of institutional control” is being bandied about.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/sports/11usc.html?_r=1&ref=sports
Posted by: God Set to Smite Southern Cal? | April 11, 2009 at 06:15 AM