First comes football, then comes basketball!!

Now that the college basketball season is over, I have to wait thru a boring season of major league baseball. I just could never sit down and get "into" a major league game. The very best I could do is keep up on the standings & once The Cubs were eliminated (usually by week 5) even looking at the daily standings became non-existant,

The real sports season starts when The NFL starts their regular season games. While a Bears fan, I can watch any game on Sunday, Monday, Thursday or even a couple of those Saturday games.

Then comes college basketball & The Indiana Hoosiers. While an under acheived year was just finished & with 4 players leaving the team via graduation or the NBA & even a transfer,  We'll still be exited for next season.

Movie: Fair Game

This is the trailer for the movie Fair Game, a true espionage story about our governments unfair demolishin of Valerie Plame & her husband Joe Wilson over the WMD's that were promised to have been in Iraq by Bush & Cheney & Powell. I saw this movie, it is astonishing!!! A Bush cronie (Scooter Libby) was ultimately found guilty for leaking of the CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media. He was then sentenced to 2 years in prison, The crminal Bush commutes his sentence!!! The Nixon administration had nothing on this administration when it came to ethics, morals, crimes & hacking of the Constitution, period!!!

Fair Game

NCAA Tourney!

Ok, had my picks up & running yesterday, got IU taking it all. Not sure if this is a wise pick as The Hoosiers struggled down the stretch but hey......been waitin way too long for this one. Had 3 Big10 teams in it then thought, what are the odds of that happening? Dropped MSU out, inserted Duke back in, probably gonna pay for that choice. Izzo is such a great tourney team.

2-0 thus far on ESPN!!!!

The lies, the falsehoods & Bush The War Criminal!!!

Below is a link to the excellent documentary narrated by Rachel Maddow concerning all the Bush lies, the falsehoods, the deceits & ineptitude of that administration, something I stated from the very get go on invading Iraq. Us Americans at some point in time must, absolutely must hold our government accountable for inexcusable behavior when it comes to war crimes, the unnecessary killings of innocent civillians, our soldiers under false pretenses.

The Bush administration's atrocious acts  are simply put.....war crimes!!!!

Hubris: The selling of the Iraq war!!!

Fantasy Football 2012

Ok, my 1st full season & my 2nd at fantasy football has been somewhat a success. I finished 2nd in the league & 3rd in the playoffs. Started off 7-1 until my running backs kept getting injured. Just could not generate enough points from the backfield. My Bear defense fell apart for several weeks & Brandon Marshall's stats were horrendous with Jay Cutler out.

IU basketball

Written by
Bob Kravitz
Indianapolis Star


BLOOMINGTON – There were questions: Were they that good? Were the Indiana Hoosiers an unquestioned No. 1 team after scuffling against Georgia and going to overtime against Georgetown?
Asked and answered.
Emphatically, yes.
They’re that good, and have a chance to be great.

If there were any questions about IU’s worthiness as the nation’s top-ranked team – Duke is making a lot of noise lately – those questions were loudly silenced Tuesday night at a manic Assembly Hall.
IU 83, North Carolina 59.
It began with four minutes left in the first half and, for all intents and purposes, it ended in the first four minutes of the second half. In that stretch,

IU outscored the young Tar Heels 32-8 and ran them off the Assembly Hall floor.
And it was the way they did it, playing beautiful, unselfish basketball, making the extra pass time and again. In the first half, they assisted on 12 of 19 field goals, and finished with 21 assists on 33 baskets. It was Bob Knight-style basketball from the glory years, the best IU basketball has looked this year, the best its looked in many years.

Questions?

No questions.

This was reaffirmation, a signal to the rest of the college basketball universe that IU basketball is not going to be happy with being No. 1 until the season is done. That was March performance in November, an absolute clinic in team basketball.
“They are No. 1,’’ North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said. “The thing I like is, they really are a team. They don’t have just one guys who beats you up. They beat you in so many different ways. Just look at Yogi (Ferrell). He was 0-for-6 from the floor, but he had things under control and made so many good passes.

“If you’ve got two really good post players, that might bother them, but they’re a legitimate No. 1. I don’t think they’ve got a selfish bone in those kids’ bodies. That’s the thing I admire most.’’
The victory over Kentucky said, “We’re back.’’
This victory over North Carolina said, “We’re not going anywhere.”
“We haven’t even scratched the surface,’’ said IU’s Victor Oladipo. “We feel like we can do so much more.’’

Except for Christian Watford, who didn’t seem to get an invitation to the party, the Hoosiers got contributions from everywhere.
From Jordan Hulls, who just keeps growing and growing as a player. Some of us thought there was a ceiling to his game, but he’s busted through it.
From Oladipo, who’s probably made more strides offensively than any player in IU’s recent history. He’s not just a defender and a dunker anymore.

“They’ve got two guys I didn’t even hear of in high school (Hulls and Oladipo) absolutely kick our butt,’’ Williams said. “Hulls is really something. Oladipo, I’m looking at the box score, it says he had one block and zero steals, and it felt like he stole the ball from us 10 times. Just his energy offensively and defensively was something.’’
From Ferrell, who give the Hoosiers a pass-first element they haven’t had in years. He may turn out to be the best point guard this program has seen since Isiah Thomas. He didn’t just pass the ball beautifully, but he defended extraordinarily well.

From Will Sheehey, who had 19 points on 8-of-12 shooting and five rebounds.
From Cody Zeller, who showed his NBA chops by out-running North Carolina’s big men every time down the floor, finishing with a series of dunks. Through the first six games of the season, he didn’t necessarily look like the top player in the college game. Tuesday night, he did. Enjoy him while you’ve got him, people, because it’s becoming increasingly difficult to see him passing up another chance to be a high first-round pick.
Mind you, this is not your father’s North Carolina team.

This past offseason, they lost Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall and Tyler Zeller. The Heels have just one senior to go with eight freshmen and sophomore. It’s a young team that doesn’t have Carolina’s usual stash of one-and-done quality talent.
Ordinarily, Williams rolls teams out there who can compete with the best from the opening tap of the season. This team, though, is going to be a work in progress.

Here’s when you knew North Carolina was in trouble: Late in the first half, they were shooting 54 percent from the field.
And trailing 35-31.
Which set the table for an IU tsunami of points, mostly off of dunks, possibly the best four minutes of basketball we’ll see from anybody this college basketball season.

IU beat Carolina at its own game, running and running some more.
There was a Zeller run-out and a dunk.
There was a Oladipo basket at the hoop.
Another Zeller dunk.
A Sheehey dunk off a sweet pass from Ferrell.
All of it topped off by Zeller’s follow at the buzzer, giving IU a 46-37 halftime lead.
Textbook basketball.
“I love Indiana basketball,’’ Williams said. “Except when it’s against my team.’’
No. 1.
With a bullet.