Posts Tagged ‘Washington’

NCAA Tournament: Who Picked Whom

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

ESPN.com posted a breakdown of the percentage of people who picked each team to win in each round in their Tournament Challenge. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

Of the 16 teams that advanced to the second week, here were the five teams that ESPN users lacked confidence in the most – because showing you that at least 92% thought that Kentucky would make it to Sweet-16 isn’t even interesting to John Calipari on his most narcissistic day.

Tennessee – 19.8%

Cornell – 11.3%

Washington – 8.8%

St. Mary’s – 3.7%

Northern Iowa – .9%

And just how damaging was that Kansas upset? 42% of ESPN’s brackets had them in the Championship game.

Who Picked Whom (ESPN.com)

Obama’s Five Pump Up Tracks for 2010

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

My good friend Melfi put it nicely: “Was that the State of the Union last night, or Def Policy Jam?”

I’ll leave the hard-hittin’ Obama analysis to the real politicos. All I have to say about the speech – who was smart enough to DVR the SOTU while watching, affording them the chance to rewind and watch him say “that’s how budgeting works!” a myriad of times? (This guy!)

With my informed takeaways so blatantly and obviously limited, let me offer you this…Five Obama Pump Up Tracks For 2010!

Broken down by key points from his speech…

On “special earmark disclosure” online:

Paul Wall – I’ve got the internet going nutz

On U.S. to lead the charge on clean energy:

Jay-z – Get That Dirt Off Your Shoulder

On Republicans:

Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills

On Gov’t spending freeze:

Foreigner – Cold As Ice

On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell being Repealed:

Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out