nice try farmer

I figured that my worst case sports scenario of the day would have been Delaware somehow beating Navy. I mean that would have been pretty embarrassing really when you consider that Notre Dame lost to the Midshipmen last weekend.

Yeah I was way off on that one.

As it turns out, worst case sports scenario was losing Robin Van Persie for an extended period of time. Did I mention that he was playing in a meaningless "Friendly"? Well I should have. Friendly? What a miserable way to describe a game where the object is to win.

Speaking of international games, the US lost to Slovakia this morning. Slovakia got the win under their coach, Coach Weiss. I couldn't help but think that it would be the only game I watched all day where somebody named Weiss, or Weis, would get the win. I was right.

ND: I'd like to thank Charlie. He's leaving the team in better shape then he found them. But it's a "gots to go" situation. He's in waaaay over his head and it's becoming toxic. It's unbelievable just how bad the offensive line is against mostly minimal pass rushes. I don't really even blame him. I blame the people who hired him.

South Bend isn't the place where you should be learning how to be a head coach.

OMG is it Tuesday yet?

what to look for...

The first thing you want to look for in the Georgetown box score is the assist to made shots ratio. It was very nice tonight. 17 assists on 28 made shots. That is strong.

The 2nd thing you want to look at is the field goal percentage. Tonight it was 53%. That's a good number. If the first number you looked at was strong, it's very likely that the 2nd is strong. It was.

If you find yourself with 1st and 2nd numbers that don't really correlate, the answer can most likely be seen in the third column. So go ahead and check out how many 3 pointers the guys took. If they took a bunch of bad shots from downtown, it will throw off the overall field goal percentage even if the assist to made shots ratio is nice.

Disclaimer...you can throw everything out the window if they rebound like a girls jv team. And that was a major problem last year.

straight cash right out of the gate

College Basketball in early November will never be confused with a well-oiled machine.

Take tonight's Georgetown at Tulane contest as an example.

Remember how I said that for $9.95/month you could sign up for Tulane Green Wave TV and watch tonight's game? Yeah that was completely bogus. Fortunately for me I didn't sign up. But a bunch of people from the Hoya Talk board did.

Dagger.

Now they are stuck with a bunch of garbage video that they will never, ever watch.

The game was supposed to tip at 9pm tonight. Yeah go ahead and make that 930pm. Apparently the women's game went late.

Channelsurfing.net had the game available on their menu. Yeah that didn't work until the 2nd half. So even though it's the year 2009, you had a ranked team playing in a game that was only available via the AM radio dial.

Awesome.

Of course it did actually start working right before the half-time break.

Did I mention that twitter was way ahead of the video? Well it was. Not that money really.

All in all it's ok, college basketball. I missed you so much I can overlook your faults. Well at least for tonight anyway.

See you Tuesday at 230 in the Acela Club.

i dare you to not buy that

You know what's awesome? New beer.

You know what's not awesome? Warm new beer.

Ok so today I just couldn't walk by the Mad Elf Ale without buying it. It was physically impossible to do. Of course now I find myself just meandering around the kitchen taking it out of the refrigerator every 5 minutes or so and wondering to myself, "Is this what it normally feels like when it's cold enough to drink"?

It would probably be cold enough by now if I didn't keep doing that.

Thanks to Whole Foods for stocking so much Mad Elf at room temperature. I really appreciate it.

Did I mention it was 11%? Yeah. Well it is.

So the Hoyas open up tomorrow in Greg Monroe's hometown of New Orleans. It's such a big game that it's only being carried live on Tulane's website. Looks like you have to sign up for a month at $9.95. Sweet. If I had to guess, I would guess that I'll forget to cancel and just end up paying for about 5 months of Green Wave action.

I'm sure I will have the will power to just listen on the radio.