Michigan Basketball

Tonight the mighty Wolverines of Michigan will play the Clemson Tigers at 7:10 pm in Kansas City, Missouri.  As a student of this fine institution in Ann Arbor, I gave the automatic win to Michigan in my residence hall pool.  However, that is as far as I am willing to go as I play to win.  Oklahoma's Blake Griffin will simply overpower Michigan, who lives and dies by the three ball.  Given Clemson's 16 game win streak to start off the season and their rout of Duke, Michigan, I believe, has the advantage on paper.  With their wins over Duke, UCLA, Purdue and a near win over UConn,  Michigan has better victories and a much higher strength of schedule.  Clemson's scoring is much more consistent with three players averaging double digits, but the one-two punch of Sims and Harris will be too much.  Belein's 1-2-1 defense should shake up the offense and exhibit the rise of Big Ten basketball.  Clearly the Big East or ACC has more quality teams but did not send as many as the Big Ten's seven.  Michigan does struggle away from home, and it will come down to the Wolverine's three ball.  If only Kobe played for Michigan....

Pistons?

From ESPN.com:

John Hollinger's 5 Main Questions Surrounding the Pistons' Plunge

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Address to Congress

As a thoroughbred Republican and the son of two Democrats, I would be the last, other than McCain, to say that Obama was the right choice in the election. Obama was the right choice, and his address tonight to Congress laid out the right plan for the economy. But of course the best plan can crumble if it is not executed. Deficit spending and bailing out financial institutions will only help stop the bleeding. The days of Alan Greenspan are over and his successor Ben Bernanke is finally changing his views. Now it is up to Congress to make progress.

A Wise Man Once Told Me

"If it ain't directed directly at me, I don't respect it"

This is not the aforementioned man:

Worst. Movie. Ever.

Since grade school I have always had envisioned college a place of scholarly learning, and then slowly over the years, the epitome of partying. College, the movie, does no where near depict the college experience. To say that College had any shred of truth would be a lie to your grandkids. The 94 minutes of viewing provided three laughs, give or take one, and what never gets old, boobies! What happened to movies like Old School, which also may have exaggerated the college experience but was original and funny enough to overlook the former? Drake, from Disney's Drake & Josh, is the protagonist and you can come to expect the same dillweed acting. The dialogue is everything but convincing. Not even Mini-Me's guest appearance could save the film's half star rating (tied with Ulli Lommel's Black Dahlia). At least one facet of the movie was correct, the douchey frat guys (save PIKE out of respect to Peter).