Sunday, March 31, 2019
Saturday, March 30, 2019
March Madness: The Last Perfect Bracket Busted
According to Chicago’s
ABC 7, the last perfect bracket among NCAA Tournament fans was busted
Thursday.
Gregg Nigl, a
40-year-old neuropsychologist from Ohio, created the bracket on NCAA.com.
My brackets were
nuked early on, but I had Duke advancing through the Sweet 16 and the Elite 8 and, of course, to the
National Championship.
Nigl didn't even
realize his bracket was still intact on Tuesday, having correctly predicted the
outcome of all 48 games that had been played so far. Nigl even changed his Twitter handle to Gregg
“Perfect Bracket” Nigl. Mr. Perfect is
no more after Purdue’s overtime win over the Vols.
Well, it was a good run... Thank you to everyone who joined me along this incredible journey! Maybe next year we'll get it!— Gregg 'Perfect Bracket' Nigl (@GreggNigl) March 29, 2019
Purdue had a commanding
lead throughout most of the game and was leading by 18 in the second half
before the Vols went on a 32-14 run to tie the game at 65 with six minutes left
to play.
The pivotal moment in
the game came with 10 seconds left. With
the Vols up 82-80, Purdue moved the ball into the corner passing to Carsen
Edwards. Had he not missed the three-pointer
the game would have been over.
Tennessee’s Lamonte
Turner allegedly fouled
Edwards. The call was controversial. Edwards’ heels were on the line when he
attempted that shot. The refs declared Turner had
contact with Edwards’ hip.
Thanks to the new PI review rules, this “foul” call with 1.7 seconds left would be overturned in the NFL pic.twitter.com/NU6Jz8Gb2W— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) March 29, 2019
The foul sent Edwards
to the charity stripe allowing Purdue to tie the game and send the game into
overtime with the final score of 99-94.
Saturday’s
games:
No. 3 Texas Tech vs.
No. 1 Gonzaga 6:09 PM, TBS
No. 3 Purdue vs. No. 1
Virginia 8:49 PM, TBS
Sunday’s games:
No. 1 Duke vs. No. 2 Michigan State 5:05 PM, CBS
No. 5 Auburn vs. No. 2 Kentucky 2:20 PM, CBS
Spartans Head
coach Tom Izzo hopes his team has the same success against Duke as they did
against LSU, but that will only happen if they can come up with a robust
defense to control Zion “Thunder Dunk” Williamson and R. J. “Maple Mamba” Barrett.
Williamson was
incredible against the Hokies, this time finishing with 23 points on 11-of-14
shooting. The biggest story might have been the hot shooting of teammate Tre
Jones, who hit five three-pointers after never making more than two in one game
all season. R.J. Barrett was also phenomenal, adding 18 points and 11 assists
in the win. Duke will continue to be a favorite throughout this tournament
because Williamson is by far the best player in the country.
Friday, March 29, 2019
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Biden Is So Dumb He Needs A Spotter To Work On A Sudoku Puzzle
Joe Biden has issued
yet another non-apology to Anita Hill. At the Biden Courage Awards in New York
Tuesday night, he said he regretted how the Senate Judiciary Committee, which
he chaired, handled Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
“A brave lawyer, a
really notable woman, Anita Hill, a professor, showed the courage of a lifetime
talking about her experience being harassed by Clarence Thomas, but she paid a
terrible price. She was abused in the hearing. She was taken advantage of. Her
reputation was attacked. I wish I could have done something.”
Hill insists after 28
years Biden has yet to apologize to her.
A published report from
the Atlanta
Journal Constitution stated Biden had met with defeated Georgia gubernational
candidate Stacey Abrams to discuss the possibility of her being his running
mate for 2020. Abrams quashed that
notion when she appeared on ABC’s The
View telling the audience, “you don’t run for second place.” Ouch!
Biden has been playing
a drawn out game of hide-and-seek over whether he will announce his candidacy for
president. Democrats are desperately searching for someone who can defeat
President Trump in 2020.
Several political operatives
who worked or volunteered for Biden’s 2008 campaign have signaled they are
unlikely to do so this cycle, in part, because they know the embarrassments are
coming.
Uncle Joe Biden’s loose
lips and outmoded attitudes won’t fly with today’s Democrat Party renegades.
Joe’s going to need an
astounding amount of campaign cash to mount a successful challenge against the
throng of arrogant pukes who’ve already thrown their hat in the ring.
Way back in 2008, his
ill-fated presidential campaign managed to reach 5% in the national polls. When the Iowa caucus votes tallied a dismal
1%, he dropped out of the race.
The brains in Biden’s head make beluga caviar look like
sawdust.
The good folks at the Washington
Free Beacon unearthed a video from the 1970s where Biden argued the
political system was inherently corrupt and forced candidates to go to “the
people who have money” who always “want something.”
"You run the risk
of deciding whether or not you're going to prostitute yourself to give the
answer you know they want to hear in order to get funded to run for that
office," Biden testified during the program.
Biden admits he decided
to "prostitute" himself but was denied because of his age.
"I went to the big
guys for the money," Biden said. "I was ready to prostitute myself in
the manner in which I talk about it, but what happened was they said, ‘Come
back when you're 40, son.'"
"So, I had to go
out, I had to go out to a number of small contributors," he said.
Biden goes on to say
his ability to raise money despite his rejection from big donors—he said he
raised $276,000—was due to his unique identity as a young person.
"I'm a 29-year-old
oddball," he said. "The only reason I was able to raise the money is
that I was able to have a national constituency to run for office, because I
was 29."
"I'm like the
token black or the token woman," Biden said. "I was the token young
person."
The broader issue is Biden has been around politics so long his votes while a senator can and
will be picked apart as evidence that he is simply not the right person to lead
an increasingly diverse, younger and more female Democratic Party.
His
stewardship over the Thomas hearing and his vote in favor of the 1994 crime
bill are the two most obvious examples of that problem, but there are and will be others.
Biden’s full appearance
on PBS’s The Advocates can be viewed here. A spokesperson for the Biden Foundation did
not respond to a request for comment.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Pull My Hoof
Last month Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to give “everybody an opportunity to
go on record and see how they feel about the Green New Deal.”
The resolution amassed
significant but by no means widespread support on Capitol Hill — there were 67
co-sponsors in the House and 11 in the Senate, including several current or
potential presidential contenders: Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand,
Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar.
Penned by the Bronx
Bolshevik, the Green New Deal was so sophomoric it was compared to a toddler’s
crayon scribblings.
Her all-encompassing
rail system would cover the nation “at a scale where air travel stops becoming
necessary” leaving Americans living in the Great State of Hawaii to swim
to the mainland to visit granny or enjoy Disneyland.
The GND would cost $93
trillion dollars and, best of all, the Federal Reserve would extend credit for
all the infrastructure needed to retrofit all the buildings and houses in
America with renewable energy sources through “new public banks that would
extend credit too.”
The most outrageous
claim was a “guarantee” that so much money would exist there would be “economic security for all who are unable
or unwilling to work.”
1) By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful. #GreenNewDeal— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) February 7, 2019
“I’m not immediately
afraid of what the Green New Deal would do to our economy and our government,” Sen.
Mike Lee (R-UT) said. “Rather, after reading the Green New Deal, I’m mostly
afraid of not being able to get through this speech with a straight face.”
To poke fun at the Green
New Deal, Lee took to the Senate floor with a poster of President Ronald Reagan
riding a velociraptor while firing a machine gun.
“Critics might quibble
with this depiction of the climactic battle of the Cold War, because, while
awesome, in real life there was no climactic battle. There was no battle with
or without velociraptors,” Lee said. “The Cold War, as we all know, was won
without firing a shot.”
The Utah senator added
that point underscores his message “because this image has as much to do with
overcoming communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with
overcoming climate change in the 21st.”
The Utah senator also
argued that the abolishment of air travel would be especially difficult for a
place like Hawaii, which is warm, isolated, and heavily reliant on tourism.
Without airplanes, he explained, Hawaiians may be best served to look to
Aquaman, the super hero from the sea kingdom of Atlantis, who Lee pointed out
was also “a founding member of the Super Friends.”
“I draw your attention
to the 20-foot impressive seahorse he’s riding. Under the Green New Deal, this
is probably Hawaii’s best bet.”
Hilarious. 😂@SenMikeLee (R-UT) wins the internet. And the best part is that this will be part of the Congressional Record forever. Well done 👏👏 https://t.co/277VmGaYtJ— vad n (@vaddienajman) March 26, 2019
The Green New
Deal struggled in the Senate failing to reach the necessary 60 votes to
start debate on the non-binding resolution.
No senator voted to
begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the
filibuster. Forty-three Democrats voted
"present."
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Hitler Finds Out The Mueller Investigation Is Over
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Monday, March 25, 2019
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
A guy meets a woman at a bar. She told him she wanted to have his babies. Guy says to the woman, “Watch my beer. I’ll go home and get ‘em.”
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Saturday, March 23, 2019
It’s Going To Be Weird Watching Robert De Niro As Mueller Singing “Hallelujah” On Saturday Night Live
The satirical show will
be back with its new season on Saturday, March 30 and it’s going to be delicious
to watch.
How delicious?
Remember the first
episode after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election? The show opened with Kate McKinnon dressed as
Hillary Clinton singing Leonard Cohen’s mournful “Hallelujah”.
It was a bizarre
response to Granny’s cataclysmic loss just four days before that was more like a
lobotomy than recognition of Trump’s victory.
At the end of the song, McKinnon said, with her voice noticeably
cracking, “I’m not giving up and neither should you. And live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
The announcement late Friday
afternoon that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had submitted his long-awaited
report on Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William
Barr sent Democrats, Hollywood types, Never Trumpers and a wide array of Lefty
news anchors and pundits into a shitstorm of panic.
The disappointment is real from Democrats who had their
hearts set on vindication that President Trump was going down. It’s as though
they actually thought he would be frog-marched out of the White House in leg irons.
Hollywood celebrities are inconsolable:
Sorry I Didn’t Get Back After Mueller Report. FK trump & TransSiberian Railroad he & Putin Rode 2 White House On‼️What I Think…This Is Karma,Like When Hitler Came 2 Power In Germany. He 2 Was a Egomaniacal White Supremacist.trump Is Like a Guilty Man Getting Away With Murder— Cher (@cher) March 23, 2019
Robert De Niro made a
couple of appearances on Saturday Night Live last year in the role of Robert
Mueller due, in large part, to a video he made in which he called the president
a punk, a pig and a dog, and said he would like to punch him in the face. At the 2018 Tony Awards he screamed at the top
of his lungs, “I’m gonna say one thing.
Fuck Trump!” The outburst won De Niro a
standing ovation.
De Niro has been driven
insane by his loathing of the president.
So…it wouldn’t surprise me at all that Lorne Michaels books him to do
the “Hallelujah” gig.
Now that’ll be funny.
Why Is Everyone At CNN and MSNBC Standing On A Ledge?
After 675 days we now
know collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign never existed. The Democrat Media Complex’s fever dream was
a bunch of malarkey.
Obama’s Department of
Justice and FBI conspired to manufacture a dangerous story line so repulsive it
would appall the American people and set them against Donald Trump, the duly
elected President. They willfully
abandoned the very laws they were sworn to uphold and contributed to the
biggest political scandal in American history.
The mainstream media
conspired with John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page,
Christopher Steele, Hillary Clinton, the Washington Post, the New York Times,
Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, et. al. and now Americans cannot possibly believe
another word, another utterance from them.
They will not apologize to us.
That’s alright. Now we know too
much about the FISA warrants and the Steele dossier and we will not be so
easily deceived again.
The Deep State coup has
failed.
President Trump has
been hamstrung for two years. He has
persisted throughout this entire fantasy of the howling hyenas of the press. Jim Acosta can you hear me?
They railed against the
president when he called the press the "enemy of the people". They were convinced they were saving the
Republic. My ass.
Apologies are owed to
President Trump, his family, his Administration and to all the deplorables who
never lost faith in the man who promised to fight for the forgotten men and
women of this nation.
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Friday, March 22, 2019
The Caliphate Has Crumbled; Obama Should Be Along Any Minute Now To Take The Credit
US-led warplanes bombed
the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria today to flush out
holdout jihadists from the last sliver of their crumbling caliphate. The
bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote
village of Baghouz near the Iraqi border. The Kurdish-led Syrian
Democratic Forces (SDF) had paused its advance while it combed a makeshift
jihadist encampment, which it overran on Tuesday.
An SDF official who
asked not to be named said warplanes of the US-led coalition resumed strikes on
suspected jihadist positions before dawn on Friday. Top SDF commander Jia
Furat said his forces were engaging with the jihadists on several fronts while
the coalition warplanes provided air support. The US-led coalition said the
"operation to complete the liberation of Baghouz is ongoing".
President Trump, making
brief remarks to reporters after landing in Palm Beach, FL showed a before-and-after
map to demonstrate the extent of the caliphate’s losses during his presidency.
Some Islamic State
fighters remain holed up in the central Syrian desert, an area entirely
surrounded by the Syrian army.
Over the past two
months, more than 60,000 people have flooded out of the dwindling pocket on the
Euphrates around Baghouz, about half of them civilians including some Islamic
State captives, the SDF has said.
The capture of Baghouz was slowed out of concern for
thousands of civilian hostages.
The fate
of the self-described caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remains unknown. He has
been reported "killed" perhaps a half-dozen times. In 2017, a
Russian lawmaker said a Russian airstrike "close to 100
percent" killed him.
U.S. military officials
in Syria believe he is still alive, hiding out in the desert near the
Syria-Iraq border, based on communications intercepts and interviews with ISIS
detainees. Last August, ISIS released an audio recording purporting to be
Baghdadi, but he has not been heard from since.
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Thursday, March 21, 2019
Biden Wants To Show Us His “Package”
Today
we learned advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea
of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose
Stacey Abrams as his vice president. Abrams
lost her gubernatorial race to then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp by more than
50,000 votes.
She has been known to “regale
listeners with anecdotes about how she plotted her revenge following the Nov. 6
election last year.”
She ended her campaign
only when it became clear she had exhausted every possible option to overturn
the results of the election. And even when she ended her campaign, she refused
to concede she lost. She maintains to this day that Kemp won only because he
suppressed the vote.
Biden’s advisers argue Abrams would bring
diversity and youth to the ticket plus show Biden 'isn't just another old white
guy,' Axios reported.
According to a published
report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the sore loser met with Creepy
Uncle Joe in Washington a week ago in Washington to “discuss her next political
steps.”
The Biden camp floating this ginormous trial balloon is just
pandering to far-Left social justice warriors.
More likely, it’s a “gimmick” as many have asserted.
President Trump must’ve gotten wind of Joey
Plugs’ ploy and introduced his own Abrams tank while campaigning in Lima, OH
yesterday.
Biden is currently
being subjected to a barrage of criticism about his record on racially
sensitive issues, from his anti-busing
activism in the 1970s to his key role in the passage of anti-crime
legislation in the 1990s associated with mass incarceration. This line of
attack has endangered a key Biden political asset: his popularity
among African-American voters, mostly attributable to his two-term
partnership with The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer. Biden’s
already vulnerable to a loss of black support with two African-American rivals,
Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, in the field.
Months before the 2012
presidential election, Biden told a
mostly black audience that Mitt Romney and Republicans were going to put
them “back in chains.”
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An Undemocratic Power Grab
You pack sardines.
You don’t pack the courts.
As if we needed any
more evidence that Democrats are still
not taking their devastating 2016 election loss well, they want to pack the
U.S. Supreme Court.
In recent weeks, there
has been growing support for court-packing on the Left. A number of Democrat
presidential candidates have either endorsed the idea of expanding the size of
the Supreme Court to reverse the current 5-4 conservative majority among the
justices, or at least indicated they are open to it.
Those expressing such
views include Pete Buttgieg, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten
Gillibrand. Former Obama administration attorney General Eric Holder also
argues that the idea should be "seriously" considered. Presidential
candidate Robert Francis O'Rourke has suggested a plan to increase the
size of the court to fifteen justices: five Democrats, five Republicans, and
five more justices selected by the other ten.
Court-packing would destroy
the entire institution of judicial review by creating a pattern of escalation
under which each party would pack the court any time it simultaneously controlled
both Congress and the presidency. That would ensure the Court would almost
never rule against any significant initiative of the party in power, no matter
how dangerous and unconstitutional.
Apparently, Democrats
believe originalists like Antonin Scalia who was replaced by Justice Neil
Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh who was appointed when Justice Anthony Kennedy
announced his retirement, hold seances with our long-dead Founding
Fathers.
The Constitution and
the Bill of Rights continue to puzzle the current crop of loons seeking the
highest office in the land and our friends on the Left.
WATCH: 2020 candidates float plans to change Supreme Court by packing court or changing confirmation rules #MTPDaily pic.twitter.com/Nd5HtAcgLo— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) March 15, 2019
Scalia most notably
said, “As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to do what the people
want instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and
confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them
politically.”
The Supreme Court has
been set at nine seats since 1869, and the last attempt at packing the court
occurred in the 1937, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was frustrated
that the court had stymied some of his New Deal proposals. He proposed
appointing a new justice for every sitting justice over 70 years old.
The public was
horrified by visions of “Caesarism” and punished FDR’s Democrat Party in the 1938
midterm elections. It was the most
consequential legislative and political failure of the Roosevelt
Administration.
The 29-year-old
Bolshevik bartender from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, proclaimed
Democrats should “pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America” as a
way of kick-starting a left-wing
transformation of America.
As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is important to
remember there still exists other forms of government in the world. Those countries long for a
democracy such as ours.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Deception Is Not A Mistake; It's Calculating And Cold
Last week Robert
Francis “Beto” O’Rourke announced his candidacy for president. The Left went bonkers for the man many describe
as “Kennedyesque”.
Spare me.
The guy from El Paso
who looks more like Butthead from the MTV animated sitcom Beavis and Butthead mounted a Senate campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz
and lost with 48.3% of the vote to Cruz’s 50.8%. The race was close exciting Democrats who
have dreamed for years of turning Texas blue.
Joe Hagan, who wrote a
fawning piece on O’Rourke for Vanity Fair
said, “some people consider O’Rourke politically indistinct, even slippery.” Apparently, the guy who is slicker than owl
shit fancies himself the über
candidate.
Again,
spare me.
O’Rourke belonged to
the oldest group of computer hackers in U.S. history. The Cult of the Dead Cow was notorious for
releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running
Microsoft Windows. He stole long
distance telephone service so he “wouldn’t run up the phone bill.”
The Cult of the Dead
Cow’s website has a disclaimer that remains to this day. “Warning:
This site may contain explicit descriptions of or advocate one or more
of the following: adultery, murder,
morbid violence, bad grammar, deviant sexual conduct in violent contexts or the
consumption of alcohol and illegal drugs.”
Beto wrote kiddie snuff fiction
on that website. You read that right. He fantasized about murdering children by
running them over with a car.
"One day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles. This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams."
"As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head."
None, and I mean none, of this was known during his senate race against Cruz. A reporter for Reuters, Joseph Menn, knew about this man’s twisted mind back in 2017 and sat on it.
According to Menn, a reporter for Reuters, members of the hacking group were protecting O'Rourke's identity and wouldn't
confirm his affiliation unless the reporter promised not to write about it
until after the November election.
In an interview in late
2017, O’Rourke acknowledged that he was a member of the group, on the
understanding that the information would not be made public until after his
Senate race against Ted Cruz in November 2018,” Reuters wrote Friday in a piece headlined,
“Backstory: How Reuters uncovered Beto O'Rourke's teenage hacking days.”
So Reuters had evidence in 2017 that Beto may have committed multiple felonies—which Beto confirmed on the record—but deliberately withheld the story for over a year to help him win his Senate race? But when he’s running against Bernie etc, NOW it’s news? https://t.co/dUfrRPw1By— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 16, 2019
Democrats who would
stop at nothing to crucify Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his
confirmation hearings with unfounded accusations implore us not to judge the
musings of a teenaged Beto. O’Rourke’s
past is steeped in facts for all the world to see.
The media is in the
tank for Beto and a multitude of lemmings will be fooled by his honeyed words. They do not possess the intellect needed to
characterize people by their actions or sniff out a good line of bullshit.
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Flowing Curves Of Beauty
Whiskey
cost me my first marriage, my self-respect, my career, my ambition, all my
friends. So, I’m only giving it one more
chance.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Brackets Looking Nice And Neat Until They Get Busted
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Selection Sunday for
2019 The 2019 NCAA Tournament field of 68 was announced tonight with the Duke
Blue Devils taking the No. 1 overall seed and the ACC becoming the first
conference in a decade to get three No. 1 seeds from the same league. The Selection
Committee gave some crumbs to Belmont and Temple and dissed Alabama, TCU,
Indiana and NC State.
The unwritten rule of
March Madness is your brackets are going to suck. Thank goodness ESPN gives everybody an
opportunity to fill out a “Second Chance Bracket”.
Saturday, March 16, 2019
ACC Championship Game: Duke Vs Florida State
Last night’s semi-final
game in the ACC Tournament was the 6th ranked matchup between Duke and UNC to
be decided by a single point. Duke has
now won all six.
The game was tied 44-44
at the end of the half. The score was
tied again at 54-54 with 12:38 left on the clock and again at 63-63 with 8:53
remaining. Big ol’ Zion tied the game at
65-65 with a jumper at the 7:05 mark and the score would see-saw back and forth
until the clock showed 31 seconds remaining.
The finale was not for
the faint of heart. Williamson went for a
lay-up, missed it, rebounded his missed shot and managed to tap it in to take
the lead for good.
The win against the
Tarheels set up the title match tonight against Florida State; the
team that shocked the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers on Thursday night. UVA center Jack Salt dejectedly said of the
loss, “They punked us. They got us on
the glass. They got us in the lane. They just picked up apart.”
ZION STEALS AND SLAMS 💥 pic.twitter.com/AHlsuIOuPj— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 16, 2019
Six different teams have won the ACC Tournament over the last
seven years. The Noles were the champs
in 2012. That was then. This is now and only one team in the nation
has Zion Williamson. Charlotte loves
Duke so it’s like a home court advantage for the the Blue Devils.
In their only other meeting this year, the Blue Devils edged out
FSU 80-78 in Tallahassee. Former Duke
Center Christian Laettner wondered
on ESPN’s College Game Day whether Duke’s big guy would be too fatigued for
tonight’s game citing he showed signs of exhaustion on the court last night
against the Tarheels. He said he hopes
that’s not the case tonight because Duke is going to need “everything he’s got.”
I have a sneaking suspicion Zion is going to be totally stoked
for this Championship Game. Coach K
knows how to lead his team to victory. I’m
going with Duke to win it all and get a top seed in the NCAA March Madness Road
to the Final Four in Minneapolis.
Friday, March 15, 2019
It’s Time To Say “Go To Hell Carolina”
Last night my beloved Duke Blue Devils took the
court with college phenom forward Zion Williamson. After missing the final six games of the
regular season when his Nike shoe blew out causing a nasty knee sprain against the
Carolina Tarheels on February 21st, Zion commanded the court.
With just two minutes having elapsed at the
start of the game, Zion stole the ball from Syracuse’s Buddy Boeheim taking the
length of the floor and making a thunderous dunk.
Zion back pic.twitter.com/uLajsDwIak— Duke Basketball (@DukeMBB) March 15, 2019
A lot of folks were concerned
about Williamson’s conditioning after missing a month’s worth of games, but
those doubts were put to rest. The
285-pounder played a total of 36 minutes going 13-for-13 and scoring 29 points. He also had five steals, two assists, a block
and 14 rebounds.
Tonight, Duke meets the Tarheels in the ACC
Men’s Tournament Semi-Final Round. It’s
all about revenge. Carolina swept the Blue
Devils ONLY because the mighty Zion
was not on the roster. With the exception
of center Marques Bolden who is recovering from a knee sprain, Duke will be at
full strength.
Last night, Syracuse guard Frank Howard played
dirty by trying to trip Zion by sticking his leg out as Williamson was running
down the court. That was stupid. Zion must outweigh that popsicle stick by at
least 100 pounds.
Oh wow good catch by ESPN.— Basketball Society (@BBallSociety_) March 15, 2019
Frank Howard tries to trip Zion after his dunk earlier in the 1st half. pic.twitter.com/TXQVePlKM5
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