The Final Four and My Biased Opinion

Right, the Final Four for March Madness in American College basketball begins tonight and I'm excited at least half. Being in Wales and the difficulty this brings with regards to scheduling I've discovered the NCAA tournemant this year to be on at very pleasing times, 10pm!, meaning I can actually watch it through the official website without getting too tired.

So the team for me? Well there are 3 ways I can view it, each ultimately linking back to my shortsited bias to the Utah Jazz.

First we have Butler - VCU at 11pm. Here I have 2 options for my massive desire. Butler on the one hand was the team that current Utah player Gordon Hayward led to the final last year and so deserves my current support; VCU on the other hand is the college of Eric Maynor whom Utah drafted 2 years ago and was tragically traded to save money, against my will. Both Eric and Gordon tweet well so I am torn.

In the second game it's Connecticut - Kentucky, a game I won't be watching as it's on later. Now according Facebook Kentucky is my "despised" team. This is because I've been following BYU this year, an uncool Mormon Univeristy, and Kentucky are the antithesis of this being the place all the cool top players go. Inspite of this I mainly feel indifference towards them. UCONN on the other hand have Kemba Walker who is a potential Utah player next year, how could I support against that?

This all leaves me with a dilema and I think it means I want Butler to win, one because it is a funny name for a university and I had an old ice hockey teammate called Butler, and two because I currently like Gordon Hayward a lot. There we are, should be good. I better eat, and dodgy smelling venison awaits!

Rugger

In all my time in Wales the 6 Nations has finally gone quite well from an England point of view.  While the Grand Slam will require a difficult victory today this year is the first time there hasn't been some shame for me as an Englishman in Wales.  Usually either England do respectably but lose to Wales or they just fail around with mediocrity, so it's nice that such glorious beasts should at least win the championship this year.  Yay!

In other news I'd like BYU to do well in March Madness - NCAA Div I Basketball Tournament.  I've got a few fantasy games reliant on this as my decisions are always based on the 1 team I know about that year.  I played canoe polo for the first time in 4 months and fortunately my throwing arm was a beast in drills and war ups, in a game though it made me hit the goal post a few times and that was it.  Also the gaping empty chasm that was once my fitness required me to do a lot of fouls to try and keep up with people or to stop them getting away in a feeble last few minutes of the game.  Next week though...