As March Madness spills into April Idiocy…

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 24th, 2008

…Things get interesting.

The Female Half surged yesterday. She had Tennessee, Louisville, UNC, Texas and Memphis. As the points puff up (two per win in this round!), she was able to come to within nine of current pool leader The Male Half. (His Sunday was dismal– backing Oklahoma, Miami and Mississippi hurt him badly.)

On Saturday The Female Half picked up ten, while The Male Half picked up a respectable eight.

In the the next round, each win nets four points. At least according to the NYT.

Careful readers of this publication know that CBS in-studio sports anchor Seth Davis did standup for a year in NYC. (“It was 98 per cent a hobby,” he says. “But I held up hope there’d be a network exec in the audience who’d insist on giving me a sitcom.” — USA Today, 2/28/06)

But it was analyst Clark Kellog who takes the prize for perhaps the funniest comment (and quite possibly the most obscure reference) of the tourney: When his colleague (Was it Billy Packer?) commented that one of the players resembled Jimi Hendrix, Kellogg, without missing a beat, said, “Now the question is: Is he experienced?” Hardcore Hendrix fans (and viewers over the age of 48) were thrilled.

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