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Olivia Wilde, who first caught our attention as the lesbian girlfriend of Mischa Barton on "The O.C." and is now some kind of big-shot movie star. Gee, I wonder why.
The brackets are out, and you may have noticed we've started with our derelictable bracket breakdowns. You'll need these in order to win your pools. For real.
Three teams from the state of Michigan are in the field, and I'd like to give the Detroit Free Press kudos for its sports headline today: Three to tango. Clever.
Michigan has the highest seed of any of the teams, coming in at a No. 8 in the West, and drawing Tennessee in the opening round. Tennessee isn't a bad draw for the Wolverines, but it's by no means easy. The tough part, however, comes with having to face Duke in the second round. Unless, of course, Hampton pulls off the first ever 16-over-1 upset. In the words of Kevin Garnett: "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!" (AnnArbor.com)
The Spartans, meanwhile, get a 10 seed, and have to be as happy as any team who started out the season and dropped all the way to a 10 seed can be with their draw. State opens with UCLA, and has by far the weakest of the two seeds (Florida) in its quad. The three seed is BYU, and the one seed is Pitt. I refuse to get caught up in this trap again, but MSU could make a run in this bracket if it plays like it did against Purdue. If we get Penn State/rest of the season Spartans, UCLA will be playing in the second round. (LSJ)
Oakland was the team that I was going to ride a little bit on the upset train, then it drew Texas in the first round. Not that I don't think Oakland can beat Texas, it's just that, well, Texas is actually a very good basketball team, and definitely worthy of something higher than a four seed. When you do what Oakland did during the regular season -- beefing up its nonconference, and winning some of those games -- you get a bit of a reward by being named a 13 seed. That reward isn't as awesome when the committee vastly under-seeds your opponent. (DetNews)
If you didn't catch the Fab Five documentary on ESPN Sunday night, do yourself a favor and watch one of the 36 times it's repeated. For anybody in the 25-35 range, this was a peak into our childhood. A look at the team that changed a lot about college basketball, really, and when we were witnessing it at the time, I don't think a lot of us grasped the cultural significance of it. At least not for a 9/10 year old in Alma, Michigan. I just thought they were super fun to watch. (The Quad)
This is refreshing. To me, funding education is the most important thing for federal and state governments. Without an educated populace, we're doomed to lag even further behind in the future. And while it seems like we're a nation of dumbasses at times, imagine what it would be like if all of us were the product of under-funded and forgotten schools. (The Oval)
Here's your daily Japan update. It's crazy and heart-breaking all at the same time. (Washington Post)
This is incredibly callous and mean-spirited, but today's Amazingness is "We'll Become Silhouettes" by The Postal Service:
