College Hoops Saturday - Laredos's L___ P_pe _ock

I'm sorry I haven't posted the Super Bowl preview/Rambo review yet, but it's only because I have been extremely f'd up over the last 18 hours. I am in the middle of my tailgate/pregame phase for Super Bowl XLII. I'm this close to posting up in Wal-Mart with some beers, getting their display barbecue fired up, and yelling "show me your tits" to everybody who walks by me. It'll be like that guy who is living in an Ikea, except Wal-Mart wouldn't appreciate the free advertising I would be giving them by having to be dragged out of the store, while I was accusing the police of calling me the "n-word". The article will be written for Sunday morning...I still need to get my feelings for the game garnered, and my mind isn't right for predicting the big game. But college basketball? I can predict that all day. Two games. Two locks. Let's go.....

Miami Hurricanes (-15) at #3 Duke, Kirk Cameron Indoor Arena, 3:30 ABC

Duke basketball reminds me of one of my favorite movies, White Men Can't Jump. It starts out with a white guy, who's pretty good at basketball, and he plays in a pickup game with a bunch of brothas. If you're me, you're rooting for the white guy to blow his Achilles and have the movie end right there. But that doesn't happen, and the white guy teams up with the black guy to rule the courts of L.A. Duke is the white guy, buy I can never root for them. I know the outcome is going to be a ending that screams, "if we all work together, we can all win in the end!" I hate that shit. I want MIA to win, and not do it graciously...they won't, BUT they will cover...Duke wins 82-70. Next...

Arizona (-9) at #5 UCLA, Pauley Shore Pavillion (or Paulie Walnuts Pavilion), 9 ESPN

UCLA has a sick squad, and they should get to the Final Four (again). Zona has a couple of bona fide NBA guys (Bayless and Budinger) who can keep them in games against anybody. The problem with UCLA is that they aren't going to play a tempo that's going to allow them to have a nine-point lead, at the end of the game. They grind it out, and play fundamentally on both ends of the floor. Nothing wrong with it, but it is as boring as a paragraph where I really talk about X's and O's (like this last one). UCLA wins 78-72

That's all...I need to get more blood in my alcohol stream, so I'm going to take a nap, but we're less than 32 hours away from the Super Bowl...I can't wait...