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Hiatus until College Football season is killing us, but... we'll be back at the beginning of August to cover everything college sports!!!

In the mean time, reminder that I will be on College Football Classified in about a half hour, so, listen to me babble on about Mizzou.  It's the only redeeming quality I have in life anyways.

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It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

So the NBA Playoffs start tomorrow. For me, this is Christmas and like a month of Jordan releases together. 4 games tomorrow, 4 more Sunday. And some of these matchups are really going to be interesting. Oklahoma City and Dallas I think is going to go 7. And don't be surprised if Dallas takes them out. This will be the Thunder's first time going into the playoffs expected to go deep. If it's 2-2 after 4 games, I think Westbrook and Durant will start to feel that pressure. Expectations can be a 1200 lb. gorilla. The other 1st round series I'm really looking forward to is Heat-Knicks. Flashback for a sec to the 1999 season. It was shortened by a lockout and the Heat's first-round opponent was......the Knicks. The Knicks had barely gotten into the playoffs and the Heat were favored by many to win the East. For those that don't remember, the Knicks won the series and ended up going to the Finals that year. Not saying it's going to happen again, but just found it ironic. Somewhere there is a LeBron hater hoping it happens so that it will justify their claims that he's a fraud. He's not a fraud. He should be MVP again. Hands down. I'm almost hesitant to make predictions because it's so tough to predict this year. I could stick to my pick from the beginning of the season: OKC vs. Miami. But you can't discount the Spurs, Lakers, or Bulls. One of those 5 teams will be the next NBA champion. It's really going to be about which superstar (LeBron,Wade, Durant, Westbrook, Parker, Kobe, or Rose) says "this is my ring". I can't wait to see it.

What's Wrong With The Heat?

So the Heat got beat by Boston by 19 points yesterday. Rondo had a triple-double. The Heat scored just 72 points. They went 10-7 in March. What's wrong with them? Nothing. They are the exact same team that went to the NBA Finals. I think people think that just because you take 2 of the top 5 players in the world and put them on the floor together it's a guaranteed ring. If that was the case there wouldn't be a lot of NBA champions. Let's face the facts, LeBron James may just be the best player in the NBA, regardless of how you feel about his "Decision" or late game miscues. Dwyane Wade is one of the best players in the league that doesn't get the shine he deserves because he plays with LeBron. Chris Bosh is an all-star at power forward and a gold medalist. Put those 3 together, championship, right? They lost in the NBA Finals for one reason. It's the one thing they're missing: chemistry. If you watch enough Heat basketball (and I do, they are spectacular at times), their offense is quite predictable. LeBron or Wade will penetrate and shoot or kick out for a 3, or Bosh will post up. Not quite the triangle. Good defensive teams (Chicago, L.A. Lakers, Boston) will find ways to make life difficult for the Big 3. All that said, I still think this team is too talented for Chicago to overtake them in the East at playoff time. I just don't know if they have what it takes to win it all in their current form. You look at Dallas last year, they always seemed to have someone ready to step up aside from Dirk. Even the Lakers recent title teams, guys like Artest, Ariza, Fisher, and Gasol came up big in crucial moments. Who is going to step up for Miami and be that consistent 10-15 a game scorer aside from the Big 3?

Saints Season Cancelled

BREAKING NEWS:

The NFL has suspended the entire Saints franchise for 2012.

No news yet on how this will effect the alleged St. Louis franchise. 

What if Michael Jordan never came back?

March is a historic month in basketball history. Everyone remembers March 2, 1962 for Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points. But what if I told you a 19 point game where a guy shot 7-28 was possibly the most important basketball game in the last 20 years? You'd probably think I'd lost my mind. But on March 19th, 1995, 17 years ago today, Michael Jordan suited up for an NBA game for the first time since Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals. That comeback influenced so much of what we have today. But what if it hadn't happened? It's quite possible that Shaq and Penny would have eventually become what Shaq and Kobe became in LA, at least the champions part. Remember it was the Magic in 1995 who knocked the Bulls out of the playoffs and drove Jordan to get back in shape and lead the Bulls to a sweep of the Magic on the way to the title in 1996. That sweep led Shaquille O'Neal to sign with the Lakers that summer. That summer also saw the Lakers make a deal that would give them the draft rights to a young player who went to the NBA straight from high school large part because he wanted to play against Jordan. That player's name was Kobe Bryant. And that Laker dynasty that Shaq and Kobe helped orchestrate? It was coached by Phil Jackson. Would Phil have 11 rings if Michael Jordan never came back? Probably not. We can even look at our shoes. When MJ retired, the basketball shoe game hit a bit of a lull. Jordans were still cool, but something about seeing Mike do work in them took our desire for them to the next level. So March 19th, 1995, Michael Jordan came back and the impact of that is still being felt even today. As a huge Jordan fan and in the vein of his 2 word fax that announced his comeback, I'll close with this: THANK GOD!

What we're buzzin' on March 20th

Must of been of those nights! 

Conweezie here, and since we aren't always buzzin' on booze...Here's some links!

What we're Buzzin' on!! March 19th

Conweezie is BACK again! Nothing new...BUT in the world of sports there's always something buzzin'! So since we aren't always buzzin' on booze...Here's some links!

College Hoops!

March MADNESS!!!

RECAPS!

-Iowa State v. Kentucky  //  Saint Louis v. Michigan State

-Kansas State v. Syracuse  //  Creighton v. North Carolina

-Gonzaga v. Ohio State  //  Purdue v. Kansas

-Murray State v. Marquette  //  Cincinnati v. Florida State

-Colorado v. Baylor  //  North Carolina State v. Georgetown 

-Vanderbilt v. Wisconsin  //  Norfolk State v. Florida

-VCU v. Indiana   //  Ohio v. South Florida

-New Mexico v. Louisville  //  Lehigh v. Xavier

NBA

SUNDAY RECAPS

-Hawks v. Cavaliers

-Pistons v. Clippers

-Timberwolves v. Kings

-Wizards v. Grizzlies

-Magic v. Heat

-Rockets v. Suns

-Jazz v. Lakers

-Trail Blazers v. Thunder

-Nuggets get Chandler

NFL

-Matt Flynn to Seahwaks

-Brady Quinn to chiefs

-NFL Draft Talk!

That's whats buzzin' for now!! 

Something something...Free agency

I'll have a recap of the NFL's free agency period after it ends. It seems pointless when it's constantly going on. Also, there will be a preview of this year's WR crop, soon.

NBA Trade Deadline Review

I'm not going to go into detail on every trade that took place at the deadline, because there weren't any of the blockbusters that have been discussed all year. One thing we learned is that a man can change his mind as much as a woman does about the position of the couch when your arms are tired from moving it. He stayed in Orlando, which I think was the best move for him. Going to New Jersey he would have been in a bigger market but on a team that probably will never go further than the conference semis at best. San Antonio got Stephen Jackson back, remember him from their '03 title run? Good move, but there will be no 2012 title run for San Antonio. The Clippers got Nick Young, but they still are the 2nd best team in LA based on the fact that they lost to Phoenix at home this week with Steve Nash and Grant Hill on the bench. Biggest winners in my mind at the deadline are the Lakers. They addressed their point guard situation and improved their size off the bench. They now have to be considered a threat in the West again. The Eastern Conference teams didn't do much at the deadline, except for the Nets getting Gerald Wallace during the Portland fire sale. In the spirit of March Madness, your NBA Final Four will be Los Angeles (Lakers) vs. OKC and Miami vs. Chicago. I'm out like Mizzou in the tourney (sorry Robby).