Last Week Before The Storm.

This week Rocky Mount High school travels to Tarboro on Wednesday to play in an endowment game. First pitch is set for 7p.m.

Then Saturday, Wilson Hunt travels to Gryphon Stadium for a non-conference game. This was supposed to be the third Saturday of six in a row for the Gryphons. March 14 was a rainout with Riverside High School. This past Saturday was much the same as Hunt had to make up a conference game.

The Gryphons will try again on Saturday to play a Saturday game with Hunt . Game time is 1 p.m.

Boys tennis is home Tuesday to Southern Nash and at SW Edgecombe on Thursday. Girls softball is at SouthWest on Tuesday and at Tarboro on Wednesday. Both games start at 4.30 p.m.

Girls soccer is at SouthWest Wednesday at 5 p.m and they play in The Brittany in Wilson on Saturday at 5.30. Track has a meet at Northern Nash Wednesday and Saturday the teams will participate in an invitational meet at Southeast Guilford starting at 10 a.m.

Baseball begins conference play next Tuesday at 7 at Northern Nash. Mark your calendars for that one.

Lady Tar Heels fall in the women's NCAA tournament tonight.

Do you have any idea which NCAA men's game over the weekend was the most watched. Duke and Texas. Now you know why Duke always seems to play the 10 p.m. games. Duke in basketball is like Notre Dame is in football. You either love'em or hate'em, but regardless. you watch'em.

It time to start paying attention to college baseball. Just like football and basketball, the baseball race is coo-coo.

In the Atlantic division, BC with a 4-3 record is on top followed by Clemson at 5-4. They are the only teams in conference play above 500. Florida State is at 3-4, N.C. State and Maryland 3-6 and Wake is 1-8.

In the coastal division, Georgia Tech is 8-1, Miami is 7-2 followed by Virginia at 5-2. Carolina, which has lost only four games all year, is only 5-3 in conference play. UNC is followed by Duke 5-4 and Virginia Tech is 2-6.

If there was ever any questions about Billy Godwin as ECU's baseball coach, he has put that to bed this year. Beginning his fourth year at ECU, the Pirates are off to a 15-4 start. If they keep scoring the way they are now, it will be hard not for them to host a regional come June.

Does anyone remember Billy was one of Mike Fox's assistant coaches on N.C. Wesleyan's 1989 national championship team?

Big East Dominating

We are down to 16 teams left with a chance to win the NCAA men's basketball championship. So far the Big East has lost only two games and those two games they had a chance to win.

Completely opposite of that the ACC has only two teams left and except for Florida State. the other four ACC losers were never in their games they lost. BC was close at the half only to lose by more than 20. Wake Forest gave up three three points in the first two minutes of their game and pretty much quit after that. Clemson played the Clemson role as they do every year. Quick start slow finish.

Maryland did make it to the second round where they said out loud what I think everyone thinks that Memphis plays in a poor league. Yes they do play in a poor league but Memphis would be in the top four of any league. Memphis shut Maryland up rather easily.

On to the sweet 16 where you had better get your sleep early in the week as Duke plays the 10.00pm game on Thursday and Carolina plays at 10.00 on Friday.

Duke will be in Boston and Carolina in Memphis. Duke plays Villanova. Back last week when filling out my brackets I picked Duke to lose this game. I am not so sure now. That game might be a nail biter to the finish.

All Carolina fans can finally breathe now that Ty Lawson played and looked like Ty Lawson on Saturday. We are to the point now where there will be no blow outs but I think Gonzaga is a good matchup for Carolina.

My brackets are not bad. I still have 11 of the top 16 alive and my final four is in tacked in one bracket. My other three brackets I have three final four teams alive. My gamble to put Florida State in the final four turns out to be my down fall.

I should start moving up in the brackets if things go my way but the biggest problem is catching up when other players have the same picks.

I have not watch five innings of the World Baseball Classic. USA was knocked out last night by Japan. Japan plays South Korea tonight for the championship.

I have in the past been a big Nascar fan. I have even hosted a Nascar show on WHIG-TV for the past three years. I am having a devil of a time getting into racing this year. The auto makers about the fold Nascar is going to have to get off their high horse and reduce ticket prices. Even Bristol yesterday the best race on the Nascar tour had empty seats.

I haven't been to a Nascar race since the last one at Rockingham in 2003 because of the high ticket prices.