Random This And That

I thought the ACC basketball tournament being in Washington DC was excellent while the games were going on.  The intense championship game between Virginia and Carolina was as good as any when in Greensboro.

I have fill out my brackets and am ready for Thursday.  You know this year seems to be as wide open as any as ever before as to who might win it all.  Many think that this is the year of a 10 seed pulling off the title but I'm of the opposite thinking.  I think the winner will come from the top five seeds.  Carolina, Kansas, Michigan State or Virginia.  I have as many as five brackets in play so far ESPN, CBS Sports line, and WRAL.Com and have Carolina on two of them, Kansas on another, Virginia on one and Michigan State.

This week high school baseball teams will still be playing non-conference games.  Next week the Big East season will start with two games next week and then a week off for teams playing in Easter Tournaments the week after Easter.  The first week in April it will be four weeks of conference play.

I spoke earlier that I thought Mike Giminski was the best ACC color Analyzist.  I don't know how Duke does it but Jay Bilas is by far the best network in studio analyzer of them all.  Even on CBS  one of their top talk guys is Seth Davis another Dookie.

If you did not see the ESPN 30-30 show on the Duke Lacrosse scandal you missed maybe the best one they have ever done.  It laid out what happened, what pressure was applied to convict without any evidence, and a prosecutor desperate to win an election and his willingness to do what it took to convict despite what the evidence showed.  It makes you wonder whether a District Attorney should be an elected official.

The three have landed on their feet since 2006.  David Evans had already graduated from Duke before he was indicted.  Got his MBA at Wharton College and now works for Apax Partners an investment Company in New York City.   Collin Finnerty transfer to Loyola Maryland.  Today is and investment banker with Deutsche Bank in New York City.  Reade Seligmann graduated from Brown University and law degree from Emory University, is a lawyer in Westfield NJ.  They all got a wad of money from Duke in a settlement.

Watching the show I thought of the Henry Fonda film in the 1940's called the Ox Bow Incident in which a lynch mob goes after the first people they can find to hang them only to find out later that the sheriff  caught the crooks who had all the locals upset.  Assuming guilt before proof is something that goes on regularly even today because there are so many special interest groups that benefit from lighting fires when there is no fire.