So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushover like "Lugnut Tech State A&M."Working off a combination of Lunardi's projection, the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, and pure speculation, here comes the first ever Rundown ranking of the top ten l
Wikimedia CommonsWish you were here!An article in Sunday's New York Times touts the university campus as the hot new tourist destination. Universities, you see, usually have at least one picturesque corner or impressive building (fit for the cover of the admissions catalog), some sort of historical landmark, maybe a museum or two for cultural edification and some legendary restaurant or pizza joint nearby, usually spoken of with wistful nostalgia by misty-eyed alumni.(Except for my beloved under
flickr.com/photos/markoweIt was at the Lindenwood University cycling team's second meet of the season at DePauw University that Paddy Kilmurray, the team captain, first butted heads with his coach, Adrienne Murphy."After the meet," recalls team member Addison Bain, 19, "she took us to a pub. She ordered four pitchers of beer and bought a shot of Jägermeister for one of the athletes." Bain claims his coach was intoxicated. "She started putting us down and told us we needed to step-up with the tr
Wikimedia CommonsRaymond BurkeFormer St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, now head of the Vatican's supreme court, is determined to stop President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement speech May 17 at University of Notre Dame. On Friday, Burke told Catholics at a prayer breakfast: "The proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame
University to our president, who is so aggressively advancing an
anti-life and anti-family agenda, is rightly the source of the greatest
scandal." B
flickr.com/photos/justin_caseCalendar says it Friday, time for another round of Ass Clown candidates. You know the deal, vote for your favorite ignominious boob of the week. Back at you Monday with the results. 1. Maliea Martin: The 20-year-old resident of Hannibal, Missouri, made headlines this week when she used her baby to shield police from shooting her ex-boyfriend with a Taser. 2. Brendon Delaney: The 25-year-old Delaney was charged this week with biting off the ear of another man during a