Chattin’ live on the NCAA tourney, propped-up-feet and all
The channel I'm watching, alas, is NOT truTV. (Photography and pedicure by M. Bradley)
Charlotte — Welcome to our third annual live chat off the Thursday afternoon NCAA tournament games. The first two years weren’t without controversy. In 2009 you folks made fun of my TV. Last year the Milwaukee Hyatt impelled me to relocate to Major Goolsby, a sports bar across the street, by delivering the sobering news that it did not offer room service for lunch.
(For breakfast, yes. For dinner, yes. Just not for lunch. Are you kidding me?)
But I digress. And now I move to this year’s issue: Of the 65 channels available on the wide-screen TV here at the Civic Center Marriott, truTV isn’t among them. I confess that I’d never heard of truTV until it came a carrier of NCAA games, but now I know what it is. And it’s not here. So I’m going to miss those games today.
My life: Drama untold.
And here we are again. I’m pretty sure the Marriott offers at least a tuna sandwich if not truTV, so I should be OK. For early games we’ve got Clemson-West Virginia, Butler-Old Dominion (though I won’t see it), Louisville-Morehead State and Temple-Penn State. Those are pretty good games, you’ll have to concede. And I’ll try my best to offer semi-cogent commentary until around 4 p.m., at which time I need to head for the arena for Washington’s media availability.
Thanks to all who entered Bradley’s Bracket Fiasco. (Entries are closed.) Thanks to all who dare to hang with me this afternoon. And away, as the Great One would say, we go.
By Mark Bradley
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Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:33 pm
Lunch has arrived.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
1:33 pm
Barkley’s strong suit is speaking his mind.
Nice of him to do u a favor.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
1:34 pm
I’ll be right over.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:35 pm
I can recommend the chicken sandwich, if you happen to be in Charlotte stuck in your room.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
1:35 pm
Coach K recruits kids that have the integrity to be Duke players. All others need not apply.
Tony Parker from Miller Grove is a private school kid? Somebody better tell him
SOUTH GA DAWG FAN
March 17th, 2011
1:35 pm
take barkley out for a round of golf to repay the favor and try not to laugh the entire round.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
1:37 pm
Huggins still has the fire, he is just sober now!
JSS
March 17th, 2011
1:43 pm
“Coach K recruits kids that have the integrity to be Duke players.”
Quin Snyder has some heck of some integrity!
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
1:43 pm
Honest Abe
Hill says it better than me and I encourage all to read his complete remarks.
Hill notes that he would not have said positive things as he did to Rick Sund when he was thinking of dropping Jimmy King had he known how these guys felt.
Problem is too many will hear their remarks in the movie and go no further.
If Duke recruits players who actually might thrive on their campus, more power to them.
Maybe they should be copied instead of all the colleges that come up with cheesy majors to get players of sports through.
Mel from Atlanta
March 17th, 2011
1:49 pm
Look for the UGA DAWGS to be NCAA basketball champs here in the next couple of weeks.
Michael
March 17th, 2011
1:50 pm
Yep…Clemson’s legs appear to have left them.
todd grantham
March 17th, 2011
1:51 pm
an aside. The Great One said “And away we go!!” Journalistic integrity forces me to look for errors.
Tim
March 17th, 2011
1:52 pm
Come on, Mark. I’m watching TruTV from Johannesburg, South Africa. CBSSports.com
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:54 pm
Sorry. Had to eat. Then the computer required multiple restarts.
Louisville down 7-0 to Morehead State. West Virginia pulling away.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
1:54 pm
Morehead State, the poster school for the series of dirty sounding school names that appeared on caps years ago, shutting out Louisville through the first media timeout.
honest_abe
March 17th, 2011
1:54 pm
ya jackets assuming we take your advice there would no such thing as ncaas considering 90% of all schools use these “cheesy” majors. kudos to tech for not allowing it. they are a beacon of light in the dark world of college athletics. “laughing out loud”
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:55 pm
I’ve been getting an e-mail every day about how Donnie Tyndall of Morehead State should be Georgia Tech’s next coach. Imagine if the Eagles win.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:56 pm
All those e-mails come from the same person, by the way. His first name is Marlon.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
1:56 pm
So there’s no consensus on the opinion that the world needs more general studies majors? I, for one, am shocked.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:57 pm
About Morehead State: It’s about 45 minutes from Maysville, my hometown. I had my first fender bender in Morehead. The year was 1972.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
1:57 pm
is the morehead st and louisville game on tv?
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:57 pm
I majored in general studies, FYI.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
1:58 pm
geez 1972
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
1:59 pm
I wish I had Mark, I could’ve saved myself a ton of money in student loans.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
1:59 pm
10-zip Morehead.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:00 pm
Morehead-U of L is on TBS.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:01 pm
JJM-its on TBS. The scoreboard they have at the top tells you which network the games are on. That being said, I still had to hit my recall button to figure it out. Old habits die hard in these technological times.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:01 pm
Morehead up 15-2.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:02 pm
15-5 Morehead
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:02 pm
Check out Kenneth Faried of MSU. He’s the guy with the hair.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:04 pm
ok I see it now. thanks
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:04 pm
Faried is going to make himself a lot of NBA money today.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:05 pm
Butler up 1 on ODU, best game of the day so far, pity you have to depend on the hotel’s internet to see Mark, it looks great on my 47 inch LCD.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:05 pm
Know who went to Morehead? Phil Simms.
Know who was an assistant coach at Morehead? Mike Smith.
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:06 pm
Just read Grant Hill’s remarks.
I picked the wrong point to make obviously.
I think I read first an article in Fox News that referenced Hill’s column and had a link.
I can’t get folks to read books I read so maybe there is a little hope for this article since it is so much shorter.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:07 pm
Wow, Leslie Visser looks rough. The first wave of hot sideline reporters are fading away.
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:08 pm
I sat by Lesley Visser when Kentucky lost to UAB in the 1981 tournament. She was with the Boston Globe then.
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:08 pm
If you’re male……is there a better school to cheer for than, “Morehead”?
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:09 pm
Look, Duke under Coach Mike Krzyzewski just did not recruit the inner city or the high profile public school leagues until after the Hurley/Hill/Lattener classes… The class with Battier, Brand, and Magnette were elite players who were actively sought (putting it bluntly “recruited”) by prep type schools like Detroit Country Day, Fenwick in Oak Park, IL, and Peekskill. Since then, he’s gone after some Midwest quasi public school kids like the Plumlee brothers. Still, he really doesn’t and hasn’t recruited like Ray Meyer did or Al McGuire did at equally academically hard institutions…
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
2:09 pm
I bet she was much better looking then.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:09 pm
I dont have morehead st winning on any of my 10 espn brackets and have louisville making it to the sweet 16 on some…..
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:10 pm
nice pass
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
2:11 pm
Louisville starting to settle.
Not surprised Morehead got off to a flying start. If you’re Morehead, you live to play a Louisville.
J.J.M.
March 17th, 2011
2:11 pm
lmao@guy good one..
Guy Incognito
March 17th, 2011
2:11 pm
It’ll take a WVU collapse in the final 5 min for Clemson to move on
Tucker T
March 17th, 2011
2:12 pm
Is it still true that Butler has not shot a free throw yet?
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:12 pm
Hill’s very good rebuttal in the NY Times will not be read.
Probably the best rebuttal of the Fab Five’s insults was Duke’s beating them.
JSS
March 17th, 2011
2:13 pm
Yeah there is always Austin Peay! “The Fly (Williams) is open, let’s go Peay!”
Jackets 2011
March 17th, 2011
2:14 pm
Getting late for the Tigers but not out for the count yet.
joe
March 17th, 2011
2:14 pm
We don’t need to see your toe jam…I threw up in my mouth a little…