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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JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:00 pm
Come on Oakland!!!
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
That winning shot was pure. Didn’t touch rim.
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
Temple-PSU coming down to the wire
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
Go Nittany Lions! I need you to lose to SDSU on Saturday.
gdawginkalamazoo
March 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
Stuffed him. Bam! Dude should have been practicing his three point shot instead of getting all tatted up.
Metro Coach
March 17th, 2011
4:01 pm
Morehead State can play with Vandy and/or Richmond, wouldn’t surprise me to see them make the Sweet 16.
Dawg Boy
March 17th, 2011
4:02 pm
How can y’all say your bracket is busted? Did you have Louisville beating Kansas? I would guess everyone had Louisville winning 1, probably 2, games. You’re not in that boat by yourself
SoGA
March 17th, 2011
4:02 pm
2-1 here…but who cares…..go nittany lions
Stein
March 17th, 2011
4:03 pm
Mark, What have I missed so far?
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:03 pm
that by MOREHEAD STATE was awesome
SOUTH GA DAWG FAN
March 17th, 2011
4:04 pm
I really don’t care if it does bust my bracket it would be no fun at all if all the favorites won.
cinderella has arrived
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:04 pm
LOVED IT…go big east
Mark Bradley
March 17th, 2011
4:04 pm
Headed over to the arena for press conferences. Thanks for sticking with me all day. We’ll do it again as soon as I clip my toenails
Mr. Holmes
March 17th, 2011
4:05 pm
Almost four games in the books, three of them down to the wire. Run on nitroglycerin in Vegas.
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:06 pm
butler and ol d great game…love coverage of every game…wearing out a remote though
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:07 pm
If Fran Duffy wins a NCAA game, that is the Cubs winning the World Series!
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:08 pm
In the Universe range!
Timmy
March 17th, 2011
4:09 pm
Did I really have Old Dominion in the final 4 ? I should atleast take up drugs if up going to do weird wacky idiot stuff like that .
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:09 pm
TMI Mark Bradley! But Rex Ryan thanks you!
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:11 pm
Timmy, they missed lay ups… Don’t feel bad…
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:11 pm
what a bb feast just saw Temple hit the game winner with .04
Paul in RDU
March 17th, 2011
4:12 pm
What a win by Temple
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:12 pm
King Juan! The Cubs win the World Series! The Cubs win the World Series!
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:13 pm
heck my bracket is getting killed and I do not care
JSS
March 17th, 2011
4:16 pm
I keep telling all these folks panicking over the coaching openings; there are a lot of good young coaches out there for realistic programs to pick from…
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:19 pm
pitt only up by 5 at 1\2..please blow up my picks some more…go big easterly
Beast from the East
March 17th, 2011
4:22 pm
Had Louisville in the Final 4. My bracket’s already toast 4 hours in!
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:27 pm
just been wanting to say this …Bammer fans probably blame UGA for not making the tourney…should blame tenneersee …beat DAWGS on home floor with an off. rebounding foul…lost to UGA on their home floor….went 19-14…coach is a liar…finished behind UGA in the east…do not look at the DAWGS…look at the vols…least deserving sec team in the tourney
5150 UOAD
March 17th, 2011
4:32 pm
MARK BRADLEY
I think you need to talk with THOMPKINS to find his FOOT FETISH GIRL to do some work on your Concrete Pounding Pedals.
Clemson got screwed playing late then early. ACC hatred in that schedule.
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
4:37 pm
Princeton could blow the other 3% of the brackets!
I’ll take brains over playground any day.
Dores will win too!
bucket
March 17th, 2011
4:40 pm
@ Beast … Don’t feel bad – I did, too!!!! Dang it! I had them beating FLA to go to championship game only to lose to Ohio State! Guess I’ll have to buy my own IPAD!
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
4:43 pm
bucket,
Like your pick in the final.
5150 UOAD
March 17th, 2011
4:45 pm
Mark
Has you been chewing your finger nails on this Kentucky game?
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
4:48 pm
Hang on Princeton!
bucket
March 17th, 2011
4:49 pm
@ Buckeye – figured you would. I’m a Dawg fan, but I have no illusion’s of grandeur for them. Besides, Bradley’s already given them the kiss of death by putting them in the Sweet 16! I would like for him to be right for once!
kral
March 17th, 2011
4:54 pm
I AM AN SEC MAN…but not a callipher fan…he is sweatin….love it
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
4:56 pm
bucket,
I’ll be pulling for you. Might night be awake at the end…..
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
4:59 pm
Princeton may not pull this off but they are a good looking team.
Einsteindawg
March 17th, 2011
5:00 pm
Mark, I noticed the spacing of your toes. Are you able to turn pages and hold a pen with those feet?
bucket
March 17th, 2011
5:00 pm
I know what you mean kral. I hate to see coaches that always come out smelling like a rose after they have gotten a program in trouble.
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
5:01 pm
He called glass to go down 2. Not a fluke!
kral
March 17th, 2011
5:02 pm
give’m elll!!!! boys…still sweatin’ callipher
kral
March 17th, 2011
5:04 pm
bust my bracket some more big PRIN..2pt. got the ball
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
5:04 pm
Kral,
For the next minute, you and I are on the same team! Might not be a good day to be a 4.
bucket
March 17th, 2011
5:06 pm
Money!!! I am a college football guy, but there is no sporting event like the NCAA tournament!
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
5:06 pm
Will KY milk it all the way down??? WIll Princeton foul?
kral
March 17th, 2011
5:07 pm
time- out callipher..tie…sweatin low..area loving it
Skeezix
March 17th, 2011
5:07 pm
Mark’s feet aren’t so bad–at least he still has two big toes.
Buckeye
March 17th, 2011
5:08 pm
Crap
bucket
March 17th, 2011
5:08 pm
Did Knight just save them?