The NCAA has decided to eliminate both Syracuse and Marquette on the Road to the Final Three.

I'm not too worried about North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un's threats.
He's still busy celebrating their World Baseball Classic championship.

Sidney Crosby got Douglas C. Niedermeyer'd by Pens d-man Brooks Orpik.

I have now watched Trey Burke's 3-pointer more times than Oliver Stone has viewed the Zapruder film.

The Jayhawks in the Sweet Sixteen: goofiest looking bunch from Kansas since the cast of Wizard Of Oz.

The NCAA's South Regional is in Cowboys Stadium.
Jerry Jones is drawing up some plays to share with the teams during their timeouts this weekend.

Yankee Stadium is like Field Of Dreams, where all these old star ballplayers from the past appear.

I can't help but think instead of the Shockers, Wichita State should be the Linemen.

Florida Gulf Coast did more damage to Barack Obama's weekend than North Korea and the Mideast combined.

Costa Rica will protest its World Cup qualifying loss vs the U.S. in a Denver blizzard.
To be fair, the pitch looked like Tony Montana's rec room.
When did soccer become part of the Winter X Games?

Apparently, my bracket's "Road To The Final Four" went through the hedge maze in The Shining.

TSN/RDS have extended their CFL broadcast rights through 2018.
They want to make sure they show Paul McCallum's last game.

With the Big Ten basketball conference season over, I see their refs picked up some side work as judges at the Skating Worlds.

Alex Kovalev retired. It's unclear whether the Rangers, Penguins or Canadiens will float his jersey from their rafters.

I'm starting my own NFL franchise.
We're currently $123 million under the salary cap.

Their first postseason win ever was the greatest achievement by Harvard students since they invented Facebook.

Cal beat UNLV in San Jose at the East Regional.
Is it any wonder they say today's American students have a poor grasp of geography?

After each game, Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk has to get back to the Game Of Thrones set.

Two rockets from Gaza hit southern Israel as President Obama was leaving Jerusalem.
They might have been bunker busters.
That's okay - this week, Barack is more worried about bracket busters.

Saint Louis got stuck in New York traffic on the way to the airport after the Atlantic 10 tourney and had to watch the Selection Sunday show inside a New Jersey Best Buy. (They're a 4-seed.)
On their way back out, an employee tried to sell them an extended warranty on their season.

What happened to the 1915 Millionaires on Retro Night in Vancouver?
By the end of the game it resembled the 1919 stock market crash.
Actually, stocks in 1919 performed better than the Canucks current power play.

The Miami Heat's winning streak is now longer than many of their players can count.

Team USA was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic in Miami by Puerto Rico.
Further proof it's tough to win on the road.

Wisconsin with 6 points in the first 13+ minutes versus Michigan at the Big Ten Tournament.
They look lost without their peach baskets in Chicago.

The Baltimore Ravens haven't even got their Super Bowl rings yet and a third of their starters are gone.
That's going to be the most awkward jewelry presentation since Kobe Bryant.

The Canucks will wear retro 1915 jerseys for the first time versus the Red Wings Saturday night, and Roberto Luongo showed off his Vancouver Millionaires mask.
It's retro 1915 - he should have gone for a vintage World War I gas mask look.

Dennis Rodman, Kim Jong-un and Pope Francis to star in Three Amigos remake.

Fellow Argentine Manu Ginobili says there's no chance this new pope will be a flop.

No winner after the first ballot for a new pope.
If they are deadlocked after the 2nd round, they will settle it on penalty kicks.

The Netherlands beats Cuba 7-6 in the bottom of the 9th and celebrates advancing to San Francisco, the mecca of PEDs.

Is there an unreported SARS outbreak in Japan?
I've noticed people wearing those surgical masks in the stands at the WBC.
I can't imagine attending a baseball game and self-imposing barriers between hot dogs, beer and one's mouth.

That Mexican pitcher repeatedly went after the Canadian hitter like he was a piñata.
Which was ironic, considering for much of the game the Mexicans played like they were swinging a stick while blindfolded.

Scandal at the WBC in Tokyo: Japanese players are being investigated for performance enhancing sushi.

The mercy rule has advanced to the WBC finals in San Francisco.

Gang violence at the Canada-Mexico World Baseball Classic game.
Hey - Mexico's tourism board only wishes 1-in-3 of their pitches could hit a Canadian.

The World Baseball Classic announcers were calling the game over if 10-run lead after 7 innings the "early termination rule".
I guess you could call that last RBI needed to get the game within 9 "Logan's Run".

The Pyongyang Times coverage of the World Baseball Classic has been a little sketchy.
Example first round score: North Korea 43 USA 0.

Milwaukee Brewers GM Doug Melvin was stung by a scorpion inside his Scottsdale hotel room.
Many of us have been stung in hotel rooms, but it's usually by the bill for the mini-bar.

Evil Dead remake premiered in Austin Friday night.
Blackhawks fans thought Evil Dead referred to the last-place Avalanche in Denver.

It doesn't look like Cuba is low on food anymore.

The Netherlands beat Cuba 6-2 at the World Baseball Classic.
It was the most poorly received Cuban performance since Buena Vista Social Club played the Warped Tour.

Italy beat Canada 14-4 at the World Baseball Classic in a game that ended early due to the Little League mercy rule.
After the game, Italy's manager took his players out for pizza and gelato.

Japan and Taiwan tied 3-3 after 9 innings.
Bud Selig says that's ballgame.

An Olympics construction error in Sochi has created a leaning building.
Too bad it's not the short-track speed skating oval.

Mini-brawl late in the Stanford-Cal Senior Night basketball game Wednesday.
It started when a Stanford player dunked on a Cal band trombone player.

Indiana's Cody Zeller has really short arms for his height; just 6'8".
New nickname: Z-Rex.

The TSA announced new carry-on rules in effect starting April 25.
Travellers can now bring hockey sticks and golf clubs into the cabin.
Perfect timing considering that's the last weekend of the NHL season.
Very convenient for teams like the Panthers and Blue Jackets.

What a rally in the 8th!
Did you see the Chinese fan try to start The Wave?

There are four finalist countries bidding to avoid hosting the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

The two best meditation getaways in Asia are Tibetan monasteries and bleachers at the World Baseball Classic.

Scalpers at the World Baseball Classic are the loneliest people in the world.

They wouldn't have lured anyone to this WBC game, but it was Chinese civil servant bobblehead night.

Good to see the Tiananmen Square Tank Man guy is China's 3rd base coach.
I guess the base runners will be holding up.

Sad that Brazil and China had to resort to a 7th Inning Stretch Harlem Shake in a desperate attempt at a ratings boost.

I hope the MLB teams are okay with all these Chinese and Brazilian players being taken out of Spring Training for the World Baseball Classic.

There was a "Green Out" in the crowd at the Brazil-China World Baseball Classic game.
No, wait - those were just the empty seats.

UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad is going pro after 6 months on campus.
Only Cloud Atlas vanished from Hollywood faster.

The last pope not chosen from the College of Cardinals was in 1379, which coincidentally was when Wisconsin started scheduling them in football each season.

After touring North Korean basketball arenas with Kim Jong-un, Rodman reports they are working on a t-shirt cannon that may be able to reach the continental U.S.

What exactly was Dennis Rodman doing in North Korea - trying to establish a franchise in his topless basketball league?