Day 383

• Oregon State, just after losing to Houston in the Elite Eight, was told to pack and leave for Oregon at 1:15 Central this morning and will arrive at 4 AM PDT.  That's "boot in the ass and don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you..."   
• Did I say yet that the NCAA is an obsolete joke??   
• There is now yet another DeShaun Watson lawsuit -- this one for destroying evidence of Instagram messages to massage therapists.
• Two long-awaited announcements today:  The first is the NFL...  Starting this season, 17 games in the regular season, cutting the preseason to three.  17th game is interconference, with it being, three years out of four, the corresponding division and place (the champion of the NFC North, for example, would face the AFC North champion).  In years where the interconference normally plays the other corresponding conference, another division is selected (the Wests and the Norths do that in 2021 -- they will swap the 17th game.  For example, this gives us the State Farm Game a lot of people thought would be the Super Bowl the last two years:  Packers/Chiefs.)
• Super Bowl LVI is in LA, now scheduled for February 13, 2022.  And Goodell expects full stadiums by the Fall.
• The second announcement is, to my memory, the first real defeat of Vince McMahon since the national expansion of the WW(W)F/E in 1983:  The Wednesday Night Wars are over and AEW has won -- NXT is officially moving to Tuesdays after Wrestlemania 37.
  
• Scary scene in the Elite Eight tonight as one of the officials collapsed in the Gonzaga-USC game -- latest report appears to be that he is OK.
• The men's Final Four is Houston, Baylor, Gonzaha, and 11-seed UCLA -- the first Final Four in history to be west of the Mississippi
• The second Final Four with a First Four entrant
• There are more than a few who have the entire Final Four in the NCAA ESPN Tournament Challenge.  Don't have an exact number yet.