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NCAA Tourney 2003: Round #1 Post-Mortem.   -- Primis     3-23-03,  12:15AM
I'll be criticized for that wording I know, but the fact is it's appropriate, because after two small days everyone's brackets are usually a hideous, lifeless mess.   Which is part of the fun of the NCAA Tourney tradition of course...

EAST

In the East not much really happened.   NC State played Cal WAY harder than anyone except me expected, but still lost by a bucket (which ruins the East for me since I had the Wolfpack into the Sweet 16).  Auburn dumped St. Joe's but it could hardly be called an upset of any real magnitude.  However, Butler upsetting Mississippi St. caught a lot of people by surprise -- not me however.  I called Butler over Miss. St. in my tourney preview as the Upset Special for the East, if you'll recall.

SOUTH

You were warned -- MSU/Colorado was a brutal, BRUTAL game to watch.  What I didn't expect was MSU to control the game like they did.  MSU really has hit its stride now, and I think some people saw why a few plucky analysts had the guts to still pick MSU as a dark-horse to win it all.  UConn ended everyone's misery by eliminating BYU and thus ensuring the brackets wouldn't quite literally be busted by having to move BYU's region.  Purdue surprised some by bumping off LSU, but not completely.  They're a schizo team, and I'm not buying quite yet.   Troy St. did give Xavier a run for their money though, and respresented themselves well.  Maryland lucked out against a very good UNCW team, and the Terps should now be worried about what happens when they face a tough Xavier team in the next round (could be a blowout).

MIDWEST

Kentucky looked dominant.  Utah "upset" Oregon (how is a 9 beating an 8 an upset ever?).  Tulsa did exactly like I called it and took the highly-overrated Dayton Flyers to the woodshed.  The Mizzou/Southern Ill. game was the great one everyone saw coming.  Marquette looked vulnerable against Holy Cross.  

WEST

Central Michigan shocked everyone by beating Creighton -- all the Chippewas have is a big man and that's it.   However streaking out early to a 20-pt lead helps...  Gonzaga man-handled Cincy like I said they would.  Illinois didn't have it easy with Western Kentucky, but came out on top.    Arizona, Duke, and Kansas all advanced.   This region is scary.

Overall?  Don't look now, but every Big Ten team won their first-round game (Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Purdue, Michigan St.), and MSU and Illinois look scary in the field.   Also, one can't help but note the lack of blowouts -- the constant claim of parity in college hoops isn't a fabrication obviously.  No 40-pt drubbings of a 1 over a 16. And the usual assortment of buzzer-beaters...  

Actual UN Facts.   -- Primis     3-18-03, 10:55PM
I posted this elsewhere as well...

One thing that sucks about the media is they never actually give us any facts any more, only opinions (this is really CNN's fault, they started the Talking Opinionated Head phenomenon).

So I decided to look for myself, because mainly I got curious as to who in the UN Security Council signed what, and who, if anyone, abstained.

Read More...

The Annual NCAA Tourney Picks -- 2003.    -- Primis            3-16-03,   9:05PM
65 teams.  Three fascinating weeks.  6 nerve-wracking rounds.

Lets' start off with an overview in general.   Both Oklahoma and Texas got #1 seeds and that is a complete and utter joke.  Oklahoma won the Big XII tournament BARELY over Missouri.  If Texas is so good, where were they?  By that virtue alone Texas does not even deserve consideration as a #1 seed.   What a joke.

And we're also supposed to buy that Cal is worthy of a #8 seed?  I would have put them as a #9 or #10.  And while we're at it, Stanford is too high at #4 and Wisconsin too high at #5.  But therein lies the problem this year -- with more and more players leaving college early for the pros there are no truly good teams anymore.

And finally before we get to the breakdown, was there ever more of an Unevent than Selection Sunday this year?  Unless you were form So. Illinois or Butler there was very little in the way of drama.

Here it is, the annual breakdown:

Click here for more...

c/` Today Is The Greatest... c/`     -- Primis     3-16-03,  11:55AM
Today at 6pm Eastern the bracket for the Men's NCAA Basketball tournament is announced.  So by tonight I'll have my annual breakdown of the brackets posted, in traditional format.  I'll tell you what games should be the best, where the upsets are primed to happen, and what teams could surprise everyone by going deep into the tourney.

The tourney snuck up on me this year -- right now I'm literally giddy waiting for the brackets to come out.  The bracket of 65 fascinates me, I traditionally spend all day Monday just staring at it and thinking of all the possibilities that boggle the mind.

... and then...     -- Primis     3-13-03,  11:35PM
The domain is renewed (yay!).  I thought that would be the hard part, but apparently trying to find out how to renew my HOSTING is going to be the trick now.

You'll see the Priomh Poll on the left.   It's weird, it's there but doesn't work.   It's done in ASP.  And I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't load the next stage correctly.  It doens't seem to be anything on my host's side of things.  It's more than likely just me being a complete moron on how to use ASP.  Oh well...  if anyone has an actual understanding on how ASP works, email me or catch me on one of the many IM's... I really do have an interest in making ASP work for this site.

State of the Site     -- Primis     3-11-03,  6:35PM
Ok everyone, I've had some time to sift through the rubble.  The Priomh Poll is gone until further notice -- since the host apparently has been obliterated from all existance.  I'll give a cookie to anyone who either has the mad skillz needed to write a voting script/applet from scratch, or can suggest a free one elsewhere.  Or heck, if anyone can even give me an example of a voting applet to look at myself I can possibly figure it out from there.  Ahh yes, the tried and true web publishing tradition of stealing code off other people's pages...

Also still no word yet on the status of the domain -- I'm trying to get in contact with someone or find out how to easily renew it myself, but the company not existing any more makes that rather difficult.   So if you suddenly start getting a straight-up 404 saying the domain doesn't exist, you'll all know why.  Stay tuned...

EastSide Hockey Manager: Franchise Edition     -- Primis     3-8-03,  2:00PM
One of the first things I did when I got back online was check on the status of my favorite sports sim.  I was surprised to find out that Riz has stopped working on the freeware EHM and has been hired by the company that makes the legendary Championship Manager soccer sim series in Britain.  Riz is currently working on EHM: Franchise Edition as a commercial product with the intent of giving the industry a much-needed jolt in the arm, especially in the oft-overlooked hockey realm.

I've seen the first screenshots of EHM:FE and it looks GOOD.  Also, Riz is completely rewriting EHM:FE in C++, whereas the original freeware version was done in VB.  The only downside will probably come in the from of NHL licensing -- the NHL and NHLPA will undoubtedly nix some of the key features to sim, including career-ending injuries and the actual financial aspect of it.  The team is reportedly negotiating as we speak, lobbying heavily to get those included.  It's highly doubtful though (remember, the NHL is the governing body which forced game-makers to remove fighting from their games altogether for several years -- the NHL is notoriously paranoid about its image).

More details and links as they come.

c/`"When I was 24... it was a very bad year..."  c/`     -- Primis     3-8-03,  1:35PM
Well.  That was an interesting year that I really have no interest in repeating.

Yeah.  The site lay inert for 11 months.  Technical issues plagued it from April to June of last year (as well as a lack of free time on my part.

And then in June the police and FBI showed up on our doorstep while I as away at work and took all my computer-related things away.   I'm not kidding.  My roommate screwed around and got caught doing several things with the cable modem, and so for 8 long months my stuff sat in a room at the local police department.  And it's kinda' hard to update a website with no computer or internet access.

Then as soon as I got the stuff back and back up and running either the motherboard or the processor died on me, and I'd had enough so I built a new system.  And so here we are today after reinstalling and moving everything over.

The short of it is this -- I fully intend on salvaging this site again and updating it on a semi-regular basis.   This should be tricky though as my provider for the domain of the site is no longer in existence, and it renews here in the next month if I recall correctly so... stay tuned.   I am indeed making an effort on this though.

And just so everyone knows... the Poll and counter(s) are more than likely going to be broken for the first little bit here until I update everything.  Net rot sucks.

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