- to prepare for basketball, I have added HoopsJunkie.net and CollegeBasketball Blog to my sports links.  Hopefully this will help me keep up with some of what's going on in college basketball.  Also, I think I've found a top notch website called Slamdunk.com.  If you know of any others, leave me a note.

- After reffing today, I did keep an eye on Maryland's sweep of Duke (I'm surprised Deacon @ Powerline isn't whooping and hollering about this as he was when they took the Dookies out at Cameron).   I would have WATCHED it, but ESPN's hogging of the broadcast rights means that JP Sports has a smaller piece of the pie.

I remember a time when every single ACC basketball game was aired within the Raycom/Jefferson Pilot network on local television (I have Dish Network, but only one receiver and someone was watching it before me, and doesn't like sports.  Ugh.).  Now we only get Carolina/Duke and whatever games ESPN doesn't want.  It's an absolute joke, and makes me sick of the ACC leadership as well as ESPN.

Anyway, I'm glad Maryland whupped Duke's butt, albeit they had to foul out five Devils to do it.

- I also noticed the two big comebacks by Pacific over Utah St. and UNLV over San Diego St.  Pacific continued winning and remained in the Top 25 by rallying from eight down with 27 ticks left (well, AP says five, but they were fouled while shooting a three at the :27 mark and hit all three FTs) to win by a point.  UNLV rallied from 10 down with 30 seconds left, put the game into overtime, and won by two.