The one where you don’t have to go home but you’ve got to get the hell up outta here.
No better way to start of the day than with a pretty lady.
Fourth and Fifty does NOT play favorites. We cover all sports and teams equally, unbiased(ly) and completely. We love everyone including but not limited to: Longhorns, Aggies, Roadrunners, Bears, Red Raiders, Whatever the Mascot is for HBU and the University of Houston Cougars (and sometimes Rice). I hope I’m not leaving anyone out. The NCAA selection committee doesn’t see the world the same way we do. They’re looking through their Big East colored glasses, apparently.
Now, I’m not saying that the Big East shouldn’t have three #1 seeds in the Big Dance. I’m just saying they shouldn’t have three #1 seeds in the Big Dance. Yes, the Big East has proven over the course of the past 15 years that they are a basketball powerhouse. That’s not a reason to stack the odds in their favor. We’re only a year removed from every #1 seed making it to the Final Four. That ain’t cool.
So, who would merit a #1 seed instead? Hmmmm, I don’t know… How about Memphis, you know that team that was in the finals last year and has been on a complete tear this year? As a UH fan we had to witness the slaughtering that the Tigers are capable of three times this year. Granted, the first two losses were not as bad as the final one in the conference tourney, but doesn’t that mean that Memphis is now playing their best basketball? I hope that Calapari and his thugs players view this as a slight and make a run not unlike last year. This NCAA tournament you will find me cheering for the big dog of the little dog, the Memphis Tigers.
Up ahead are your Houston sports updates:
Texans: Boston.com be talking shit, ya’ll.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including contracts for marginal players. Desperate to find a defensive end to line up opposite Mario Williams, Houston gave Antonio Smith, who has 14 1/2 career sacks, five years and $35 million. Houston also brought in former UConn QB Dan Orlovsky to be a backup and re-signed one-time Patriots safety Eugene Wilson to a three-year, $11.3 million deal. – boston.com
Give me a break. Orlovsky is a great signing… Especially if he never takes a snap inside the Texans 2-yard line. Assholes. Go eat some chowder and leave us alone. Be happy we’re giving your native son a shot.
Rockets: Never watch the Rockets play the Spurs with Spurs fans. Especially if those fans are your parents. They will have nothing of your speak about “flopping” or “wizard tattoos.” Then you have to endure losing to San Antonio and their horrible announcers referring to the players by their first names. But, the upside? Awesome, I repeat, AWESOMELY bad/hilarious HEB commercials featuring Duncan, Ginobili and Bowen. Rockets play the Hornets in Charlotte New Orleans tonight.
Astros: You know what’s the most depressing about off-season baseball is? That it signals a summer of more baseball. Astros stopped losing and decided that a tie is good enough for now. Oswalt dug Team USA out of a hole to win one against the clandestine Nederlands team.
Houston Cougars: CBI!! Unfortunately the acronym is already upper-case and you can’t see that I’m trying to type it as loud as I can. CBI!!!! Hooray!! What do we get for our 21 win season? A fucking roadtrip to Oregon to play the Beavers of Oregon State. I’m sure they were a well above .500… 13 and fucking 17??? Obama is to blame for this. Like he needed another reason to get on Texas’ bad side. Chuck Norris will have plenty to say about this outrage.
Rice Owls: Don’t worry, Rice. I didn’t forget about you. And neither did fanhouse. Whenever there’s mascot news, you’ll surely be linked to it for headbutting that ref, Sammy. UH gets an honorable mention as well for being the tea-bagee of the Oregon Duck. Tragic. Click on the photo gallery.
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- Septimus Rex
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Memphis defined the word choke last year in the championship game…
Also just in case you didn’t know Luis Scola graduated from the Manu Ginobili school for the flopping arts, so Rockets fans can no longer complain about other floppers
We had to try something… the “dynasty” that is the SA Spurs, must be stopped at all costs.
Hey guys!
I’ve got my red jumpsuit on and I’m headed to Corvallis. I got a round-trip ticket to PDX for $1800 and I figure that with a rental car, two nights at the Deep 6 and a few bar tabs I can get through this first round for just under $2500.
I can take a cheaper vacation to London right now than that!
Yeah, tought getting a flight THIS CLOSE to Wednesday.
Anyway, if I’m not going to race my WRX at the Texas Mile ( http://www.texasmile.com ) then you know I ain’t going to Corvallis for the first round of the CBI (although I really like the Pacific NW, like really a lot).
Wow you paid almost as much as OSU did to host the game!