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Less than 48 hours until the beach, and even if it is only partly sunny and somewhere in the low 50′s, it’s out of College Park. It’s spending as much time at a bar as I usually spend at a computer. Florida is going to be golden, sunny and 80′s all week apparently (I’m not the one that’s been watching the weather religiously, but those who have will probably scold me and tell me I should).

Curse you Michael Holley (The Boston Globe) for picking UTEP as your most likely first round upset on Around the Horn today. The other Michael on PTI (Wilbon, The Washington Post) acknowledged the 4 seed as overrated, but picked the Terps to possibly go as far or further than St. Joe’s. I’m sure the Philly faithful love that. Oh wait, they are either too busy either drooling over Terrel Owens (overpaid) or bitching about Allen Iverson, who, by the way, should not be traded because he IS that franchise. Did they learn nothing when they traded a guy named Barkley and then cellar-dwelled until AI came along? And has anyone taken a look at the Georgetown basketball program since he and a guy named John Thompson left? AI does need to do more of his “talking” on the court, even in practice.

Cheers to the beach. I’ll catch you on the flip side.