Saturday, March 24, 2007

TAKE OUR FORTUNE (TAKE A TURN), TAKE OUR FORTUNE: The Times pretty accurately describes the manic Vegas sports book scene during The Tournament: "When the final buzzer sounded, the Rams had lost by 5 points, covering the spread and sending the crowd into a frenzy. Grown men hugged. An air horn sounded. A disheveled young man in mesh shorts and a faded 'Borat' T-shirt jumped onto a table and yelled, 'Thank you, Jesus!'"

Last Saturday morning at Mandalay Bay, the Ohio State fans went from (a) freaking out about whether they could come back from a mammoth deficit to beat Xavier to (b) joy at the game-trying three in regulation to (c) greed towards the end at overtime, with victory itself finally in hand, with understandably intense fan interest from everyone involved as to whether the Buckeyes would extend their seven point lead to cover the eight-point spread. They did, then they didn't thanks to an uncontested Musketeer layup with 12 seconds left, and the shouts of foul him! as a Buckeye dribbled out the remaining clock with a seven-point lead were deafening. And entertaining. (I had no money on the game.)

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