BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — After a superb team effort in Amherst Tuesday night, the Flyers will head to AC and a 12 noon date with our pals from Norwood University in the 2nd round of the Bernadette McGlade Invitational. Here is some light reading while we wait for Friday to hurry up and arrive.

— The coolest rear windshield wiper you’ll see all week. Chris Wright really needs to get one of these for his mom’s minivan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXlyal3EmRA&feature=player_embedded#at=17

— With the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament upon us, here is a tremendous profile on a voice we will be hearing a lot of in the next few weeks, CBS college hoops color guy extraordinaire Bill Raftery:

http://ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5026

— BTW, whatever happened to Billy Packer?

— Gregg Doyel of CBS Sportsline with his spin on the feel-good Ebony Gainey story:

http://gregg-doyel.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/5881996/27806904

— Kinda fun to run down the nominees for Michigan Mr. Basketball over the years and see several current UD players listed. 3 of the last 4 years (including “Buckets” in 2011) UD has had a Mr. Basketball candidate:

http://www.peschstats.com/MrBasketball.htm

— How to turn a free throw into a jump ball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYf_bSk9ig&feature=player_embedded

— Now this is the way to end your high school coaching career…with a three pointer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEcRQACcWGY&feature=player_embedded

— I know where I’ll be on Sunday March 13th at 9:00PM…camped in front of the flat screen watching this:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110306/SPORTS06/103060503/Fab-Five-documentary-brutally-honest-stunningly-thorough

— How’d you like to be an 8 year old wrestler and have to face this kid?

http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/futuresport/201103/pint-sized-pin-machine-8-year-old-wrestling-champ

— I didn’t become a father until I was 32; this woman became a grandma at the ripe old age of 23!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3449681/Worlds-youngest-granny-is-just-23.html

— For those of you keeping score at home, the world will now officially end on May 21st:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1

— Three life lessons worth remembering from poster Mike F on the Sons of Sam Horn MB:

“Don’t argue with an idiot. A passerby won’t be able to tell which one the idiot is.”

“If you wrestle with a pig you’ll get covered in pig manure and only the pig will enjoy the experience.”

“Don’t get into a whizzing contest with a skunk. No matter how much you whiz on him you’ll end up smelling worse.”

— Finally “The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from Jay Bilas of ESPN.com quoting a conversation he had with Bobby Knight:

Me: “A lot of pick-up trucks in Waco.”

Knight: “Those are West Texas Maseratis, you dumb Dukie.”

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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