BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Happy Easter! While we are waiting for Monday night to roll around, why don’t we all chew on some of this:

— If this ain’t the most useful website for any sports fan, I don’t know what is: Sports Illustrated has (wisely) opened up their vault and made available every single article that has ever appeared in SI:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

There are something like 92 different articles that mention “Dayton” in them, but some of those are “Faces in the Crowd” items about people from the Gem City.

— The most touching UD story was written by Seth Davis and concerned OP having to inform Tony Stanley that his mom had died, right before a game in the Maui Invitational in 2000. Here’s a direct link to that one:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1021268/index.htm

— Dr. Jack Kevorkian has just announced that he is going to run for a seat in Congress from my district in Michigan.

Wait for it.

Wait for it.

I’m just dying to vote for him!

— Let’s see: UD, a school from the Atlantic 10 which has a sucky long-term deal with CSTV, makes it to the NIT and so the ESPN Family of Networks has to decide where to show the Flyers’ games. Can you say the equally distribution-challenged “ESPNU?”

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

— If you get tired of all the negativity that can sometimes permeate the free UD Pride MB, there is a place you can go to escape:

Pride Plus.

For a modest membership fee you help to keep this place running and get to talk Flyer Hoops without being bombarded by trolls, Xavier fans or the like.

— Okay, so I’m a die-hard Red Sox fan, I’ll be the first to admit it. But answer me this: why would a supposed national publication like USA Weekend allow some NY Yankmee fanboy named Bryan Tucker to pen drek like this and then publish it:

http://www.usaweekend.com/08_issues/080323/080323humor-red-sox.html

This crap is listed as “Humor.” If that is what it is really supposed to be, I ain’t laughin’, cowboy.

— Meanwhile, the Spankees have announced that front row seats in the new Yankee Stadium will go for a mere $2,500 each. Since nobody goes to a ballgame by themselves, that makes it $5,000 for the pair or $405,000 for the season…for baseball tickets! Now that, my friends, is comedy! What is even funnier is that all 120 of them are already sold out.

— The defending World Series Champs open the MLB season Tuesday morning at 6:05AM on ESPN2 in the Tokyo Dome, with homeboy Dice K doing the pitching honors for the Sawx. Yup, I’ll be up and watching.

— Interesting article on how BG almost became the coach of our next NIT opponent:

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/23/usports/doc47e59efe6a18c323466560.txt

Tip of the hat to Matt Schwade for the heads up on this one.

— The latest stop on the “Tiger Woods Victory Tour” this weekend is taking place at the Blue Monster course at Doral. I played it, as well as the White Shark track, when I was in Miami on business several years ago and it was hard to determine which one was the more masochistic 18. My dad used to vacation every winter at Doral and he enjoyed fly fishing in the many lakes that dot the courses almost as much as he did the golf.

— Is this cool or what: an exploding star that burst half-way across the universe, 7.5 billion light years away from us and was actually visible to the naked eye:

http://news.aol.com/story/_a/distant-stars-explosion-shatters-record/20080321184809990001

As Alan Parsons asked on his album “The Time Machine” if someone was standing on that star and looking back at us here on Earth, right before the explosion happened “which of those is now?” Only problem with that query is that according to the article, the Earth hadn’t even been formed yet!

— I really hope that UD gets to play tOSU on Wednesday — Go Flyers!

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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