Although this Vandy fan loves to trash-talk the Volunteers, I've always held an immense amount of respect for UT men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl. I picked up the Washington Post during my layover in DC en route back to Ithaca back today, and I was amazed to see this article in the sports section.
I alluded to this a few weeks ago, but I've set up a "TN Liberal Bloggers" bracket group on Yahoo for the NCAA Tournament, and you're all invited to join!
Here is the link to the group. Shoot me an email (goldni386 at gmail) or a message on here for the password (I picked one you'll ALL remember). UPDATE: If that link doesn't work, try this one.
In this heated election season, it's important not to lose sight of what's really important--college basketball.
This season is shaping up to be a huge one for our state. There could be as many as FIVE Tennessee teams in the conference. Memphis is playing for a #1 seed, and UTK and Vanderbilt should be locks at this point (barring a complete and utter collapse, which is never outside the realm of possibility for either team). In addition, Belmont and Austin Peay are both winning their respective conferences.
So, I would like to propose a Tennessee bloggers' bracket tournament. I just wanted to post this to a) gauge interest and b) see if yall think we should just keep this among ourselves or throw it open to our Elephant friends as well.
Finally, my first-round shocker pick--#13 Cornell over whoever the #4 seed is. I'm not biased, I swear...
