Ray Nagin Gets Ten Years for Bribery!

Link.

Should've been given the death penalty!

The Road to New Orleans Ends: Women's D-I Final Four 2013

 

And so it is. The women's Final Four for NCAA Division I women's basketball begins Sunday.

A very interesting group of teams battling for the national title this year.

California is headlining this group of four, as they are making their very first Final Four appearance in impressive fashion. As Spokane region champions, they got through Fresno State in the first round, USF in the second round (two-overtime game), a shortened LSU squad in the regional semifinal and Georgia in the regional final. Lindsay Gottlieb (no relation to CBS' Doug Gottlieb) is in her fifth year as a head coach, her second at Cal and has transformed that program as the premier women's program in the PAC 12.

Louisville also has some good vibes. Besides their men's team in the Final Four in Atlanta, their women's program is in the Final Four in the Big Easy as well. People didn't expect Louisville to go this far, but it was their win against top seeded Baylor in the Oklahoma City regional semifinal that shook everyone's heads. Their game with Cal should be interesting on Sunday.

The only two number one seeds still alive will play each other on Sunday night in a semifinal as Notre Dame and Connecticut, both in their final years in the futurely-now-defunct Big East, will be the game to watch Sunday. Notre Dame was runners-up in 2011, but could be a contender to dethrone a very successfull Lady Huskies team.

With that in mind...

NATIONAL SEMIFINALS
Sunday
(2Spokane) California v (5OKC) Louisville
(1Norfolk) Notre Dame v (1Bridgeport) UConn

Both the semifinals on Sunday and the final on Tuesday night are live on ESPN.

Super Bowl XLVII, Sunday, Live on CBS!

It now comes down to this. Less than 24 hours away.

The Super Bowl is back in New Orleans for the first time since XXXVI. The Ravens and Niners are the teams trying to add another Lombardi trophy.

Ray Lewis' final NFL game ever, along with the Harbaugh brothers bowl (Harbowl) are among a shitload of storylines in Sunday's game.

It will be the seventh time the Super Bowl is played in the Superdome, and the third being televised by CBS. CBS was the broadcaster for XII, where the Cowboys defeated the Broncos, and XXIV, where the Niners had the biggest beatdown in Super Bowl history, downing the Broncos 55-10.

If you want alternatives to the shitty halftime show, look hard. If you want shitty alternatives to the game, look harder, because it's 99% movies and reruns. It is the one day where basically everything is shut down in America. Period.

SUPER BOWL XLVII
Mercedes Benz Superdome
Ravens (American) v 49ers (National)

For best results, listen to the team broadcasts, the 49ers KNBR feed with Ted Robinson of NBC/Tennis Channel fame, and the Ravens/WBAL feed with Qadry Ismail and Gerry "With a G" Sandusky. Dial Global will carry the game on radio nationally, yet again.