PITTiful

Eventually Jamie Dixon is going to tire of his teams tanking in the NCAA tournament and leave for greener pastures. After this season's worse-than-usual annual flop that should be sooner than later. In spite of tremendous teams over the past decade Pitt has never made it past the Sweet Sixteen.In my opinion the obvious reason has been... poor free throw shooting. I really don't know what their stats were this season (I had a hell of a time trying to find them on the internet) but in the past it's always been a problem. In close games, and at tournament time, it's a problem if you can't make free throws. When you lose by one point to Butler it's got have been a problem (all you needed to do was make two more and eight or nine players).


Anyone (excepting perhaps Shaquille O'Neal and Wilt Chamberlain) can be at least an 80% free throw shooter. Like getting to Carnegie Hall it takes practice, practice, practice. Today's players just don't want to take the time and, apparently most coaches don't either. And the ones who don't usually don't win the NCAA championship, especially Pitt.

PENGUINS GET COOKed

Holy shit!!!!! This is ridiculous when the league chowder heads rejected an anti-head hit policy that Shero and Lemieux just proposed. The guy (who outside of NY knows who the hell it was) wasn't even get hurt! I think for this they should retroactively suspend Steckel for the rest of his career for all the time Crosby has missed. I have just lost interest in the NHL. It IS a garbage league, run by mutton brains.

‎"The veil is off the hypocrisy." This just proves how little respect Pittsburgh players get, especially the stars. (Do I have to go back as far as Mario v. Gretzky on this?) Steckel walks for knocking Crosby out for half the season (and DON'T tell me it was UNINTENTIONAL) and Cooke gets suspended for weeks for elbowing a NOBODY who'll be back tomorrow night. And the Penguins HAD to back the ruling no matter how freaking lame it was. I think the NHL did it just to shove it in Lemieux and Shero's faces. "Here, take THAT smart asses! You want the league to be tough on head shots, we'll get tough STARTING WITH YOU!" I'm not watching another NHL game until they sweep every idiot out of the league office, starting with Bettman. God it's goingto be a long wait for football season. Do the North Richland Hills (Texas) Brahmas play tonight?