We made it

Thanks again for checking the blog this weekend--we couldn't have made it without your support. It was a long, arduous 4 days, but it was beautiful. Friday night's finishes were glorious--I hope you were all able to stay for them (I'm talking to you old guys with wives and kids and what not). I haven't confirmed this with shorty, but we may take the blog into the second weekend of games if anyone is interested. Count on more in-depth analysis and commentary, funny stories, random snack updates, and potentially another picture or two of Selma Hayek's boobs. What do you think?

It's Monday night, and I'm already having withdrawal....luckily we had an intramural co-ed tournament game tonight, so that fueled the competitive fire. It's actually pretty bad basketball in general, but our team is decent so it's fun. Tonight was the Final Four, and we played a lesser team that hung with us by fouling at every opportunity and causing general chaos with their swarming amoeba "defense." It's intramurals, so they miss a lot of calls, but tonight was worse that most. We even had a guy lose a tooth on a classic intramural foul where the defender reached new heights of clumsiness: he not only tripped him from behind on a break-away, but managed to fall on top of him, shattering two front teeth. Fantastic work--you win the Eric Deebledouche award for general douchebaggery. Our guy is in the ER now but should be good to go for the Championship.

Why am I telling you all of this? 1) Because you need tournament action during the off-days to get you through to Thursday, and the drama that is UPenn co-ed grad intramural basketball might be the ticket, and 2) Wednesday night, 7:45, we take our undefeated 5-0 record to The Palestra for the Championship game. If you don't know about the Palestra, it's one of college basketball's classic venues, and we'll be gracing it with our beautiful brand of hoops on Wednesday evening.

We'll be packing the place to the rafters. If you're within a 2-hour driving distance, this is a game you won't want to miss--it has ESPN Instant Classic written all over it. Unbelievably, there is no cost of admission.