I guess cursing at fans is one thing, but some sort of line has been crossed when your players are punching their opponents in the dick.

Seton Hall dismissed Bobby Gonzalez on Wednesday, ending his tumultuous four-year tenure as men’s basketball coach a day after an ignominious first-round loss in the National Invitation Tournament and the arrest of a player who had been kicked off the team.

Gonzalez was 66-59 in four seasons at Seton Hall, and his teams did not make an N.C.A.A. tournament. He received a contract extension last year, which was to run through 2015, but his future was clouded by dissatisfaction with his fiery personality.

The Pirates’ loss to Texas Tech in the N.I.T. on Tuesday night was marred by the ejection of the star forward Herb Pope, who punched an opposing player in the groin.

Throw in Gonzalez’s beef with Robert Mitchell, and it’s clear that he had become more of a liability than an asset for Seton Hall.  The lesson learned, though, is that punching someone in the dick is fatal to any career.  And in this case, the doctrine of respondeat superior sort of applies.  Well, not really, but of course a coach is going to be blamed if his players are that out of control.  Punching in the dick?  That’s not even allowed in wrestling.  Even in bar fights, shit like that is off limits.  And the punch in the dick wasn’t a hidden little slap, it was a blatant jab right to the meatpipe.

In any event, this was Gonzalez’s last stint coaching at a major program.  He’s finished; there’s no chance anyone is going to touch a guy with his sort of sketchy past.

[NY Times]

Today, the workforce of the entire country will shut down.  Nobody’s going to be doing any work, because they’ll either be in a conference room watching the tournament or, in the case of the stricter workplaces, pretending to do work while clicking “refresh” to update love tournament scores.  Even if you didn’t fill out a bracket (and if you didn’t – what the fuck?), it’s still fun to devote your entire day to the best playoff system in all of sports.  And when the tournament is finished?  Baseball, nephew!

The one thing I don’t like about the tournament, though, is that there’s always one guy who picked an upset in the first round and won’t shut the fuck up about it.  Oh, I picked Western Iowa over Virginia, I knew that was going to happen. Bullshit, your bracket is scattered with 13-4 and 12-5 upsets so of course one of them was going to hit.  Congrats on passing off luck as actual basketball insight, Nostradamus, considering you haven’t watched college basketball all season until the finals of the Big  East tournament.  I can’t stand those assholes.

Enjoy the tourney today, everyone.

Barack Obama took time out of his busy schedule to fill out his NCAA Bracket this week. Accompanied by Andy Katz, Obama went game by game until he arrived at a National Champion. To view Obama’s bracket click here.

There are several things about his bracket that raise eyebrows. There may be a hidden agenda here…..

1.) Marquette over Washington – How in God’s name can you be the President of the United States of America, and shit on the name Washington. This is very frightening. He either hates George Washington, the first President of the United States, or thinks he’s better than him.

2.) Kansas to win it all – The second year in a row Mr. Risk Taker picked the number one overall team to win the championship. President Obama is a front runner. He probably thinks he made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can. When China becomes the richest country in the world is he going to like them too?

3.) The Elite 8 – The only 3 seed in the elite 8 is Georgetown. Clearly, he’s kissing the locals asses. Everywhere else he went 1 – 2. This will surely help his Health Care plan.

4.) His 5 vs. 12 Upset – Is of course Cornell over Temple. A school where most of the players who play the most significant minutes are not only smart, but white, too. Whereas, Temple minus Juan Fernandez, is mostly African-American… think what you may…

5.) Gay Marriage vs. Gambling – In the ultimate showdown, Obama picks Northern Iowa. Essentially saying he supports gay marriage over gambling and Sin City. “How bout that ride in. I guess that’s why they call it Sin City”

Disclaimer: I voted for Obama, this is all in good fun.