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should basketball coaches encourage fighting?

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March 28, 2012
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There are 345 Division 1 Basketball teams. This year, 3 were involved in fights. 2 of those teams fought each other and 1 fought a team in Asia. All 3 made the NCAA tournament. All 3 won at least one game in this year’s tournament and two of them were in the Sweet 16. This got me thinking – should coaches encourage their teams to fight?

Cincinnati was one of these teams – prior to fighting Xavier, they lost to a school called Presbyterian. A team that finished 14-15 in the Big South Conference. I’m pretty sure even the Pepperdine Waves could go 14-15 in the Big South Conference. Regardless, Cincy got their asses kicked by Xavier on the court and decided that they should fight them.

Xavier might have won the game but Cincinnati definitely won the fight. You can see one of their guys drop a Xavier guy which the announcers slow down and talk about…but what about the guy straight hood stomping people on the floor? That is some messed up shit. This fight definitely helped turn around Cincinnati’s season and in my opinion helped them make it to the Sweet 16 before losing to Ohio State. Not bad for a team that lost to Presbyterian.

Its not like the NCAA really cares – all they guys from Cincinnati got was a few games suspension and they were all allowed to play in the post season. So why aren’t more coaches doing it? One coach, John Thompson III tried an approach but it wasn’t as effective. His team only won one game in the tournament.

So where did Georgetown go wrong? Why weren’t they in the Sweet 16. They fought a team from China…

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TOO MUCH SUICIDE (POOL)

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March 6, 2012
march madness
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MARCH MADNESS IS FIRE

 

It’s that time.

I’m sure your office or whatever local blog you go to is running some lame ass bracket pool where the winner comes down to whether or not you picked 3 or 4 of the final four teams correctly, (btw, the scoring of most brackets is WHACK. it’s like family feud. the last round points completely negate all previous rounds) and i’m sure you will inevitably lose to some random person’s mom who doesn’t know dick about basketball, but fear not.

There is a way out.

TMF is known for doing things differently, and March Madness is no exception.

behold, the 2012 MARCH MADNESS SUICIDE POOL.

First three rounds of last year's suicide pool.

The concept is the same as any other survivor/suicide pool you’ve entered over the years. You pick teams to win each round, and if they win, you move on. if you lose, you’re out.

however, there is a TON of strategy that goes into this particular set-up.

For each round of March Madness, you are required to pick a certain amount of teams to win AND you cannot pick a team more than once.

round one: 4 teams.

round two: 2 teams.

round three: 2 teams

round four: 1 team

round five: 1 team

round six: 1 team

 

So, there are a litany of options at play.

round one, for instance. you could play it safe, take all four #1 seeds against four #16s to pretty much guarantee you move on to round two. in that case, you’d be doing better than Kline (pictured above) did last year. OR you could get risky, take some 5 seeds in round one, saving your top seeds for later, and hope for a chalk tourney. remember, the key is not only to survive, but to also have enough available teams to pick in later rounds. If Kentucky is playing UNC in the finals and you picked both teams in earlier rounds, you’re shit out of luck.

 

The Buy-in:

$20 each. Send us an email of interest in our tips section or an email to toomuchfire@gmail.com and we will give you proper place to send money to.

We will also provide an email for which you send your picks in before each round.

 

The Pay-Out:

Suicide is winner-take-all. However, if by the final round we have more than one team left standing, here’s what happens:

actually, we will give the players an option to split half the money and have a series of props (total score, largest lead, number of players in double figures) to determine who gets the remaining sum.

 

 

Brackets come out this Sunday. Money and picks are due by before the first game on Thursday, March 15th. (we don’t count the play-in games)

 

and for the sake of kenny mayne,

GET IN ON THIS FIRE. 

 

what was your first thought?

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February 28, 2012
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An Orthodox Jewish high school basketball team from Houston is out of the playoffs after losing its appeal to change a state semifinal game time that conflicted with its observation of the Sabbath. Robert M. Beren Academy filed an appeal to the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools to change its Class 2A state semifinal game time against Dallas Covenant, scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday in Mansfield, southeast of Fort Worth. FULL STORY

When you first read this what was your first thought? I am guessing it was one of these two things:

1) Wow, that sucks for that team, that the had to forfeit the game because of a religious conflict. (Lets be honest, this might have crossed your mind for a minute but you immediately went to #2)

OR

2) Wow a Jewish basketball team made the playoffs? That in itself deserves special consideration because when is the next time this is going to happen?

Well, I would say that neither of these things is as crazy as the fact that this Jewish Basketball team is from Houston, Texas. Am I the only one who sees how insane this is that there are enough Jewish kids in Houston to put together a school let alone a winning basketball team? I mean come on, when you first think of Texans there is no way you think that there are more than a few hundred Jewish people in the whole state. And I would assume after the hurricane a few years back all the Jewish would have been smart enough to move north. The most conservative and republican state is not a place I would imagine a Jewish school to be. Is Houston becoming the new Florida where old Jewish New Yorkers go to retire?

On top of all this I cannot ignore how amazing it is that a Jewish basketball team made the playoffs in Texas – not an easy task. Especially considering this was likely their instructional video

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sucks to be tom gugliotta

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February 20, 2012
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If you haven’t heard the story – Tom Gugliotta got kicked out of the NC State basketball game this weekend along with Chris Corchiani (pictured right). Getting kicked out of game at your alma mater, where your jersey hangs in the rafters, has got to be up there for embarrassing moments. It doesn’t matter what you say to the refs, you should probably have immunity at that point. Unless you are Tom Gugliotta.

Regardless, if you are normal and played NBA Jam in the mid-1990s, the name Tom Gugliotta should ring a bell. He was one of those guys that if you got stuck with his team it wasn’t that bad because he was serviceable — could shoot the 3 and dunk, not a bad combo. Other than NBA Jam I really didn’t know much about his actual skills, so I decided to look at his highlight reel on YouTube.

Here are my observations:

1) Is this the saddest highlight reel of all time? I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many lay-ups or similar assists as the highlights of someone’s career. Tom Gugliotta’s move was totally the no look pass, you know he just sat around thinking up new ways to not look while he passed. He looks so proud of himself with every no look assist thinking, “I hope someone just puts all these together on a tape one day.” They did Tom, and Brian Scalabrine has a better highlight reel than you — congratulations.

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sing praises for the ‘Great Successor’ and ‘Brilliant Comrade’

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December 19, 2011
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Allegedly, Kim Jong-un is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

You have to hand it to the North Koreans — they come up with some great titles.  But hardly anything is known about the “Great Successor”/”Brilliant Comrade”.  In fact, anything we do hear about him is likely to have been fabricated by the regime.

There is one true fact, however, which TMF wishes to explore:

In 2000, Madeline Albright made a historic visit to North Korea where she presented Kim Jong-il with a basketball signed by Michael Jordan.

STOP.

Hey kids, if you’re black and live in one of America’ s numerous ghettos, would you like to have a basketball signed by Michael Jordan courtesy of the U.S. government?  Too bad, the U.S. government doesn’t care about you.  But you already knew that.

No, the U.S. government cares about procuring basketballs signed by Michael Jordan so they can gift them to sociopathic communist tyrants.

Now, we can only assume Kim Jong-il bequeathed his treasured basketball to the Great Successor, who is reportedly a big-time MJ fan (APPEAL TO MICHAEL JORDAN — USE YOUR CELEBRITY TO BRING PEACE TO THE KOREAN PENINSULA!).  Bottom line is, TMF wants that basketball back here in America.  This little fat-ass doesn’t deserve it.

And for the TMF fanatics who woke up to headlines reading “Dear Leader Dead”, fear not, cho_kettie is well.  He is resting today at his home in Boston.
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