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I was stunned this morning to get the news that blogger Winston Rand has passed away.

Winston…he was a “pretty good guy.” This is how he wanted everyone to remember him.

Several years ago, Tennessee inked both Peyton Manning and Brandon Stewart in the same recruiting class. Then, it was Casey Clausen and A.J. Suggs. Most recently the Vols got both Erik Ainge and Brent Schaeffer. Tennessee football has a tendency to load both chambers of the double-barreled shotgun at once when it comes to recruiting the quarterback position...

For all the Vols who have wound up in police reports, it’s good to remember that there are also the Chris Loftons of the world.

If you were driving along Sam Ridley in Smyrna this evening and you saw a blue Honda nearly swerve off the road, it was probably me.

My apologies to those of you who couldn’t possibly care less about basketball, but Laura over at Fixin’ Supper takes a break from dinner to talk about basketball grudges.

The Vols are done.  After the way they played against Butler, I had serious concerns.  And those concerns were validated when they failed to play their game, take advantage of turnovers, and do more than stand around and wait for a shot.  End of the line this year.  Other than that though, my bracket stayed in tact.

Is it just me, or did the CBS announcers in the WKU v. UCLA game start shoveling dirt onto WKU a little prematurely . . . when they were only 6 points down with 1:25 to go in the game?

On that note, the CBS announcers in the UT v. UL game were talking up the Vols beyond even the point at which my boys had lost all hope.

The next round of the tourney starts tomorrow. How are your brackets doing thusfar?

Whew.

For some reason, the Vols are trying to get my blood pressure up this weekend with their wins. First Friday's game and then going to overtime today. But the good news is--the Vols now have a one in sixteen shot at cutting down the nets two weeks from Monday.

I would be interested in seeing some selections of our readership for the NCAA Tournament. Anybody think strongly about any major upsets from what they've seen? It was tough to pick against my Vols, but my Final Four choices are Texas, Louisville, Kansas and UCLA...