All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy....

I don't begrudge the POTUS a little R&R time, even during a global meltdown. We all need some downtime be it posting on Internet message boards or following college hoops. It makes us stronger in the long run.

Oh, I don't mind him watching enough basketball that he could know about a team or two.

I just question whether he could legitimately have had enough over the last couple of months to have any personal insight beyond that. If his picks come (as it does for most people) from watching an hour of SportsCenter every day (or, more likely, from an aide telling him what to pick) then it's cool.

Well, it doesn't answer whether or not he formed his analysis by watching the whole season or by reading ESPN.com for a an hour, but here's video of Obama making his picks.

San Jose Sharks for the Cup!



Oh wait. Wrong sport. How come there is never a hockey thread around here.

/runs away sobbing.

I really should start one. It's the only pro sport that DC does not currently suck at.

Since it wouldn't let me use my screen name, I used the 'definition' of my screen name - (Old English Princess) and did my traditional "I have no idea, but let's favor Pac 10, Northwest, and high seeded teams" method of picking. And throw in a couple other twists for the heck of it!

Last call for brackets, get your brackets here! Brackets!

So far we have brackets from:

BDBopper, Drince88, Lashbear, Deebs, SacTown, GD, Obama, the Unauthorized Scaeagles and my own.

Interesting tidbit...

That seems a bit high to me...

Let's see there are 32 First round games, so the possible combinations in the first round is only 2 ^ number of games or 2^ 32nd

2^32= 4,294,967,296

Now for the second round

For each one of the 4,294,967,296 possible first round outcomes there are an addational 2^16 possible second round outcomes..... Errr, never mind....

And we're off and running

Drince88 jumps off to an early lead with a 3-0 record and Deebs is falling behind the pack with an 0-3 record.