‘Zags ‘Shroom in Vroom-Vroom

The Fall from Grace is a tale as old as Dickey V.  Young small towner makes it to the big time in a rush of success, and then fame catches up.  She always does.


Gozaga was the darling boy of the NCAA hoops world, a perpetual underdog, ever the Cinderella who gets through the tourney with able guards and a little bit of luck.  But old mother Fame caught up to the Zags in a whirl of red and blue lights, boy did she.
 

The Bulldogs haven’t been America’s team in a while. They’re the favorites now, expected to make it deeper and deeper into the tourney every year.  And when they couldn’t, they lost track of what got them so much fame in the first place: perceived middle-American soberness.
 

Soon, Gonzaga found itself messed up in a world of misdemeanor marijuana charges, mind-altering psychedelic ‘shrooms, and thinking they could drive their cars around at night with no headlights because they don’t even need them, man.
 

But like most falls from grace, this one was a long time coming.
 

If you didn’t see the uncovering of drug-use in the Gonzaga future, then take a good, hard look at Adam Morrison.  Tell me he’s not hallucinating when he goes to the mirror every morning and decides not to shave his ‘stache.
 

But then again, this latest news might just be music to the ears of Coach Mark Few, who suddenly finds his team as an underdog once again, just hoping to make it to the dance.  They always did their best work when the expectations were the lowest.
 

Get Gonzaga tickets at StubHub.com if you want to see the Bulldogs NCAA Tournament hopes realized, or go up in smoke like so many other things.
         

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One of These Things is not Like the Others

I’m sure you don’t, but do you remember when 98 Degrees was tearing up the charts and the hearts of teenage girls everywhere?  Well, I know, I know, neither do I.  But anyways, there was this one guy in the band who wore a ridiculous hat to hide his died blonde hair, had an awkward goatee, and whose mom must have been using hard during the pregnancy.
 

 Remember him?
 

 He just didn’t belong with the other four tall dark and handsomes, but he was up there on stage despite the obvious, singing and trying to dance. I think his name was Wisconsin McUgduck.
 

The point I was getting at was that when Wisconsin stands next to the other three front running Final Four contenders the Badgers stick out like a guy who got into the band purely based on singing prowess. 
 

You’ve got UCLA, the older, mature one; North Carolina, the deep one; and Florida, the cute one, and then there’s Wisconsin…
 

Who let this guy in?
 

But often in NCAA basketball, as in boy bands, it doesn’t matter how many dances you’ve been asked to before. 
 

If you like your college basketball teams to be just a little out of their element, then check out Wisconsin badgers tickets at StubHub.com. 

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