Second Round Liveblog - Update

By Mark Buckets

At the risk of sounding like a complete homer - D'oh! - I have decided to omit commentary of the Duke vs. West Virginia game from today's program.

Drive & Dish will have a full postgame report later in the evening.

However, Mark Buckets will be back to Liveblog immediately following today's first game in the Nation's capital.

Update:

I apologize to all of our loyal "D&Ders" out there that were expecting full commentary of today's NCAA Tournament action.

What you got, however, was a whole lot of nuttin'.

As you may (or may not) know, I am a Duke fan. I'm feeling extremely hurt right now, as if, in the immortal words of Mike Jarvis: "I feel like somebody came into my house...and raped me."

Perhaps those words are a tad bit harsh, but nonetheless, I am disappointed.

However, I will remain objective the rest of the way and continue to do the best possible job to bring the readers insightful and funny information.

I'd also like to extend my thanks to fellow blogger - and good friend - Trashtalk Superstar for the condolences.

If it weren't for people like him, I might end up drunk on Franklin Street like one of our "classiest" readers.


Trashtalk Superstar Adds:

Franklin St. is the center of off campus nightlife in Chapel Hill. It's where people go to party and have fun. It's not the kind of place where people go drown their sorrows. That's usually done at some out of the way neighborhood tavern, or in the comfort of one's own home (or -- if you don't have a place to call home -- on a park bench, on a street corner, or while sprawled out on a sidewalk).

At the moment, it doesn't sound like Franklin St. would be the ideal locale for Mark Buckets' drinking needs (forget about the fact that Mr. Buckets' home base of Willow Springs, IL, is more than 1000 miles from Chapel Hill, NC).

It sounds like Mr. Buckets -- in his current condition -- would be more inclined to be locked in a room with a bottle of Ripple or Wild Turkey, trying desperately to drink his sorrows away (and judging by his mysterious absence from his stated plans of meeting Trashtalk Superstar on the basketball courts of a suburban Chicago gym and of resuming his live blogging of the NCAA Tournament -- to say nothing of his subsequent lack of explanatory correspondence -- I'd bet the house on the Wild Turkey scenario).