Vegas Watch

There is no shortage of tournament pools in the blogosphere. I have listed the ones I have found thus far below. If you are running one, or know of others, please add them in the comments.

RMMB Pool (run by MoneyLine; $10 entry fee)

Cuse Country NIT Bracket Challenge

$11,000,000 Bracket Challenge (Sportsbook)
$1,000,000 March Mayhem Bracket Contest (BetUS)
$1,000,000 Hoops Madness (SportsBetting)
NCAA March Madness Contest (Bodog)

With Leather (now with prizes) (Yahoo!)
Awful Announcing Pick 'Em (Yahoo!)
STF Bracket Challenge (Yahoo!)
Rush the Court (Yahoo!)
Intentional Foul Has Brackets Too: Free Beer (Yahoo!)

Real Clear Sports (ESPN)
Deadspin Pants Party (ESPN)
The Big Lead Crew (ESPN)

Luke Winn's Tourney Blog Pool (Facebook)
Seth Davis Bracket Challenge (FanNation)

Bracket Mania (AOL Sports)

Epic Carnival (Armchair GM)

McCain Basketball Brackets (JohnMcCain.com)

It's Madness (NBC Sports)

The St. Louis under won, 39-14 (74%). Arizona is up now; we're going alphabetically the rest of the way.

Baseball Prospectus 2008 comes out on Monday. Probably the best $13.17 you'll spend this year. Unless Xavier (80:1 at BetUS) wins it all.

Very old, but this Russell Westbrook dunk against Cal was absolutely filthy.

Baseball Musings predicts how many R/G each team will score in '08. A commenter alertly notes, "Looks like another long year for Matt Cain."

STF interviews SI's Luke Winn.

Ozzie Guillen, being awesome:

‘’Then if you’re a nice guy, they are going to treat you the same way. [Expletive] it, be an ####### then. I would rather be an ####### winning than be a nice guy [expletive] losing. Give me an ####### who can win, don’t give me a nice guy who can [expletive] lose.’"

ESPN jumped the gun on the UAB-Memphis game. How does that happen? Is it really so difficult to wait two minutes?

Silver adjusts PECOTA for strength of schedule. Seattle's prediction descends even lower. 85 wins. Right.

With Leather was on the foxnews.com front page. Also from WL:

"Seriously, if I said that Raul Ibanez could run down a routine fly ball, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'd be lying."

Derek Jeter: a below average fielder!? Man, what are they smoking down at Penn?

The Colts' radio announcer was a little confused about the result of Vinatieri's kick.

Posnanski looks at some more undeserving MVPs.

Keith Law, ESPN.com's "voice of reason", talks to Sabernomics.

Like we needed another reason to dislike the '72 Dolphins.

The Dugout is excited about Tampa Bay's name change.

Apparently, 3 years $45MM isn't enough for Mariano. Unbelievable. I enjoyed this:

"Rivera has apparently told his agents to shop him around, as he's annoyed by Hank Steinbrenner's public comments about his age. Hank seems to make a lot of public comments that don't seem professional or well thought-out. "

Leitch:

"[W]e're not too comfortable living in a world in which fish can grow to 359 pounds. Heck, that thing could pitch for the Indians at this rate."

Storming the Floor collected the Final Four picks of 28 bloggers (including myself; Indiana, Memphis, Tennessee, UCLA). Starting next week I'll also be participating in the blogpoll, which should be fun.