In February of 2010, Bo and I had a death pool draft, which he wrote up here: http://theparentsbasement.com/2010/02/11/2010-death-pool-draft/ Now, I must first admit that it is completely unfair of me to score it like this because technically only 2010 deaths should count. But fuck it. I’m going to take every single point anyway. The main [...]

I knew the gods would someday send me a message that the Basement needed to come out of hibernation, but I did not expect it to be this obvious. The column Bill Simmons wrote last week was pretty much a burning fucking bush. He has pulled some painfully dumb stuff out of his ass in [...]

Bill Simmons has been pissing me off for months now. He speaks like an authority about shit he knows very little about, including the fucking Kennedy assassination, but the one thing that pisses me off most is when he talks about college basketball. He doesn’t just state his opinions, but he actually mocks people like [...]

Well, we’ve reached the end of the line here on our picks. I’m pretty sure I gained ground on Bo yesterday, so at least I have a heartbeat going into the weekend. And by the way, fuck you, Weber State. Thanks for choking away points from me. ACC 1st Round: UVA over BC, Wake over [...]

Big 12 1st Round: Colorado over Texas Tech, Missouri over Nebraska, Oklahoma State over Oklahoma, Texas over Iowa State 2nd Round: Kansas over Colorado, Missouri over Texas A&M, Oklahoma State over K-State, Texas over Baylor Semifinals: Kansas over Missouri, Oklahoma State over Texas Finals: Kansas over Oklahoma State Thoughts: Kansas is the best team in [...]

MEAC 1st Round: Howard over NC A&T, UMES over Coppin State, Bethune Cookman over FAMU 2nd Round: Morgan State over Howard, Norfolk State over Hampton, UMES over South Carolina State, Delaware State over Bethune Cookman Semifinals: Norfolk State over Morgan State, Delaware State over UMES Finals: Delaware State over Norfolk State Thoughts: Let’s go Hornets!!!!!!! [...]

I fucked up. I didn’t get a chance to get my picks up yesterday. The only way to rectify this without either throwing out the four tournaments that started Saturday or giving Bo an insurmountable advantage was for me to blindly pick all of the favorites in those conferences. This, of course, is all the way through, and not [...]

OVC Semifinals: Murray State over Eastern Illinois, Morehead State over Tennessee Tech Finals: Morehead State over Murray State Thoughts: At the end of the day, Morehead just has too much head to be defeated. WCC 1st Round: Loyola Marymount over Pepperdine, Santa Clara over San Diego 2nd Round: Loyola over San Francisco, Portland over San Diego [...]

There are other picks to get to today, but these two conferences start in the afternoon, so I’ll get them out of the way first. And to return Bo’s favor of passing along my Lipscomb pick (and thanks a lot for that, asshole), I can tell you that he picks UNCW in the opening game. [...]

Big South Semifinals: Coastal Carolina over UNC Asheville, Radford over Winthrop Finals: Coastal Carolina over Radford Thoughts: Big South? More like Big Suck! (COUNT IT) NEC Quarterfinals: Quinnipiac over Monmouth, Robert Morris over CCSU, St. Francis over Mt. St. Mary’s, FDU over LIU Semifinals: Quinnipiac over St. Francis, Robert Morris over FDU Finals: Robert Morris [...]

First of all, as I haven’t posted since Bo put up the death pool results, I must give myself a pat on the back. I ran circles around him. Although, he definitely helped me by making some horrendous picks. Trig Palin would’ve put together a better team. Anyway, onto our next endeavour, the Conference Tourney Pick’em. I’m [...]

Well, much like Bret Hart earlier this year, the Basement is making its long anticipated return after a much publicized absence from the spotlight. And don’t worry, we don’t have on jean shorts, we have washed our hair in the past 5 years, and we will not be allowing any of our mortal enemies (Rick Reilly, Chris Berman, [...]

I don’t have time to elaborate, but I wanted to get these up before these games started. NFC East 1. Eagles 12-4 2. Cowboys 11-5 3. Giants 9-7 4. Redskins 7-9 NFC North 1. Vikings 11-5 2. Packers 9-7 3. Bears 7-9 4. Lions 3-13 NFC South 1. Falcons 10-6 2. Saints 9-7 3. Panthers [...]

Well, unlike Bo, I did not pick every game on the NFL schedule (I’m actually going to have to go ahead and diagnose him with some form of OCD for doing so. The 2010 baseball schedule came out this week. Have you started on that yet?). Because I didn’t really formulate any specific projections beforehand, I can’t deny [...]

So I stumbled upon this article from the Washington Post’s website, and it actually infuriated me more than anything Rick Reilly has ever written. The author is responding to Joe Banner’s statement that the Eagles have the best roster in football. Now, if I were just reading it on behalf of myself as an Eagles fan, [...]