Name of the Year Has Returned - Let the Hilariousness Begin

If you are not familiar with what I speak, then you have been deprived of one of the Internet's greatest treasures.  Name of the Year has returned for Twenty-Ten.

This website is absolutely fantastic on so many levels.  It's your standard 64 entry tournament in the bracket format that all March Madness fans have been accustomed to.  In the end, there will be a name of the year crowned.  And these names are absolutely off-the-wall outrageous and hilarious. 

The best part is - they are REAL names.  These aren't made up.  Nohjay Nimpson, Charity Beaver, and Coke Wisdom O'Neal are all real, documented people that live within our society. 

I've been waiting for WEEKS for NOTY to post it's new bracket.  The giggle factor alone is tremendous.  It's amazing how a blog that only posts for about 8 weeks a year is this entertaining - but it is.

For the record, my Name of the Year Final Four is: Courvoisier Riley, Special Jennings, Steele Sidebottom, and Furious Bradley.  Steele Sidebottom wins it in overtime.  Epic.

Go HERE to fill out your bracket.  Follow along and vote at the NOTY home page.  You will not be disappointed.  Besides, we all know you had Kansas beating Kentucky in the final of the NCAA tourney and have no chance of winning your work pool.  Brandie from Payroll is winning that.

Spare Me The "Cinderella" Shit

I hate articles like this.

Every couple years we get this rehashed crap about parity in college basketball, how anybody can beat anybody in March and how even the little guy has a chance. Really? This drives me friggin' nuts. We are only TWO years removed from ALL FOUR #1 seeds reaching the Final Four. The year before? Two #1's and two #2's. Last year? Try two #1's, a #2 and a #3.

Parity exists in the first two rounds. It always has. Big-time teams can play tight, look rusty and a mid-major can knock them off when they play great. It's what makes the tourney so great, we all know this already. But minus George Mason in 2006, the parity stops there. Yes, you'll occasionally get the #4 or #5 seed in the Final Four. However, those are top 25 teams already so it's not like they're true "cinderella" stories. Smart money still says Syracuse, Kentucky and Duke will make the Final Four. That would give us three #1 seeds, I'm not seeing the parity there Gene. And even if a Saint Mary's, Cornell or Northern Iowa somehow gets to the Final Four (this isn't happening by the way) it just means this was a down year for the "haves." Hell, perennial powerhouses UNC, UCLA, and UConn didn't even make the tournament this year. That's saying something.

So spare me Gene Wojciechowski. Please go out there, do your job and come up with an original story that interests me. Please.

But, after all, he is same douchebag that wrote this article.