You've really made it now, my friend

Don't know if it's happened before, but Deadspin just got totally name-dropped on PTI. Since PTI is like the biggest thing going in popular sports journalizzle right now, this is a nice plug for my favorite general sports blog.

Specifically, Mister Tony mentioned their take on Anna Benson's desire to divorce her much less hot husband Kris.

Go Deadspin. I expect to hear you mentioned on World News Tonight soon.

Words I need to not hear on TV anymore

"girls" - What Not To Wear
"bigs" - CBS college basketball coverage
"x*" - Stephen from Top Chef
"tribal" - as a synonym for "tribal council" on Survivor

* - where x is any word or words.

Some names to learn (if possible)

I haven't seen an "all-name" team for this year's NCAA tournament, but these two guys have got to be on it.

Pierre Marie Altidor-Cespedes, Gonzaga
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, UCLA

They're playing each other right now. Who could ask for anything more?

NCAA moreness

One more thing for now:

You are hereby authorized to root for the winner of George Mason/Wichita State to face Bradley in the NCAA championship.

Do everything your power to make it so.

A little NCAA nonsense

First, this is really funny and I'm sad I didn't notice it on my own.

Brad-Pitt [Deadspin]

Also, I'm completely sick of the word "bracket." I get that it's unavoidable this time of year, but I try to only use it as needed. And can we please go back to calling them regionals? What happened to that? I refuse to honor anyone as the winner of the Oakland Bracket.

The All-Me Team

Just thinking about the best NU roundballers I've seen. So, I present the All-(1998-present) Team for NU basketball.

Evan Eschmeyer - C
Tavaras Hardy - PF
Vedran Vukusic - SF
Jitim Young - PG
Mohammed Hachad - SG

That sounds like a pretty good lineup, no? You'd like to see those five on the floor together. And what's a first team without a second team?

Aaron Jennings - C (Um, this is where my game falls apart a little)
Winston Blake - SF
Davor Duvancic - PF
T.J. Parker - SG
Julian Bonner - PG

And honorable mention.

Napolean Harris
Sean Wink
Michael Jenkins