Did I Dream That?

I was messing with my laptop and keeping an eye on the UNC – Boston College game today when I saw a graphic flash on the screen. It said “Championship Game – Duke vs. BC” and was quickly removed. I double-checked the score of the UNC-BC game, which said 12 to 13.

Hmm. Was that merely prophecy on the part of Jefferson-Pilot Sports or has all the point-shaving and game-fixing [reg] gone to the “next level?” Are the games as phony as pro wrestling? If so, why can’t my perpetual-underdog Wolfpack get a few more big wins?

Can anyone who Tivo’d the game send me a screenshot?
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Southern Cross

Guess where my mind is today …

Southern Cross
Crosby, Stills, & Nash
From the album Daylight Again

Got out of town on a boat, going to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach before a following sea.
She was making for the trades on the outside, and the downhill run to Papeete.

Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas,
we got eighty feet of the waterline, nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon, I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away.
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