Muskies Midseason Report

17 games in and many more to go, the 2010-11 Xavier Musketeers have shown flashes of just about everything possible through the first 2+ months this season. Coming off a traditionally slow start, which featured 4 double digit losses during a 4-5 stretch, (not to mention some OT thrillers with perennial powers Wofford and IPFW) and of course the end of the nation's 2nd longest active home win streak, Xavier has bounced back in a big way with a very strong start to the A-10 schedule. And THANK GOD for the Atlantic 10. I see no reason to panic at all at this point as this Xavier team is in a great position to run the table in the A-10 for the 5th straight year and get a tourney bid. Last year's team was in the exact 12-5 position before it stumbled at Temple, the Muskies next opponent, and the victory over Dayton at home for the God knows how many times in a row should let Xavier Nation exude a collective sigh of relief. While watching the game with our long lost colleague Kevin Frey Wannabe last night, he commented that Chris Mack run teams are unlike anything Xavier basketball has ever seen. These guys enter attack mode and don't look back, and this is something that certainly bodes well as the remainder of the schedule features teams Xavier should be able to beat. So now, let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly as the 2010-11 Xavier Musketeers season marches on.


The Good
Tu Holloway. Tu Holloway. Tu Holloway. Have I mentioned Tu Holloway? While recording the 1st triple-double in Xavier history since David West himself did so in 2002, Holloway is not messing around this year. Along with Nolan Smith, Tu is the only player in college basketball to average 20 points and 5 assists per game. Simply put, he runs the show. As was evidenced in the Crosstown Shootout, this team goes where Holloway goes. He tends to decide when he wants to score, exhibit A: last night's 22 point 2nd half performance. As Byron Larkin once said, "this young man has a phenomenal pair of onions on him." Although I don't recall Byron tossing out a "no homo" before or after the statement, regardless, Tu is a competitor, and I do not believe he is going to let this team achieve anything less than they're capable of as long as he's running the show. The front-court has also surprisingly been a strong point for the Muskies this year. Jason Love's departure left a major question mark as Kenny Frease would now be the big man on campus, and Jamel McLean's early season facial injury didn't help calm any nerves either. But both of these big fellas have had some big time games while establishing themselves as quite a duo amongst the trees. Bottom line, if this duo stays healthy, Xavier should have no problem dominating the post for the remainder of schedule and in to March.

The Bad
Xavier's bench features a single player, Jeff Robinson, who averages more than 1 point a game. Needless to say, depth is an issue for this squad. With only 8 active scholarship players, (no, Griffin McKenzie does not count) Xavier has to lean on their starters for 30+ minutes a game. Most notably, Holloway has logged an average of 38 minutes a game. It would be optimistic to say this won't catch up to these players sooner or later, but the bottom line is that if this team suffers even a minor injury to another contributing player, there will be some big time issues. Xavier fans can only hope the 6-8 Jordan Latham will not be getting stuffed by the rim come tourney time, and that walk-on Kevin Feeney won't have to match up with Nolan Smith one of these days. Also, there has been a disturbing trend as of late where senior guard and the supposed leader of this team Dante Jackson has neglected to record any statistic for prolonged periods of time. When he's not clanking threes off the SIDE of the backboard, he seems to be hypocritically coaching up his teammates to make plays while he continues mysteriously vanish in various spots on the court. I'm all for Tu dropping 25 a game, but it would be nice if Dante could, you know, actually help his team on occasion.

The Ugly? Mark Lyons jumpshot. Yeah, that's about it...although he continues to defy the laws of physics while shooting a respectable 35% from distance.


Looking Forward
It's the beauty of the Atlantic 10. Every year Xavier labors through a brutal non-conference schedule, only to be greeted by their mid-major friends of the A-10. There is nothing that tells me this team can't win a 5th straight regular season title. Xavier still has their fair share of tests remaining though, most immediately with pre-season favorite Temple. Expect the 'Tas to be rocking on Saturday, as a win over the Owls would indicate Xavier is once again the team to beat atop the Atlantic 10. Road tests against Richmond, Charlotte, Dayton, St. Louis, St. Joe's, and the always pesky Duquesne Dukes remain for the Muskies, not to mention a trip to Athens, GA to face the Georgia Bulldogs who have caught everybody by surprise with their 13-4 start, including a win over Calipari's UK Wildcats. To say the schedule is basic would be a lie, but to say Xavier hasn't run the tables with similar tests year after year would be equally as faulty. Overall, Xavier is already slotted in as a 12-seed in the latest bracketology, so as long as this team stays healthy and Tu Holloway continues to compete every night, expect Greg Gumble to announce the Musketeers from Xavier in the field of 68 (sorry, that sounds weird) on Selection Sunday.

Muskies Crashin the Ball in Indy? Why Not? PART 1

The title of this article infers that I am saying that Xavier is going to go to the Final Four. Make no mistake, I AM saying that: I have it in my pools and I am confident that this team is poised and ready to take SLC by the balls and will live to see yet another week. With that being said, this is Part 1 thus I will discuss the Musketeers first task at hand solely. The task is the West Bracket semifinal game in Salt Lake City, Mormonville vs. the Kansas State Wildcats at aprox 9:37 pm EST.

I said it Sunday night on my drive home from Milwaukee back to Cincinnati when I got on to the national radio show on Maddog Radio. I got on and discussed the Muskies and their chances vs. the very solid K St. squad, and ultimately why I think Xavier is going to take Round 2 this season with them. Xavier started off the season with more question marks than I can remember this entire past decade. New head coach, lost their top three scorers as well as team leaders, and their undisputed go-to guy had sat out an entire year and hadn't played a game with Xavier ever. The beginning of the season produced some disheartening showings by the Muskies (aside from the cake games at Cintas) and many of the X faithful were already talking about next year...even before conference play! (Please note that I was NOT one of these people) Xavier played such NCAA tournament participating teams this season as Marquette, Baylor, Kansas St., and Butler before Christmas, and lost all of them.

By the time Christmas rolled around, Xavier was 7-4 and had not won a game versus a noteworthy team. Little did we know, Xavier played and shot poorly against Baylor and Kansas St. because they are both top-tier defensive teams in the country. Both might I add are in the Sweet 16 (a place were the Almighty Kansas Jayhawks are not). Butler, whom Xavier should have beaten, also is in the Sweet Sixteen and I would love nothing more than to play them for a chance to go to the Final Four in Indy. I HATE BUTLER. I went to that game and it took every ounce of restraint in my body to not knock some Butler douche in the skull. What happened with Butler though as well as an extremely tough 2OT loss at Wake (I attended that game as well) in looking back on it, those losses were blessings. This team I would argue is the most battle tested team in the country. There is not a situation (fair or unfair) that they haven't experienced this year. This team is tough as nails and has the nerves of steel. They were able to take the hard-learned lessons from the first half of the season to end up going into the Swamp of the Gators (another NCAA tourney team) and beat them in a crucial bubble game for UF on the road. Xavier also played a hard fought game at Temple although losing, but were able to prevail vs. Richmond at home in 2OT.

Going 14-2 in the Atlantic 10 was no fluke. Temple and Richmond were extremely good, disciplined teams (say what you want about their NCAA games, St. Mary's and Cornell are still playing!!!) Also, I know you don't give a shit about the NIT as you shouldn't but Richmond and Dayton are in the Final Four of that. Big East blowjobbers, any comments on the A10 now?!

As has been discussed all week, Xavier and Kansas St. have a unique situation in the fact that they have already played this year (and the last couple years. See article concerning K St's bitterness towards X
http://www.statesman.com/sports/kansas-state-xavier-have-some-bad-blood-443191.html ) I watched that game in December in Manhattan and Xavier played without a doubt their worst game of the year. I mean Brad Redford was Xavier's leading scorer (tied with Crawford) at 16 points! That will not be the case tonight. No Way! This Xavier team in March is so much more mature, disciplined, and poised than that vague image of a Xavier basketball that I remember from that game. Chris Mack is not a rookie coach anymore. Jordan Crawford is not a first-year player for Xavier. This team has been there, done that, and they are battle-tested.

A stat that I would be doing everyone who reads this a disservice if I didn't show that sticks out to me like a sore thumb is this:

XU scored 56 points vs K St. that game. It was their lowest offensive output of the year by 6 points (61 v Butler) Since both of those games Xavier's lowest output has been 65 v. Minn and 68 v. Lasalle. WOW.

You tell me if you think this poised and momentus Xavier team is going to put up 56 points again. That game was at K St., tonight is on a neutral court. The Xavier faithful will be there, dont worry about that. They will be loud and they will represent. I can assure you of that. I can also assure you that Jordan Crawford will bring it yet again (27.5 ppg in the '10 tourney), Xavier will play good defense, and they will rebound. Minimizing turnovers as well as keeping Tuto and Crawdaddy at the guard positions and J Love and McClean out of foul trouble will be key. We cannot be relying on Lyons, Frease, and Taylor playing big minutes. We don't want that at all! Lastly, Dante needs to step up and hit a couple shots, make his late game ft's for God's sake! and play good individual defense and rebound.

If we do these things, I think the Muskies are playing Saturday. I like Frank Martin. I think his side job is in the Kansas maffia. I think K St. is loaded and talented. It also is tough to beat a team twice in one year, especially one of the caliber of this gritty and tough 2010 Xavier squad.

With that being said, AMDG, All for One and One for All, In It to Win It, May the Power of X be With You. Stayed tuned for Part II blogowers.

KFW

Some Pre-First Round NCAA Tourney Things to Chew On

Happy St. Patty's Day Blogowers. I hope everyone remembered to dawn their kelly green and was able to get down a few Guinesses (or green kool-aid for the high school fellas) during lunch. Back to work though! Gotta save those hours away from the office for the next two days!

Just a few things while I am thinking about it:

1) Wanted to give my bother Matthew Berning aka Burnside a late birthday shoutout. He turned 17 on Monday March 15 (Beware the IDES!) and now does not have to worry about sneaking into rated R movies at the Western Hills Danbarry. By the way if you do ever go there, make sure to bring a plastic garbage bag to cover your seat with or you will leave testing positive for crabs, HIV, and gonorrhea. As we westsiders like to call it, "inexpensive fun" or "the gift that keeps on giving the whooooole year Clarke"...and no I don't mean a yearlong subscription to the Jelly-of-the-Month club.

2) Wanted to say best of luck to Coach Martin and the San Javier equipo de basquet this evening at the 'Tas. I haven't seen Lasalle play this season; I'm assuming they're pretty good and have a roster full of kids that were recruited illegally. Hey, throw the records and past history this season out, it's the tourney and anything can happen. Let's use our advantage in intellect to beat the inferior-in-the-classroom Lancers. Final Fours at Value Center Arena are always a good time.

3) We are officially less than 24 hours from the Madness. I assume everyone who reads this blog is just a big of a fan of the tourney as I am and using the word "giddy" to describe the way I feel about it isn't weird to say at least in front of this target audience. Either way, brace yourself because ready or not, here it comes!

4) As a precursor to the NCAA tourney, tune in to the Bearcats and the Flyers tonight in the NIT. I would love to see both of Xavier's bitches square off in the second round of the NCAA-Reject Tourney.

5) I leave you with a couple clips:
a) The first is all about the legend that is Bill "Onions" Raftery.
b) The second is the article from the NY Times discussing
the great things that Sister Rose does and has been doing for a long time over on the campus on Victory Parkway.
c)The third and final article breaks down every type of person that fills out an NCAA tourney bracket. Some humor in it....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/03/10/raftery/index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/sports/ncaabasketball/16nun.html?pagewanted=1&hp

http://www.sportspickle.com/article:733/the-7-people-in-every-ncaa-tournament-pool

El Fuerto’s Tourney Preview (Part 1)

Midwest

Teams To Beat

(1)Kansas Jayhawks
The number one overall seed has serious championship potential. They ran through the Big 12 with a 15-1 record and humiliated Temple and Cal non-conference. Sherron Collins, Xavier Henry, Cole Aldrich, and Marcus Morris all have potential for a break out game every time they step on the court. Kansas has big time talent and major championship potential. It would be a major surprise for them to not appear in the Final Four.

(3)Georgetown Hoyas
Although they have struggled with inconsistency, G-Town can play with anyone, having knocked off Temple, Butler, Duke, and ran to the Big East championship game. I can see a major classic between the Hoyas and Jayhawks in the Elite 8 with Aldrich-Monroe, Wright-Collins, and Henry-Freeman matchups.

Sleeper Team

(10)Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
The Jackets struggled late, but if freshman sensation Derrick Favors plays well, G-Tech could turn some heads.

Upset Special

(11)San Diego St Aztecs over (6)Tennessee Volunteers
The Vols are hoping that the Kentucky disaster was a fluke, but it was not the first time Tennessee has no-showed at a big game (Vanderbilt, anyone?). The Aztecs will pound away at a Vols team that may be wearing down.

Cinderella Spotlight

(15)UC-Santa Barbara Gauchos
While discussing this game, I found out that one of my friends did not know that Santa Barbara was real He insisted that it was a made up city used by the TV show Psych. I think that sums up the Gauchos chances.


West

Teams To Beat

(1)Syracuse Orange
The Cuse take the top seed in the West, but somehow get to play the first weekend in their home state. The Orange have beaten 5 Top 25 teams, and could make a Carmelo-esque run this year, however first order of business is getting revenge on Vermont, who knocked them out in 2005.

(6)Xavier Musketeers
In case you haven't heard one of KFW's many rants on how this team will cut down the nets in Indy, I'll give a little breakdown on X's chances. They have some kid named Crawford who dunked on LeBron, and he's been dropping almost 20 a game, and should lead the Muskies to the second weekend.

Sleeper Team

(7) BYU Cougars
I could go on and on about how BYU is ranked top 10 in the Pomeroys, rebounds as well as anyone in the country, and shoots threes like a team full of Hornaceks. But there is one simple reason why they are poised to make a run: Mormon Discipline. The average Cougar player is about 35 years old and married, so I think they can keep composure with 2 minutes left. The Mormons also do not drink alcohol, so I would imagine they are probably in pretty good shape and will have no trouble getting up and down the court. However, this squad will face one enormous obstacle. If they make it to the Elite 8, they would have to forfeit due to the game being on a Sunday.

Upset Special

(13)Murray St Racers over (4)Vanderbilt
Commodores
The Racers are 30-4 and play lockdown, in-your-face defense all game long. They are fourth in the nation in opponent fg%, and are 6th in steals. With Billy Kennedy instead of Mick Cronin coaching the team up, the Racers are ready to finally break into the second round.

Cinderella Spotlight

(14)Oakland Golden Grizzlies
"I told the team before the game that people will argue with me on this, but we'll be the greatest team in the history of this league if you win tonight,"
"This is one of the most competitive teams I've ever been on. We don't want to lose at anything, not even video games."
"We have a goal board in our locker room, and on that goal board is to make the Sweet 16, so we're not just happy to be there."
These are all from the coach. I didn't make any of this stuff up. Really.

Tune in tomorrow for part two of El Fuerto's Tournament Preview to give you an in-depth look at the South and East regions.

Oh No You Di'int

I’m assuming most have checked or heard about through the grapevine at the very least that the Atlantic 10 Regular Season Awards were announced Sunday. The one award the Xavier Musketeers could control was the conference regular season title and they took care of that (for the fourth time in a row to be exact) by going 14-2 and becoming Co-Champs with the Temple Owls. Congrats to Chris Mack (www.twitter.com/coachchrismack) and the squad on their great achievement. Cutting down the nets on Senior day at Cintas is kind of becoming an annual ritual (followed by massive boozing/celebrating at the Gardens).

Now to the flaming sack of dog shit (“don’t put it out with your boots Ted” style) that is the Atlantic 10 awards-voting. I don’t know if the rest of the Atlantic 10 conference (coaches, athletic directors, media) have against the poster-child team of the conference. Face it, Xavier fan or not, without the Muskies, the A10 is NOTHING! They have damn near dominated this conference from their inaugural year back in 1995 (or 1996…not 100% sure). Regardless though, year in and year out they rep the A10 proudly throughout the regular season knocking off BCS school after BCS school and then by going to the NCAA on an annual basis (many times being 1 of only 2 or 3 teams that gets in). Don’t get me wrong, I am not bashing the A10 conference THIS year…this is arguably the best year for the A10 ever (Note: 2004 they had 2 teams mere points away from the Final 4 in St. Joes and none other than Xavier). What I am so very fumed about though is seriously, how the hell did # 55 Mr. Jordan Crawford not come away with the Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Year. I mean I’m just gonna let out a MNF Countdown “C’MONNNNNNNNNN MANN!”

I was at the Richmond game a week or so back at Cintas. I was surprisingly impressed by the grit and toughness as well as the ability to execute in crucial times by the Spiders, but in no way shape or form did they possess the BEST player in the conference. Kevin Anderson wasn’t even the best player on his team! (in my opinion) I’m not going to bore you with a plethora of stats and compare and contrast. All you need to know is this: @JCraw55 (www.twitter.com/@jcraw55) posted far better stats (more points, rebounds, assists, and steals per game….all while averaging 5 less minutes a game!) Nuff Said. A10 coaches are just bitter and to be quite blunt about it, are not going to be pleased by the bomb that is going to be dropped on Atlantic City this weekend by the Xavier Musketeers.

I haven’t even mentioned my further displeasure with the voting that included Jason Love (www.twitter.com/lovej31) making the third team! (name 2 centers who were more dominant and were more valuable to their teams success this year than J Boogie), Holloway not even getting some kind of mention, Lyons (www.twitter.com/Str8_Mula) not making the all rookie team (that MF’er is going to be sick by the time he’s out of XU, and sooner rather than later if Crawford jumps to league this summer), and last but not least, first year head coach of the Co-Champion team in the league @coachchrismack. I can see why Temple’s dude Duffy got votes but I think people are not giving Mack and his staff the credit they deserve. I don’t want to repeat my post from last week (and as a Bomber and Muskie guy I am biased) but I think Mack, like Miller, is one of the best young, fresh coaches in all of college basketball and he should be receiving some serious accolades this year for what he has done. As for now, he’ll keep hanging banners and putting in orders for that bling-bling. Maybe he’ll actually stick around Cincy unlike the last four guys who have “done work” at Xavier (RIP SKIP). We can only hope!

Enjoy Championship Week blogowers. It really is the best time of the year. Hopefully the men in stripes (ironic certainly) can get a playmaker at the wideout position’s Herbie Hancock this week. Most crucial to keep up with the Ravens signing of Boldin. Marshall in my opinion is top 3 in the league currently (behind Andre the Giant and Larry Fitz) but give him a year or two and he could be THE premier guy in the No Fun League at his position.

This post also would not be complete if I didn’t give the Xavier women’s bball squad a shoutout. These girls can play! Amber Harris has the handles of a guard, the silky, smooth touch of a swingman, and the size of a center (and she rebounds like a dude). T’Shia Phillips is an absolute animal as well. She grabbed like 18 boards yesterday against Temple in A10 finals…and swatted the absolute snot out of some Temple chicks shot in the first half. Possible Streak Stoppers (of UConn) in the Final Four?! Best of luck to Coach Kevin McGuff and the Lady (although not so lady-like) Musketeers in the NCAA tourney and make sure to follow them. They play their first two tourney games at home at Cintas. I’ll be there….

I will leave on this note (and the following link) Chapman was throwing 102 mph’ers in a live game. In his first outing. Of spring training. IN MARCH! HOLY SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEET…this dudes gonna be sick as long as Dusty’s don’t do “his thing” with him. Also this article has forced me to tuck north:

http://deadspin.com/5486157/cincinnati-reds-the-looming-towerGood

And the Beat Goes On....

First of all, thanks to El Fuerto for the NIT breakdown. Great to see some of the local teams getting some exposure in there. Good for Mick Cronin and Brian Gregory continuing their schools' traditions of mediocrity and underachievement. I aint complaining. The real team in Cincy is live in living color as we have now finally entered the best month of the year: MARCH BABY! (By the way, stay tuned for a CBI breakdown next week from El Fuerto)

The 2009-10 Xavier University Musketeers Men's Basketball team. Another coach, another year of doubters, haters, nay-sayers, and........another "to-be' Atlantic 10 regular season Conference Championship. That's what the Muskies and Mike Bobinski do: get rings (fat rings) and hang banners. I love Chris Mack as the head coach of this team. I will wait until after the season is over before I say why I think he's in for the long run. As for now, I am focused on the here and now, and thats wrapping up a league title for the 4th year in a row! and trying to get the best seed possible. (I say that like I have any control in it. At the Richmond game, I lost my voice, so theres my contribution).

Looks like all the talk about the A10 getting 5-6 teams is dwindling down as everybody is beating up on eachother (aside from Temple, Richmond, and Xavier). I must admit, the Atlantic 10 has been fun to watch this year...for once. The conference doesn't get enough national exposure on ESPN but after last week, I have a ton of respect for the young squad at SLU and for the grittiness of Richmond. Look for the Spiders to be playing in the second weekend of the tourney...you heard it here first!

Finally, just some thoughts on three individual Musketeers:

1) Below is my post on Cincinnati.com (http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100228/COL03/302280010/1007/SPT/Lights++camera++action+...++XU+s+Holloway+) on Terrell "Tutu" Holloway:

TRADITIONX09:

I've been saying it since the great game in the Shootout this year: when all is said and done, Holloway will be the best point guard in XU history. Lavendar was great but didn't play four years, Chalmers always will have a soft spot in my heart but more because of his play during the Run because his career was somewhat inconsistent.

Holloway is still inconsistent but man oh man, when he wants to play, he cannot be stopped. It's the biggest stage that Tutu relishes and the deeper into the game and OT's, the better plays. Crawford has been stellar all season. He had a bad half and it is awesome to see the Muskies step up when their offensive leader was off the mark. Great win.

I like where this team is headed going in to March. #12 RPI and the squad is battle-tested....there is no doubting that!

2) Jason "Buddy" "Lovely" "J Boogie" Love

Has there ever been anyone that exemplified what a Xavier student/basketball athlete is better than Jason Love? He came from D1 bball school-rich Philly and chose Xavier in the midwest, mainly because none of those schools really offered him (no Philly schools, althugh Penn St. and Providence did). He came here overweight, uncoordinated, and basically a big oaf who couldnt walk and chew gum at the same time. He came in though and from Day 1, worked his balls off and got better every season, considerably better at that. I'll give it to him, he had a ton of room for improvement but to go from 20ish % body fat to now like 6ish% or something stupid low is just absolutely unbelievable. That shit doesn't happen overnight. Neither does developing an offensive game or being one of the most dominating rebounders in the conference. All things that Love has become his senior year. A year where he is the lone-senior, he has taken the load on his shoulders and done an exceptional job leading these young Muskies.

I think I speak for all Xavier fans and maybe just basketball fans in general in saying that come Saturday, I am going to be sad after the game knowing that I will never see @LoveJ31 (www.twitter.com/lovej31) play at Cintas ever again. It has been a pleasure watching him grow, battle, and bust his ass all while shutting up and putting up for the Xavier program for 4 years. Thats what Xavier does: recruit those guys that the big boys pass on but who are willing to work harder than most, bring their lunch pale to work, and when they graduate people say "I'm going to miss having that guy in line-up night in and night out."

Thank you J Love for all your hard work. You will be missed. Let's finish strong. After tonight, he will be the WINNINGEST PLAYER IN XU HOOPS HISTORY!

3) Finally, last but not least, Coach Chris Mack and Coach Pat Kelsey

I just wanted to quickly acknowledge these guys for the job they have done. Xavier Nation was fumed after Miller bitched and hitched for Zona. A year later, I thank him because finally, since Skip, we have two coaches in Mack and Kels that CARE about Xavier bball. They are alums, are from Cincy, and have invested interest in the program. Great to have them here.

I just want to note that at the beginning of the season, we were all wondering how Xavier was going to makeup for the loss of CJ, Derrick, and BJ (our top three scorers and 60+ percent of our offense from the Sweet 16 team). Also if you can remember Sean Miller and Thad Matta's rookie seasons, those Xavier teams were hard to watch many times. They struggled and lost games they shouldn't have lost, naturally I guess with new coaching. Thad had D West and lost in the 2nd round...that was unacceptable for the team that he had. Sean had lost Chalmers, Sato, and Myles BUT didn't even make the NIT! People were calling for him to get fired! (Lets face it, that ONE bad year is the norm over there in Clifton).

Mack (www.twitter.com/@coachchrismack) and Kels are on the verge of winning the A10 title in arguably the deepest and toughest the conference has ever been with a ridiculously low 2 losses! (Im assuming we win the next 2 games). Best of luck to the boys and lets hope they can remained focused with their eye on the A10 prize....it's so close! (This is what we do. Good find BG.... http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/20283529?tag=comBlogEntryListCnt;entry20283529)

Over and out,

CLICK CLACK

Ps. Make sure to tune in to the USA soccer squad take on the Dutch today at 2:30 pm. The World Cup in June will be unreal and today will be a little precursor of how it will be. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXHmTJrPaXQ)