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CP3MVP? They're all set up for you Chris, you just gotta knock 'em down.
While March Madness seems to have come to its senses with all the top seeds making the Final Four for the first time since … well since ever, the nuttiness has found a new, unlikely home: the NBA. The Western Conference is tigher than a Shanghai subway [Ed.'s Note: Does Shanghai have subways?] with 9 teams within 5 1/2 games of each other. Imagine this: a week of NBA action (not in June) where the games actually matter.
QUESTIONS WE WON'T GET TO ASK TODAY
- Chris Paul: With the Hornets atop the Western Confernce (barely), how bad do you want that MVP?
- Indiana University Athletic Director: You are planning on upgrading a coach right?
- Lebron James: Be honest.Who's game do you like more: Delonte West or Stephen Curry?
SCREW THE MATH:
BALCO's Victor Conte's undisclosed advance for his tell-all book, BALCO: The Straight Dope on Barry Bonds, Marion Jones, and What We Can Do to Save Sports, should help him pay off the $100,000 he's spent in defense of Marion Jones' now meritless $25 million defamation suit, but it will apparently not buy him a $9.99 Mach 3 Razor from USALESS to shave off his pencil-thin mustache, because if Conte has the fortitude to wear that thing through a prison stint, it ain't never coming off.
ODDITIES
Odds on … what you'll hear from loved ones and co-workers today for not choosing four No. 1 seeds to advance to San Antonio.
(50 to 1) "Pretty sweet, Bob. Looks like I'll win the office pool—and I didn't watch a game all year."
(10 to 1) "Honey, even I picked those teams. They had the 1 next to their names, right?"
(EVEN) "Daddy, why do you always pick losers?"
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