December Madness

The holiday season marks yet another shift regarding our focus regarding the world of sports. By this time, usually all of the blockbuster deals during the baseball off-season have taken place, or at the very least everybody except Buster Olney and Peter Gammons are bored to tears with the Hot Stove. The NBA and NHL are in the middle of their extremely long and boring regular season, and as the NFL regular season winds down only a handful of games are significant. Which leave us with the NFL playoffs, Bowl games, and college basketball.

Bowl games for the most part suck, and the 4-5 weeks in between the regular and post seasons leaves everybody uninterested. The NFL playoffs are nothing short of awesome, but only take place on the weekends. This leaves a void in sporting life, and in comes the aforementioned college basketball.

Yesterday's Pitt vs. Duke game did not disappoint. With 4.7 seconds left in OT and -- after Duke missed two final shots -- Pittsburgh (No. 9 ESPN/USA Today, No. 11 AP) guard Lavance Fields hit a 3 pointer leading the Panthers to a 65-64 victory over the Blue Devils (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 6 AP) on Thursday night in a match up of two unbeatens in the Aeropostale Classic, at MSG.

After the game, Fields was contrite and said it was a team effort, and that Duke is always a tough opponent. He then asked where the white women were at. Isiah Thomas quickly ran over and corrected him to say "bitches", not women. Always a teacher.