MARCH MADENSS AND NCAA PICKS

So what does this 1950 scorecard have to do with this year's NCAA picks? Number one, it's a beautiful scorecard (but I've written before about how they used to include the game starters with current averages printed in the box score.) Number two, despite the WBC and NCAA, mid-March is still Spring Training where even the cub fans have hope. One writer in the Arizona Republic states that it is the best time for cub fans, for when the season starts, the reality sets in. Or right now, the cubs may be the apple of your eye before they turn into the Alpo of your eye. Enough. Number three, you have to keep track of your picks and how you are doing, so what better way than to keep your picks inside a great looking scorecard?

Ok. The last one was a stretch. But to today's blog.
A Phoenix sports anchor, Kevin Hunt, made his NCAA selections like millions of other fans. Then he took poker chips numbered with appropriate teams and regionals and put them into a plastic cup. He took his numbered chips and cup to the Phoenix Zoo where he had two monkeys pick one chip at a time to determine the winners of the games. Well, at least according to the monkeys. They'd select a chip, see that it wasn't food and drop it to the ground.

Of course, the tv crew was there to film and interview passerbys who all thought the monkeys would outpick the sportscaster. It was fun to watch. I just hope they rewarded the monkeys with some chow after having worked them so. I hope they beat Hunt, too.

And if you want to cut to the chase and pick this year's National Champions? It's Texas A& M. For Apes and Monkeys?