"LITTLE ANTHONY AND THE IDES"

It must have been a combination of the old song by Little Anthony and the Imperials,"I Think I'm Going Out of my Head," and the anniversary of Julius Caesar's assassination. Somehow things were curious and curiouser yesterday.

I mean how else do you explain the first round NCAA loss by Duke. No, it wasn't a first round upset by UVC wherever or whatever that school is/was. It was a total collapse by Duke. And what's the NCAA without Koach K and Duke in it?

Then Bowie Kuhn, former commish of MLB passes away. I'm not into talking bad about the recently demised, but that cat was spooky. First, the name. How is Bowie, not, you know pronounced Bowie. But he was Booey. He alone cost the Cardinals a playoff for the NL flag in 1981 when the team with the best record didn't represent the NL East. It was thought that Booey didn't like Busch whom he thought was trying to get him fired, so he concocted a plan to keep the Cards out. Oh well, they won it all the next year anyway(s). But Booey once again made his mark. He refused to wear a coat during the playoffs which he lengthened which forced late October games in some cases. In Game 6 in St. Lou, with the Cardinals leading 13-0 and a deluge of rain pounding the field, he refused to call the game. Instead, he surveyed the scene, literally as he walked out onto the outfield grass. Sinking, sloshing, kicking up rain, Booey announced the game would continue after a delay. Final score 13-1.

Then a pro basketball player tells kids to use drugs. Yep. It was all a joke he said, but Cleveland center, somebody by the name of Scot Pollard, relayed that message to a tv camera during a time out. "It was just a bad joke," was his apology. Meanwhile Cleveland announced it would take care of the problem in house.

Just another day on Planet Earth. Or "et tu, Earte?"