BREAKING NEWS

I meant to post this before the Final Four, so it might not be as funny now. Sorry, super busy with class, teaching, baseball season,...and oh yeah, my school won't let me create posts on blogs. Buttholes.


I don't know if any of you have heard this already. You may have been out of town a few days or maybe your power went out for a night. Not everyone gets the newspaper anymore and so just in case you haven't found out, I'll just let you know: The Final Four is going to be held at Ford Field this year! But wait, that's not all. Michigan State University, you know, the team Ervin "Magic" Johnson played for? You may have seen his face in the crowd once or twice during some of the tournament games. Well, MSU not only has a chance to play in their home state in Detroit, but they've advanced to the Final Four! Incredible, right? This will be like them...THIS JUST IN:

MSU will be playing for the National Championship! But guess who it will be against? North Carolina! Again, I don't know if you remember this or not, but MSU and UNC played each other earlier this year. Ironic, right? Well wait till you hear this: They played AT FORD FIELD!?!? OH MY GOSH! That is freakin' unreal. What are the odds? I did some huge research and found another incredible fact about the game: This is the 30th Anniversary of the 1979 National Championship between Indiana State and...wait for it...Ervin "Magic" Johnson and the Michigan State Spartans. I can't believe there haven't been articles in the newspapers about this. Do you remember the game? Probably not. There were these two guys in the game that kinda made basketball popular at the time. Larry Bird from Indiana State and Magic Johnson from MSU. I heard there were a lot of people watching that game on TV.

So, if you didn't hear about this yet, I'm excited to be the first person to tell you. The championship game will be tomorrow night. If you didn't realize, that game will be like a home game for MSU, well, because MSU is from Michigan and the game is in Michigan. It's only 45 minutes away from campus.


Okay, back to a serious note: Was CBS and EVERY OTHER sports news anchor trying to ram that information down our throats for the last two weeks? How old did those stories get? How many times did they slam Magic's face on TV? How many 10 year olds were like, "Daddy, why do they keep showing that fat guy in the stands?" How badly did CBS want UNC in the Championship? How badly did they want a earlier season blowout to be a championship rematch, on the same court? I swear, every day, on every channel, on every radio show, in every newspaper was a story about MSU competing with the chance to play at Ford Field. If it wasn't already for the economy, that didn't help make me want to be from Michigan.

Talk about slow news days. Over and over and over and over, all you heard around here, even from Sam Merill and Mark Toragrosa, was MSU with the chance to play in front of their "home" crowd at Ford Field. People! You have journalism degrees! Use them! We are from Michigan. We already freakin' know about it. Also, if you are working in the sports department, no matter what career, you are more than likely communicating to sports fans. Who, more than likely, figured out last year during the Elite 8 at Ford Field that MSU would have an opportunity to play for the 2009 Final Four at Ford Field. They also probably knew about the December game at Ford Field between UNC-MSU and have connected the dots that they may see each other, again, at Ford Field, for the Championship. "Preaching to the choir." I don't care if you are an MSU fan. Even good news can get old. It's not like they were a 10 seed.

Congrats to MSU. I think MSU fan took a sigh of relief that Calipari took the UK job, because you know Izzo could get any job he wanted. And if Calipari turned it down, you know they'd flash big money at Izzo.