Monday April 2nd

The greatest day in sports would have to be Monday April 2nd. You have opening day of baseball (and I'm not counting the one game that plays the night before). You also have NCAA College Basketball Championship game.

The Championship game turned out to be a big pile of crap. Not just because the Florida Gators won, but also because the game was never close. The entire Final 4 was filled with disappointing games. Florida dominated UCLA and Georgetown never really gave the Buckeyes a scare. So, all this talk about how the tournament would have better games because the best regular season teams were playing was just that- talk. The problem with the tournament at the later stages is that it's usually one team that is incredibly hot facing other teams who are good, but are not hitting on all cylinders.

Baseball is back! And soon my stomach ulcers will begin. Being a Cubs fan, this is what baseball means to me.

I'm discovering that every year, as I grow older, I take the losing season personally, to a point that I might need to see a psychologist. Being a Cubs fan is like having a really shitty girlfriend that against all logic you keep on dating even though she constantly breaks your heart. You date for a few months usually (April til early October), then have a huge messy break up, you say you never want to see her again, your heart is broken and you spend the next few months with her always in the back of your mind. Just when you're about to get over her, she appears (usually around March). You don't want to talk to her, but you give it a chance and by April your excited and can't wait for the season/relationship to begin.

Finally, a strange topic has risen in sports talk radio(790) and blogs(Bill Simmons). The questions revolve around Forrest Gump. Question 1: how many people did Jenny sleep with in the movie? Question 2: How did Forrest not acquire AIDS from Jenny? Obviously they had sex and they had a child. And, I have a 3rd Question: who slept with more people, Jenny from Forrest Gump or Carrie from Sex in the City?

My answers- I'm going to have to go with 202, and I'm not counting her messed up childhood, then I'm sure she slept with a few boys in High School. In college we saw that she was sneaking boys into her dorm and she wanted to bang Forrest so I'm going to say she was at 25 by age 21. She modeled in Playboy so she probably had sex with Heff. Then she was a naked hippie folk singer and we all know how hippies are so I'm going with 74 by age 25. Moving on to her days in San Fransisco, she had to have slept with a few of the black Panthers at that rally, her boyfriend and some other random radicals. So lets push it to 100. Now is when she piles up the numbers in her drugged out years where she almost killed herself, she might of had a few multiple partner nights. After she had little Forrest I think she settled down to maybe 1 or 2 guys. So I got 202.

As for Question 2, I'm going to have to point to science and luck, I'm guessing they only had sex without a condom the one time, and either she didn't have it then or Forrest got lucky, because I think it's harder for a man to get from a woman than to give it to her.

For my question, I'm going with Jenny over Carrie in a close 202 to 178 affair. Carrie took the time to have 'boyfriends' and that alone is going to hurt her chances of pulling off the upset. But none of them compare to Wilt Chamberlin with over 100,000 women. The King has his queen and her name is Jenny.

RIP 1919-2007 Eddie Robinson 408-65 in 55 seasons coaching at Grambling State.