Riddle Me This . . .

What's even better than Celtic Women? The 2007-08 Celtic men! At a ridiculous 29-3, it's at LEAST time to see some green on this page and celebrate the story of the NBA though the first half of the season. The last few years haven't been easy to be green, but this year (ironically after trading all of the players named Green/Greene) all is right in the world and order is restored. I hope you enjoy the new look as much as I do, then, as I look forward to taking in a C's game in person for the first time in years next month. Happpy Valentine's Day to me!!!

On a similar note, as the Big XII season starts up this Saturday, even my young Sooner hoops team has rebounded extremely well from a disappointing home loss to Stephen F. Austin with five straight, including Arkansas, Gonzaga, and -- as luck would have it -- West Virginia. So a tourney birth is still probably 9 wins away from being a reality, but hopes and spirits are high for the first time in a couple of years. Boomer!!!

Speaking of OU, however, it seems from people's reactions and questions to me that a word about the OU Fiesta Bowl fiasco is in order. Losing ALWAYS hurts -- especially when it's OU football, we're just not used to it -- but I'm not all in tears over this one. No matter what the media or whoever wants to say, West Virginia is a very good team and there's no particular shame in losing to them (as opposed to last year). Besides that, they just played an extremely good football game, whereas "we" played extremely well for about 10 minutes. So we lost the Fiesta Bowl, and that's too bad. BUT we beat Saxet, we crushed little brother, and we hang yet another Big XII Championship. Nice. All the Fiesta Bowl means in post-season ranking and one game. OU's about Championships, and as nice as a Fiesta Bowl trophy would be, they took the B12 and the National Championship wasn't on the line anyway. They're going to be LOADED next year, and so let's go get the big one. For now we can move on.

And the Lions? Sigh. Well Martz got fired, and that's good because SURELY it's the guy with the Super Bowl ring that was holding everybody else back, right? For what it's worth I agree that he needed to go, but I'm pretty tired of people getting fired and hired and fired and hired and fired and nothing ever really changing. Maybe there's another problem, hmmmm. . . .

For now, though, it's hoops season. My South Dakota Coyotes are 14-0, and Boston goes for 10 in a row tonight against Charlotte. Dance, Gino, dance!