If employers weren't already losing productivity due to St. Patrick's Day, it'll be even worse today with the start of the NCAA Tournament (we're not counting those Tuesday/Wednesday games). Luckily for local businesses (and St. Paddy's Day revelers), Kansas State and Missouri play in Thursday's late games.
The big news heading into tonight's Kansas State-Utah State game is Wildcats guard Jacob Pullen and the flu. The Star reported that Pullen missed practice on Wednesday with flulike symptoms, but he's expected to be good to go by the 8:57 p.m. game time (watch on truTV). The Cats are going to need him in a matchup that many experts say will be a tough one (although President Obama is picking K-State to make the Sweet Sixteen).
Better have the remote also tuned to TNT so you can flip back and forth with the Missouri-Cincinnati game. Tipoff is at 8:45 p.m. The game between the 11th-seeded Tigers and sixth-seeded Bearcats has fluctuated between a "pick 'em" and Cincy being a one-point favorite, according to our friends at SB Nation Kansas City.
Win or lose, I'd expect a lot of workers calling in sick Friday.
Also, check out Deadspin's Hater's Guide to the NCAA Tournament (part 1 and part 2). It's a pretty brilliant trashing of Kansas and Missouri, the states more so than the schools, although Kansas State does get slapped.
Here's how Deadspin hates on Kansas (thanks to worthless fuckwad Virgil Peck for giving them the bullets):
Kansas state representative Virgil Peck, who clearly stole his name from a shitty John Grisham novel, recently suggested that the state control their illegal immigrants by shooting them from helicopters, as the state does with feral hogs. When asked to explain his comment, here's what Peck said:
I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person.Oh, well then! That clears up EVERYTHING. I was unaware that Southeast Kansas was an inland prison for people with special needs. Why the fuck would anyone from Kansas be mad about illegal immigrants? You know how lucky you idiots are that anyone would even WANT to come to Kansas? Any immigrant that ends up in Kansas is there because they read a poorly translated Lonely Planet guide. Kansas is a manure field with three barbecue stands. No one goes there ON PURPOSE. It's not even flyover country. Planes fly around it, just to make sure no traces of Kansas get on them. Kansas is fucked.
Kansas State, you're next:
Aren't they on probation? I feel like they're on probation. Might be the Higgins Stench still wafting about. If they aren't on probation now, they probably will be within four months. Kansas St. is just that kind of place. It's never going to get noticed unless someone is cheating or some kind of truck bomb has been detonated on campus. FACT: Kansas State accepts so many junior college transfers, the school doesn't actually have a freshman or sophomore class.
I have to disagree on Missouri. There are plenty of crazy twat lawmakers in Missouri. Plenty:
(NOTE: I have left the Missouri space blank, so that it representsthe complete lack of significance that particular state has to the rest
of America, and to the world itself. Hey, at least Arizona is filled
with crazy assholes. I'm pretty sure Missouri is just an empty parking
lot.)
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The smack on K-State would have been epic if we were talking about a college football tournament. This is why I stopped reading Deadspin.
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