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• Tourney Time = Vasectomy Time

  So far, Dick Vitale has not been featured in a pro-vasectomy public service announcement. But maybe it's just a matter of time. Apparently the NCAA Tournament -- otherwise known as March Madness, the Big Dance or the best time-sucking sports event of the entire year -- has become the perfect time for men to get vasectomies. As the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets recently reported, more guys have been scheduling their snip-snip surgeries to coincide with the first round of college basketball action, mainly for practical reasons. Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 08:02 AM by Jen Chaney with | with no comments Filed under: vasectomy, sterilization, surgery, college basketball, March Madness, Jen Chaney

• When Sportscasters Play With Dolls

  Before I get to this hilarious video of a grown man using his daughter's dolls to reenact a basketball game during a legitimate newscast, a brief Baby Bracketology update. Last week, I asked my 13-month-old son to "predict" the first-round winners in the NCAA Tournament. He got through the whole Western region before getting distracted, crawling away and making a messy in his diaper. But you know what? He did okay for a kid whose vocabulary consists primarily of the word "Uh-oh." He got four out of eight winners correct, including Western Kentucky's upset over Drake. And if Belmont hadn't blown it at the last minute, he would have correctly called that upset over Duke, too. So close, little man! Luke's predictions for the Sweet 16 were canceled due to a case of pink eye. I am hoping he can resume his prognosticating ways prior to the Elite Eight. Speaking of Duke vs. Belmont, that brings us to the video... Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 12:33 PM by Jen Chaney with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: baby, bracketology, NCAA Tournament, college basketball

• Baby Bracketology

  You could determine the winners in your NCAA Tournament bracket by doing a lot of higher math involving RPI rankings. You could go to ESPN.com and consult the extensive analyses of all 64 teams in the tourney. Or you could do the smart thing: Ask your baby to fill out the bracket for you. I'm only half kidding. While I will ultimately choose the teams in my annual office pool, I decided this would be a good year to conduct an experiment. The goal: Find out whether a child can accurately select the winners in this perpetually unpredictable sporting event. Here's the method I devised. I wrote the name of every team on a separate strip of white paper. Then I placed two of the strips, each one representing a first-round March Madness match-up, in front of my 13-month-old son. Whichever piece of paper and corresponding team his chubby little hand grabbed first was marked as the winner. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2008, 10:02 AM by Jen Chaney with | with no comments Filed under: baby, bracketology, NCAA Tournament, college basketball, March Madness