Sports stuff I hate

I'm branching out (this isn't about Barroid).

They’re the Bulldogs. They’ve always been the Bulldogs. They were the Bulldogs when we used to whip up on them in the 80’s, they were the Bulldogs when they first appeared in the NCAA tournament a decade ago and they were most certainly the Bulldogs last night.

Stupid media name-maker-uppers not withstanding, they are not the “Zags.” They have never been the “Zags.” Only after somebody in TV land decided that “Bulldogs” just doesn’t have a national-TV-audience ring to it and decided to spend the better part of a decade forcing it into the College Basketball lexicon did the University itself start using it.

Only after all that do you get this. And I hate it. They’re the Bulldogs.

And speaking of last night, I’m reminded--as I think over that epic collapse—of this. One school marches on to claim the national title and the other returns to the relative obscurity of Malibu’s coastal bluffs.

Welcome to the West Coast Conference.