Earlier this year, TastyBooze proved our sports knowledge by predicting the Super Bowl. Of course, only myself and J Diggles went out on a limb and picked the New York Giants, but I think we’ve all learned from our mistakes.

So, here we are, March Madness is coming to a close with the Final Four this Saturday and the Championship Game on Monday night. All No. 1 seeds, a front runners’ dream! Below are the TastyBooze Staff predictions. Some of us will be watching and betting on these games, or on a beach in Mexico not giving a fuck. Don’t worry, we know even less about college basketball (well, at least men’s college basketball). But we don’t give a shit, all of our brackets are busted, so take these predictions with a grain of salt. I on the other hand will be betting my life savings on Kansas!

J Diggles: As much as I want to see the excitement that is Kevin Love vs. Tyler Hansbrough, Memphis is going to rain on this parade and keep raining all the way to the championship. Joey Dorsey eats rookie Love for dinner in game one and then Derrick Rose says “Bye Lawson” in the final. Memphis 82, UNC 77

Baba Ganoush: Memphis shoots worse from the free-throw line than I do, UCLA rolls. Kansas finally gets their revenge on Roy Williams and all white people at UNC. In the championship, it’s Rock Chalk Jayhawk, baby! Kansas all around offense and maturity prevail against the bitch-ass Bruins. Kansas 71, UCLA 63

Mitch Martin: I know jack shit about college basketball so it is hard to write anything here that will sound smart or well informed. However I will be in the sweet land that is Las Vegas this weekend and I definitely will be dropping some coin in the sports book. I think UCLA is going all the way (Pac-10 represent!) so I have to pick them over Memphis. For Kansas vs. UNC I am going to take Kansas for the Roy Williams revenge factor mentioned by Baba and the fact that UNC beat WSU so I want to see them go down (I might as well pick this based on uniform design). UCLA 75, Kansas 67

Mr. Wonka: Memphis is stacked with tall, lanky, athletic players, I hear that is good for basketball. Free throws won’t matter when they are dunking over UCLA’s fat-boy Kevin Love. UNC has more fire power than Kansas and Roy Williams sticks it to the Jayhawks yet again. In the final, UNC continues to roll, giving Memphis only their second loss of the season, but it’s costly, “He Loved It.” UNC 80, Memphis 75

Mike Honcho: I don’t know shit about NCAA basketball. I do know that the MLB season started this week and that’s what I’ll be concentrating on this weekend. But, since I’m a Coug, and UCLA is in the PAC-10, go UCLA! If they win, WSU gets money. Plus, they have this cat on their squad named Kevin Love, who the announcers want to bend over and “What, what, do it in the butt” (thanks, Butters). Go Dr. Love! UCLA 81, UNC 74

Ol’ Dirty Curty: Really, who the fuck knows? But, Memphis has a bigger (total) package than UCLA. The Bruins tend to stay out of foul trouble so Memphis’ crap shoot at the line shouldn’t come into play. Dorsey gives Love a reach around in compensation for violation. One more missed/made shot and Kansas isn’t even in the Final Fuckin’ Four. Davidson is not UNC, and Kansas is not consistent. Their mission for revenge will fail. Championship = great game. UNC 72, Memphis 70

Bill Brasky: There is only one Final Four and it already happened. The Ohio State University is the National Champion!

This question will probably be debated forever, but Popcrunch has done a very impressive job with their Hottest Student Bodies: Top 50 Universities Ranked By Looks article.

Obviously it would be hard for anyone to do a thorough review of all universities across most of the country (there are obviously areas not worth bothering with, Dakotas I’m looking at you). Going through the list of these schools, I could probably validate at least half of the schools, based on personal experience, visiting the campuses, going to sporting events or watching a game on TV.

As you’ve probably guessed, many of the top schools are in the California, Arizona, Florida, Georgia and some of the other Southern states. The East Coast needs to step it up! Each university profile includes pictures of the school’s co-eds, cheerleaders and some famous alumni. Here’s some of my feedback:

#46 Oregon State - Having the reigning Playboy Playmate of the Year should at least get you into the top 20.
#41 Washington State - Most of the pictures feature the girls drinking beer. Hot! (Go Cougs vs. UNC this week!)
#40 Stanford - Overrated. As usual.
#26 UNLV - One bad semester away from being a stripper. Fine by me.
#15 Clemson - Girls in orange are always hot! (Sorry, Syracuse, you didn’t make the list!)
#7 UCLA - Now I’m even more upset that I missed last week’s Undie Run!
#5 Ole Miss - Sure, they probably have some good candidates, unfortunately none of them were pictured.
#1 Arizona State - Agreed!

Enjoy the complete list on Popcrunch!

About thirty minutes ago a senator, in a dereliction of duty, “busted” open the horrendous steroids scandal in Major League Baseball. What is most upsetting about this report is not the amazing names that have been unearthed as steroids users (Phil Hiatt!), or the likelihood that tax dollars have been spent on this investigation, but rather the poor choices of steroids themselves.

Really steroids, this is the best you have to offer! I would think you could at least pull a Pujols’ or possibly a Martinez. Seriously, of all the players available you settled for the likes of Nook Logan. Cocaine at least got Doc Rivers and Len Bias. All you got was Barry Bonds Roger Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch. Bullshit. If I were steroids, I would be embarrassed.

full list here

That is right folks tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. (PDT) the Washington State Cougars will kickoff their season against the Wisconsin Badgers on ABC. National TV bitch! I am so excited I could crap myself. There is nothing like cracking that first beer of another glorious Cougar football season. Although I won’t be their in person a 60″ HDTV should suffice nicely. Now I just need to find a few fellow Cougars to enjoy this occasion with. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem but I have to travel out of town this weekend to attend a wedding. Maybe I can recruit J Diggles, as he is attending the same wedding, but I have a feeling he will be sunning himself by the pool instead of enjoying the awesomeness that is the Cougs. No worries though. I will be cracking a boggs at about 12:15 p.m. (PDT) because when the Cougs are on you are never drinking alone.

Take a guess at who comes in #3 on this list. Seriously take a wild guess. The Washington Huskies. The #3 most overrated team in preseason polls for the last decade. God I hate the Huskies.

On the flip side guess who was the #1 most underrated preseason team in the last decade. The Washington State Cougars! That is goddamn right! A buddy sent me a link to the this article the other day but I didn’t have a chance to check it out until this morning. I am glad I waited because it really just made me Wednesday. In fact it might have made the rest of my week.

GO COUGS!!!!!

Original Story: ESPN.com

I wouldn’t trade the four years and one summer school session that I spent at WSU for anything. However the shit this kid pulled off is amazing. Not only did this 18 year old finished college in one year but he managed to get a double major.

Goddamn overachiever.

U-Va.’s One-Year Wonder

After Lexington posted the link to the Huskies Alumni pride poll yesterday the Cougars surged and are currently beating the Huskies with 70% of the votes. A non-Husky but UW sympathizer sent me a link to this article that was published in the Seattle Times today about the trouncing.

Huskies getting trounced — in their own poll

In typical Husky fashion they are already backtracking on their promise to publish the results of the poll in their alumni magazine.

“UW alumni, meanwhile, are downplaying the poll results. Despite a note on the alumni Web site that promises to report the final results in the alumni magazine Columns, the association now says it might not print numeric results, but rather more of a “qualitative” analysis.”

Here is link in case you haven’t voted. Alumni Pride Poll

OK, this is too funny. Given the fact that the Cougs routinely outshine the Dawgs when it comes to alumni participation, I guess the Dawgs figured they could finally beat us by creating a poll about pride on their alumni web site. Think again! Make sure you pass this link along to all your Cougar friends.

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/survey/

On Friday the man who designed the greatest University logo of all time passed away in Spokane, WA. Randall Johnson designed the now famous Washington State University logo in 1937 while he was a Junior at the University. In 1959 Johnson displayed his high level of honor by selling the copyright for the logo to the University for a framed 1 dollar bill.

Creator of WSU Cougar logo dies at 91