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Ok, so I completely take back everything I said last week about tournament snubs. Virginia Tech completely did not deserve to be in the tournament, as they lost this past week in the NIT . Colorado on the other hand is doing fairly well, cruising through the first few rounds en route to the "final four" (because it's the NIT). Meanwhile, Virginia Commonwealth University , the team who most likely was chosen over Virginia Tech, is in the real Final Four, after beating teams from each of the power conferences by impressive margins. Needless to say, I'm sure the NCAA is pretty happy that they have a team from their new "First Four" in the Final Four. I get the sense that people have stopped questioning why the Rams made the tournament in the first place. And yeah, I know this isn't really a story for this week, but fucking deal with it, go watch some basketball.

Yes, It's March Madness time. Yet, as with many sports today, the old yearly festival has surpassed its time period. The final is now in April, actually, and the first round doesn't start until the second week in March. Hardly living up to its' namesake. Nonetheless, March Madness goes on, although with much heavier criticism than ever before. With the expansion to a 68-team field, the chances for bubble teams to make the tourney seemed higher, yet there were more snubs this year than in recent history. First there are the Bufs. Yea, Buffaloes aren't stagnant all the time, they play good basketball on occasion. It seemed this year as if Colorado might finally produce a quality sports team, with wins over Kansas State and Texas. With many thanks to star sophomore guard Alec Burks , who delivered 20 pts. per game, things were looking up in Boulder......until yesterday. Ok fine, maybe the Bufs did have 13 losses, including losses to San Francisco and Baylor, but with 2...

Yup, I'm delivering today. Mindblowingly accurate historical revelation. Because most of you are sports fans, I'll keep this simple. Ok, so for those of you that don't know, Russia wasn't always called Russia. Yes, I know crazy, but countries can switch names. So the Soviet Union is the more politically correct term for the Russia of old, the one the United States hated. And in terms of leaders, before the current era of 'chev's, the U.S.S.R. was run by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. And basically they ran the country into the ground and there was war and death and poverty, and yeah whatever, who really cares. And at this point, you may be wondering, am I going to talk about Russian Hockey or Bandy, as they call it? The answer is fuck no, there's no hockey on this blog. The answer to what I am going to talk about relates to a popular policy during the Soviet era. The possibly senile minds of Lenin and Stalin had a habit of declaring 5-year economic pl...