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Sam Bryner

NCAA Championship winner

The implications of the outcome of the Final Four are enormous for me this year. I have a chance to win my bracket league, which is good, but I also have a good chance of losing, which is bad. I won’t lose any money or physical possessions, which I would actually prefer to the alternative of having a friend lay claim to bragging rights for the next year. I have one scenario that has to happen in order for me to win my bracket league. First off, to answer the question, I pick North Carolina to win it all. But for me it’s not that simple. North Carolina has to beat UCLA in the finals. If they beat Memphis in the final, I lose my league to a guy whose name is A-Dog. How pathetic would that be?

What should Bengals do with Chad Johnson? If I were Bengals coach Marvin Lewis and I had to decide what to do with start receiver Chad Johnson, my decision would be easy: absolutely nothing. Johnson has done nothing but whine and complain since the season ended. Johnson argues the team is just getting worse each season, which is true, and he doesn’t want to be a part of it. Not that he has really been much a teammate anyway. Every time he does one of his idiotic and self-centered touchdown celebrations, he is putting himself above the team, and so I say now Lewis does the same to “Ocho-Cinco.” By keeping Johnson on the sidelines and not trading or cutting the star player, Johnson will have no way to feed his ego, and he will eventually come crawling back, begging to play.

Possible rule in NFL to cut hair a good idea?

The NFL makes players wear helmets and pads for a reason. That is to protect the safety of what the Water Boy described as “finely tuned athletic machines.” The same principle applies to the long hair of NFL players. It is a serious health risk to the players who have long hair. You can only imagine the damage that could happen to a long- haired player when the opposing team dives forward and brings a guy down by his hair. The NFL is a business. Any good business will make the workplace as safe as the job will allow. By banning long hair in the NFL, not only will serious injuries be avoided, but as fans, we won’t have to painfully sit through an entire game staring at some guys foot-long dreads.

Are you happy baseball started

I have never been a huge baseball guy. Maybe it’s because I rarely hit the ball in little league baseball. Or, on a more serious note, it was probably because there has never been a local team to root for in Utah. But, anyway, I noticed this morning as I was watching SportsCenter that baseball season must have started because half of the show was about baseball. Only a handful of the Top 10 plays were outside of baseball. To be honest, I was a little depressed. I liked seeing an hour straight of basketball highlights. To be positive, we won’t have to see anymore women’s basketball highlights or the NIT. Hopefully for SportsCenter-watching sake, the summer will go quick so that we can get some football onto ESPN.