Sorry I'm off to such a slow start this Thursday. I was out of the house at 5:30 a.m. to take care of some business related to the Job for Which I Get Paid.
So any blogging today will have to come later this afternoon. But I did want to update loyal WatchDog readers on the first-round results of the Best Sports Blog of 2007 Tournament at Busted Coverage.
WatchDog, the No. 16 seed in the Midwest Region, went down to defeat, 1,323-572, against top-seeded Deadspin. The interesting thing is that our percentage of the vote rose from about 24 to 30 on the final day, indicating a wave of late support from the blog-reading public.
Not bad for a regionally-oriented blog with limits on how far it can go in using naughty words and naughty pictures.
At least one of the 572 votes came from an interesting source: Deadspin editor Will Leitch e-mailed that he chose WatchDog! I think he was serious. If not, I'm going to pretend he was.
Comments (3)
Thanks for posting a picture of the greatest college coach who ever lived. I still haven't gotten over that game in 89 against Georgetown. I was finishing my grad degree at Princeton that year and the night of that game at Andy's Tavern on Alexander Road in Princeon was one of the most exciting and disappointing experiences of my sporting career.
I was serious: Voting for No. 1 seeds is fascist.
Best,
Will
More scantily-clad pics of Pete Carril might have put you over the top... ;)