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NCAA April Madness

This year, I’m putting into three brackets this year but I’ve selected my team for the turny… Big blue… no not Duke (they will be lucky to get out of the 1st round again), I’m going with KU: the Kansas U Jayhawks. My upset picks this year will be Arkansas over Indiana, St. Josephs over Oklahoma, Kent St. over UNLV, Oregon over Mississippi St., St. Mary’s over Miami, and I was really on the fence withSiena over Vanderbilt but went with V anyway.

North Carolina seems to be the team everyone is going with to win it all, so I’m going the other way with KU. Only one other bracket I’ve got UCLA on top. Here’s to the tourny!

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Weekender

A couple good finds this weekend. Saturday went out all night with the locals to watch the final four at a friends house in the upper west. Unfortunately G-town went down even after I thought they had the momentum to take it. The Gators came out on top with a stomping of the best defensive team in the country, UCLA. Great work as the Gators have a repeat of their Florida match up, with Ohio St (keep in mind the Gators blew out Ohio the last time they played, by 26 points).

Off to the Mill, the Gator’s central haven in NY for a few pitchers, games and the gator chants… “It’s great to be…” Not long after we broke off to go to Karma, a spot I will never go to again.

How ironic their name begets a tranquil and positive vibe, when the environment, employees and management promote nothing of the sorts. For one, there’s a line to get in, once in, the spot is barely 30% occupancy. I despise bars/clubs that create an artificial line to give the illusion, it’s a hot spot and they are at capacity. Drinks here are expensive and when asked for a hookah I was charged 15$ for what I found out was actually a $10 charge for girls or other patrons. Not sure if the surcharge was to add a tip for the waitress but this was bull shit. Last they have DJ playing dance tunes for both the upstairs and downstairs, yet they don’t have a cabaret license and will use this excuse to selectively kick out the guys to improve the girl-guy ratio they try to maintain.

So when half my friends were asked to leave, and not the women they were dancing with, we bounced.