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FINAL FOUR PREVIEW

Party Crashers!
This year's Final Four resembles just that as the "favorites" have gone by the wayside and only Duke University enters this weekend as a number-one seed from the South Regional.
The Butler Bulldogs and Duke Blue Devils are slight favorites as the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament tips off Saturday in Indianapolis.
The Bulldogs (from Indianapolis) face the Michigan State Spartans while Duke goes against West Virginia.
Duke is the lone number-one seed remaining from the field of 65 teams and will face a chippy team in the Mountaineers, who won the Big East Tournament after finishing second in the conference during the regular season.
The Blue Devils are a senior led team with Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer up front going against the tenacious West Virginia defense, led by Da'Sean Butler, Kevin Jones and Devin Ebanks .
The Mountaineers are emboldened by Head Coach Bob Huggins, who was in one Final Four with Cincinnati back in 1992. Look for the Mountaineers to buckle down against Duke and look to force turnovers, which would lead to easy fast break baskets.
As for the Butler vs. Michigan State game, the Spartans are no strangers to this stage as they lost in last year's National Championship Game against North Carolina.
The Spartans are in their sixth Final Four in the last 12 years.
Not too shabby.
The Bulldogs will be playing "in their back yard" as they reside in Indy and are literally minutes away from Lucas Oil Stadium.
Raymar Morgan, Chris Allen and Delvon Roe lead the way for the Spartans, who have made this run minus their star player, Kalin Lucas, who is out for the season with a leg injury.
Michigan State Coach Tom Izzo already has a National Championship under his belt from the 2000 season and he knows how to prepare his team for the big games.
The Bulldogs are the darlings of the tournament this year after knocking out mighty Syracuse and Kansas State to reach the Final Four.
Bulldogs Coach Brad Stevens has Willie Veasley, Matt Howard, Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack to look to against the experienced Spartans.
This Butler team is not all fazed by the competition they have faced this year, and they have the nation's longest winning streak at 24 games to prove it.

As for the games, here goes nothing...

Michigan State 62, Butler 58

West Virginia 71, Duke 66

National Championship
West Virginia 59, Michigan State 58

Hope everyone enjoys the Final Four.

What a long, strange trip it's been

The Final Four for the NCAA Basketball Tournament is halfway set as Butler and West Virginia earned their spots in the spotlight next weekend in Indianapolis.
On Sunday, Duke will play Baylor in the South Regional final and Michigan State takes on Tennessee in the Midwest Regional final to complete the Final Four.
What a strange tournament this has been this year.
Starting with the mega upsets (too many to pinpoint) in the opening two days and the biggest shocker of all in Day Three with Northern Iowa (number nine seed) knocking Kansas, the top team in the land at the time, out of the brackets.
Who would have thought Michigan State, having lost to Minnesota in the Big Ten tourney two weeks ago, would be battling Tennessee (another underachiever in the regular season) for the right to face the mighty Butler Bulldogs and their 24 game winning streak?
Duke, another team that doesn't really impress, is a win away from their first Final Four appearance in six years.
If the number-one seed Blue Devils can top the Baylor Bears, they will head to Indianapolis to face the West Virginia Mountaineers, which is the final Big East school left in the tournament after eight teams overall from that conference earned a spot in the dance.
Not bad for a team whose coach (Bob Huggins) does not wear a suit and tie on the sidelines like the other 64 coaches in this tourney do.
Just asking, but does anyone know why that is?
Huggins never wears a suit. Is this for medical purposes or something?
Maybe that chip on the shoulder attitude will parlay into a national championship for the Mountaineers.
Personally, I'd like to see Butler, which is located in Indianapolis, win it all.
Last year, there was NO DOUBT which team was the best.
North Carolina rolled into the Final Four and then dominated highly touted Villanova and smashed surprising Michigan State in the Championship game two days later.
This year has proved to be a dart board thrower (meaning ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN) in that only one top seed remains and they are certainly no lock to get to the Final Four.
We could see Michigan State playing Butler and West Virginia against Baylor next week. Perhaps Tennessee vs. Butler and WVU against Duke as well.
The tournament is a great time and they have been talking about possible expansion to 96 teams.
NO!
If it ain't broke, then don't fix it.
But that is why they play the games and also why we call it "March Madness."
Fasten your seat belts for the wild finish.

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Health Care Reform is finally here!

HISTORY: House passes Health Care Reform Bill

The Health Care Reform Bill passed the House of Representatives on Sunday evening by a vote count of 219 to 212 and now it's just a matter of the Senate version of the bill being sent to President Barack Obama for his signature to make this the law of the land.
Finally, health care reform is coming to the United States of America.