KUBE Konquers ALL!

Sooooo...we have been absent from these pages. When Kukla loses town I lose my muse and my inspiration. Kukla left us on Sunday so he could fly to Switzerland and ski for a few days. For some reason which remains unknown to me, he has access to the KUBE Jet while I am still left to bum rides to Hannibal on Claire Mc Caskills plane. Oh, the injustice of it all. Well, it is Thursday and for all of you who followers of the newest, pathetic, gone in 60 seconds (or less) pop star Rebecca Black, Thursday is the day before Friday. Her video has over 42 million hits. The KUBE site gets more hits than that. The Moneta site...not so much. If you have any desire to weep for the future of music and perhaps your own children, check out the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Makes me queasy.

But back to the KUBE Knation. It looks like Mango Squash and Linda Finnerty split the longshot award. Kukla has insisted that he has to be back in town to konfirm it on the Kube Kray Superkomputer but when i really quizzed him on how this unlikely duo kould be tied under the arkane rules of these brakkets he said..."uh...I am pretty sure." This is the same confidence he had when he told me to short oil future two months ago so I feel pretty good about it. Mangosquash has Washington but he swears he will not go quietly into the night as he has lots of people going forward to the sweet 16 which BEGINS TODAY! Finnerty looks strong with the hated Dukies winning it all. Carolyn Hiumes total possible points indicate that she might have some good long shots alive in her brackets though so it should very interesting. Our top four all have a different champion and we have John Steffens lurking down around 9th with North Carolina. Drew Burbridge who is in remedial classes at SLU Law is sitting at 36 with San Diego State winning it all poised to "SHOCK THE WORLD!"

The real battle is at the bottom of the bracket where Sheri Folis and Hunter Michelak are duking it out. Shari totally killed him on Sunday and moved ahead of him by one point. She has a lot more potential points so she might be hard to catch. GOOD LUCK HUNTER! Also, towards the bottom at 310 is Rex Curtis and seeing his name in these lowly straights reminded me of the glory years of KUBE pet kompetition. Rex was an early adopter of the KUBE and we are sorry to see has fallen on hard times.

My brakkets are now being used to wrap fish but that will not keep me from the action this weekend as the second greatest four days in sports commences this evening. As of Sunday, we will know who our final four is and hopefully Kukla can whip up some magik and get us all possible combinations and winners.

I will be cheering for Butler and against Ohio State, Duke and Kansas. Butler's 13 year old coach is going to have some problems if the final four conflicts with his high school prom.