Osler's Razor

Today is a huge day for Baylor Sports, as the Men's basketball team plays a first-round game in the NCAA tournament against Purdue. Baylor is an 11 seed, but seems to be a good match-up with Purdue. It's Baylor's first time in the tournament since 1923, when they beat Bryan School of Dance (now Texas A & M University) before losing to the University of Chicago in the second round. Purdue, on the other hand, makes the tournament almost every year under the rule that all schools located in the state of Indiana get an automatic entry regardless of record.

Hey Tyd-- the game will be on TV! It will be televised from Washington, providing a needed distraction from that town's recent obsession with Elliot Spitzer's dalliances and the impending birth of IPLawBaby II (these being events with no connection between them, according to some reports).

I, of course, won't be watching the game. Instead, I'll be watching four students do direct and cross-examination exercises. Nonetheless, I plan to root for the Bears by critiquing the students while shirtless, with a giant green and gold "B" painted on my chest (see illustration).

UPDATE: Bears lose 90-79. Boilerheads everywhere celebrate by swinging mallets at one another.