Police in California are seeking out St. Louis Cardinals blowhard Scott Spiezio on six criminal charges. Really, when you can’t trust a man with a red dyed soulpatch who plays in a band called Sand Frog and is a below average utility player for the St. Louis Cardinals, who can you trust?

The highlight of my day is listening to The Tony Kornheiser Show on D.C.’s 3WT (WWWT) radio from 2-4. Listen online. It’s great. Unless you have a job. Which you probably do.

I usually (okay, all the time) hate being wrong. Last night was an exception. I really wanted to be wrong about the Tennessee/Vanderbilt game. However, I wasn’t. Tennessee didn’t have “it” (as ESPN Color Commentator and fantastic singer Jimmy Dykes refers to their aura) last night. Their poor free throw shooting, combined with Romar Smith’s insistence on being a one-man team late in the game, and Shan Foster’s unconscious shooting did the Volunteers in last night. If you can’t tell, I really like this team. They’ve officially moved ahead of West Virginia into the number 2 spot of college basketball teams I root for, for no other reason than I love their coach and hate the Mountaineers’ coach (Bob Huggins). Tennessee’s Bruce Pearl (who I understand some readers (Matthew) probably dislike because his UW-Milwaukee team eliminated Boston College in the tournament a few years back) is such a lovable man. His grabbing of Erin Andrews Saturday night was genius. And he truly loves his kids. You don’t see that from most coaches. You see it from Roy Williams at North Carolina and Coach K at Duke, but you don’t see it from the masses of mediocre college basketball coaches. Pearl is a great personality and a great coach and I still think Tennessee is one of the 4 best teams in college hoops.

As for Vanderbilt, look, if they’re making 3’s, they’re the best team in the country. I mean that. The problem with Vandy is that outside of Memorial Gymnasium, they’re not the same team. Shan Foster isn’t the same shooter. If he can get right on the road, the Commodores are a legit sleeper. As it stands, I don’t think that they’re getting past the Sweet 16. But the potential is definitely there.

Some questions about my Power 16 from yesterday. The first being Drake. It took 10 hours since I published yesterday’s post for me to look foolish, as they lost at Missouri State. I thought that Drake had, again, righted the ship, after winning at Hinckle Saturday against a very good Butler team. Then they came out and had a close lose to a .500 Missouri Valley team. My argument for keeping the Bulldogs as a 4 seed is who else should be a 4. After I posted yesterday, I looked at ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s current bracket. His 4 seeds: UConn, Purdue, Indiana, Notre Dame. My 4 seeds: UConn, Drake, Marquette, Purdue. While Indiana has won since Kelvin Sampson’s “resignation,” it hasn’t been pretty and I’ve fallen off of the Eric Gordon love-mobile. In regards to Notre Dame, I think Marquette is a better team, though not by much. The two split their two games this season (both winning on the road). Notre Dame’s best non-conference victory was at home against Kansas State. Marquette’s was against Wisconsin in Madison and only lost by 4 at Duke. Notre Dame is hotter right now. Both teams have big matchups this week (Notre Dame against Louiville; Marquette against Georgetown). We’ll see.

Scott Kazmir is going to be on the shelf for 2 weeks. I feel like this won’t be the only time he’s shut down this year. Excuse me while I pray to the god of David Price.

Yao Ming has a stress fracture in his foot. So now, instead of being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, they just won’t make them. Tracy McGrady is so insanely overrated. He’s never won anything in his career, looks like an idiot, and takes idiot-like shots.

If you’re looking for a backup quarterback, David Carr is available. And will hopefully remain available. David Carr has to be considered one of the biggest failures in NFL history. While he had no O-Line help in Houston, allow me to point out that he’s also played with two of the NFL’s best wide receivers in Andre Johnson and Steve Smith. Apparently the NFL isn’t the Western Athletic Conference.

Finally, the owner of the Chicago Cubs has announced that he is willing to sell the naming rights to Wrigley Field. Get ready, baseball purists, for Pizzeria Uno Park.

Game O’ The Day: YEEESH! A poor slate of college games tonight. We turn to the NBA, where there is a huge slate of big games to choose from. I’m going to go with the Cavs/Celtics game, though I can’t see any of the big games because my local team is the Washington Wizards. Hooray. I’ll be watching Big Brother and Project Runway. And hopefully getting a testosterone injection.