Timeout for Johnny's NCAA bracket picks

He'll be talking a lot of shit over the next couple weeks to to be upfront, fair and honest here are Johnny's picks so he too can be properly mocked if necessary.

C'mon Sparty! January, February Izzo!

Johnny's brackets

Um, yes, uh, and NO MONEY um, is involved with this bracket in any office pool or online gaming. Sort of...

Here are Johnny's brackets so he can't go back and lie to you saying he had Northern Iowa all the way.

The brackets have been filled out as we await the best four days of sports!

Johnny feels very good about his brackets. Very strong picks. There could well be some of life's rich reward awaiting after all is said and done. How are YOUR brackets shaping up friends?

So, any last minute tips you tournament soothsayers can give us common folk?

Get ready 'Murica, here it comes in all its advertising glory, the Greatest Four Days of Sports in Forever. Did you know more menfolk got vasectomies yesterday than any other day of the year? It's true. The recipe for recovery is two days on the couch and WAIT A MINUTE if those two days coincided with the NCAA Tourney then there would be four days to do nothing but watch and buy Chevys.

Good luck to all your teams whomever they may be (except as always Duke) and fairplay to all (except Kansas). Johnny's MSU Spartans have the honor of tipping off the whole mess in less than an hour. In Izzo we trust.

Hockey analyst Mickey Redmond might have the best saying about something like this he uses for NHL playoff overtimes: "This is no place for a nervous person."

So, who ya got?

Some pics from the Sweet Sixteen games last night in Newark

Some of the flavor from Brick City last night...

Holy lucky tickets Batman, Johnny just scored tickets to the Sweet Sixteen in Newark tonight

Good ones too so we'll try to bring you all the flavor and all the fun out at the Prudential Center tonight. Well try to get self-proclaimed superfans from North Carolina, Marquette, Ohio State and Kentucky. Normally Johnny would be cheering for Big Ten brethren to MSU the Ohio State Buckeyes but things in the athletic department in Columbus have become quite effervescent as of late and Johnny hates seeing cheating programs win a title. Kentucky and North Carolina are storied programs but Kentucky has quite the poor history of race relations back when Adolph Rupp ran the UK program and North Carolina committed the sin of beating Michigan State in the 2009 title game.

Hello Marquette, how you doin'?...

New Jersey City University headed to the NCAA Division III big dance

The New Jersey City University Gothic Knights, a cool 19-9 on the season defeated Montclair State University 72-67 and clinched the New Jersey Athletic Conference crown. Thursday NJCU will find out who they'll play in the opening round of the Divison III tournament.

A tip of the Jersey City Desk cap to coach Marc Brown and the Gothic Knights.

It is now upon us, the greatest 4 days in sports, the NCAA basketball tournament!

In all seriousness these four days always turn out to be uber exciting, and if there are no games on you still have NHL and NBA games on later. Johnny wants to give one more shout out to Michigan State and say Go Sparty and good luck to all the Big Ten teams and a big GO LEHIGH!

Johnny's brackets

Let's see, today we COULD cover real news and serious issues facing Jersey City and the Five Boroughs....OR

We could sit on or asses and watch the basketball tournament on the Jersey City Desk high-def 40 inch teevee and see how our brackets are coming along.

Guess what's gonna happen....Who the hell do you think we are, CNN?

Here, so you don't feel cheated today, here's Stephen Colbert shooting lasers out of his hands and hitting evil bears. Bears as we know from the Ypsi City Desk are mindless, perfect killing machines.