Sports Redux: Meat Juice

According to the Globe, our own Holy Cross was "prepared to get physical" against Southern Illinois in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but that's not quite how things turned out.

According to other coaches, the Southern Illinois Salukis are absolutely terrifying. One guy said a team could imitate their defense if "We run down to the police station and we get all the German shepherd attack dogs and we just bring them onto the floor and we rub meat juice all over our arms, and we just get ready to practice."

German shepherd attack dogs : meat juice :: Southern Illinois Salukis : Holy Cross. Not a pretty analogy. It wasn't absolute carnage last night on the floor, unlike the way Kansas flayed Niagra last night. But Holy Cross still lost to Southern Illinois, 51 to 61.

The Celitcs also got the "meat juice treatment" from the Mavericks. The Celtics lit a fire under the supposedly hot Mavericks by staying ahead of the team through the third quarter. It was thrilling to watch the Celtics outplay the Mavs. However, Dirk Nowitzki, who was slack at the beginning, suddenly woke up from his stupor. The Mavericks brought it back for a tie, and, even if the Celtics kept it close, they turned into meat juice in the face of Nowitzki and company. They lost 99 to 104.

In other "meat juice" news, the UMass Minutemen got cut a few days ago. Their run in the NIT also ended on Thursday night when West Virginia pounded them 90 to 77.

Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched yesterday against the Dodgets, but the game got rained out. In an amusing episode, Dice-K wound up going to bat and got a walk. Thanks to a homer by Eric Hinske, Dice-K took a round trip of the bases. Oh, and he's picked North Carolina to go all the way in March Madness.

Finally, BC and their white headbands go up against 2nd seed Georgetown this evening.

Image of meat with lots of juices from Flickr user avlxyz.