Turnovers, timeouts and game-winners

- Turnover:  Bobby Petrino.  Translated:  Dude on motorcycle has accident.  Dude who has accident conveniently forgets to tell authorities that a blond-haired passenger was on said motorcycle.  Dude gets put on "administrative leave."  I'm sensing that Petrino's football coaching days at Arkansas are over.

- Timeout:  For all of those who piously are tsk-tsking John Calipari and his embracing of the one-and-done college hoops model, please turn your head to Durham, N.C.--there you will find none other than Coach K who has had two straight one-and-done players (Kyrie Irving and Austin Rivers) and is conducting an in-home visit with surefire one-and-done player Shabazz Muhammad (high school class of 2012.)

- Game-winner:  Elijah Johnson of Kansas not only grew in confidence on the court during this recent NCAA Tournament, but did you pay attention to his off-court handling of media questions?  Johnson is an incredibly articulate kid who has matured from the shy, look-at-the-floor postgame interview to a player who clearly will be the spokesperson for the KU program in the months to come.

- Turnover:  Let me say it one last time--the fan experience at an NCAA Tournament event is, in a word, stinky.  If it's not the lack of information from a sub-par scoreboard causing the pain it's the seating design in a domed stadium.  This most bureaucratic of athletic bodies (okay--maybe FIFA is worse) is woefully out of touch with the reality of today's in-person sports experience.

- Timeout:  Speaking of the NCAA, let's just repeal the minimum age requirement for entering the NBA Draft.  Personally, I think the player should have the freedom to declare for the NBA Draft, out of high school, if he wants in just the same way that today's star high school baseballer can go straight to Major League Baseball.  (Can you say Bubba Starling?)  Sure, there will be failures (e.g., Korleone Young)--guys who thought they were NBA ready but couldn't hack it in "the league" and thus squandered an opportunity to be coached up at the collegiate level.  That should be a personal decision--not my decision or yours simply because we selfishly want college basketball to be teams formed of guys who stay four years like in the "good ol' days."

- Game-winner:  Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO, will host second and third round action in next spring's NCAA Tournament.  (The "first four" will take place in Dayton, OH.)  Wouldn't it be interesting to see Kansas and Missouri both in the NCAA Tourney next March and playing alongside one another in early round action in Kansas City?