{"id":26523,"date":"2023-03-15T06:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26523"},"modified":"2023-03-15T06:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:53:56","slug":"ides-of-march-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/15\/ides-of-march-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ides of March update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2067 years ago today, Brutus (or &#8220;Brutusk,&#8221; as Popeye would call him) murdered Julius Caesar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bardog fam invited me to participate in their NCAA bracket challenge, so I spent a good portion of the morning filling out my bracket. My choices were pretty boring: Alabama, Duke, Houston, and UCLA in the Final Four, with Bama beating Houston for the championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butt Slut #1 is in the same bracket pool. Given that we have a sibling-like rivalry, I would normally root for her to lose BAD. But I&#8217;ve been told she picked the Memphis Tigers to go all the way. So, as much as it pains me to do this, I have to root for Butt Slut #1 to win, even if it means I lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s turn our attention to Memphis&#8217; Friday first-round opponent, the Florida Atlantic Owls. A 9 seed, they&#8217;re 31-3, AP No. 25, playing in Conference USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who have they beaten?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Florida (76-74, November 14)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8230; And really, that&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re now just cracking the top 25 with 31 wins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Who have they lost to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Ole Miss (80-67, November 11)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>UAB (86-77, February 2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Middle Tennessee (74-70, February 16)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Verdict: This team hasn&#8217;t been truly tested all season and is entirely beatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other basketball news: For the first time, I saw a definition of &#8220;mid-major&#8221; last week. A college basketball mid-major is a team that is NOT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>In a Power 5 conference (ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the American Athletic Conference (so Memphis is not a mid-major)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Big East<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gonzaga<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From Yahoo! Life: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/did-6-bass-pro-shops-120007644.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Bass Pro Shops hats have become urban chic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brit Taylor has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/brit-taylor-album-release-show\/713625023601650\/\" target=\"_blank\">a release party<\/a> for her album <em>Kentucky Blue<\/em> Saturday at South Main Sounds. The album currently sits in the Top 20 on the Americana charts. Rose Ragsdale kicks things off at 6:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/s\/-st-paddys-weekend-bash-at-bli\/1194513454588430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Blind Bear is celebrating St. Patrick&#8217;s all weekend long<\/a> (Friday-Sunday) with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>$4 Slaine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$6 Jameson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 for $10 Irish Car Bombs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>$5 apple pie moonshine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/8647ca95bd4b67d88971602fa4563edb\/international-eat-an-animal-for-peta-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Eat an Animal for PETA Day<\/a>, a holiday I support one hundred percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/9e64748a393c828c3c6df4458edeae05\/national-peanut-lovers-day\" target=\"_blank\">National Peanut Lovers Day<\/a>. Celebrate with a trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/memphispeanutshoppe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Peanut Shoppe<\/a> at 121 S. Main.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From WREG: <a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/woman-catches-burglar-coming-out-of-her-downtown-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Woman catches burglar coming out of her Downtown apartment<\/a> at 60 S. Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/world-cup-2026-fifa-expanded-soccer-04ddfc15e9ef3042a631aece779c0145?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The soccer World Cup is expanding<\/a> from a field of 32 to 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downtown residents and business owners, MPD wants you to join them for Coffee with a Cop. It&#8217;ll be at 9 AM at Bluff City Coffee, 505 S. Main on Friday, March 24. Colonel McNeil and others from the North Main Station will be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcross.org\/local\/tennessee\/about-us\/news-and-events\/press-releases\/red-boa-bash-for-the-american-red-cross-announced-for-april-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">13th annual Red Boa Bash for the American Red Cross<\/a> will be held on April 22 at 409 S. Main St.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it for today I apologize if there are any typos I&#8217;m using a dictation app to ride the smog see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2067 years ago today, Brutus (or &#8220;Brutusk,&#8221; as Popeye would call him) murdered Julius Caesar. The Bardog fam invited me to participate in their NCAA bracket challenge, so I spent a good portion of the morning filling out my bracket. My choices were pretty boring: Alabama, Duke, Houston, and UCLA in the Final Four, with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/15\/ides-of-march-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ides of March update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26523\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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