10 Awesome Things That Happened This Past Weekend (3/9-3/11)

10. Jets Give Mark Sanchez $60 Million Extension
            When people are joking on Twitter that the news of a Sanchez extension was real and not a story on The Onion, you know it’s a tough time to be a Jets fan.

9. Vermont Catamounts Earn NCAA Tournament Berth

            Many moons ago, I was a student at UVM for about 5 and a half minutes, so way to go Catamounts!

8. Masked Mamba Leads Lakers Rally Past Celtics

            Even more impressive than Kobe’s ten points in the fourth quarter? His suggestion that the game clinching shot be taken by Andrew Bynum.

7. Florida St. Upsets North Carolina

6. Vanderbilt Upsets Kentucky
5. College Basketball Conference Tournaments Are Stupid
            North Carolina, Kentucky, and Syracuse all lost in their conference tournaments, and still earned number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament. I rest my case that conference tournaments are stupid.

4. Tony Stewart Beats Jimmie Johnson in Vegas

            Smoke usually doesn’t heat up until the summer. Might be time for folks to get worried about the defending champion.

3. Rick Kills Shane on “The Walking Dead”

            I guess when you have the chance to kill off your show’s most interesting character you have to do it.

2. Peyton Manning Visits Denver and Arizona

            Add getting Broncos fans so giddy about his potential arrival that they are willing to toss Tebow-mania to the wayside like an expired piece of chicken to the list of amazing accomplishments made by Peyton Manning.

1. Washington Redskins Mortgage Future For Robert Griffin III

            So let me get this straight…a terrible team with many holes surrenders this years second round pick, and two future first round picks, for the rights to a rookie quarterback who will probably struggle out of the box? Aren’t the odds in favor of Washington being among the ten worst teams in football next season? Even with as good as Cam Newton was last season, Carolina still ended up with the ninth pick in this years draft. St. Louis is making out like bandits in this trade. RG3 needs to be the second coming of Randall Cunningham (circa 1990) to justify the price Washington paid to acquire him.