MJ Turns 46

In honor of His Airness' 46th birthday (also, Jim Brown is seventy-something today), ESPN gives us this video, which includes three of the five times Jordan dropped 46 on opponents. The picture is from Sports Illustrated, and shows Our Hero down at Chapel Hill, playin' Mrs. Pac-Man. Happy Birthday, Mr. Managing Partner of the Charlotte Bobcats! Many happy returns.

In other news, NU is firmly (13-10) entrenched in NIT territory these days after two heartbreaking losses to Illinois and Michigan (in OT), and IU is debating which of its current scholarship players will have to go next year in order to make room for the six incoming stud freshman (including Capobianco, Jordan Hulls). My vote? Verdell Jones or Matt Roth. Ideally, we'd merge the defense of the former with the shooting of the latter to form one super-soph, then take their weaker halves and send them to Purdue.

Also, it's startin' to sound like Yogi's March Madness might just take place again this year! Mark your calendars, ladies and gentlemen! Last weekend of spring break. Let's rock and roll.

UPDATE: Just wanted to link to this New York Times article, "The No-Stats All-Star" which talks about Shane Battier and the difficulties inherent in tracking the quality of basketball players by the current stats measurement. Really in-depth, intense article. John Hollinger, eat your heart out.