How do you do it, Terrell Owens?

How do you get booted off a team that hasn’t won a playoff game since 1996?

How do you get cut from the team that gave Adam “Pacman” Jones another chance to screw up?

How do you get ousted from a team whose main focus seems to be reality shows?  One show, set to air on Spike this spring, will feature 12 athletes fighting for the Cowboys’ last training camp spot.  Another show, which airs on CMT (the network that makes Larry the Cable Guy look like Laurence Olivier), revolves around the Cowboys’ cheerleaders.  Wow!

It isn’t job performance.  In his three years with the Cowboys, Owens caught 38 touchdowns while putting up a robust 3,587 receiving yards. 

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Everyone’s a college basketball fanatic today.

Without any basketball knowledge, my mom is filling out a bracket, and even though she helped put my sister and I through Ohio State, and the Buckeyes’ opening-round game is in our hometown of Dayton, Ohio on Friday, she’s actually picking Siena because she likes Crayola crayons.

My Dad is taking the Utah Utes to the Sweet 16 because he loves “My Cousin Vinny.”  Did you say Ute?

In between Mah Jongg games my grandma is also filling out a bracket.  Grandma, who can make serious money from spinning Dreidel, taught me blackjack as a wee lad in between episodes of He-Man, so I trust her gaming instincts.  However, she’s taking Tennessee to the Final Four because head coach Bruce Pearl is a nice Jewish boy, and she’s willing to forgive him for the heinous orange blazer.  I’m not.

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