Writing this now, my throat is hoarse and my ears are ringing. If you didn’t make it to New Jersey this weekend, you missed out. Hopefully, though, you made up for it while closing down M St.

There are a ton of articles out there on last night’s game, but I’ll give you the cream of the crop: Andy Katz’s article at ESPN, Tom Knott’s at the Washington Times, and the Post’s most recent piece on Jon Wallace.

All will try and tell you why the Hoyas won, but I’ll tell you the truth right now: it was the face paint my friend Christa put on JTIV’s face (and yes, I mean 4) at the Hilton before the game. Sure, he might still be in elementary school, and he might have wiped the “III” she put on his forehead into a silver smear before he even boarded the bus, but those splotches put the spirit quotient over the top.

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Posted by Austin Richardson, Blog Editor

It’s spring, and that means no more frumpy sweaters. Not so fast, say upright Christian men. In a survey sponsored by evangelical youth site The Rebelution, repressed young men the world over answered the question “What do you think is immodest?”. The answer was, overwhelmingly, “Pretty much everything.” Some highlights:

• 57.5% of survey takers disagreed with the statement “It is okay to expose the stomach when wearing a swimsuit.” It gets better when you hit the comments, though. One boy said, “Seeing a girl’s belly makes me very uncomfortable and it is just something that you don’t need to show to anyone.” Here’s something creepy: he’s 13!
• A well-informed 60.7% thought gauchos are modest. For myself, I have no idea what gauchos are. It seems that their knowledge of women’s clothing is rivaled only by this man’s.
• 47% thought T-shirts with messages on the front “draw too much attention to the bust.” So intense!

Link via Pandagon

Posted by Will Sommer

Subway cars in DC might be missing a certain elegance soon, if Metro’s new general manager has his way. John Catoe wants to get rid of carpeting on the trains, saying it’s hard to clean and expensive:

“Real world tells you it’s expensive, it doesn’t look good—particularly when it snows and you bring a lot of salt in there—and it doesn’t smell very good after it gets wet.”

Carpeting in Metro cars has never struck me as filthy or smelly. It’s a nice contrast with New York’s rubber floors. Unfortunately, that’s exactly the direction Catoe wants to go. Besides removing the carpet, Catoe wants to remove some seats so there’s more standing room.

Catoe does have two good ideas. He’s responsible for the new red warning lights on train platforms, which apparently won’t be extended to include every line’s color (blue and orange would look slick). He also wants easier access to handrails for people who don’t want to get inadvertante abdominal exercise reaching for Metro’s too-high bars.
Link via Wonkette

-Posted by Will Sommer

Even as I basked in the glow of reflected glory from our beloved Men’s B-Ball team—final four bound—after the game last night, I was left with a question that had irked me from the first half onward. Why, when the ball was at UNC’s end, did we hear loud chants of “DEFENSE! DEFENSE!” from in-crowd mics, but when the Hoyas were under attack, nary a Georgetown voice was heard? I was positive that Hoya fans would make themselves heard, so it must have been CBS muting Georgetown supporters. Well, it was a combo of the two. One on-site correspondent reports that CBS covered up the Georgetown section’s in-crowd mic because the Hoyas were yelling “BULLSHIT!” at every bad call—apparently, the FCC doesn’t like it when you broadcast that. Either way, Atlanta here we come …

–Posted by Tim Fernholz, Managing Editor.