an off court dispute.

being on the east coast has only intensified my Pac-10 support. 4 years away from the west has heightened my awareness that espn, abc and all the other networks that air college sports have an unfair tendency to parade the acc, big 10, and the sec nationally-- if i want to see UCLA play Oregon, or watch a USC v Arizona football game, i have to subscribe to satellite tv. this is the very definition of whack. my very own alma mater (Stanford) has won the Director's Cup 13 consecutive times, and as of right now, the top 4 teams in the running for this year's Director's Cup are Pac-10 schools.

as someone committed to fighting social injustice, i have come to realize that i need to embrace all Pac-10 teams (unless said teams are engaging in a competition against Stanford) in order to take a stand against the biased media and prejudiced fans of the midwest/southern conferences. we must all unite together against this discriminatory practice so that all americans can celebrate the glory of Pac-10 sports on a nationally televised level.

anyway. yesterday i had a bit of a disagreement over whether or not the Pac-10 has always held a championship tournament before the NCAA tournament. as a 4 year member of the Stanford sixth man club (with the ill-fitting long sleeved t-shirts to prove it) and impassioned supporter of the Pac-10 (see above), i was pretty confident that the champion was determined at the end of the season. my opponent, who hails from Duke (of the ACC--a conference that is a clear media favorite) was convinced that i was mistaken, and that there has always been a conference tournament (as he attempted to prove with his high tech iphone). well, who was right? find out here.