Luke Winn is quickly becoming one of my favorite sportswriters. Winn has an undeniable penchant for identifying and expounding upon the absurdities found in the world of college basketball. In the most recent issue of Sports Illustrated, Winn penned an article about Louisville's Terrence Williams, which included a variety of T-Will tidbits. My personal favorites: that T-Will wore a Barbi backpack in high school to be different and that, in his high school lunchroom, he would tell classmates, "You've got to come strong to your mouth," before knocking sandwiches out of their hands. After discussing the article with a good friend of mine who is a Louisville native, he informed me that he saw T-Will in Louisville recently wearing a jacket with a spray-painted image of his own face on it. Needless to say, all of this is awesome.
Back to Winn. Winn's most recent contribution to SI.com is an article entitled "Fifty Thoughts on Selection Sunday." You can read it here. The entire article is worth reading, but what really grabbed my attention is Winn's endorsement of Club Trillion as the nation's hottest tournament blog. Club Trillion: Life Views from the End of the Bench is the brainchild (if you can call it that) of Ohio State reserve Mark Titus. Titus' blog is quite amusing, and I highly recommend this entry in which Titus tries to determine who is the whitest Buckeye and why. Ultimately, Titus determines that he, in fact, is the whitest team member -- though he adds that, if Evan Turner was not black, he would be the whitest because he wears scarves and listens to John Mayer. Titus' analysis is thorough, as he provides a link to a photo of a shirt worn by a player during a formal outing that disqualifies him from consideration, discusses the lack of Dale Earnhardt tattoos on one of his teammates, and includes a confusing reference to Grandma Winslow's back hair (the old lady from the Urkel show).
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