Dowbrigade Pick of the Week

As we returned from the
neighborhood sports bar where
we went to watch the Light Heavyweight World
Championship title fight between Antonio
Tarver and Glen Johnson, which it turned out they couldn’t get on any
one of their 37 screens, we heard a rather remarkable claim on Sports
Talk Radio. 

The fight was on HBO,
and of course the Dowbrigade is too cheap to give RCN 20 MORE
dollars
on
top
of their
already
extortionate
connectivity charges, but unfortunately even the Best Sports Bar in
Watertown turns into a meat market on Saturday night,

Anyway, this lady calls the station and asks if
anybody had noticed that every time the San Antonio Spurs have won
the NBA title, the University of Virginia has won the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse
title. 100% of the time. Both ways. Perfect correlation. And,
of course, this year the Virginia Cavaliers did it again. The hosts dismissed
her derisively as a kook.

Our interest piqued, we decided to investigate.  It
turns out the claim is true, but the sample is small. On both occasions
that the Spurs won the NBA championship, 1999 and 2003, UVA won the lacrosse
title. The Cavaliers won the NCAA Men’s title in 1972 as well, but
as the ABA Spurs didn’t move to San Antonio until 1973 and didn’t join
the NBA until 1976, we guess that doesn’t count.

So take the money you were going to spend on lottery
tickets this week and bet it on the Spurs. The Dowbrigade makes it his
pick of the week, and you can take that to the bank…

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