Professional Tailgating: The Defending National Champs

On Thursday the Only Time Will Tell Tailgating Crew headed for the big city, New York to see their beloved North Carolina Tar Heels. Good seats and cheap tickets led to a good night.

Everyone knew the Heels were in town

The great popcorn spill of Endy in the Outfield make for a mess

The Heels are introduced

The Heels and Bucks prepare for battle

Dickie V Shoot foul shots

The Ultimate Homer

Few announcers bring the passion that Phil Thompson brings to Sky Sports. Thompson love affair runs deep with Liverpool and that shows most of the time. Thompson is a fixture on the Soccer Saturday on Sky with Jeff Stelling and Matt Le Tissier.

Here are some of the best Liverpool related Phil Thompson moments:

Liverpool shock loss to Barnsely in the FA Cup

Arsenal Liverpool Champions League Clash

Reaction to John Arne Riise own goal in first leg of Champions League Semi-Final

Phil Thompson ranks up there with Dick Vitale when it comes to homers. That is just a small sample of examples there are many more on the internet.

One of the best days in sports history

If you were not Dennis Dixon (below) or Barry Bonds, yesterday ranked up there as one of the best days in sports history.

Has anyone ever seen a day where the home run king was indicted, the numbers two in the BCS poll lost and a baseball player agreed to one of the richest contracts in sports history and that does not even count Dick Vitale season debut.

I hope that we can have many more days like that.

It's that Time of Year Again

Dick Vitale has been sleeping for the last couple of months getting is vocal chords ready for tomorrow night, Midnight Madness the official start of the college basketball season. So before long Joe Lunardi will be running around talking about bubble teams, Jay Bilas will be breaking down the high pick and roll, and Digger Phelps (pictured) will be trying to pick out highlghter that match all of his great looking ties.

Here are my Top Five teams as the practice gets started.

1. North Carolina: Only the Heals can have a lottery pick and still be the top team in a America.
2. Memphis: Here is the deal, enough is a enough for Coach Cal. Every year we hear all about how good they are and every year they crash out in late March. So this has to be the year.
3. Louisville: Pitino has all of the tools to have the best team in the Big East and when the coach gets to March few are better.
4. UCLA: I hate UCLA, they bore me to death, but they should be one of the best teams in the West.
5. Kansas: Talent: check. Great home court: Check. Coaching: no check. Last year, North Carolina and Kansas had the best talent in American, but in the end they lost. I'ts now or never time for Coach Self.

So everyone sit back and get ready, the real games are only a couple of weeks away.