Behind The Curtain

IN A FOLDING CHAIR AT A LONG TABLE THAT SEATS 30 IN THE GEORGIA DOME - What. Is. Up?

This blog has parachuted into the Final Four for the weekend.

This means the Bump 'n Run has been at the NFL's Annual Meetings in Phoenix wandering around a hotel it would have had no business being at if it didn't have business at it and is now at the only event that - in this blog's mind - compares to the Super Bowl.

Makes all those days spent covering events like Pee Wee Cheerleading and Biddy Basketball tournament games worth while.

To give you an idea of the setup, 55,000 of the dome's seats are in play for the game. I'm in a 100-yard long media workroom at the moment which has 18 tables that seat 30 print media each. The "room" is defined by blue drapes 20-feet high and is about 50 yards from the court.

This blog also just had to move its seat in the workroom because of a loud and interminable cell phone conversation being conducted by "dude in yellow shirt from some paper in Kansas."

He segued from the phone conversation to detailing where Harry Truman's favorite hotels..

Riveting stuff...

This blog has a terrific headache which may or may not have impacted my sensitivity to "dude in yellow shirt".

We're about two hours from the Georgetown-Ohio State tip and, if things fall just so, the next time Greg Oden plays basketball he could be wearing a Celtics uniform.