We’re not into those overused, overtired, overwrought sports radio arguments about “what things mean.” Go discuss that stuff elsewhere with those of inferior intellect. So no matter your stance on the ESPYs, and your stance on whether or not it was a “great upset” that VCU made the Final Four, it’s nice that VCU (and the CAA) is getting ESPY-level recognition. Here is where you vote, once per day . All I’ll say is that this is the fans’ latest version of locker room and courtside “C-A-A, C-A-A” chants. Support it, because as the newly-minted Blaine Taylor likes to say: “we perform best with all oars rowing together.” Or something like that. Most interesting to me is two of VCUs competitors. Fabricio Werdum and Fedor Emelianenko apparently staged a classic MMA bout with Werdum upsetting Emelianenko. Now, Fabricio Werdum sounds like a poker player and Fedor Emelianenko a hockey player, but what do I know? And Blame’s upset over Zenyatta in the Breeder’s Cup? Perhaps that was earth-shattering but I don’t remember even agate type about that (and I follow horse racing…it’s about memorability, right?) Maybe Werdum and Emelianenko were actually the jockeys that day. (Side note: we’ll get back to serious stuff next week. It’s summer, so let’s enjoy a little levity, eh?)

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