HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Well I hope everybody has a very nice St. Patrick's Day.  The VCU Rams are moving on to the field of 64 in the NCAA basketball tournament knocking of the USC Trojans last night 59-46, after playing a very close first half the Rams pulled away in the 2nd half and will face Georgetown next.  The Old Dominion Monarchs will face the Butler Bulldogs today and the Richmond Spiders will face Vanderbilt today as well.  The Virginia Cavaliers baseball team improved to 17-1 on the season yesterday beating James Madison 7-3, next up for the Cavs is a weekend series with the Florida State Seminoles.  Well hopefully we will able to get back on the field today at the stadium, while everybody who had games yesterday played because of the rain we had after Tuesdays game the stadium was off limits again.  We might have to move all our practices to the high school field soon if not I don't think we will be able to practice anymore, by the way the AAU tournament I talked about a few weeks ago is this weekend and they are going to play about 12 game on the field in about 2 days.  I guess its ok for out of towner's to tear the field up but it's not ok for the citizens of the city to use the field, there is something wrong with that picture.  MICKEY

Today's Birthdays: Jazz/New Age musician Paul Horn is 81. The former national chairwoman of the NAACP, Myrlie Evers-Williams, is 78. Rock musician Paul Kantner is 70. Singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly is 68. Singer-songwriter John Sebastian (The Lovin' Spoonful) is 67. Rock musician Harold Brown (War; Lowrider Band) is 65. Actor Patrick Duffy is 62. Actor Kurt Russell is 60. Country singer Susie Allanson is 59. Actress Lesley-Anne Down is 57. Country singer Paul Overstreet is 56. Actor Gary Sinise is 56. Actor Christian Clemenson is 53. Former basketball and baseball player Danny Ainge is 52. Actress Vicki Lewis is 51. Actor Casey Siemaszko (sheh-MA'-zshko) is 50. Writer-director Rob Sitch is 49. Actor Rob Lowe is 47. Rock singer Billy Corgan is 44. Rock musician Van Conner (Screaming Trees) is 44. Actor Mathew St. Patrick is 43. Actor Yanic (YAH'-neek) Truesdale is 42. Rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur is 39. Soccer player Mia Hamm is 39. Rock musician Caroline Corr (The Corrs) is 38. Actress Amelia Heinle is 38. Actress Marisa Coughlan is 37. Rapper Swifty (D12) is 36. Actress Natalie Zea (zee) is 36. Actress Brittany Daniel is 35. Actress Eliza Hope Bennett is 19.