VCU BEATS FLORIDA STATE & WILL FACE KANSAS IN THE ELITE 8

The VCU Rams beat the Florida State Seminoles last night 72-71 in OT last night to advance to the Elite 8 in the NCAA Basketball Tournament where the will face the Kansas Jayhawks on Sunday.  In a game that VCU lead at the half by 5 at the half the Seminoles where able to tie it in and send it to OT before the Rams where able to pull out a 1point victory.  The Rams will now play Kansas who dominated the other team from the City of Richmond the Richmond Spiders 77-57, the Spiders simply where never in this game with the Jayhawks.  Kansas just came to play and didn't take any names.  For the Rams to beat Kansas they are going to have to play better than they did last night thats for sure, the Rams bench is much deeper than the Spiders but it is going to be a very tough task for the Rams pull out a win over Kansas.  In the other two games last night North Carolina pounded Marquette and Kentucky knocked of allot peoples pick to win it all Ohio State.  Today Butler will face Florida and Arizona will face UCONN with both winners advancing to Final Four.  In college baseball action yesterday the Virginia Cavaliers beat Maryland 14-1, the Cavs will face Maryland twice today trying to beat the impending inclement weather predicted for Sunday.  Well we were scheduled to make up our game with Hopewell yesterday however there field was still unplayable and we were going to move the game to Shepherd Stadium but there were some more problems with use of the field we were unable to play again there yesterday, that seems to an ongoing theme up there right now.  We are scheduled to play Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week and with tomorrows impending rain it looks like we are going to have a scheduling nightmare in the next few weeks which could leave some non district games in limbo.  Juan Pablo Montoya captured the pole for this weekends race at Fontana edging Denny Hamlin for the top spot, the Nationwide Series will run there today.  MICKEY

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W. Clement Stone

Today's Birthdays: Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez is 86. Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is 81. Actor-director Leonard Nimoy is 80. Actor Alan Arkin is 77. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH'-see) is 71. Actor James Caan is 71. Author Erica Jong is 69. Journalist Bob Woodward is 68. Singer Diana Ross is 67. Actor Johnny Crawford is 65. Rock singer Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) is 63. Singer and TV personality Vicki Lawrence is 62. Actor Ernest Thomas is 62. Comedian Martin Short is 61. Country singer Ronnie McDowell is 61. Movie composer Alan Silvestri is 61. Rock musician Monte Yoho is 59. Radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa is 57. Country singer Dean Dillon is 56. Country singer Charly McClain is 55. TV personality Leeza Gibbons is 54. Actress Ellia English is 52. Actress Jennifer Grey is 51. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen is 51. Actor Eric Allan Kramer is 49. Basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton is 49. Actor Michael Imperioli is 45. Rock musician James Iha (EE'-hah) is 43. Country singer Kenny Chesney is 43. Actor T.R. Knight is 38. Rapper Juvenile is 36. Actress Amy Smart is 35. Actress Bianca Kajlich (KY'-lihk) is 34. Actress Keira Knightley is 26. Rapper J-Kwon is 25.