The Conference USA Tournament gets started on Wednesday.  UTEP, Memphis, UAB, and Marshall will be in the stands, waiting to see who survives the opening day's shootout, and who will be gunning for them on Thursday.
     The Houston team will du...

     When I was a kid, one of the amusement parks (I don't remember if it was Playland in San Francisco, or the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz) had a ride called the Wild Mouse.  Santa Cruz's boardwalk had, at the time, one of the great wooden roller coasters in the world.  It is still there.  I rode it again this last summer, and it is still a very fun and exciting ride.
     But, the Wild Mouse wa...

     My wife used to not allow me out of the house on trash days, until the trash trucks had already gone through the neighborhood.  I was always spotting things being thrown out, that to me seemed to be valuable.  One time, I brought home a lawnmower that was in pieces.  I noticed that the air filter was clogged solid.  I put the lawnmower back together, after giving the air filter a thorough cle...

     Dragons are big fire breathing lizards with wings, that live in caves.  In Alabama, these dragons are often called Blazers.  In the Southwest, cold blooded reptiles like snakes and lizards, often seek shelter from the blazing, desert sun in the cool shade of a mine.  Miners here in the desert, are familiar with the habits of these reptiles, and take the necessary precautions to exterminate th...

     Boom!  Boom!  Boom!  The dynamite loosens and cracks the walls.  Then the picks start pounding away, tearing those walls down. 
     Randy Culpepper didn't spare the dynamite in Huntington, West Virginia Tuesday night.  Then, the big men got to it.  But, the Miners found the going to be tough for the first half of the game.  When Derrick Caracter picked up two fouls, early in the first ...

     I still have too much time on my hands, and you know what they say about idle hands.  So here is the latest from El Diablo's workshop.

     Tuesday's games and results;
UTEP beats Marshall
UCF beats ECU
So. Miss. beats Tulane

     Wednesday's games and results
UAB beats Memphis
UH beats Rice
TU beats SMU

Then on Saturday the 6th

     Tuesday evening, at 5 pm MST, two of the top teams in Conference USA will meet on the hardwood battlefield in Huntington, West Virginia.  The UTEP Miners have a conference record of 13-1, and have clinched at least a share of the conference title.  Marshall's Thundering Herd sits at 4th place with a record of  10-4 in conference play.  The Miners are coming off of a somewhat lackluster effort...