Plenty of Madness to go around
My wife attended the University of Arizona. So you can imagine my disappointment upon reading expert prognosticator Bill “It Just Feels Right to Pick the Falcons to Win the Super Bowl” Plaschke’s choice of U of A to win the NCAA tournament.
Too bad, Wildcats, there’s always next year. Konrad Moore
Bakersfield
Yes, there’s an Eastern bias against the Pac-12, but there’s also a Pac-12 bias against the Pac-12, with the conference not being carried by Direc-TV.
That’s 25 million homes or 62.5 million possible viewers. So perhaps the Pac-12 should look in the mirror. Fred Wallin
Westlake Village
Bill of wrongs
First of all, after three months of college basketball, conference tournaments before March Madness are completely unnecessary. When the Pac-12 Networks and ESPN then inflict Bill Walton as an announcer upon us for four days, that amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
Dear ESPN: Have mercy and for the love of basketball, please sell Walton’s contract to the network in Iowa that televises their high school games. (My apologies to Iowa.) Ken Holden
Los Angeles
Undoubtedly, like many of my fellow L.A. Times readers, when I hear Bill Walton’s constant drivel and pointless meandering, I want to turn off the TV. But I have the cure. Each time he says “Conference of Champions,” drink a beer. By the second half, you will be in drunken haze, but at least tie-dye Bill will be bearable with the nice buzz you got going. Kevin Flynn
Simi Valley
Last Friday night I tuned in to watch the Bill Walton show, and was surprised when a few times the UCLAArizona basketball game appeared on a half-screen in the background. Diane Smith
Valencia
Falling fast
Since the Lakers have shut down Luol Deng and Timofey Mozgov and literally put an end to Nick Young’s Lakers career, is it against league rules to shut down the rest of the team? Each time this group takes the floor they embarrass themselves more than the game before. What we have seen this year is that the Lakers do not have “young talent.” All they have is “no talent.”
Magic and Rob Pelinka need to cut bait with anything that Kupchak and Buss touched and start all over. Geno Apicella
Placentia
I was watching Johnny Carson doing his Carnac routine from 1975. Answer: Wine and the L.A. Lakers. Question: Name two things you find in the cellar. Over 40 years later and nothing has changed. Unlike fine wine, the Lakers have not gotten better with age. Jeff Hershow
Woodland Hills
Funny that Luke Walton has dropped D’Angelo Russell out of the starting lineup. When Byron Scott did that last year, suggesting that D’Angelo had to “earn” his minutes, he was ridiculed. Rather than continuity and experience, Lakers management opted for hope and fantasy.
We used to laugh at the Clippers for being perpetual lottery participants. Now it’s us. Frank Shapiro
Chatsworth
The Lakers’ starters are so young that after they beat the Suns last week, Luke Walton took them all out for ice cream. Ken Stone Santa Barbara
Can Jeanie Buss fire Doc Rivers too? Gary Miller
Encino
What’s the deal?
Forget your minor trade with Channel 5 of telecasting just 10 Dodger games this year and go for the blockbuster deal: Trade all the Lakers games, which few of us can bear to watch, for all the Dodgers games! Now that would be a winwin trade for all involved. Neal Gervais
El Segundo
A new Leaf
Boy, I never thought the day would come when I would be looking up to Ryan Leaf [March 12]. Sports is, to some degree, about greatness. Interesting how a great idiot can fall to great depths, can find great courage, and then make a great impact. Thanks for a great article and story. Jim Gorin
Whittier
Go figure
Just when I finally understand the NFL’s quarterback rating, along comes the World Baseball Classic’s tiebreaker. If sports is the supposed toy department of life, the toys must consist of complex Transformers robots, 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, and college-level chemistry sets. Mark J. Featherstone
Windsor Hills
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