Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

I think the family summer vacation is all planned out now. This summer we'll be driving out to South Dakota to see Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, Custer State Park, and so on. My wife and I had been there when we lived in Colorado, but we want my daughter to experience this. She'll be 7 years old and should be able to remember this trip when she gets older - she's in the "maybe, maybe not" age of remembering things way down the road. Meaning, I remember some stuff from this age, but not a lot. We figured that if she doesn't remember this, that's all right - there are other experiences we certainly want her to remember (Grand Canyon, Washington DC, and some others) so we're going to wait until she's a bit older before doing those.

What a great finish to the NCAA Tournament. Villanova making a last second shot to win the game, after North Carolina made a double-clutch 3 point shot to tie the game with 4.7 seconds to go. Great finish. Here's the results of my picking the line, total, and money line of every single game this year (except the money line which wasn't available on the 16 vs 1 games in the first round). On money line picks I was 45-18 (71.4%). Tim was 40-23 (63.5%). For straight bets (with the spread) I was 31-33-3 (48.5%) and Tim was 35-31-1 (53.0%). (Note that for some games, depending on when we made our picks, the line was different. That's why I have 3 pushes and Tim only had 1). For totals (over/unders) I was a putrid 29-37-1 (44.0%) and Tim was even worse at 28-38-1 (42.5%). Combing all those bets, I was 105-88-4 (54.3%) and Tim was 103-92-2 (52.8%). If we were betting real money (which we wouldn't do on every single line, total, and money line - we'd only bet the o...