The Madness Has Begun

We're less than a week away from one of the craziest times of the year in sports. MARCH MADNESS. This time next week millions of brackets will be filled out all over America. 

The Madness in March is not limited to just college basketball. This first weekend in the month proved just that...

Kobe got his "revenge" on Dwyane

So it looks like the Masked Mamba got the best of Dwyane Wade and company yesterday. Kobe poured in 33 points and was effective shooting from the field in the Lakers win over the Heat on Sunday. 

The Lakers as a whole played up to par holding the Heat to 20 points under their average. Metta World Peace chipped in with 17, in what probably was his best over all game of the year. Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol clogged up the paint and took advantage of Chris Bosh being out of the line up.

LeBron James had another stellar performance for the undermanned Heat with his 25/13/7. It won't make everybody forget about Friday nights game at Utah where he passed up the final shot(even though I think it was the right play that he made). With Bosh out, LeBron played fantastic defense on Gasol holding him to 11 points. 

Wade on the other hand did not have one of his better outings. Kobe scorched him for 18 in the first quarter. Between the boos from the crowd and the terrible refereeing, Wade never looked to be in sync. This was evident in the fourth quarter when in the span of a few minutes, Wade was called for 4 fouls and subsequently fouled out. 

It was the first time in 88 games that a player from the Miami Heat had fouled out of a game. That was an NBA record. It was Wade's first time fouling out in 7 years.

Rondo records 4th triple double of the season

Rajon Rondo had himself a game. With a stat line of 20 assists, 18 points and a career high 17 rebounds, he joined the likes of Wilt Chamberlain(scroll down for my take at Wilt's 100 point game) and Oscar Robertson. That is some legendary company. 

To think the Celtics are talking about trading this guy! I would encourage a Mr. Pat Riley to give Danny Ainge a feeler call...JUST SAYING

Deron Williams scores a career high 57

Deron Williams, or as I like to call him D-Will, was a one man wrecking machine against the Charlotte Bobcats. Then again who isn't? He scored a career high and team record 57 points for the Nets. He outscored his teammates by 10!

Lets see though how he does on Tuesday night against the Miami Heat. Going out on a limb here when I say he will not go back to back 50 point games...

Is Tiger back?

It's not all about basketball in March. With Tiger coming into Sunday's final round of the Honda Classic 9 shots behind leader Rory McIlroy, it was thought he would finish somewhere in the middle of the pack.

What ended up happening was Tiger shot his best final round score ever. An 8 under, 62. He finished his round with the clubhouse lead and even though McIlroy ended up holding on for the win, we might have the old Tiger back.

Tiger will try to get back in the winners circle this weekend at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship in Doral.

The Big Dipper

The ultimate Madness in March happened 50 years ago in Hershey, Pennsylvania. On March 2nd, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA record 100 points. Think about that for a second. One man scored a hundred points in one NBA game. This larger than life character changed the NBA forever. 

The man averaged scoring over 50 points a game that season. OVER 50 POINTS A GAME!!!

There was no video of this epic moment in sports history, just this photo of Wilt holding up his record-setting score. The documentary Wilt 100 premiered this weekend on NBA TV. If you didn't get to watch it, check your local listings to see when it airs again, a MUST WATCH!