2010 Star Wars Champion: NORA JONES!!

 Aside from an frenchfry-fueled incident by Coach Tony Signore, everything went right for Nora Jones.  Why just today, a dejected Mark Ewing ordered up the Nora Jones CD which will be giving to Tony Signore, (at Ewing's expense) who is currently basking in the Florida sun until "the coast is clear for my return", clucked an excited Signore.  More to come later.   Nora Jones, OWWWWWWWWWWWW!! Third World!

"Im a Golden God!", said Tony Signore.

Tony Signore showed up at Death Star HQ dressed as a Nazi or something.  Singore set down with his TALL glass of pilsner.  As he handed off the Lord Vadar Trophy to Nora Jones, Dick Vitale asked Signore what the key to winning Star Wars was.  This is was Tony said: 

 
Thank you , The Star Wars Committee...ah, I'll be back next year......

The Vadar Trophy is between 01- Nora Jones and 05 Alejandro Escovedo!!!!

Saturday night results:

Nora Jones beats Drive by Truckers. 

Alejandro Escovedo beats KT Kunstall

KIA:  Drive by Truckers, KT Kunstall

Moving On Up:  Nora Jones, Alejandro Escovedo.
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Nora Jones is pretty hot.

Escovedo unmasked.  Needs to keep playing his good D.

Dick says Nora Jones will walk away with a Vadar.

The Prized Darth Vadar Trophy.

Tony (Ben Konobi) see a Nora Jones CD in his collection.  Hey Tony, Keep to the right.

Mark thinks the Escovedo can pull off the upset. 

 Frank Lalonde threatened the paparazzi as he left the Death Star Headquarters.

I can still see those sandy hills......

It was around 35 degrees at the start.  I believe this is about 20 minutes into the race, where the sandy hills came.  We lost a lot of men here.  Those of us that survived the race, don't like to talk about it.

Final Four in Place: All CDs are registered

Ah yes.  Mark Ewing has announced that IF KT Kunstall wins, the album of choice will be "Drastic Fantastic."  Tony Signore has clucked off that if Nora Jones wins, the CD of choice will be "Fall".  So here we go:  Below are the four finalists and the subsequent CDs....that one losing coach will buy for the winning coach.  Who will win?  I don't know.  "You don't know, let me write that down.  Mr Hand, will I pass  the class?  Well, Spicoli, I don't know!"

Final Four To Be Determined Today!

Sunday games:  South:  01-Nora Jones Vs 03- Leon Russell
                         Midwest:   05-KT Kunstall Vs 06-Foreigner
 
 Saturday results:  West:05-Alejandro Escovedo over 02-Ween
                            East: 02-Drive By Truckers over 01-Springsteen


Latest KIAs:  02-Raveonettes, 09-Hank Williams, 01-Warren Zevon
                      02-Ween, 01-Springsteen, 04-Beck, 10-Dire Straits,
                      12-Pink Floyd, 06-Sweet.
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Mark predicts:  Leon Russell over NJones, and Kunstall over Foreigner.

 Mark predicts the Finals:    Alejandro Escovedo over Drive By Truckers

HANK WILLIAMS IS ELIMINATED!!
    Don't worry comrades, Hank Williams is eliminated.  We at Star Wars HQ would like to thank KT Kunstall for getting rid of this drunken menace.   Hey Hank, Keep to the right you bastard.
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Transcript of Hank Williams leaving the St Louis region, probably heading to the nearest bar:

 Dick Vitale:  "Hey Hank, nice game, but you got drunk and then you lost.
Hank:  "Yeah....hic."
Dick Vitale:  Hey Hank, is that a Jack Russell Terrier you have with you?"
Hank: "You call me a Jack Russell, well You are a Jack Ass"
Dick Vitale:  "That's not what I said, Hank, you are much more of a Jack Ass than I am".
Hank: "You don't mean Jack Sh*t to me."
Dick Vitale:  "Shut up, F*** Sh*T Head, Jack *ff Ass".

02-Drive By Truckers in Final Four! Signore Fails to announce album of choice...

As the Final Four gets completed after today, it is the coache's duty to name the album of choice for that artist.  As of press time, Signore has failed to name the DBTrucker's album, but most people agree it is their new one which was just released, "The Big To-Do"...
   Great win for the Truckers, they took on 01-Bruce Springsteen and outplayed them for a chance to go to the Big Dance....."I'm cool with the Truckers over Springsteen", clucked a jubilant Tony Signore.

The Big To-Do is the eighth studio album by the alternative country band Drive-By Truckers, released on March 16, 2010. It is their first album released on ATO Records, which they signed to after completing their four album deal with New West Records. The album was recorded over three blocks of sessions resulting in 26 songs, which the band decided to split between The Big To-Do and its follow up Go-Go Boot's. [1] The Big To-Do marks the seventh Drive-By Truckers album produced by David Barbie.




Bandmember Patterson Hood said that it is "very much a rock album. Very melodic and more rocking than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera."[2]



Guitarist Mike Cooley commented on the development of the album, explaining that because he didn't have many songs to contribute when the band started working on the album he decided to focus on "being a player on everybody else's songs while still trying to come up with my own thing." He continued by saying that for him, the turning points in creating the album were working on the songs "You Got Another" and "The Flying Wallendas."

It makes no sense! It makes perfect sense! Alejandro Escovedo Makes Final Four! Ewing names album of choice as "The Boxing Mirror"

Great win for Alejandro!  While Mark Ewing admitted he slept through the game as a result of a grueling bicycle race, it was Tony Signore that texted Mark with the news of the result of the game.  05-Escovedo knocked off Ewing's 2-seeded Ween. 

  Alejandro, in a mask or something, was dancing around like a drunk stepping on cockroaches.  When asked how he planned to play his next opponent, Alejandro quoted the following: 


I stood out on the sidewalk when they busted through the door
And watched that Tito's jacket caught and had him by his arm,
You know the show of that thing nobody knows for sure
Because they found Nancy in her black underwear dead on the bathroom floor.(Ewing sang this line in unison with Escovedo at the concert)

And it makes no sense
And it makes perfect sense;
And it makes no sense
And it makes perfect sense


The Boxing Mirror Review:
Starting with the hollow, spectral whistle intro of opener "Arizona," Escovedo's seventh solo record is colored by his near-death brush with Hep C. He starts things here with a sneering suggestion to "Have another drink on me/ I've been empty since Arizona," and follows with his most accomplished collection. He's edgy and paranoid one minute ("Break This Time") and strumming a Spanish guitar with reflective adoration the next ("Evita's Lullaby"). Even where John Cale's tacky production clutters the message, Escovedo's fixation with death is a triumph.

Escovedo and his crew march into the NCAA Center to watch Kunstall-Foreigner game.