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Hopefully you've taken the time to look at The Two Fat Guys Top 99 Indiana High School Boys Basketball Players. This list is taking only the players high school careers into consideration. That's pretty obvious when you look at the first name on the list -- Greg Oden. He played only one year of college ball and so far has logged only slightly more NBA minutes than I have.

Keeping this criteria in mind, you might wonder why Larry Bird is listed at #15. So do I. I have read every Indiana newpaper sports section from 1974, and not one of them mentions anything about this skinny Bird kid from French Lick being one of Hoosier Hysteria's all time greats. True he was an Indiana All Star and was recruited by Bob Knight to play at IU during their absolute zenith. But c'mon.

You also might be wondering why I'm calling out The Two Fat Guys when I'm actually on the team. That's how we roll. Between Phil, Denny, and me there is a lot of arguing, compromise, and give and take. There's also some occasional name calling. But that's the fun of it. We like each other to varying degrees and have known each other for longer than any of us care to remember.

I came on board after the tubby twosome already had the Top 2009 songs list made up. From what I've been told, they started working on it in 1988. They didn't agree on a lot of the songs, but again, that is what makes this venture worthwhile. If we agreed on everything, what fun would that be?

Speaking of IHSAA basketball, it's tourney time!!!

Yeah, me too. Who really cares? I'm starting to get the feeling that Class Basketball might stick around. There's just no comparison to the old days when you waited anxiously for the big bracket that took up a full page in the paper and came complete (at least in the Kokomo Tribune) with that goofy looking kid with a Coke Bottle cap impaled onto the crown of his head.

I loved filling out those brackets, even tho the hometown Wildkats usually took it on the chin in the afternoon game of the regional. Somewhere in the distance, I can hear Tom Carnegie and Tony Hinkle talking above the crowd's din at Butler Fieldhouse giving us the starting lineups for the championship game.

If that makes me an old fogie living in the past, so be it. At least I'm not fat.

Til Next Time
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PHAT FAT FACT: The American Medical Association is starting a campaign to take obesity more seriously. Currently, only one out of five obese persons actually have an "Obesity" diagnosis recorded in their medical record.

PHATTER FAT FACT: The other four have a medical diagnosis of either "Lard Ass" or "Chub Chaser".