Off top. The phrase March Madness was originally coined for the Illinois High School basketball tournament in 1939.

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This is the Dominique Foxworth Show.

What's up Charlie? I think I got you on that one. You probably thought it was like, I don't know, Bill Rafferty or somebody.

And it wasn't it eventually made it to the big tournament, but it was initially because Illinois basketball was popping and some guy named Porter decided to write it in the paper sometime genuinely shocked.

This doesn't have an origin somewhere in Indiana that could have been referenced to the movie Hoosiers.

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Alright, so interesting thing that I want to talk about is kind of combining a lot of things. So first of all, we'll get to roses and thorns later and Charlie, even you should stick around for the end of roses and thorns. I'm not going to tell you what happens, but it gets it gets funny in a little while.

Also, I got an intern this week, young man, age 12 by the name of LJ Phillips. He's going to hop in and help us out with some, I don't know, young things. I need some insight on how the kids feel about jam Iran. He's a you basketball player and a hell of a young student.

You get to him at some point, but the general topic that I want to talk about it kind of integrates three of these big topics or these big players right now that are embroiled in different levels of off court and off field controversy.

So Jalen Carter, the projected number one player and the draft defensive tackle out of Georgia is by far, I think the best player in college football and should be a top three top five pick.

But he's sliding in part because he was arrested in connection with the death of his teammate and the death of a staffer at Georgia.

They were allegedly street racing and accident happened and the two people died. Jalen Carter was pulled out of the combine to go be arrested in connection with all that stuff. And then he had a pro day in which he was out of shape.

And couldn't perform on the field and people are making bunch of connections about that. Then we also have obviously the Brandon Miller situation where he's affiliated with the murder of a woman because he was called to bring allegedly to bring the weapon, the murder weapon.

And he's still playing his team is really good. They knocked out my terps in the tournament. And he's really good. Despite the fact that he played really poorly in the first round. I think he missed all of his shots in the first game.

And then Jomerang has been in the news for the last several weeks. And I feel like I don't have to brief you all on what's going on with Jomerang. But as he's coming back tonight. I guess it's last night when you guys will be listening to it. He'll be back on the court for his first game back.

So I think from my perspective, the thing that jumps out to me is being unsure how to handle all of these things in the media. And there's the gap between what it means to be in the media and what it means to just be a fan or a person is shrinking because obviously social media and there's a need for everyone to feel like they have to make a statement or have an opinion.

And I as someone who kind of does like I'm expected to talk about these things and I'm expected to have an opinion and I find myself one of the things that I try to work on. I need to do better with is being honest about my opinion and not so much about what I expect.

Or what people expect me to say about things and I don't feel great about how I initially handle the brand and Miller thing because I think like jump to conclusions.

And somebody dead in my response is get him off the floor. I'm not sure that he needs to be on the floor, but the more details that come out.

It doesn't seem like he needs to be off the court and just coming on TV or on a podcast and saying I don't know less weight is something that I need to get better at doing and I didn't I didn't really do.

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