Top 10 Tuesday: All things Irish

10. Bono
Who would save the world if it wasn't for this rock star?

9. Notre Dame
Good school; incredibly over-rated football program. America's team? Yea.. right. The best thing to come from Notre Dame football the past 20 years has been the movie Rudy.

8. Lucky Charms
Frau Farbissina of Austin Powers described them best by saying: "there are these little tiny pieces of marshmallow just stuck right in the cereal. So when the kids eat them they think, 'Oooh this is candy, I'm having fun!'"

7. The Irish Jig Guy
Michael Flatley, also known as Lord of The Dance, became a spectacle in the mid 90s. He became somewhat of a pop culture figure when he was mentioned in an episode of "Friends" as the phenomenon that scared the bejesus out of Chandler because his legs flailed around as if independent from his body.

6. The Departed
Great movie from 2006 that won lots and lots of awards. Set mostly in the south-side of Boston, this film just oozes Irish from every pore.

5. Notable writers
Once again showing off my college education, here's a list of Irish writers to read: Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. Yeats and Beckett won the Noble Prize for their work, while Joyce was thought to have been snubbed of one.


4. Conan O'Brien
You would never guess by watching him on television that this man is a Harvard graduate. That aside, no one on the small screen screams "I'm Irish!" louder than Conan.

3. Guinness Beer
Most likely the official beverage of the Republic of Ireland, where everyday is considered a "lovely day for a Guinness".


2. St Patrick's Day
Never has one holiday been so associated with one color as this day is with green. Wear green or get pinched. Drink green beer. Dye the Chicago River green. I'm sure there is some pure Irish kid in the world who had the misfortune of being born on this day that is named Green.

1. Boston Celtics
17 NBA Championships. That's all that has to be said.

My Projected NCAA Tournament Seeds

No. 1 Seeds:
*North Carolina *Pitt *UConn *Louisville

No. 2 Seeds
*Memphis *Duke *Michigan St. *Oklahoma

No. 3 Seeds
*Missouri *Kansas *Xavier *Syracuse

No. 4 Seeds
*Wake Forest * Washington *Florida St. *Villanova

No. 5 Seeds
*Tennessee *Illinois *Utah *Gonzaga

No. 6 Seeds
*Butler *Oklahoma St *Purdue *Arizona St

No. 7 Seeds
* Clemson *UCLA *Marquette *West Virginia

No. 8 Seeds
*Ohio St *Temple *Texas *BYU

No. 9 Seeds
*Texas A&M *Cal *Boston College * LSU

No. 10 Seeds
*Utah St. *USC *Dayton *Maryland

No. 11 Seeds
*Sienna *Wisconsin *Michigan *Minnesota

No. 12 Seeds
*VCU * Northern Iowa *Mississippi St. *Creighton

No. 13 Seeds
*American *Western Kentucky *Cleveland St *Binghamton

No. 14 Seeds
*Stephen F Austin *North Dakota St *Radford *Akron

No. 15 Seeds
*ETSU * Portland St *Morgan St. *Robert Morris

No. 16 Seeds (5 teams: 2 play in play-in game)
*Morehead St. *Alabama St. * UT – Chatt *Cornell *Cal St. Northridge