GUYS, WE'RE GOING IN CIRCLES HERE: I have had a lot of cases involving a lot of lawyers who schedule a lot of conference calls to say a lot of the same dumb stuff over and over. So this YouTube conference call cracked me up. Keep the volume down, unless your office is really open about ball-licking.

TAKE OUR FORTUNE (TAKE A TURN), TAKE OUR FORTUNE: The Times pretty accurately describes the manic Vegas sports book scene during The Tournament: "When the final buzzer sounded, the Rams had lost by 5 points, covering the spread and sending the crowd into a frenzy. Grown men hugged. An air horn sounded. A disheveled young man in mesh shorts and a faded 'Borat' T-shirt jumped onto a table and yelled, 'Thank you, Jesus!'"

Last Saturday morning at Mandalay Bay, the Ohio State fans went from (a) freaking out about whether they could come back from a mammoth deficit to beat Xavier to (b) joy at the game-trying three in regulation to (c) greed towards the end at overtime, with victory itself finally in hand, with understandably intense fan interest from everyone involved as to whether the Buckeyes would extend their seven point lead to cover the eight-point spread. They did, then they didn't thanks to an uncontested Musketeer layup with 12 seconds left, and the shouts of foul him! as a Buckeye dribbled out the remaining clock with a seven-point lead were deafening. And entertaining. (I had no money on the game.)

A LEAGUE WITH THROWN BASEBALLS: So, I kinda dropped the [laced spheroid] in setting up a rotisserie league for us, but it's not too late. I've created a free ML universe, roto-style 4x4 league on ESPN, and hopefully we can live-draft this Thursday night (against Grey's), because then, afterwards, we run into all sorts of trouble with people's weekend plans, Passover travel, etc. And they've gotten rid of the multi-list draft format, so it really behooves us to find a way to do this live.

So please email me at throwingthingsblog - a t - hotmail dot com if you're interested, and I can send you the official invite. And post here to encourage others.

TIGERS WAITING TO BE TAMED: You wouldn't think that Coldplay's "Clocks" would still be good if the piano in the chorus were replaced by Cuban horns and acoustic guitars. But somehow, it works.

A WOUND THAT MAY HARM NOT JUST THE COURT, BUT THE NATION: Justice Stephen Breyer appears on NPR's Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! this weekend. Spoilers here.

NO WORD ON IF HE ORDERED SUNTORY: The high point of tonight's 85th Annual New York Intellectual Property Lawyers Association Dinner (colloquially known as "The Patent Prom") was not the hordes of drunken attorneys in the Waldorf=Astoria (yes, that's correct), the chance to do the black tie thing, or the nice bottle of red shared at the table. No, it was spying (and then respectfully not bothering) Bill Murray sitting at the old oak bar at the Bull and Bear as a group of us had pre-dinner cocktails.

Joe Sixpack | The Hall of Foam: The 20 bartenders I wish could pour for me | Daily News | 03/23/2007

WHEN LIQUOR IN A MUG CAN WARM YOU LIKE A HUG: The Philadelphia Daily News' "Joe Sixpack" lists his twenty favorite fictional bartenders. How about Adriana La Cerva? Madam Rosmerta?