CHAMPIONS!

(eagle eyed readers may observe, the young lady is a cheerleader at a UNC Football game. Rather then Basketball. Well nobody’s perfect )

There are very few times. I get a hint of my old life back. Things were not always the way they are now for me. There was a time, when I was Young, and carefree. Well not carefree deeply neurotic. However Xena was on TV and I smoked a lot

There have been some tough times of late off Franklin street.

So I am pleased to see our boys do so well

Let ESPN take up the story:

`` -- ESPN.com provides instant analysis from Monday night's NCAA championship game between Michigan State and North Carolina at Ford Field.

The Tar Heels won their fifth national championship by blasting the Spartans 89-72 in front of a crowd of 72,922, the largest to ever watch an NCAA tournament game.

HOW THE GAME WAS WON: The Tar Heels were a unanimous selection for No. 1 in the preseason ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and were a popular favorite to win the national championship. The Tar Heels looked truly unbeatable twice this season, first when they routed Michigan State 98-63 at Ford Field on Dec. 3 and against the Spartans again on Monday night.

North Carolina simply had too much balance and firepower for the Spartans. Guard Wayne Ellington and forward Danny Green knocked down 3-pointers early in the game, and UNC kept going to forwards Tyler Hansbrough, Deon Thompson and Ed Davis in the paint. UNC led by 21 points at halftime -- the largest lead at the half of a national championship game -- and the Spartans never got closer than 13 points the rest of the way.

TURNING POINT: The Tar Heels won the game early in the first half, and really spent the last 30 minutes trying to protect their sizable lead. Michigan State pulled to within 62-46 with about 12½ minutes to play, and the pro-MSU crowd started to get back into the game. But then Green made a 3-pointer from the right corner to put the Tar Heels back in front by 19. It really seemed like a dagger that took the crowd -- and the Spartans -- out of the game for good.

PLAYER OF THE GAME: You could go with Ellington or point guard Ty Lawson as UNC's biggest performer on Monday night. Ellington scored 19 points and went 3-for-3 on 3-pointers. But Lawson was simply terrific, helping the Tar Heels control the game's tempo from the start.

Lawson, a junior from Clinton, Md., scored a game-high 21 points with six assists and four rebounds. He also set an NCAA championship game record with eight steals. Lawson broke the former steals record of seven, set by Duke's Tommy Amaker against Louisville in 1986 and Oklahoma's Mookie Blaylock against Kansas in 1988. His eight steals also tie the record for any NCAA tournament game.’’

GO TAR HEELS!!!!!