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		Busch recovers Sunday after bad behavior on Saturday By Tom Zulewski March 23, 2009

	It was a marvelous weekend although Kyle Busch went from Jeckell and Hyde. In the nationwide race. On Saturday Busch was to put it mildly a big baby. Final pit stop with 41 laps left the pit crew lets a tire get away outside of the pit box as he leaves which is a no no in the NASCAR rule book. He was kicked back to tail end of the lead lap in 14th and managed to finish sixth and yet was still unhappy. He had a car he thought that would win and you don't blame him for the emotion but it was a little harsh. Busch never got near anybody or to talk to anyone he just parked the car and turned three and hit the pedestrian tunnel and ran away. On Sunday he was the man 378 laps lead out of 530 and he finished what he started and learned his lesson from the dust up he had in the fall in the night race he had against Carl Edwards when Edwards shoved him out of the way. He was good and Matt Kenseth were the only ones that have two wins and the last names Kenseth and Busch have the wins in the first five this year. It's Bristol baby and the way that place was resurfaced you don't have to run the bottom line anymore to be successful. You can actually run the center and even run high and be the man. It's a two groove track for a change and that's good. It made for a good race for them to get the performance by the guy even though traffic got in the way. It was something he handled with absolute poise and that's exactly why he won. With Busch in a race you always expect something for the best to happen for him and when it doesn't woe be to anyone who gets in his way. Busch has been doing this since he was 16 years old and he first got his truck when he was 16. He graduated high school a year early at Durango High in Las Vegas. It ended up when it turned into something pretty special but the sad irony of it all he has a ways to go to catch Kurt Busch big brother. Kurt is two spots ahead of him in second at the moment and any motivation its like nothing like big brother providing it for you. NCAA basketball: Arizona out of the Pac Ten out of UCLA, Cal, Arizona State, that's surprising there the ones who didn't deserve to be there according to the pundits and yet here they are. It helped that they played the 13th seed at Cleveland State who handled Wake Forrest. You take what the dance card tells you to play and you just go out and do what your suppose to do. Dog gone it Arizona did it they have been brilliant in the tournament so far. Former Arizona head coach Lude Olson is the foundation of it all and now that he's retired and at the helm is Herb Sendek the way he's running it right now even though it was a struggle only a 19-12 record far from stellar. Arizona could be a darling although they technically shouldn't be because of who they've been in the past in 25 straight years of tournament appearances. Michigan State are in the dance and I have relatives that are alums and we celebrate when MSU does well but they do not have a picnic coming up next week against Kansas and let's just say it's challenged from a factoid that I found out Michigan State did beat Kansas on January the 10th.This NCAA Tournament thing is a entirely different animal especially if you are playing the National defending champions. My brackets are better than Mr.President's let's put it that way. How Mr.Obama came up with the selections he did with 19-32 right in the first round ouch! Mine was 24-8 in the first round. Last word on the Oakland Police tough day for A's too: Thank you for your service Officers. It was tough enough to do it anywhere but it's extremely tough to do it in a place like Oakland. The way it went down is just completely tragic beyond belief and suspect and gunman Lovelle Mixon feared the Police of going back to jail. It's just wrong, it was just so senseless and so wrong, and they needed something to be remembered by and the way those A's players did it it was a good thing. You don't want to talk about all the depressing stuff but we'll say for the record that item made the front page of our paper in Utah. Nomar the Oakland A: They screamed "Nomar an Oakland A?!" In Boston, "your killing me" Nomar Garciaparra came out of retirement to do it after playing with the Dodgers. The fact that the American League has a DH he can play to at least 40 now. Unrelated note Curt Schilling is hanging them up he announced his retirement on Monday at 42 which is a done deal he has no regrets and he has three World Series rings. God love the guy for battling and love the bloody sock. Tom Zulewksi contributes to Sportstalk radio each week