No Hollywood ending at NCAA title game...

The movie the Hoosiers was better. Gene Hackman is no Jim Calhoun, of course, and I didn't see Barbara Hershey spring to her feet and cheer as the final seconds ticked away in the NCAA title game last night, won by the UConn Huskies, 53-41,over the Butler Bulldogs. No dramatic moments to speak of in this finale. Heck, our own Arizona Wildcats could have, and did, script a movie-like performance in its down-to-the-wire loss to the Huskies over a week ago, but hats off to UConn -- the lone survivor of March Madness, 2011. As for Hackman and Hershey, well us old time movie buffs grew up watching Hackman perform. From the tough-as-nails basketball coach in Hoosiers, to "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection, to the sheriff in Unforgiven...a five-time Academy Award nominee...a fabulous actor, Hackman can carry a movie from start to finish. If you love movies, you'll definitely get your money's worth if Hackman is starring in it. Hershey, on the other hand, changes faces constantly, in my opinion, and is one of those movie stars you need a second look at and say to yourself, "Is that the girl...from the movie?" Hershey was the bad girl that shoots Robert Redford in The Natural. She portrayed Chuck Yeager's wife in The Right Stuff, Bette Midler's girlfriend in Beaches...and the list goes on...and more recently, the talented actress portrayed the overbearing mother in Black Swan. Here I go again, mixing sports and movies, together. It's time for another cup of coffee! By the way, Hackman is 81 and Hershey is 63, this is 2011 and UConn's Kemba Walker is 20 years old. Now you know how my mind works!