SPORTS FOLDEROL

  CBS continues to take a hard-hitting, tell-it-like-it-is look at  March Madness … NOT.  CLARK KELLOGG  … you don’t  expect much. He’s the original  NEVER IS HEARD A  DISCOURAGING WORD  talking head … who will always  have a job because … he’s sooo nice. But  SETH DAVIS  …  you expect more … The subject, on Saturday’s pregame show  was automatic bids … and good, old Clark noted McNeese St.,  champion of the Southland Conference, would not be a  pushover. “Whoever they face is going to be in trouble,” he said  … to which Davis responded: “ WILL WADE ’s back in the  tournament … with everything he’s been through.” … That was  it. Poor Will? Nothing more … like Wade isn’t the same coach  who was caught cheating at LSU after spending three years at  Virginia Commonwealth, where he wasn’t … but did (as  successor  MIKE RHOADES  quickly found out) … VCU fans  should remembe...

  For What It’s Worth (and, remember, it is  only  sports): Take a bow,  CHRIS MOONEY  and  RYAN ODOM . It says here  you should be co-Atlantic 10 coaches of the year … Although we  still question how Mooney uses his big men, the UR boss has taken a  bunch of marginal players (mostly transfers) and turned them into a  successful, fun-to-watch unit … that has performed way beyond all  reasonable expectations … In his first season at VCU, Odom was left  with some talent by former coach  MIKE RHOADES  … but, with  few exceptions, was limited to one-on-one mentality. Add a few  transfers, including one playing for his fourth (or was it fifth?) school  and another who couldn’t fit in with a team-concept stressed at his  previous stop, and there must have been times when Odom wondered  why he left Utah State for Franklin Street … At least, he was left  with a clean program, unlike Rhoades who, ...