Last Tuesday I brought to everyone's attention The Top Ten Types of People at the Gym. After some great feedback and comments from readers about some of the types of people I neglected to berate I decided I needed to do something about it.  That's why this Tuesday I am bringing to you Part 2!  If you missed the first one, check it out here.  If you already read it then enjoy the new additions.

The SSS Guy - This of course is the Shit, Shave, Shower Guy.  Every gym has a couple individuals who fulfill their complete set of daily hygiene duties at the gym.  Added to those three duties they may even bring their toothbrush for a fresh cleaning and worse off start clipping their toenails while sitting in the aisle way.  I'm all for good hygiene, but there is the time and place to get some of the things done and the gym isn't the place for it.

Championship week is here and for the first time in awhile there's no excitement for it.  We've reached the point in March where the greatest four weeks of sports are about to begin and nobody cares.  I see it differently.

College basketball has had a down year.  The caliber of teams hasn't been as good. There are no real dominate teams. Everyone seems beatable. All these factors will make the conference tournaments that much better.

I think people are missing out on why college basketball is so special. There aren't any other sports that have meaningful conference tournaments like college basketball has. Where else will you ever find a tournament before the tournament that could decide the fate of so many teams and whether or not they make it into the playoffs?  No where.

That's why these tournaments that have begun and will continue through Sunday are so special, because there is so much riding on it. It's not just about the teams involved in each conference, but the bubble teams looking in hoping a spot doesn't get popped, and they always do. College basketball has been down this year, but it's about to pick back up. The Big East tournament is always amazing. Something about the aura of Madison Square Garden just brings out the best in these conference rivals.

I don't think I have to remind anyone about Syracuse/UConn last year.

We have potential for big matchups like a Duke versus Maryland, Kansas versus Kansas State and Syracuse versus Villanova, but we know from years past that the best matchups are the ones we don't see coming.

Another thing I hope I never see comes is the expansion of the 65 team field for March Madness. I could talk for awhile about how it dilutes the field or makes it less meaningful to make it to the big dance, but what it really is going to do is take away from Championship Week.

If the field was expanded to 96 teams then teams like UConn, Illinois, Rhode Island, Memphis, Dayton, Washington, and Ole Miss would not have to be worrying about making it. What makes the 65 team field so great is that it is still difficult to make it. You can have 20 wins in a power conference and still not get in.

I don't want 96 teams. I don't want to debate about how every single team from the Big East should make the tournament and I don't want to see North Carolina playing for their life in the ACC tournament hoping they grab a 15th seed in the NCAA's so they could go up against a 9th seed.

I love how college basketball is right now. I love the 65 team field, I love the play-in game, and of course I love all of March Madness. What's missed though is that the conference tournaments are really what will set the scene for next week's playoff games.

There's nothing like March Madness in any other sport and there's nothing like the conference tournaments that we are thankfully graced with every year in college basketball. Let's just sit back and enjoy them for what they are; a glimpse of what March Madness will be like.

I just hope we don't increase March Madness because then the conference tournaments would disappear.

Everyone has a superstition or two. Whether it's wearing a specific tie to a job interview or growing a playoff beard to coincide with your team growing one, superstitions are a part of our lives.

Why do we do have them though? What makes us want to repeat a task or have some sort of special clothing or item that we need to make us feel like everything is going to be alright?

Sports fans might be some of the most superstitious people. We have to wear our team's jersey; we can't bet on our team; we need to be eating the same food at the same time at the same place with the same people every single week, just to feel like our team is going to win.

Basically a superstition is a way for us to find comfort. Every big game that our team faces brings us nervousness; superstitions help shield it. They just help to alleviate some of the problems going on and make us think that we can help our teams in a positive way.

We've all had the feeling at one time or another where we felt we were the cause for a miscue. Someone said something right before a play or we forgot to wear our lucky shirt. Finding blame is much easier to place on ourselves then to place on our teams.

Even announcers believe in superstitions. How many basketball games have you seen where the announcer talks about how great a free throw shooter the guy on the line is and then he misses one? They always take the blame and say they jinxed him.

I have plenty of minor superstitions. My worst superstition however is for my favorite team in all of sports; Duke Blue Devils basketball. Every game that Duke has I have to wear the same color shorts that they are wearing. I have about eight pairs of Duke shorts because of this and since Duke keeps changing their jerseys it becomes a task just to keep my wardrobe up-to-date. I don't know why I do it. It's not like I think I'm part of the team, I just think I'm helping the team by doing so. I also have to change the channel for a minute or two if they start to lose. Most people have done that a time here or there thinking the outcome will change if they're not watching.

The real reason sports fan have so many superstitions is that they help us feel like we're in control. There's nothing worse than just having to sit and watch your team fail. In the big moments of the game we want to feel like somehow, in some little way, we were partially responsible. It's our way of being part of the team, to show our support, and have a belief that our teams will always prevail.

Maybe I really can't control the game, but I can control my superstitious behaviors. If we can't believe in superstitions then what can we believe in? I know that statement sounds ridiculous, but superstitious are just our beliefs; transformed into a manner that allows us never to waiver in our thought process.

Everyone says you got to see it to believe it. I say you just got to feel it to believe it.

There are plenty of traditions in the sports world. The problem is that every tradition that exists is copied and used so often that they become commonplace.

Originality has gone out the window; most celebrations or conventions that are used now are basically slightly adjusted ones that have been done before. There are some iterations that work; ones that should stay in the limelight for the time being, but most of them are dull, overused, and unmemorable.

It's time for these traditions, celebrations, or whatever you want to call them to leave the sports world for good. Here's my list of sports traditions that have jumped the shark.

Rushing the Court - I have to begin with the obvious ones. This here is numero uno. This act of celebration has absolutely no meaning anymore. Students just rush the court for any chance possible. We need rush the court rules if we want to resuscitate this one. No team that is in the Top 25 should ever have fans rush the court for any matter. I don't care if it's #25 versus #1. Every week there is a new case of rushing the court. Please stop. The only instance when this should ever happen now is on a buzzer beat against a highly ranked team (Top 5) or a rivalry game. Not those fake rivals either. Read this if you don't know what I'm talking about.

The Gatorade Dump - We needed to get the big two out of the way. Another celebration that has totally jumped the shark for over a decade. This is the most unexciting, unmemorable tradition of them all. Nobody is impressed by it and it's actually annoying to see it now. It almost seems disrespectful; not just to the coaches, but to all the fans of the team that have to watch the television and think, "here we go again!"  It's terrible. Please end it or at least turn Gatorade into something else. Get out beer bongs and guzzle the juice or start doing Gatorade keg stands. I'm sorry, but the Gatorade dump is not G!

The Name-Your-Color-Out - Almost every single venue has tried to pull this one off. Have every fan in the stadium where a single color. Great marketing geniuses. This one invokes fear into the opponents. The only place that it looks good is a night game at Happy Valley. That's a rarity though since there's usually only one night game and it's 110,000 fans. I just don't think 6,000 Princeton students are causing havoc by wearing tiger print t-shirts to the game.

The Wave - A celebration that I have to stand up and sit down repeatedly every ten seconds is not a celebration; it's an annoyance.

NASCAR Turfing - There isn't a celebration that is more ridiculous then having NASCAR drivers do donuts in the grass and burn rubber all over the track after a win. Just think if other sports had the same concept. Baseball players would start digging out home plate, basketball players would cut the nets after every win, and football players would probably just take a piss all over the grass. Nothing says winning like damaging a stadium!

The Hat Trick - This one isn't as bad because they don't happen that often, but do we really need to prolong the game with a bunch of hats on the ice. No other sport celebrates for a hat trick. Baseball fans don't throw anything on the field if a guy hits three home runs, unless that guy is J.D. Drew in an opposing stadium and batteries will fly at him. Give it up.

The First Pitch - It's simple, it's nice, it's quick and easy, but I don't care for it one bit. I don't really need to see a corporate sponsor on the mound representing their baby formula, trying to toss the ball to the catcher. I will say that at least with this one we get some great YouTube clips. See below for my favorite.

Olympic Ceremonies - The most boring and expensive gala in all of sports are Olympic ceremonies. I'd much rather just get straight to the events and not have to watch every single individual involved, who we know about 1% of the faces, walk around in a circle. Actually anything where people are walking together in a set pattern is never a good thing. That brings me to my next one.

Championship Parades - Four teams win a major championship every single year. It's not like a parade is that special. Do we really need fake floats to carry players around through the streets just so they can say, "Thank you fans! This one’s for you!"? They're cool for about the four hours that they occur and then no one can remember them a week later. If you really want to do something for the fans then why not open up the stadium, have everyone come in and listen to a couple speeches, and then let the fans meet the players. This would eliminate all the blocked off streets and would be a much cheaper and nicer ceremony to pull off.

The ESPY's - Last, but not least. I don't even know if this one is really a tradition, but it's a celebration of sports over the past year. The ESPY's started in 1993 and I guess they're entertaining at times. All awards shows have basically jumped the shark though. We don't need a special telecast to decide awards that mean nothing. Especially in sports. On Sportscenter we have daily plays of the day, monthly plays of the monthly, best plays of the first half of a season, and plays of the year. They also break them down by sport and anything else they can to show all the highlights. We also have the Internet where every other blogger puts out their award list. It may not have the same merit, but it put out basically the same nominees. I guess the major difference with the ESPY's then the Grammy's or Oscar's is that at least when an actor or artist wins one of those awards it increases their pay and it's a great resume builder. I don't think Drew Brees is walking into his contract negotiations with his ESPY in hand to show how talented he is. Sports are great on their own and we get to experience them every day. We don't need a made up awards ceremony by ESPN to let us know that.

Every team wants a rival.

Every team and fan wants an opponent that instills a respected hatred.  That's what a rivalry comes down to, hate and respect.

The problem with some people in the sports world is that rivalries are trying to be pushed upon us instead of letting them form.  Rivalries aren't just created from annually scheduled games between two opponents; they aren't set in stone after one close affair.  Rivalries take years to form and a lifetime to be dismantled.  Once they are there, they can almost never be taken away.

Tonight Duke squares off against Maryland at the Comcast Center in College Park, MD in a match up that some would like to describe as a rivalry.

Sorry Maryland.  You are not our rival.

I'm a die hard Duke fan.  A few of you will love me for it, others may despise me because of it.  No matter how many close games we have with Maryland (there hasn't been that many lately) or how many times we play them each year, they will never be our rival.  Only UNC can take that name plate.

Even with UNC having a down year, Duke fans still respect UNC and are nervous every time we have to play them.  The game still means more then any regular season game on the schedule.  Losing means grief, winning means euphoria.  That's what a rivalry is all about.

Basketball seems to form rivalries much easier then football does.  Teams play multiple times every year and conference tournaments provide some great moments that really catapult some rivalries into existence.

College football is much different.  What's the last great new rivalry in college football?  Penn State/Ohio State maybe?   I can't really think of any others.

The Big Ten is looking to expand with a twelfth team to hopefully create two divisions and a conference championship game.  I'm telling you right now, whomever that new team is, will be hyped up by the media and a rivalry attempt will try to be instilled immediately.  There will be story lines created, history and traditions will be mentioned, and anything else that can be used to materialize the rivalry will be used.  There will be no rivalry though.

Lets stop trying to create rivalries for every team at every occasion possible and turn big games into something they aren't.  Rivalries are special for a reason, lets keep it that way.

So sorry Maryland, you can't manufacture a rivalry with us.  You can however compete in a big time conference match up that still has meaning, just not the meaning you're looking for. Maybe someday in twenty years or so we will think differently.

I highly doubt it though.