i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

from the winston-salem journal: North Carolina received a first-round bye, so the team was nowhere to be seen yesterday at the St. Pete Times Forum. But photos of center Tyler Hansbrough were a topic of conversation at the arena. Hansbrough, who suffered a broken nose in the Tar Heels' win over Duke on Sunday, left Chapel Hill for the flight to Tampa wearing a Groucho Marx mask. "Everyone was asking what kind of mask he was going to wear," one school official said. "So he said, 'I'm going to wear this one.'"

( IS THERE ANY WAY YOU COULD NOT LOVE THIS KID? I THINK NOT. )

normally i would just post this to sportskitty (note to newcomers: that's my tarheel-basketball-centric sports blog, feel free to read, etc, etc), but i really feel that the whole damn world needs to see that photo. because. hello. 6'9" 235 pound power forward wearing a SUIT, TIE, AND GROUCHO MARX GLASSES. my heart exploded with love a little when i saw that photo.

in other news: just emailed my comps exam back. and now: the master's paper. due one month from today. *flails*