1. Dow Down: The Dow Jones is poised to take a 700-point drop at the start of trading this morning as fears of the coronavirus and Bernie Sanders yada yada yada take hold. If you didn’t sell last week, you might as well hold. “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.”

Ironically, on this morning Warren Buffet is appearing though the entire show on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Buffet said he would have no problem supporting Mike Bloomberg for president.

1. Feel The Bern: A huge weekend for Russia, as Bernie Sanders wins the Nevada primary and the Miracle On Ice teams shows up at a Trump rally in Las Vegas wearing MAGA hats. By the way, did you hear Bill Walton scold Dave Pasch on Thursday night in Tempe when Pasch referred to Las Vegas as “Vegas?” Walton: “Would you say ‘Rouge?’ ‘Angeles?’ ‘Francisco?’ ‘Alto?’ Pasch, defeatedly: “You made your point.”
2. Gravity Always Wins (Rule No. 1): Self-proclaimed flat-Earther Mad Mike launches himself in a homemade rocket outside of Barstow, Calif., with the hopes of reaching 5,000 feet in altitude. The space test goes awry and Mike dies. Possibly the last thing he realized from the apex of his flight was that his home planet seemed curved at the horizons.
3. Nicole Dates Dems: A brilliant idea by @NicoleNajafi. Discover it for yourself below. Read the entire thread.

5. Rocked Chalk: The No. 1, 2 and 4 teams in the nation—Baylor, Gonzaga and San Diego State—all lost on Saturday. Entering the day the Bears were 23-1, the Zags 26-1 and the Aztecs 26-0. So the trio combined for more losses in one 12-hour stretch (3) than they had in the entire season previous to that point. I think I saw an item that said that never before had three teams all of which had 19-game win streaks or greater all lost on the same day.

No. 3 Kansas, by the way, won Saturday. The Jayhawks narrowly edged the Bears in Waco. That’s the second time College GameDay has visited Baylor this academic year and both time the Bears lost to the perennial Big 12 leviathan in that sport.

The NCAA tournament is wide open this year. Wiiiiiiide. And whether you think that’s a good or a bad thing is up to you. But it’s wide open. Oh, and Kansas 7’0″ senior Udoka Azubuike looks like a reincarnated Zion Williamson in the paint, just six inches taller. Keep an eye on him.

What I Saw (And Liked)

1. After The Thin Man: Sequel to the 1934 classic featuring the detective duo of Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Jimmy Stewart playing against type, perhaps for the only time in his career, as the villain.
2. My Man Godfrey: William Powell again, as the titular butler who will not only save the rich but also the poor. A Depression Era fable disguised as a screwball comedy.
3. Petrified Forest: A roadhouse out west, a hostage drama and Humphrey Bogart, in his first leading role, as the bad guy.

Need To See

1. Modern Times: The last Charlie Chaplin classic, a mostly silent film.
2. Swing Time: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and lots of tapping.
3. The Great Ziegfeld: Best Picture winner. Stars William Powell and Myrna Loy again as husband and wife. They both had a very good year.
4. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town: Sort of a Crocodile Dundee tale, except he’s Gary Cooper and he’s from Vermont.
5. Sabotage: Early Hitchcock. Possible inspiration for a Beastie Boys song.

This, first of all, we will never forget…

Then this, from a few nights ago, we’d kinda like to…

The MAGA hats at a Donald Trump campaign rally are not patriotic, but partisan. Decidedly so. Let’s not kid ourselves. Most of these players, I assume, would proudly be wearing these hats anyway. That’s why they don’t think of the gesture as political.

As someone else wrote and succinctly summed up the moment, “It looks as if the Russians were playing the long game.”

Forty years long, but yes.

The fifth season of a surprisingly fantastic TV spinoff, Better Call Saul, premieres tomorrow evening. There were moments during that first season that it felt as if the show was trying to figure itself out, but ultimately it has never skidded too far off course.

I wanted to return to this scene from the end of Season 1, one of those moments when you the viewer have the epiphany, not unlike Jimmy McGill, that you’ve been viewing the show through a skewed prism the entire time. Before we go further, the acting in this scene is just phenomenal, both by Bob Odenkirk (Jimmy McGill) and Michael McKean (big brother Chuck). I had to piece these two YouTube videos together to catch most of the scene and even then I’m unable to show you the :30 or so before it begins, where Jimmy is on the couch and pretending to be grateful to Chuck as Chuck pretends to be empathetic to Jimmy’s plight.

Of course, Jimmy has already figured out that it was Chuck who stabbed in the back, not Howard Hamlin. And Chuck of course knows it is he who has always put the kibosh on Jimmy working at HHM, even though he always behaves as if Howard is the heavy.

If you could see the clip :30 or so prior to the above, there’s this wonderful moment where Jimmy, in that raspy, vulnerable voice, acts as if he’s grateful for all that Chuck has tried to do for him (“Gee, thanks, Chuck”). But he already knows that he’s about to destroy his highly regarded, brilliant older brother because Jimmy has the truth on his side. Who’s the good lawyer?

This second clip gets the end of the scene, where Chuck unleashes his famous line: “Slippin’ Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun.”

This rhetorical tussle between these two will act as a precursor to a much more impactful one at the end of Season 3, of course. Jimmy will win that sparring match, too (the great part about this scene, if you clicked on it, is that Chuck is right about everything, except the electrical current disease; but who would believe him?).

What I also love about this scene is that it delivers a secondary epiphany: Howard Hamlin may be well-coiffed and well-dressed, too handsome and polished for words but, and this is big, he’s not the ginormous douchebag we all though he was. He was just following orders.

That scene an episode earlier, I believe, that opens the show in which Howard enters the mail room and, behind a closed glass door so that we, the viewer, cannot hear what’s being said but can infer that Howard is informing Jimmy that he won’t be offered a job as a lawyer at HHM? That’s not Howard’s doing, that’s Chuck’s. Howard’s just delivering the news so that Chuck won’t look like an ogre. That scene in the conference room where Howard tells Jimmy he can’t have an office at HHM even after he delivered the RICO case to them on a silver platter? Again, that’s Howard doing Chuck’s dirty work.

So as Jimmy’s learning the truth about his brother’s feelings for him, we are also learning that Howard is not quite the pr*ck we thought he was. One of the better scenes in the history of a tremendous show.

I think the universe is trying to tell us something…

And…

If the universe is not trying to warn us, Bank Of America seems to be…

The top-ranked team in college hoops? The Baylor Bears.