Details, details

Bob Ryan, in today's ode to large college basketball players, manages to get the final four matchups wrong. And not in passing. He organizes a large section of his piece around a face-off that isn't happening.

Now, if you're a fan of the genre, boy, do we have a game for you. Make sure you tune in at 6:07 tonight, when contemporary college basketball's two best Certified Wide-Bodies -- one you probably know and one you might not be as familiar with -- will be playing each other.

LSU will feature sophomore Glen ''Big Baby" Davis, who stands 6-9 and whose own press guide lists him at 310. This, we are told, is down some 40 pounds from high school, where he was -- get ready -- a running back. Davis is a scary force who is almost criminally graceful for his size. He executed an up-and-under move to split two Texas defenders last week that would have made Kevin McHale proud. Then he stepped out and nailed a big three. Outrageous.

But George Mason has a CWB of its own. Jai Lewis is a 6-7 senior listed at 275. He is a hunk of young manhood, and it might take 35 seconds to run around one of his picks. This game might be the first time all season he won't necessarily be the most intimidating player on the floor. The idea of an occasional low-post joust featuring Big Baby and Just Plain Big Jai is an intriguing thought.

Do papers employ fact-checkers or editors any more? Does Bob bother to read and check his own work once he's done? There has been a solid week of non-stop hype around these two games and Ryan, as the Globe's primarily hoops reporter, has had nothing to do for 7 days but think about these games. Expecting him and the Globe to keep track of which team is playing which in the Final Four would seem to me a pretty easy bar to get over.

Perhaps its the rest of us that are fools for working for a living.