My favorite columnist and probably my favorite author ever has sold his soul for the weekend and blogged for the Worldwide Leader.com throughout this weekend’s final four.

Prior to yesterday’s game, Chuck Kloster pontificated that he prefers to watch a game when he doesn’t have an inherent rooting interest. That way, he argues, you can decide who you want to win the game as the action unfolds in real time.

Klosterman wonders how someone decides who to root for, if they don’t have a particular rooting interest in either team.

Geography? This argument didn’t seem particularly compelling to me nor does it make any sense to Klosterman. A lot of the time I feel like if you have a local team in a championship game or playoff situation and that team isn’t yours, you know enough obnoxious fans and are so over-saturated with media coverage that you want that team to get completely obliterated and maybe even see a star player lose a limb.

What about inter-conference loyalty? This argument rang true to me. In this year’s BCS championship, I found myself rooting for Ohio State because I’m an IU graduate and I supported my Big Ten brethren, as I did last night. Klosterman argues that this arguments makes little to no sense.

“Now, I can understand how this policy could make sense if one of tonight’s teams were a mid-major, but it strikes me as idiotic when applied to juggernaut conferences like the SEC or the Big Ten. I was recently talking about this with a Penn State graduate. He would argue that the responsibility of someone from Michigan or Indiana is to hate Ohio State all the time, particularly when it’s playing a championship game on national television.”

I find myself time and time again rooting for Big Ten bragging rights (unless it’s Purdue — bunch of Goat Farmers). And I guess what I’m wondering is how do the readers of this blog decide who they want to root for in a game in which they have no inherent interest? And for the record, thinking Joakim Noah looks like a tranny counts as an inherent interest.

Here’s a link to Klosterman’s Final Four blog