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Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” of watching low-seeded teams (a.k.a. Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, the tournaments rarely live up to this hype, respectively. True to form,… Read more.
UConn won its 100th game in a row Monday night. … It’s an almost unfathomable achievement, a milestone that belongs right alongside UCLA’s 88-game streak and the New England Patriots winning 18 in a row in 2007; or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Byron Nelson’s 11 consecutive PGA Tour wins. Yet in some corners,… Read more.
Thank God I never bet anything more than my pride on sporting events. And it’s a damn good thing I have so much of it. Because neither my pick for the men’s championship (Ohio State) nor the women’s (Baylor) even made the Final Four. Truth be told, I became even less interested than usual in… Read more.
Is anybody interested in the fact that the UConn women’s team is about to complete a second-consecutive perfect season by winning another NCAA championship tonight? Now just imagine the media hoopla if North Carolina [or any men’s team] had won its championship in such convincing fashion [by defeating its opponents by an average of 33 points]…… Read more.
