Admit it. You didn’t have THIS quartet of teams heading to Houston for this year’s Final Four. OK, maybe you had the University of Connecticut. I actually had them in one of my brackets (not my “sheet of integrity”, mind you), more out of sentiment for the fact that to this point they won me … Read more
Back in the days when I had a little money and friends who would leave their homes, several of us would treck to Las Vegas for the first weekend of March Madness. I was in the middle of my first divorce, and frankly, could have benefitted from bonding of any kind from any gender. The … Read more
There are 32 major college basketball teams that will be competing this week in the respective Sweet Sixteens of the respective men’s and women’s March Madness tournaments. Four schools have teams in both genders’ tourneys. The University of Connecticut: 11-time NCAA women’s championships, plus 4 men’s titles in a 15-year span between 1999-2014. UCLA: 11-time … Read more
Oh, New Jersey. For all the often justified abuse the world often dumps on you, you do do three things exceedingly well. Your jughandles create the oddest way to make left turns anywhere in the United States (for the uninitiated such as I once was, that can have someone driving twenty or miles out of … Read more
For at least the next 72 or so hours, everyone–literally, anyone with a pulse–who has even a shred of interest in sports or money will be answering, even if only in their minds, a burning question. Who will wind up winning the title of college basketball champion? For as anticlimactic as the college regular season … Read more
NOTE: This also appears today on our sister site, www.leblanguage.net Later this afternoon, two major events will occur live, back-to-back, and their results will be played out over national broadcast television. Both will involve hundreds of candidates looking for recognition, with the emotion of waiting to see if they are acknowledged to be covered by … Read more
In a world where increasingly what was no longer is, it was often quite reassuring for me to watch a Syracuse University college basketball game and see a familar, bookish, and consistently competitive face on the sideline. Since even my college days at a smaller school 30 miles northwest of the domed palace that served … Read more
Okay, maybe you can make a contention that a few more intriguing events may be going on this weekend in the sports world, and some even in the same city. You could make an argument for Las Vegas, which will feature a big Devils-Knights hockey game tonight, a Jon Jones-led MMA PPV card tomorrow night … Read more
Two college basketball players, at the opposite end of their potential playing career spectrums, are dominating headlines on the cusp of March. One with a prominent present and a potentially lucrative future.who has become the focus of national debate. The other who more than likely will never be this successful or famous ever again, only … Read more
While the basketball world will be focused on Salt Lake City this weekend and the NBA All-Star game festivities, my eyes, which tend towards looking at where actual games of consequence will be played, will be focused on the college game. With roughly a month left before the 68 March Madness berths are announced, this … Read more