Everyone Hates Duke

If you were one of the 50,000+ that read yesterday’s post on the NCAA committee flip-flopping Kansas and Duke’s brackets (to Duke’s benefit), you know that I’ve already asked (in writing) how the NCAA, while working under the assumption that the entire country believes there to be a Duke bias, can give the third-overall #1 [...]

Stuff I Read and Liked

“The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,”by Hunter S. Thompson (from Scanlan’s Monthly), 1970. “The next day was heavy. With only thirty hours until post time I had no press credentials and–according to the sports editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal–no hope at all of getting any. Worse, I needed two sets: one for myself and [...]

Unbelievable

Generally speaking, there are two types of champions.  The first is the sexier of the two, the juggernaut variety.  These are the champions that either a) make blowouts fun to watch (see ’96 Kentucky or ’08 UNC) or b) make the sport completely unwatchable (see the latest version of Geno Auriemma’s UConn Huskies).  There have [...]

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