Tag Archive for ‘NCAA tournament’
Final Four Likability
Are your favorite teams out of the tournament and your bracket busted to smithereens? Pat Forde has a likability index that might help you pick a team for which to root. Since Kansas, Louisville, Oklahoma, Syracuse, Maryland, Gonzaga and Western Kentucky have all been eliminated, I’m going to go with this story line: “first appearance […]
Online overkill – Week of March 16
Good, bad, annoying and indifferent, these were the topics that burned a hole in my RSS feed this week. AIG. The best thing about this outrageous story being EVERYWHERE this week were the photos like this one of Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo accompanying blog posts about the insanity of taxpayer-funded bonuses for poorly performing executives. Barack Obama’s NCAA picks. […]
Billy Packer’s heir
With Billy Packer now yelling at the TV from home, you might think that the NCAA Tournament would be free from the scourge of the know-it-all in a network blazer. Tune in on Thursday, though, and you’ll hear Packer’s heir, a color commentator who never misses a chance to point out that he’s the smartest […]