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Our Look At An Eventful Weekend

Post author By Trevor
Post date March 20, 2007
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By Trevor Freeman

Treeemendous Saturday. I know there is a God and that he loves us when he provides a weekend like this past one. Is there a more underrated happening than when St. Patrick’s Day and the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament link up? Barrooms filled with people rallying behind a team like Xavier as they try to knock off Ohio State. Loud roars each time a big shot puts a game into overtime. Maybe this year I did not get the full eight hour St. Patty’s experience, but the afternoon I spent barhopping reminded me of why this day is New York’s version of Mardi Gras.

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You are about to bet on March Madness. Cancel or Allow?

Post author By Vin
Post date March 18, 2007
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CANCEL! CANCEL! CANCEL! I’m not stupid enough to actually bet cash on the tournament since I’m not up on my college bball this year (aside from throwing $50 away on office pools) but I am part of a contest from nbx.com called Battle of the Blogs. Instead of a bracket, they do a contest where you start with 100,000 points and you can bet on each game. Good thing it’s not real cash or I’d be selling blood and sperm right now.

I waded slowly into the betting pool, putting down 100 or 500 points on BC over Texas Tech, Louisville over Standford, Michigan State over Marquette, and various other games. Amazingly I went 11-3-1 to begin the contest. However, from Friday to Sunday, it seemed that college basketball was fixed. Against me specifically. I dropped 16 straight bets. 16. You could flip a coin and not do anywhere near as bad.

Tags College Basketball, commercials, march madness, marketing, ncaa

MLB General

MLB 2007: National League Standings Predicted Much Sooner Than Necessary

Post author By yongi
Post date March 17, 2007
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I already told you what I saw in the crystal ball for the American League in 2007. Now it’s time to talk about what may transpire on the senior circuit. Specifically, will pigs fly in the year of the boar?

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MLB General

MLB 2007: American League Standings Predicted Far Too Early

Post author By yongi
Post date March 17, 2007
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Tea leaves. The I Ching. Extispicy. PECOTA. You name it, I’ve looked at it in my utterly insane efforts to predict the outcome of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, beginning even before pitchers and catchers reported to camp. Why on earth am I doing this? The answer, in a nutshell, is simply because I can. Do I have any hope that my predictions will turn out to be true? Not really. Still, I might be on to something here. Or, at the very least, it gives us a place to start talking about the upcoming season.

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College Basketball

Ten Predictions for March Madness

Post author By Jackson Govatos
Post date March 17, 2007
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The most entertaining sports weekend of the year is heading our way. Sixty four teams will be whittled down to 16 in a crazy four-day rush of non-stop college basketball. While every person worth knowing has already filled out a bracket, here are ten March Madness predictions anyway.

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College Basketball

The Madness That is March

Post author By JDWC
Post date March 16, 2007
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Ahh, yes, it’s finally time. March: the most exciting month of the year. What could be greater than Spring Training, the final stretches of the NBA and NHL regular seasons, and my sister’s birthday all wrapped into one month?! Just kidding, it’s all about NCAA hoops during March.

March Madness is by far the most exciting time of year for sports. Sure, you’ve got the Super Bowl in January or February which is always exciting (unless Rex Grossman or Rich Gannon is quarterbacking one of the teams), and the World Series in the fall. But nothing, NOTHING compares to March Madness. From filling out brackets to Joakim Noah’s terrible dances, everything about the tournament is entertaining.

By no means am I a college basketball buff, but I know enough to be competitive in my bracket pools, and somehow I always get a fair share of my upsets right. So, while this isn’t a guide to base your picks on (you slackers who haven’t already filled one out…), but rather an overview of my foolish picks. So here goes nothing…

MLB General

MLB Power Rankings Preview for 2007

Post author By Garrett Rudolph
Post date March 14, 2007
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Spring is here and that means one thing for certain. It’s raining cats and dogs in Seattle. But, with only slightly less certainty it also means that the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues are in full swing and baseball season is rapidly approaching.

Most of us have spent the entire weekend scouring over our NCAA tournament brackets, looking for that underdog who will catapult us to the top of our office pool, but with all the attention paid to college basketball, it’s easy to forget that as soon as the madness is over, it will be time for baseball. So, now seems like the perfect time to talk preseason Power Rankings, because by the end of this week my vocabulary will be reduced to phrases like bracket buster and buzzer beater; I will devote all the room in my head to memorizing the seedings of all 64 teams and who they’ll play next if they win, and the only adjective that will hold any meaning will be, “It’s awesome, baby!”

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All Other Sports

The Final Furlong

A car crash at 40 MPH can cause serious injury, or even be fatal. When L. C. Tornado broke down last week, it was a grim reminder of the gruesome side of Horseracing.

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NHL General

March 13- 2007 NHL Power Rankings

Post author By matt Jordan
Post date March 13, 2007
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The Preds and Sabres once again trade the top spot, while the Rangers were the big winners this week in the spot jump. They’re one place behind the Islanders and their crybaby coach. Meanwhile, the pitty has to go to the Flyers, for still being behind teams like the Kings and Oilers who are showing no heart down the stretch. Where did your team finish this week?

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College Basketball

The March Madness Roadmap

By David J. Cohen

It’s the greatest journey in all of sports. It’s a time when George Mason’s can be made and Duke’s can be broken. A time when buzzer-beaters become cooler talk. A time when that sure-fire team leaves you scratching your head as the secretary wins the office pool for the 10th year in a row.

March Madness is here. It’s a long journey, so you’ll need a good map. I’ll be your guide for what lies ahead.

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