Do you suffer from a broken bracket picker?

The Monday after the first frantic weekend of the NCAA Tournament has arrived. Filling out your bracket last week you envisioned a puffed-out chest as you boasted about how brilliant your picks were. Oh, you’d brag at work for sure, each and every time the subject of the tournament came up. You’d quickly volunteer how…

And the NCAA Bracket answer is yes, most definitely

Here’s a special entering-round-two edition of “I can’t believe anybody searched this.” Somebody googled this term today and ended up on one of my increasing number of NCAA Tournament bracket posts. The curious soul wondered enough to type in and click somewhere: “Is it cheating to change my bracket.” Now, I could say: It depends…

Another bracket buster in today’s game one

There will be no game three between Syracuse and Duke this year. Mercer made sure of that. Yes, it is a big upset, a No. 14 seed ousting a No. 3 seed. But Syracuse fans likely aren’t upset about it all. Speaking about brackets, I know stand at 11 games right out of 17. My…

Syracuse fans still stew about that call for Duke

Yes, Syracuse basketball fans still love making T-shirt statements. At my bowling league last night, orange shirts were aplenty. After all, the hometown team won yesterday afternoon in the NCAA Tournament, easily topping Western Michigan. I spotted a new slogan on the shirt worn by a great bowler on the squad against us. Jeff Williams’…

And after game one, my bracket isn’t perfect anymore

Everybody who picked Dayton to beat Ohio State in the first game of the NCAA Tournament right now raise your hands. Anybody outside of the Flyers’ home Ohio city? I didn’t have the game right. I had Ohio State. And, I post this to prove how smart I was not to bother entering Warren Buffett’s…

Bracket games start today, for fun and a billion bucks

Are you hot to win that billion bucks from Warren Buffett? That’s the prize offered in the NCAA Bracket Challenge put out by the union of Yahoo and Quicken Loans. The games for the field of 64 start a little after noon EDT today. If you haven’t filled them in at the link above already,…

Syracuse gets ready to experience the ACC Tournament

Folks around Syracuse have grown quite comfortable with their Orange’s role in the Big East Tournament. The march down to Madison Square Garden was always something to talk about in Central New York. Syracuse was a charter member in 1979. The rivalries with Georgetown, Villanova and Connecticut seemed to crank up even higher during the…

Breaking up is hard to do

. The Maryland fans in Comcast Center Sunday afternoon were prepared to witness something special during the Terrapins’ final regular season basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The students carried signs that trumpeted “61 Years.” That’s the amount of time Maryland has played against the Dukes and North Carolinas of the sporting world as…

Spring training makes me feel warm

Click, click, click, stop. Sigh. They are playing baseball in Florida. A weekday surf through the sports channels leads me happily to a spring training game for my New York Mets, against the Houston Astros. The Mets are leading 4-0. It’s the fourth inning, and many of the players have names that may become household…