It’s not baseball season yet.
An item in the current issue of Sports Illustrated begs for a second-look at the subject of college basketball.
In an essay about his book When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, Seth Davis, also a featured commentator on CBS’ college basketball coverage during the season and the tournament, writes [...]

Editor’s Note: A new FierceAndNerdy.com cross-post.
With Gary’s analysis (Part 1 & Part 2) of who is the greatest all-time golfer, Tiger or Jack, on my mind and with both the men’s and women’s college basketball championships having just been decided, I figured I’d raise the question: which is the greatest NCAA women’s basketball team of [...]

It’s official, is there a sports team in the country that puts their fans through more tribulation than the Gonzaga University basketball team?
Gonzaga fans felt their loyalty tested again with another embarrassing exit from the NCAA tournament, in the latest instance in a history of high-profile losses featuring undisciplined play.
Gonzaga’s Friday night matchup against North [...]

BREAKING THE RACKET–I MEAN BRACKET—NO! I MEAN WHAT A RACKET!
I was so depressed at my dismal showing in my first round bracket; I decided to wait until Sweet Sixteen weekend to write a follow-up column.
Recovering nicely, I bracketed 14 of the Sweet 16. For my Elite Eight, I have Pitt, Villanova, North [...]

Anyone recall what I said a month ago about Villanova and Big East Dominance? Sheesh! The ACC is supposed to be the second-best conference and the Wildcats manhandled the Blue Devils. When I wrote that article in February, ‘Nova was dominating Syracuse, but in the last month the Orange have become dramatically [...]

You’re probably thinking, “Wow, this site was suprisingly quiet during the first two rounds of the tournament.”
And you’d be right.  We were.
One reason is that I’ve been making some updates to the design, organization and features of the site.  Some subtle, some slightly larger.  It’s tough to write and design at the same time.
The second [...]

Last year, a hot chick I know won 1500.00 in her NCAA Basketball tournament office pool. Guys who lost in earlier rounds were more pissed than a Fenway Park urinal. Their anger didn’t stem from her gender—although that did rankle their ego—but from her methodology, which went something like this:
“Bruins? I love [...]

I’m watching the NCAA Tournament Selection Show and listening to Mike Slive (selection committee chairman and Southeastern Conference commissioner) dance around the dwindling number of non-power conference at-large bids handed out is disgusting.  Only four such bids were given out this year; considering that Arizona made it in, San Diego State, Creighton and particularly Saint [...]

Editor’s Note: Another FierceAndNerdy.com cross-post.
March Madness is finally here!
What’s that, say you? It’s not March Madness yet! There are no brackets, no upsets, no buzzer-beaters.
Ah, but there are. Conference Tournament Week is here. And each year, the conference tournaments expand more and more both in excitement and importance, having reached that [...]

There is one basketball team in the country so thoroughly head and shoulders above its competition this season that one must already start to wonder whether if it’s even remotely conceivable that they will NOT win the title.
No, I’m not talking about the Los Angeles Lakers, who once again established themselves as the team to [...]