We’ve got 183 contestants. Most popular champion picks: Kansas (83), Kentucky (25), Syracuse (22), Duke (12), West Virginia (8), Villanova (5). Most popular first-round upset picks by an 11+ seed: Siena (62) and Cornell (58). Most popular double-digit Sweet 16 Cinderella picks: Utah State (23), UTEP (22), Cornell (19). Most popular Final Four picks below the #2-seed line: Baylor (25),… Read more »
…to enter my 15th annual Men’s NCAA Tournament Pool! UPDATE, 10:25 AM: Time’s up! Let the tourney begin!
Okay, so admittedly, at 2 years and 2 1/2 months old, Loyette isn’t actually a “baby” anymore. But the piece of paper pictured below is her first NCAA bracket: We filled it out over the course of three days, each session starting with great enthusiasm (“Do a racket, Daddy!”), which gradually waned as her attention wandered. Eventually, we’d stop and… Read more »
I’m on break from jury duty, so I have time to remind y’all to enter my FREE men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament pools! Just follow the links below, or in the “My NCAA & NIT pools” box at right. MEN’S POOL: [UPDATE: The polls are closed! Good luck, everyone!] WOMEN’S POOL: Regular Bracket | Mascot Bracket (To clarify about the… Read more »
Harkening back to my point that “none of the political leaders in Washington hold, or care about, the moral high ground when it comes to…procedural arguments,” and “they’re all hypocrites with respect to such arguments,” here’s a bit of perspective about the current “deem-and-pass” kerfuffle: In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David… Read more »
With apologies to Kyle Whelliston, who thinks bracket contests are eeeeeevil, my annual “moneyless” pool tradition continues: all three FREE Living Room Times basketball pools are officially underway. Fill out your brackets now! • NIT Pool: [UPDATE: Polls are now closed!] • Men’s NCAA Pool: [UPDATE: Polls are now closed!] • Women’s NCAA Pool: Regular Bracket | Mascot Bracket Deadline… Read more »
My 15th annual FREE, “moneyless” Living Room Times basketball pools are underway: You can enter the Men’s NCAA Pool now (deadline: Thursday at noon Eastern Time) and also enter the NIT Pool now (deadline: Tuesday at 7pm EST). The Women’s NCAA Pool will start tomorrow evening. (Here is a brief pool history overview.) Meanwhile, I’m extending my pool logo design… Read more »
Here’s my annual Bubble Scoresheet (Word, PDF). If you print it out and check the teams off as they’re announced during the Selection Show, you’ll realize more quickly than other folks when the bubble is officially “tapped out” and no more bids are available. As usual, my “PROBABLY IN” category includes some teams that are generally thought of as “locks,”… Read more »
Oregon Ducks QB Jeremiah Masoli has been suspended by head coach Chip Kelly for the 2010 season following his guilty plea of second degree burglary. Masoli and former Ducks WR Garrett Embry stole two laptops and a guitar from a campus fraternity. Embry had been kicked off the team prior to the theft. Each faces 12 months of probation, 140… Read more »
On Sunday evening, the 15th annual Living Room Times NCAA Pools will get underway. Thanks to the launch of this blog — namesake of the newspaper that originally sponsored the pools from 1996-1999 — the pools’ name will make sense again to casual readers! And, for the first time, the NIT Pool (now in its 6th year) will gain the… Read more »