FriendFeed: Fantastic news: After going radio-silent Saturday because tourney sponsor AT&T couldn’t handle the data congestion in Sports Bubble Stadium, @midmajority got a media Wi-Fi password and will be live-tweeting tonight’s game from inside the Heart of Darkness. YES!! #midswin
FriendFeed: Nearly 30,000 attend free Butler shootaround at Sports Bubble (a.k.a Lucas Oil) Stadium
Twitter: #fate #fate #fate RT @midmajority This is @ballybasketball, reporting live from inside Sports Bubble Stadium. http://twitpic.com/1cn9ty
Twitter: RT @ESPN_Others: International Bowl canceled: http://bit.ly/aYoUtv. I knew this would start happening. Sports Bubble’s leaking. @midmajority
Twitter: Season 6 of @midmajority will end at Sports Bubble Stadium, with Butler in the Final Four. You can’t make this stuff up. http://bit.ly/zBqDV
The NCAA’s new president, the University of Washington’s Mark Emmert, said eighteen months ago that he thinks a college football playoff is… This according to a Seattle Times column by Bud Withers: Here’s a wild guess. When Emmert hangs ’em up as NCAA president — in five years, in a decade — we might remember him as the guy who… Read more »
I’ve made clear my opinion, in the face of some dissent, that, unless done right (which it won’t be), expansion of the NCAA Tournament to a 96-team field is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, wolf-face crazy idea that would reward mediocrity, squelch tournament magic, and generally destroy the greatest sporting event ever created. But, well, okay, did I… Read more »
Live-tweeting below. You can join in by clicking “Make a comment” at the top of the window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 14115@scribblelive.com. [Live window removed; full transcript after the jump.] Folks, this isn’t just a basketball game. It isn’t just a title game. It isn’t just the first game in my entire life that I’ve had… Read more »
[Originally posted around noon Monday; bumped to top. -ed.] I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have any serious emotional investment in Butler. I don’t claim any “ownership” of this team or its tournament run. Like the sidebar at right says, I’m simply on the Butler bandwagon. When I went out to the grocery store after Saturday’s game,… Read more »
My ability to live-tweet during Saturday’s games will, I suspect, be considerably limited, for toddler-related reasons. Nevertheless, I will once again be confining my tweets, and any comments thereon, to the window below. In addition, tweets (including retweets) from Kyle Whelliston, Andy Glockner, Pat Forde and Seth Davis and Mark Schlabach, and Butler student Sarah Black, will also appear automatically… Read more »