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Memphis powers past underdog Cal State-Northridge

AP | DOUG TUCKER | Posted 04.19.2009 | Home

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After overcoming heartbreak and tragedy just to get to the NCAA tournament, the Matadors of Cal State-Northridge could not ge...

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Coach K: Obama Should Focus On Economy, Not Brackets

AP | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama spent part of Tuesday making his tournament picks for ESPN, which posted his completed bracket online Wednesday and showed the ...

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Obama Cherry-Picked Swing States In NCAA Bracket: Nate Silver

fivethirtyeight.com | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

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Is President Obama playing favorites with his NCAA bracket? Neither Columbia University nor the University of Chicago have an entry in the Big Dance (...

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NCAA Tournament Scores and Highlights: First Round

Huffington Post | Posted 04.19.2009 | Entertainment

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The HuffPost NCAA Tournament Results page will give you updated tourney scores, schedules, recaps, photos, and video. For each day of action, you will...

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Bill O'Reilly Rips Obama's Final Four Picks: "Concerns About Administration Growing"

The Sportsman's Daily | Posted 04.18.2009 | Comedy

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Fox News TV personality Billl O'Reilly, who knows a thing or two about rage (both populist and personal), lit into the President's picks, calling them "reckless, irresponsible, transparently phony and ill-timed."

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NCAA Results: March Madness Scores, Schedules, Recaps and Video

Huffington Post | Posted 04.18.2009 | Entertainment

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FINAL UPDATE 4/7 1:18AM North Carolina crushed Michigan State 89-72 to become 2009 NCAA champions: There was a team of destiny out there, all right. ...

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25,000 Americans Expected to Lose Mind During March Madness

The Sportsman's Daily | Posted 04.17.2009 | Comedy

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With each year, more and more women enter office pools. Many - men and women alike - are simply ill-equipped to handle the pressure.

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NCAA Brackets - Build a Better Bracket

Network World | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home

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The NCAA basketball tournament is upon us, and technology is now being utilized to provide predictive analysis of potential matchups. Jason Meserve ta...

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Cinderella Teams Get Stuffed This Year

New York Times | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home

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If there's one dominant theme that came out of Selection Sunday it's that the N.C.A.A. tournament is becoming more like the B.C.S. -- an insider's clu...

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2009 NCAA Tournament Schedule and Key Dates

ESPN.com | Posted 04.16.2009 | Home

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Here are some key dates for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. • Selection Sunday March 15, 2009 • Opening-Round Game March 17, 2009 U...

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Obama Bracket: 2009 NCAA March Madness Presidential Picks UPDATED

Huffington Post | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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***UPDATE 3/18 12:47PM*** The White House has now released President Obama's full bracket. As reported earlier, his Final Four picks are Louisville, ...

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Diversity Hiring Is Right, Smart

Myles Brand | Posted 04.10.2009 | Entertainment

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Myles Brand

There will be more head coaches of color at NCAA Division I Football schools than ever in history when the 2009 season gets underway. I'm encouraged, but I'm sure not ready to declare victory.

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NCAA Renames March Madness 'March Bipolar Disorder'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

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Andy Borowitz

The name-change, which both surprised and outraged devotees of the annual ritual, came after the National Institute of Mental Health demanded that the NCAA drop the "Madness" tag.

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Arne Duncan -- Get in the Game

Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Dennis Danziger

Duncan has the right stuff to make huge and positive changes in the lives of our public school children. He did it in Chicago and I want him to repeat those successes across our nation.

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NCAA Basketball Recruiting In Middle School Now Allowed: New Rule

Miami Herald | MICHELLE KAUFMAN | Posted 03.06.2009 | Home

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A warning to expectant mothers: Don't be surprised if college basketball coaches start asking for copies of your ultrasound films. Recruiting is getti...

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Betting on America

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 02.25.2009 | Entertainment

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Roger I. Abrams

Sports can be part of the solution -- one of the largest portions of the underground (and untaxed) economy involves sports gambling.

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Please, Mr. President-Elect, No Playoff!

Andrew Brandt | Posted 12.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Andrew Brandt

With all due respect to the learned opinions of our incoming leader, his suggestion about college football would reduce the sport to a three-week event for attention-deficit sports fans in America.

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Give Optimism a Chance

Myles Brand | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

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Myles Brand

I do not blame the cynics in college sports. They caught the virus from the rest of American culture. Americans these days permit and, indeed, encourage cynicism to pervade their lives.

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Joe the Plumber Vs. Lilly Ledbetter

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

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Beverly Wettenstein

When Obama mentioned Ledbetter in a debate, McCain muttered that it would create "a trial lawyers dream." He claims lawyers could take advantage of women who allege discrimination.

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The "Dumb Jock" Myth is Dumb

Myles Brand | Posted 11.09.2008 | Entertainment

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Myles Brand

Unfair in its generalization, dumb jock is a myth that has stuck to college sports like corruption has stuck to American politics.

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Why Schoolgirls Wouldn't Giggle at the AP's Softball Story

Marta Lawrence | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media

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Marta Lawrence

Maybe the AP's version of overt gender stereotyping is actually preferable to the more insidious undercutting that happens in papers across the country every day -- not just in athletics.

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Why the Fairness Argument on Pay for Play Isn't a Fair Argument

Myles Brand | Posted 09.12.2008 | Entertainment

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Myles Brand

For student-athletes, playing sports is not a profession; everyone else in college sports is making a living from the enterprise.

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Why The Capitalism Argument on Pay for Play Doesn't Work

Myles Brand | Posted 09.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Myles Brand

All but 20 Division I schools subsidize their teams because athletics doesn't generate enough to cover expenses; adding a budget line for salaries would undoubtedly mean cutting sports.

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March Madness: NCAA Tournament Begins

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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Kansas takes on Portland State in one of the three early games starting around 12:30 p.m. EDT. Michigan State meets Temple and Xavier plays Georgia in...

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