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NCAA Basketball Tournament

  • Voice Choices

    March 21, 2012

    MORE MADNESS

    Can’t make it to New Orleans? Try the NIT

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2012

    A Note to the NCAA: Here's Why College Basketball Attendance Is Down

    It's the time of year for office pools and for articles about what's wrong with college basketball in general and the March NCAA tournament in particular.  Most of the arguments for both are covered by Steve Wieberg in Friday's USA Today. "Attendance, a key vital sign in any sport, is slipping in c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Announcing Sound Of The City's March Madness: A Monthlong Tournament To Crown The Quintessential New York Musician

    Today is the first of March, a month that brings lions, lambs, ominous midpoints, yummy Italian pastries, and people grossly stereotyping the Irish by drinking cheap beer until they get shitty drunk. It also is the month for March Madness, the 6468-entrant (thanks Turner and CBS) tournament of colle ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2011

    Bowling for Chumps

    How insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    March Madness Day 4: More Excitement Than Hollywood Smash-Hit Limitless!

    Yesterday was fun, huh? The afternoon games produced four gems that will be cherished by their school's old, lonely alumni while on their deathbeds. First, Matt Howard helped Butler, last year's runners-up, beat Old Dominion (which we think is a decommissioned vessel from the War of 1812) 60-58 on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    March Madness Day 3: At South by Southwest, They Were Into March Madness in February

    via​Go ahead and turn Twitter off today, you'll thank us. There will be only two types of tweets: people talking about South by Southwest (or, "South by," if you're an insufferable nincompoop) and people talking about March Madness. Both of them will make you very angry. Just so you don't miss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    March Madness Day 2: Obama Makes His Picks, Biden's Bookie Won't Accept His

    via ESPN​ESPN released Barack Obama's March Madness bracket today, along with a video of the president making his picks. Depending on your political leanings, you think this is either a lighthearted exercise showing the president is a normal guy, or a potentially catastrophic waste of time whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    March Madness Day 1: Check Your Local Listings For truTV

    via​Big news! March Madness starts today! Well, the play-in games start today, which isn't very big news, but still: MARCH MADNESS! Tonight's juicy match-ups: UNC Asheville vs. Arkansas Little Rock at 6:30 p.m. and UAB vs. Clemson at 9 p.m. Both games will be airing on truTV, which used to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2010

    Bobby Gonzalez, Hotheaded B-Ball Coach Fired for Misbehaving, Sues Seton Hall

    ​OK, kids, the following story is so appalling that we had to drop our plans to sit in a saloon all day and watch cricket and rush to the office to post it. Basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez, fired by Seton Hall University basically for being a jerk, is now suing the school for violating its c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    The Top 10 Non-Basketball March Madness Brackets

    The surest signs of spring are upon us: flowers blooming, scantily clad NYU students smoking in the park, and most importantly, coworkers who have never showed any semblance of sports fandom live-streaming basketball for the next two weeks and yelling at their computers things like "Cinderella!" "B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Health Care Bill One Vote Closer, America Too Distracted with Other Cliffhanger Result to Care

    ​Upset City! That's one less holdout to rough up in the back rooms of Capital Hill: Rep. John Boccieri (D) of Ohio has voted for the health care bill, putting Americans one step closer to health care that will supposedly piss them off less. Unfortunately, it's happening while they wait for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Kraft Pledges to Reduce Salt; McDonald's Plans to Sell $1 Summer Drinks

    ​Recipe developers at major food corps are coming up with spicier and more complex recipes for the backs of food packages, such as Nestle's Sea-Salted Smoky Almond Bark or Betty Crocker's Chai Latte Cupcakes. [Wall Street Journal] Kraft plans to cut sodium levels in its North American product ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Hooters' Invites You to Play Hooky Today, Provides Doctor's Note

    Your boss will understand.​What could be more red-blooded and American than March Madness? How about celebrating said Madness at Hooters. The bust-themed chain is offering customers a "doctor's note" excusing them from work, signed by one "Dr. Hootie." You can get one today and tomorrow at you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    John Keogh of Amity Hall Talks Beer, Jager Bombs & Being Irish on St. Paddy's Day

    John Keogh with smiling colleagues, Jen and Nikki.​ Amity Hall, the latest addition to a group of bars owned by two brothers from Dublin, Mark and Martin Whelan, quietly opened its doors just a few steps from its sister establishment, The Half Pint, late last year. Bartender John Keogh, who al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Morning Billfold: Junk Bond Apocalypse Terror, Lehman's Snitches, Hedge Fund Rockstars

    ​Lehman Brothers weren't so happy about their whistleblowers. The "rock stars" of hedge funds aren't exactly proverbial Guitar Heroes. A 2.2 billion euro bonus went out to the "risk takers" of Deutsche Bank. CBS' March Madness ad money? Buzzer-beater quality stuff. And the new economic doomsda ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    PUMP IT UP

    Get psyched for March Madness at the Big East

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2010

    FIERCE RIVALRY

    Seton Hall battles with Notre Dame

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Morning Joe's Willie Geist on the NCAA's Final Four

    Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2009

    The Raw Intensity of New York's Elite Youth Basketball

    Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2003

    Sports

    Knowing that our friend, Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--is a big sports fan, we thought we'd check in with him about the NCAA's Final Four. Willie has fielded some questions from us before, so we're pleased he had time--between Indian-wrestling matches with co-host Mike Barnicle- ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2002

    Foul Shots

    Highlighting College Hoops’ Lowlights

  • News

    March 12, 2002

    Sports

    Highlighting College Hoops’ Lowlights

  • Art

    April 10, 2001

    Who Got Game?

    • • • Running the Numbers on College Sports

  • News

    March 20, 2001

    Sports

    • • • Running the Numbers on College Sports

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Flagrant Fouls

    The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

  • News

    February 27, 2001

    The Wright Stuff

    Hofstra's Slick Young Coach Takes a Small School to the Big Time

  • News

    February 20, 2001

    Net-Zero at the Half

    Still Stuck in the Swamps of Jersey

  • News

    March 28, 2000

    Below the Rim

    Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

  • News

    March 21, 2000

    Sports

    Whiteball Lives in the NCAA

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Johnnies on the Spot

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    Sports

    Bootsy and Barkley Lead the Red Storm From the Backcourt

  • News

    March 16, 1999

    Dancing Up a Storm

    St. John's Plays Smart and Plays On

  • News

    January 26, 1999

    Eye of the Storm

    The tough midseason tests continue for St. John's following their bedeviling loss to Duke

  • News

    January 5, 1999

    Basketball Jones

    Hunter coach Mike Brown loves the game so much, he quit big-time ball.

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    St. John’s True Warrior

    Ron Artest earns his nickname in word and deed

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