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MARCH-MADNESS

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Calif. lowers penalties for office betting pools

Catching a case of March Madness can no longer land you in the slammer.

Some cell phones to get live NCAA tournament games

March Madness is in the air. To be more specific, it's on airwaves that certain AT&T and Verizon Wireless phones can pick up, letting them show live NCAA basketball tournament games this season.

Celizic: Time to expand the NCAA tourney field

I’m not known for showing sympathy to teams that get left out of the NCAA tournament. If you’re arguing that you should be the 60th or 65th team in a 65-team field instead of East GED State, my response has been to point out that you ain’t going anywhere anyway. You want in, get a better team. It’s that simple.

Slive: Balance, not budgets to drive NCAA brackets

The NCAA promises not to bust a budget or a bracket when March Madness arrives.

Problem gambling may rise as economy falls

The last time he bet on the Super Bowl, back in 1996, the U.S. economy was booming, unemployment was 5.6 percent and Pittsburgh was playing Dallas.

Play of the Day: Obama at Italian Market

Barack Obama nibbled through the neighborhood called Italian Market on Wednesday and mixed the standard "meet and greet" routine of politics with meats and cheeses from around the world.

Apple ITunes to Offer NCAA Games

If you can't get enough of March Madness on television, Apple Computer Inc. will offer college basketball fans a chance to download the games or game highlights through its online iTunes Music Store.

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CBS's March Madness Online Ad Revenues Up 30%
Source: Bus. Insider

-- Gravy for CBS, which, thanks to a $6 billion, 11-year deal signed in 1999, gets to keep all its "new media" revenues.

NCAA Tournament: Barack Obama shares his bracket
Source: ESPN.com

President Barack Obama has studied Lincoln and FDR to help guide him through the early stages of his presidency.

College Basketball Team Trails 0-1 Before Game Starts
Source: rivals.yahoo.com

Before the game, St. Mary's was assessed a technical foul for dunking in pregame warmups. This is not a joke. Do not adjust your dial: 

The Politics of College Basketball - A Rite Revisited Every March

So, once again we have "March Madness." Most people think that this has something to do with the tournament games.

BUDDY THOMAS: Trust a bracket champ ... take the Tigers
Source: southcoasttoday.com

UCLA? UNC? You can take all of these suddenly popular capital letters and throw them in the TRASH as far as I'm concerned. When all the blanks are filled on my NCAA bracket, there's only one seven-letter school that will stand alone. MEMPHIS.

Obama's March Madness
Source: The New York Times

Trying to decide whether categorize this as Sports or Politics. That North Carolina pick could go either way, so I went Sports

Sentimental Journey, Sentimental Favorite
Source: The New York Times

I've got my team. That is to say, I know which outsider I'm supporting in the first round of the N.C.A.A. tournament — I want the 15th-seeded Belmont Bruins to give second-seeded Duke a good run Thursday, Newsvine Cinderella Bracket Challenge

The 10 Best Guy Days of the Year
Source: MSN

What makes a great day? For guys, they generally fall into two categories: days that involve some kind of success, either at work or with women, or days that offer simple pleasures and a respite from the stress of our adult lives. This list is devoted to the latter category.

Another Dome Loss

Nine games into the Syracuse basketball season and its already starting to feel like seasons past. In particular, last season. We were told that all the mistakes of the past would be eliminated this year.

Rivals.com projects the field of 65
Source: Yahoo! Sports

Rivals.com projects a preseason prediction of the the NCAA Tourney Bracket. My Spartans weighed in at a #3 Seed within their prediction. I believe they can vie for a #2 or even possibly a #1 seed given that the Big Ten is looking at a down year.

2008 Presidential Election Brackets
Source: freewebs.com

Sadly, unlike all other spectator sports, the 2008 presidential elections lack a meaningful mechanism by which ordinary Americans can fill out brackets and bet on its outcomes...until now.

NCAA Final Four: Through the Eyes of a 2 Year Old
Source: rotostuds.com

Breakdown of the matchups

Jayhawks melt down in madness of March
Source: The Kansas City Star

SAN JOSE, Calif. | On its best day, perhaps, Kansas is the best college basketball team in America. But thats not what the NCAA Tournament is about.

By George, you can't count out mid-majors
Source: Delaware County Times

One weekend over, two to play in the NCAA Tournament, and the BCS crowd and its sympathizers are fighting over the shovel. One way or another, they are determined to bury the concept of the dangerous mid-major, even if it is still alive.

One class act over, new Villanova challenge
Source: Delaware County Times

The promise was fulfilled. The recruiting class that would resurrect Villanova as a national basketball factor -- the one that would prove so deep, so consistent, so valuable as to separate the Wildcats from the rest of the Big 5 -- was exactly that.

Instant March Madness Mental Health - Final Four Widget from CSTV (CBS Sports)

You have entered the strange "new" world of widgets. They are in control of the horizontal. They are in control of the vertical. Don't bother to touch the controls of your television or cable box. You won't need to.

Winning March Madness Picks
Source: deerbeards.blogspot.com

March Madness is here and now that the tourney has started...I will share my winning picks

Nationalizing Religion In America
Source: towncalleddobson.com

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March Madness... A Wife's Perspective...

The beginning of March Madness is only hours away. Stories and reports have surfaced all over about how this important part of college basketball impacts the work place both in lost productivity and in increasing revenues.

Mascots Gone Mad

For the seven and under set, the game is just a distraction from the main attraction: the loopy, perpetually energized anthropomorphized animal crackers that bound along the sidelines and stadium aisles like Underdog hopped up on androgen.

March fever at the pumps
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune

Gas prices unexpectedly raised over $ 3.00/gallon when the usual jump starts in starts in April. The reason the prices raised 48 cents higher is because refineries had to switch their winter gasoline blend to the summer blend and it requires more oil to produce.

FOX Sports - COLLEGE BASKETBALL - Tips for winning your office pool
Source: Fox Sports

The following are steadfast rules that will help you in your office pool over the next few days. We're concentrating on giving hard and fast advice for the opening round and for picking a champion.

Here's the ABCs of NCAAs
Source: NJ.com

Before you fill out your bracket pool, take a few minutes to go through what we'll call the A-B-C's of the NCAAs. A is for Atlanta, the site of this year's Final Four and a friend of mine's bachelor party -- what a party that's going to be.

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