My favorite days of March Madness are the first two. Don't get me wrong - the later games are great, but they're just great in standard sports way, the way I like the NBA Finals, or the AFC Championship Game. The first two days everyone's involved (because no one's bracket is destroyed yet), and there's so many teams that it's impossible not to find one you really want to root for.
More importantly, it's as close as you can get to a veritable sports bonanza. The massive number of games makes it tough for broadcasters to batter you down with stupid human interest stories, and unless you completely have no life, you're watching a lot of teams for the first time, and it's a nice study in different basketball styles. You see a lot more press and innovative defensive schemes (the VCU halfcourt trap-and-switch system against Duke was very interesting to watch - I think a better PG than Paulus eats it alive, but it certainly caught my attention). If you're a true basketball fan, it's all the basketball, little fluff.
As the tournament wears on, and there are fewer players and coaches for the media to cover (and longer time delay between games), I'm going to get destroyed with touching human interest stories on kids who I won't remember in 30 days, and especially, especially, the coaches. Sometimes I think Billy Packer and company are on missions to get certain coaches jobs at major programs, so they just talk nonstop about how great some random coach is. I wonder if they get paid to make those compliments - seems like a win-win business proposition for everyone involved.
I'll enjoy the rest of the tournament. But we just finished my favorite part. Okay that is all.
More importantly, it's as close as you can get to a veritable sports bonanza. The massive number of games makes it tough for broadcasters to batter you down with stupid human interest stories, and unless you completely have no life, you're watching a lot of teams for the first time, and it's a nice study in different basketball styles. You see a lot more press and innovative defensive schemes (the VCU halfcourt trap-and-switch system against Duke was very interesting to watch - I think a better PG than Paulus eats it alive, but it certainly caught my attention). If you're a true basketball fan, it's all the basketball, little fluff.
As the tournament wears on, and there are fewer players and coaches for the media to cover (and longer time delay between games), I'm going to get destroyed with touching human interest stories on kids who I won't remember in 30 days, and especially, especially, the coaches. Sometimes I think Billy Packer and company are on missions to get certain coaches jobs at major programs, so they just talk nonstop about how great some random coach is. I wonder if they get paid to make those compliments - seems like a win-win business proposition for everyone involved.
I'll enjoy the rest of the tournament. But we just finished my favorite part. Okay that is all.
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Most importantly, you can watch ALL the games through a combination of TV and the Internet. For free!
Can you imagine the future when we'll be able to see March Madness in HD on our iPhones?
It's a good time be alive.
screw the iphone. apple sucks. and boom goes the dynamite.
vish is usually a cranky, cantankerous curmudgeon, but on this point, he is correct.
seriously, forget about apple.
THIS is the future: http://www.microvision.com/
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sports are stupid.
*gasp*
oh no you didn't!
she's right, the WNBA is stupid, women thinking they can race in the Indy 500 is stupid, women playing with men on the PGA tour is stupid...
on the other hand, women's beach volleyball is very captivating, and so is women's tennis.
and in the world of sports entertainment, there is nothing better than women fighting in a lingerie match.
I kind of wonder if the last 3 "anonymous" posts are just all the same person
what are you doing up at 4:09 AM EDT?
someone has a high opinion of me. who is this anonymous?
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