It's time to sharpen your pencils for March Madness
The Dodgers and the San Diego Padres play a historic two-game series in Beijing, the Lakers and the Houston Rockets meet in a matchup of new-look NBA Western Conference elite and dozens of college basketball teams continue the buzzer-beating winnowing process to claim conference tournament championships across the land.
Yet the most-anticipated and eagerly watched piece of sports programming this weekend will be a recitation of 65 names, setting off a frenzy of Internet hits and media over-analysis that won’t be seen again until next month’s NFL draft.
(If the Dodgers and the Padres truly wanted to stage an exhibition of our national pastime in Beijing, they would wear blazers, sit behind studio desks and get very worked up reading long lists of names.)
Selection Sunday is upon us, with CBS announcing the seedings and the brackets that will dominate our lives for the next three weeks. The network’s selection show will air at 3 p.m. Sunday, followed by two hours of “bracket breakdown” analysis.
After the announcement, ESPN will counter with two hours of “ESPNU Bracketology” beginning at 4 p.m. and featuring Bob Knight among its usual cast of studio analysts. Knight switching over to the enemy side — as Digger Phelps spelled it out for him on Wednesday, Knight is now a member of the “m-e-d-i-a” — has sparked a lot of speculation about what the future holds for this experiment. The online betting site bodog.com is offering odds on whether Knight curses on the set during his tournament run.
Tags: basketball, radio, ucla
Shame they don’t go back to PS2 and GBA, would be interesting to see how they are still holding up!
Awesome, so Wii is outselling 360 + PS3 combined??
This kind of news gets so old.
Yeah and PSP is doing better than Wii in Europe! Good work Sony.I wonder where they get Euro figures from though…
Have just checked again, the first episode is online now……yay!I had already seen them through bittorrent. But will buy the pass, as this show is the best thing to hit TV in a hell of a long time, and is replacing my West Wing fix…….hang on Martin Sheen in BSG……nah that would be too much!