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And Then There Were 16

So, now we are down to the “Sweet Sixteen.” Sixteen teams remain from the field that everyone was so excited to be in just five days ago. It’s really interesting to look at it...

Good Friday, Better Thursday

There is a method to March Madness. The filling out the brackets thing has grown so big that businesses throughout the country just allow it to happen now instead of fighting it. They know...

Madness Time

Given that it’s March Madness time, just thought I’d throw out a few observations about the traits of teams that win championships and what to watch for when the games are played. Most teams...

Bubble Boys

March, and the so-called, accompanying Madness. This is the time of the year when all kinds of teams have their dreams of making the NCAA tournament, even though they have put up a basketball...

I Can’t Believe It

I can’t believe that we are already in the year 2015. That’s 14 years AFTER the year 2001, when the world was supposed to go on A Space Odyssey. That’s 31 years after 1984,...

A Brand You Can Trust

You really know that you’ve arrived in the sports world, when you’ve succeeded at being a professional athlete. It must be great when you’ve become a really good player and you are in the...

Get With the Program

It’s March. Which means the Madness can’t be far away. Which means the big college hoops tournament will soon be upon us. And with that, the inevitable rite of spring called filling out Final...

A Changing of the Guards

The standings in the NBA look like they have been flipped upside down. The teams that used to win all the time are near the bottom and the teams that used to lose all...

A Fairy Tale Ending

Once upon a time there was a team. It was a team that wanted to be like the little engine that could, except for this team, this engine was more likely to be a...

The Riv

I love the late, great sportswriter Jim Murray. He once did one of his excellent columns about the great L.A. area golf course Riviera Country Club, the host of the Northern Trust (L.A.) Open....