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By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsGentlemen, start your brackets. Or at least your bracket preparation. Sure, the NCAA tournament is still more than a month away, but it's never too early to get a jump on which teams will send your bracket to the recycling bin. Check out our roundtable of sleeper teams for the Final Four/national championship, Sweet 16, and the opening round upsets in the 68-team field. Final Four Sleeper Criteria: We didn't push the envelope too much here. The only rule was to select a team outside of what seems to be the consensus group of national championship contenders frequently penciled in for ...
For NBA Fans, It's That Time of the Year
By Bethlehem Shoals - AOL NewsI don't remember for the life of me if the farmer and cowhand ended up being friends -- it seems like they had a lot in common -- but certainly, division and debate are as ingrained in human nature as mud and honesty. And, since it's virtually impossible to debate the NCAA Tournament, which pleases viewers most when it defies all logic, invariably each year March dredges up a good old-fashioned NBA/NCAA debate. Like most territorial squabbles, it's always difficult to ascertain who fires the first shot. But when you've got ESPN writers comparing some upset to the passage of health care and ...
Obama's NCAA Bracket: Down to One
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyHow quickly the tables turn, Mr. President.Just two days ago, the nation was locked in recession, North Korea was plotting a missile launch, Flo Rida topped the Billboard charts, and you were in the thick of the race for NCAA bracket glory.Well, actually all of those things are exactly the same today. Except that your bracket is down to one remaining team... It's North Carolina or nothing for U.S. President Barack Obama.The president went 1-for-4 on Final Four teams in his NCAA tournament bracket, hitting with the Tar Heels but losing with Louisville on Sunday.The split left Obama in the ...
Obama's NCAA Bracket: Nearly Same Winning Percentage as Election Night
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyWe have now made it through the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and President Obama has correctly picked 53.91% of the winners-- a number that comes within a point of his popular vote percentage on election night.This stunning similarity can owe to one thing and one thing only: It's an unremarkable coincidence.Now it's time to analyze the president's Sweet 16 results, as is our tradition in this ongoing series: Score Did Obama Get It Right? Implications Michigan St. 67- Kansas 62 Yes Obama bets against the state of his mother's ...
Obama's NCAA Bracket: Rallying Like the Dow
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyIn this latest installment of our ongoing investigative series on President Obama's NCAA Bracket, we bring good news for the commander in chief.After spending the opening round playing to swing states and slumping like Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign, the president staged a good old-fashioned rally over the weekend... Louisville made quite a rally. President Barack Obama did, too. The president's NCAA tournament bracket looked a lot better Sunday when he correctly picked 14 of the 16 teams to reach the regional semifinals. After the first round, Obama ranked in the bottom 5 percent of ...
Obama's NCAA Bracket: Tancredo-Esque
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyIt was only yesterday that we began our multi-part series on President Obama's NCAA bracket, yet already his picks are in full-scale "crisis mode"...[T]he upsets and buzzer-beaters just aren't going Barack Obama's way. The president's bracket took a precipitous plunge Friday night when two of his Sweet 16 teams were upset.As if that weren't enough, No. 9 seed Siena outlasted No. 8 Ohio State in double overtime, dropping the presidential bracket all the way down to the 4.23 percentile - 4,434,808 spots off the lead in ESPN.com's contest.To put this in purely political terms, imagine the success ...
Obama's NCAA Bracket: Let's Go Swing States!
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyAs everyone from Mike Krzyzewski to Osama bin Laden is now aware, President Obama has filled out an NCAA bracket.But this is no ordinary bracket. Beyond basketball picks and a tacit endorsement of gambling, this is really the first shot fired in the 2012 presidential campaign. (Did you honestly think it was a coincidence that Obama doesn't have University of Alaska-Wasilla winning the whole thing?)So beginning now and continuing throughout the tournament, we will provide you updates on Obama's picks, how they're faring and what implications exist for his presidency, the 2012 election, America ...
GOP Tone Deaf on Obama's NCAA Bracket, Leno Appearance
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFirst, he was doing too much, now he's loafing.I reported earlier that the Duke basketball coach had slammed Obama for making NCAA Tournament picks, pointedly mentioning that his team was not in Obama's Final Four. Now, Senator John Kyl is trying to frame the President's appearance on Jay Leno's show as another fatal distraction: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; ...
Sour Grapes: Duke Coach Says Obama Should Worry About Economy, Not NCAA Picks
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyFox News reports that Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski is taking his omission from the President's NCAA Final Four bracket graciously:"Somebody said that we're not in President Obama's Final Four, and as much as I respect what he's doing, really, the economy is something that he should focus on, probably more than the brackets," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said from the Blue Devils' first-round site in Greensboro, N.C.I like the defiant trash-talking, but I'm not sure about the messaging. Is he saying that March Madness is a waste of time? Couldn't the same thing be said of most Americans? "Well, ...
Bubble Trouble Like Never Before
By Ray Holloman - AOL NewsThere was a time when February belonged to college basketball and the intricate puzzle of creating a 65-team bracket from a list of 340-some-odd candidates.Then we got Rick-rolled by the steroid investigation.So to get things where they should be here's a steroids tip that doesn't involve digging through someone's garbage:Investigate the NCAA Tournament bubble.Forget Barry Bonds, whose head long ago petitioned for its own zip code and whose ego already has its own senator. Forget Roger Clemens, the dyspeptic fellow with so little charm you might assume his family tree runs through Dick Cheney ...
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