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That was a recent headline from The Onion, and as usual, the short article that followed it pretty much wrote itself.  “I’ve never seen a team work in sync with itself as well as A&M did ton...

https://thissportinglife.net/2012/03/07/great-team-chemistry-no-match-for-great-team-biology/

Sorry about that. I disappeared for three months. From here, anyway. Life happens. There was so much going on I had to choose between writing about sports and watching sports in my free time, and...

https://thissportinglife.net/2011/01/14/and-just-like-that-its-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-2010-11-nfl-season/

At some point during the month-long March Madness gabfest on sports talk-radio Mike Greenberg (on ESPN’s “Mike and Mike in the Morning”) was railing against proposals to expand the tourna...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/04/25/why-the-ncaa-basketball-tournament-is-the-american-idol-of-sports/

Move over Gonzaga, Villanova, George Mason, and the Western Texas Miners. There’s a new Cinderella in town. Take that, Goliath: there’s a new David. Butler’s unlikely run all the way to the...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/04/06/meet-david-the-new-goliath-butlers-victory-over-duke-marks-the-dawn-of-a-new-era-in-college-basketball/

We are rightly suspicious of arguments that justify institutional arrangements that promise to be “separate but equal.” These three conjoined words have had a unique ring in American culture ...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/19/are-womens-sports-separate-but-equal/

You’d hardly know it watching ESPN these days, but there are actually two NCAA D1 college basketball championships going on now: one for men, and one for women. In general there is a pretty sha...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/18/how-do-womens-sports-measure-up/

In the previous post I suggested that a 65-team tournament could be justified not because it was more likely than a more exclusive tournament to crown a worthy champion, but because it helped the...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/14/why-not-96-in-the-ncaa-tournamen/

I am willing to defend the NCAA’s current system for selecting the 65 teams in the national championship Tournament. But first a confession. I am also willing to admit that I know very little a...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/12/meta-bracketology-part-2-madness-by-design/

There’s a 24-hr sports cycle in America, with several sports networks available on my cable menu any time of the day or night. ESPN alone gives me at least six, not including their virtual on-d...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/11/meta-bracketology-is-there-method-behind-march-madness/

Question on SportsCenter today: “He has 6 national titles, what are your thoughts on what Hall-of-Famer Gino Auriemma has done with this program?” Bob Knight: “I’ve said in the past, that...

https://thissportinglife.net/2010/03/09/bob-knight-on-how-good-uconn-womens-coach-gino-auriemma-is/