When the Madness gets Depressing

  

Day four of March Madness coverage. You know the drill.

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When the Madness Stinks

  

A recap of today's games before we move on to tomorrow's action:

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When the Madness Starts

   

We'll kick off day two of March Madness coverage with recaps of last night's games, followed by previews of the Friday games.

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When the Madness Stops

   

To this point I have neglected to write about the NCAA Tournament, and given that this is the most inclusive and watched sporting event of the year, I feel like the reason bears mentioning. Simply put, I had nothing to say before the first round that you wouldn't have heard about from every imaginable source, and none of them know anything. Kansas lost in the second round. Under no circumstances would I have predicted this. The Big East Crumbled. I thought they were the best conference in the regular season. Saint Mary's won 2 games. I thought centers had to be able to at least graze the rim to play in the tournament.

So what changed?

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Kevin Durant is Not the MVP

   

There is an insufferable habit amongst followers of the NBA to eschew logic in favor of the sexy story. Nowhere is this more prevalent than than the MVP hype machine. Regardless of how painfully obvious it is that one player has run amok in the league and separated himself from his peers, we insist on pretending that the award is being contested.

Which brings us to the present situation, where people are actually defending the notion that Kevin Durant might be the MVP instead of Lebron James.

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The NFL: Who Can Wait?

   

This has to be the worst time of the year for sports. The NFL is months away. The NBA is all sorted out but hasn't moved on to the playoffs yet. Baseball is in its pre-season, March Madness hasn't started, and most stories revolve around whatever scandal is hottest. I don't have anything interesting to say about Tiger Woods, Ben Roethlisberger being drunk and womanizing hardly qualifies as news, and the "revelation" that Allen Iverson drinks and gambles is about as shocking as a sunrise.

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Wizards, Bullets, and Curses, Oh My!, Part 2

   

When we last left off, the Bullets were busy making a mockery of the draft process. The one decent player they had, Jeff Malone, was traded in 1990. The team did not make the playoffs for 8 straight years, from 1989 to 1996. During much of that stretch they had the same propensity to be just good enough to not be able to draft a sure thing, and just dumb enough to make the least of their draft picks.

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