NCAA brackets: I think I'm sitting pretty
It's a 42-person contest through our paper ("pools" are illegal, so this is a "contest.")
I'm in fourth, having hit 38 of the 48 games correct. And all four of my Final Four are alive: N.Carolina (over Tenn.), Kansas over Wisconsion -- most people would have G'town --, Texas over Memphis (my biggest upset still on the board) and UCLA over Duke (C'mon West Virginia, beat Xavier, and take away any other's potential points).
I'm the highest-ranking entrant with North Carolina to win. Gotta love that.
Fifteen games to go. An eternity.
Anyone out there have an extraordinarily high number of wins? Picked G'town or Duke to lose? Picked Davidson, Villanova or Western Kentucky to make Sweet 16?
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
