You can grouse about the corporatization of collegiate sports, whine about how the big conferences call all the shots and the underdogs get zip, about how unfair the selection process is to the Drexels and Appalachians of the world, but I still say that the NCAA basketball tournament is about as good as it gets for drama in sports.
We get a taste of the action tomorrow. It’s not the Final Four, but the first round often has some of the best basketball and the chance of incredible, office-pool busting upsets. The best game I ever saw was Florida nipping upstart Butler seven years ago at Joel. Great seats. Great game.
We’ve been planning our coverage of the first round for some time, mainly through our sports section, but also across other sections, from relish to the local section.
We’re also pushing more stories onto the Web to take advantage of the online possibilities.
As a special treat to friends of Otterblog, here’s a preview of part of our NCAA quiz tomorrow. No googling the answers.
The teams in Winston-Salem are UNC, Eastern Kentucky, Georgetown, Boston College, Belmont, Michigan State and Texas Tech. Match these schools with these alumni:
a) Chris Farley
b) Trisha Yearwood
c) James Caan
d) Maria Shriver
e) Rick Dees
f) Lee Majors
g) John Denver
h) Leonard Nimoy
Your host is Ken Otterbourg, the managing editor at the Winston-Salem Journal. It's a forum to discuss the media, from
a) Chris Farley- Marq.
b) Trisha Yearwood - Belmont
c) James Caan - Mich St.
d) Maria Shriver - Georgetown
e) Rick Dees - UNC, of course
f) Lee Majors - E KY
g) John Denver - Texas Tech
h) Leonard Nimoy - BC
Nice work. You either know your celebrity trivia, your basketball or both.
I got lucky....didn’t know Shriver, Yearwood or Majors.
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