Bracketology
Yeah, I know: all of this will just go to show that I should stick to baseball.
Men’s brackets: My heart is with Indiana but my bracket is with North Carolina.
Final Four picks: NC, Georgetown, Stanford and UCLA with UCLA playing NC for the championship. The Pac 10 has come a long way in the over 25 years I’ve lived on the Left Coast.
On the women’s side (and this is the first time I’ve ever filled in a women’s bracket), I’m rooting for Cal, which is a No. 3 seed, because I live and work in their territory. But I figure that No. 2 seed Stanford will take the championship. They are playing with a chip on their shoulder because they thought they had earned a No. 1 seed.
Final four: Stanford, UConn, LSU & Oklahoma. I have Okla upsetting Tennessee mainly on the strength of home field advantage. It should be a nailbiter.
I notice with the women, the conferences they come from are vital in the seedings. That, and homefield advantage to a lesser extent, guided my picks.
I don’t like the timing. Because of conference tournaments, which I don’t like–I come from the Big 10, which was the last major conference to adopt a post-season tourney–all this “March Madness” stuff actually ends in April. Women on April 6 and men on April 7. That is already a week into the baseball season!
I really don’t like the way the sports seasons run into each other. Now the Super Bowl is in February, the March Madness ends in April and it is now possible to have a normally scheduled World Series game played in November! I want to be thinking football and turkeys in November. Especially this year. With a Presidential Election, I have extra turkeys to think about.
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Kellia Ramares is a freelance journalist, poet and baseball blogger from Oakland, CA. Kellia writes (and does some audio work) about baseball, especially the Arizona Diamondbacks, on her blog, Down The Left Field Line: Life, Baseball & Eric Byrnes. (http://byrnesblog.azsportshub.com), under the name ByrnesBlogger1. She expects to expand her sports journalism from baseball fandom to stories on social issues in a sports context in a website she is building in the fourth quarter of 2007 to be an annex to the "Byrnesblog".
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