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Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments as “March Madness.” They do so to exploit “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat” of watching low-seeded teams (a.k.a. Cinderellas) upset top-seeded ones — often with buzzer-beating hail marys. Unfortunately, the tournaments rarely live up to this hype, respectively. True to form,… Read more.
Remarkably, Manti Te’o’s improbable tale about his imaginary girlfriend dying of cancer on the same day his grandmother died last September is competing for media coverage with Lance Armstrong’s belated confession about taking performance-enhancing drugs (PEDS). Te’o is the All-American linebacker from Notre Dame whose tale of personal tragedy became even more of an inspiration… Read more.
And, just like Daniel, he comes out unscathed! To be fair, there was never any doubt that President Obama would be cheered more than jeered at Notre Dame. After all, despite the media hype about abortion, he could have begun his commencement address there yesterday by paraphrasing the way he began his speech at the… Read more.
