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March Madness starts today!
SCOTT JACOBS
It’s the greatest time of the year.  NCAA Tourney time!  Is there a more exciting, exhilerating time to be a sports fan?  No sporting event is as wild and crazy, not to mention frentic non stop action for four whole days like the NCAA Tournament.  And no sporting event offers more [...]

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MITCHELL BLATT

How would you like to meet 2007 Penthouse Pet of the Year Heather Vandeven? You can with the BracketologyXD Challenge. Dave sent me that info, and I just had to give some link love…
The other prizes that you will be disappointed to win are an iMac laptop, and iPhone, and an iPod. [...]

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Tournament Week brought to you by parity is almost over, and that means one thing: the NCAA Tournament is right around the corner, and a certain someone (well, most of the country really) cannot wait!
SCOTT JACOBS
Syracuse finally ran out of gas, Baylor didn’t have one final stunner in them, and Memphis padded its resume [...]

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Syracuse upsets UConn in a Big East quarterfinal game for the ages
SCOTT JACOBS
It only took six!… overtimes for the Syracuse Orange to take down the UConn Huskies tonight in one of the wildest, longest, and most compelling games in the history of college basketball.  Just six.
127-117!
Syracuse never led in the first five OT’s– YES, [...]

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O how the times have changed!  Bill Laimbeer took some time out of his busy schedule to talk NCAA Tournament, why he started his pro career in Europe (not the NBA), why Cal Ripken would’ve had nothing on him had he not been suspended so much, and what he thinks about WNBA bashers
SCOTT JACOBS
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Thanks to Coke Zero, JSB had the exciting chance of interviewing the greatest Bad Boy of them all: Bill Laimbeer.  And tonight, when we finish putting all the excerpts, and pen written notes together, we’ll have that exclusive interview for you, the JSB reader.
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It’s not often you get the chance to interview an [...]

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In unrelated news pigs can fly, hell just froze over, and Scott Boras doesn’t care about money
SCOTT JACOBS
The Buffalo Bills are a small market, smart budgeted, family owned team that does things the right way (usually that is).  They are very careful about who they sign, very methodical about how they do their business, [...]

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 … But don’t expect to be one of the last ones standing
SCOTT JACOBS
Cornell rolled to an Ivy League championship last year.
This year wasn’t nearly as easy.  To claim their fourth NCAA Tournament berth the Big Red just needed a loss from second place Princeton, which fell earlier in the day to Columbia.  Cornell (20-9, [...]

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