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Bob Knight on How Good UConn Women’s Coach Gino Auriemma Is
Question on SportsCenter today: “He has 6 national titles, what are your thoughts on what Hall-of-Famer Gino Auriemma has done with this program?” Bob Knight: “I’ve said in the past, that if I were an...
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Meta-bracketology: is there method behind March Madness?
There’s a 24-hr sports cycle in America, with several sports networks available on my cable menu any time of the day or night. ESPN alone gives me at least six, not including their virtual on-demand...
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Meta-bracketology, part 2: Madness by design
I am willing to defend the NCAA’s current system for selecting the 65 teams in the national championship Tournament. But first a confession. I am also willing to admit that I know very little about...
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Will the NCAA Tournament become the next asset bubble? The case against 96
In the previous post I suggested that a 65-team tournament could be justified not because it was more likely than a more exclusive tournament to crown a worthy champion, but because it helped the NCAA...
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Meet David, the new Goliath: Butler’s victory over Duke marks the dawn of a...
Move over Gonzaga, Villanova, George Mason, and the Western Texas Miners. There’s a new Cinderella in town. Take that, Goliath: there’s a new David. Butler’s unlikely run all the way to the National...
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Why the NCAA basketball Tournament is the “American Idol” of sports
[Warning: What follows is an overly long post, even by the standards of this rambling blog. It is summarized over the last 3 paragraphs or so.] At some point during the month-long March Madness gabfest...
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Soccer vs American Sports, Part 2: In praise of defense
In Part 1 of this little series, I argued — well, asserted — that an appreciation of the individual and team defensive plays and strategies is an essential component of sports connoisseurship. As a...
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Soccer vs American Sports, Part 3: Going with the flow
Dazzling offensive plays are the pop music of sports. Like catchy tunes, they are hard not to love. Even more, they are like the vocals and the melody of pop-music hooks. (You can sing these yourself...
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“Great Team Chemistry No Match For Great Team Biology”
That was a recent headline from The Onion, and as usual, the short article that followed it pretty much wrote itself. ”I’ve never seen a team work in sync with itself as well as A&M did tonight,...
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