Tag Archives: basketball

March Sadness

Posted on March 8, 2012 by nathanalbright

March is the time of year when the inner gambler inside many of us rears its ugly head, causing us to enter bracket pools and eagerly pour over the results of obscure conference results to see which of the mid-majors … Continue reading →

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Amateurs

Posted on March 6, 2012 by nathanalbright

Who is the NCAA? It is every college, every college coach, every athletic director, and every president of a university. It is not the players on teams, for these names, which are what draws the crowds and earns universities billions … Continue reading →

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A House Slave Is Still A Slave

Posted on August 20, 2011 by nathanalbright

If you go to college campuses in the United States, there is no question that athletes are treated like the big men on campus, in most campuses at least. The football player or basketball player walks around surrounded by girls, … Continue reading →

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On Brackets And Requirements: The Difference Between Relative and Absolute Standards

Posted on January 24, 2011 by nathanalbright

[Note: A lot of people have mistakenly found themselves on this blog looking for the difference between standard and international measurements, which is not the subject of this blog. I have, however, written about that very subject here, if you … Continue reading →

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