Sports April 2015

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SportsTalk4Dummies, April 2015 Highlights

SportsTalk4Dummies, April 2015 Highlights

Sports April 2015, a month to remember

April was a fun month for us sports fans! No matter what sports who follow, there was something going on.

April was the beginning of professional baseball, whether you are a Dodger fan or an Angel fan, it was great just to have the season start again.

www.Dodger.com

www.LAAngels.com

However there is still a dark side to the LA Dodgers; close to 70% of the market still is unable to see the Dodgers play and Vin Scully the game due to ‘Time Warner’ not making the games available outside their own customers.

Dodgers fans to remain in the dark as TV deal reportedly falls through!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/dodgers-fans-to-remain-in-the-dark-as-tv-deal-reportedly-falls-through-143820583.html

No matter who or who is not watching them, the Dodgers are off to a good start. In my opinion, several of their new players, such as Pederson, Anderson and Rollins are a real fine. However I do think that the Dodgers still need a great closer, especially with Jansen still out at least until mid-month. It’s not bad and it could be worse!

Rollins Plays Hero As Dodgers Open 2015 With 6-3 Win Over Padres.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/04/06/rollins-plays-hero-as-dodgers-open-2015-with-6-3-win-over-padres/

April was also the end of a very exciting men’s college basketball ‘March Madness’. We saw the end of Kentucky run for a perfect season with their loss to Wisconsin. Then it was on to watching Wisconsin loss to Duke in the finals. It was indeed a thriller!

Duke Beats Wisconsin 68-63 To Win 2015 NCAA Tournament

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/duke-wisconsin-final-score_n_7014744.html

Just as we got use to the fact that college basketball was done for the season, on comes the NBA playoffs. It was a bit concerning that once again the LA Lakers did not make the playoffs, however, the LA Clippers did. Go Clippers!

Lakers eliminated from playoffs, team’s earliest elimination in 54 years.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/11/lakers-eliminated-from-playoffs-teams-earliest-elimination-in-54-years/

You also have the NHL playoffs being played during the month of April. The Anaheim Ducks are in the playoffs, but sadly the LA Kings managed to miss the playoffs.

It was quite a shock for LA King fans when after wining last year’s Stanley Cup, they failed to even make the playoff this year. However, that means that us, the fans that were rooting for the Kings, will now turn our support to the Anaheim Ducks, after all, it would still be a Southern CA team winning the Stanley Cup!
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The Ducks have already won the first round of the NHL playoffs, and they did it in four straight games. Way to Go Ducks! Good luck in round two!

Check this link for playoff updates and schedules

http://www.nhlschedule2014.com/playoffs.html

It is a good thing is that Southern California has at least two teams for most sports, your team does make the playoffs, chances are the other team might. Such as, Lakers out, Clippers in, Kings out, Ducks in, Dodgers in, Angels out, (or the other way around, to early to tell yet).

Even USC or UCLA fans will route for the other team if their team doesn’t make it to the playoffs. Still beats an ‘outsider winning’. It’s always better for Southern CA when one of our local teams win!

Too bad the same can’t be said for professional football, LA still has no team! But that’s a whole other topic for another blog.

April is also important for the NFL. Most teams are in the hunt for new players, trading old ones, gaining new ones, even restructuring old contracts and make new ones.

There has even been a few surprises, such as the Washington Redskins deciding to pull the ‘franchise tag’ for RG3, when everyone else thought the owner would use the opportunity to trade him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/why-in-the-world-would-redskins-pick-up-rgiii-s-option–let-s-explore-151647567.html

The NFL also releases it’s fall schedule in April. LA Fans can start marking their calendars, booking their air flights, hotels and whatever they will need in order to attend either San Diego Charger or the Oakland Raiders games.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/2015-nfl-schedule–league-releases-the-full-regular-season-slate-000758569.html

This year, some team are really going outside the box in their attempt to gain depth in their rotations, even to the extent of the Eagles hiring Tim Tebow as their 4th Quarterback, A bit of an overkill, having 4 QB, but who knows. . .

Eagles VP of player personnel explains why they signed Tim Tebow
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/eagles-vp-of-player-personnel-explains-why-they-signed-tim-tebow-211405324.html

April also brings us freaking weather in which baseball players have to deal with, we are all use to a bit of rain, in which we deal with rain delays, but how often do we see snow falling dealing a National Baseball Game, well it happened.

http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2015-04-22/yankees-tigers-snow-game-david-price-detroit-comerica-park

All in All, April was a great month for being a Sports Fan, can’t wait to see what May will bring!

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March Madness 2015

WHAT IS ‘MARCH MADNESS’?

March Madness, college playoff win or go home

March Madness, college playoff win or go home


What is it about men’s college basketball? Especially the NIT and the NCAA tournaments.

We spend hours agonizing over what schools to pick, do we go for the long shot or pick the favorites.

Some fans will use the school mascots as the deciding factor.
What school’s mascot will win over the other school’s mascots?
There are still others that will simply flip a coin, but no matter how it gets done, it seems that
everyone had their bracket.

Use to link to set up your bracket or to follow who’s in and who’s out

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/basketball-men/d1

It starts with smaller tournaments all over the United States, each division only able to send it best college teams to the tournament.

It all comes down to only 68 teams competing over a matter of just a few weeks starting in March, hence the term ‘March Madness’ and it doesn’t end until there is just one team left standing.

The winning college teams enter the NCAA tournament; the college teams that are the runners up enter the NIT tournament as their consolation prize.

But it’s the NCAA tournament that will have people glued to their TV, radios and their computers.

Well over 3 million people signed on to ESPN’s March Madness last year to filled out their brackets, with many more just doing it for fun and not using ESPN at all.

If you are not a basketball fan it would hard for you to imagine what all the fuss is about.

http://www.ncaa.com/

I joined in on the fun last year and picked most of the favorites to win and before the end of the tournament even got close, most of my bracket was a complete bust.

However, while it lasted I was glued to the TV, watching and holding my breath as my teams either won or lost, (mostly lost) and enjoying every minute of it.

It wasn’t always like this, long before the idea of March Madness, there was still college basketball.

I can remember watching college basketball long before I had ever heard of bracketing.

However I did a ‘google’ search to find out that the use of brackets go all the way back to 1943.

But didn’t catch on until the mid 1982 when CBS actually showed the use of the bracket on TV. However, I personally think the whole bracket obsession really began with ‘social media’ .

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304537904577279624141400742
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Anyone that owns a cell phone, Pad, or computer can keep track of all the basketball teams, the scores and get immediate updates regarding the status of their personal bracket.

That in itself opened up the game of college basketball to everyone and anyone.

March Madness 2015 Anyone and almost everyone has a bracket

March Madness 2015 Anyone and almost everyone has a bracket

All I know is that I am a UCLA Fan, but I have also been known to root for USC, Stanford, Cal, and a few other California College team, but my heart still belongs to the Bruins.

There was hope this year for UCLA and several other CA college teams to immerse from their local tournaments and onto being one of the 64 teams to go to play in the March Madness tournament.

We all know that Baseball is still listed as ‘The Great American Past Time’.

But with the invention of the brackets, and social media, college basketball might be the new great American past time at least during March Madness.

There has been quite a bit of news regarding the loss of production in the work force do to this madness for college basketball.

March Madness 2015 and lost production

March Madness 2015 and lost production


Some employers have tried to embraced it and use it as a means to improve moral in the workplace, others just see it as a waste of time, their time and their time is money.

http://business.time.com/2013/03/19/march-madness-will-cost-businesses-134-million-why-arent-employers-concerned/

I see no end to this phenomenon known as ‘march madness, as long as everyone loves a winner and these games are set at such a fast pace, what’s not to love. TV sponsors know this and have adjusted the showing of ‘March Madness’ to guarantee a large viewing audience. No longer does March Madness actually end in March but closer to mid-April, ensuring the games are mostly played over weekends thus a larger audience. There are now 68 teams that will start the ‘Madness’ on March 17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

Last year I had to toss out my bracket before even getting to the ‘Final Four’ I am hopeful that this year
I will actually have a enough teams left to make it all the way to at least the ‘final four’ .

But no matter how bad or how good I do, it is still so much fun to at least try my luck and there is always ‘next year’.

www.sportstalk4dummies.com

This Past Year In The World Of Shorts

Sports Blog – December 2013

Reflection back on sports 2013

Reflecting back on sports 2013

With 2013 winding to a close, it time to reflect on what has happened this past year in the world of sports and ask where did the time go?

http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=top+baseball+plays+of+2013

As a Dodger fan, it was definitely a good year under the new ownership. We saw some amazing pitching by Kershaw and Greinke. Kershaw even won the Cy Young. There were great plays by several Dodger players, such as Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez and Carl Crawford.

We also saw a rookie not only play well, but Yasiel Puig brought back excitement to the Dodger Stadium that the fans have not seen for several years. The Dodgers didn’t make it very far into the playoffs, but there is renewed hope for next year.

www.dodgers.com

Our local collages football teams also had a lot to offer us sports fans this past year. Without a NFL team in the Southern California both USC and UCLA get a awful lot of our support.

We found out what a difference a coach can make when dealing with a losing season, USC fires Lane Kiffin and turn the team over to an interim coach which turns the team completely around and leads the USC football to several wins.

However it was after the loss to UCLA that USC ended that coach’s rein and hire Steve Sarkisian from the Washington Huskies as the new coach for the 2014 season.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-1203-plaschke-usc-20131203-11,0,6325781.column#axzz2n2OTSyKr

With UCLA taking the win from USC at the Coliseum, it was a upset, UCLA has not beat USC at the Coliseum in a very long time. It was also two years and two wins in a row for UCLA against USC and that hasn’t happened for a long time either.

And although either UCLA or USC made it to any of the BCS Bowls, they will still play in a bowl game. It will be Stanford, with its win over Arizona, and won the Pac-12 title that will play Michigan at the Rose Bowl January 1. This was the second year in a row for the Stanford Trees.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/bowls

We also saw lots of controversy in a lot of different sports. Baseball, NFL Football, hockey, basketball and even collage sports were not spare from making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Hopefully next year will be a better year for sports, with players not resorting to drugs and violence to solve their problems.

What to expect in the early part of 2014

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The NFL playoffs start with ‘wild card weekend’ January 4 and 5. The Divisional Playoffs are scheduled for January 11 and 12th. The Conference Championships games will be played January 19 with the winners going on to play in the ‘Super Bowl’.

The XLVIII Super Bowl is returning to New York as the NFL stages its first cold-weather Super Bowl in an open-air stadium on February 2, 2014. They are even preparing for the chance that the Super Bowl might become the ‘Snow Bowl’ of 2014.

http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/48

The city of Sochi in Russia will hold the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014 and the games start February 7, 2014.

http://www.olympic.org/sochi-2014-winter-olympics

Dodgers play their first pre-season game February 21, 2014 against the D-Backs

Angels play their first pre-season game February 28, 2014 against the Clubs
www.mlb.com.

All in all if 2013 was not your teams best year, or even a break-even year, the best part of the starting a new year is that we get to toss out the old and ring in the new year with all the excitement and anticipation that comes with starting anew.

Sports for Dummies would like to wish you and your Family ‘ Happy Holidays, Season Greetings and Happy New’.

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College Football Playoffs 2014

Are you ready for this?  
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College Football Playoff set to replace Bowl Championship Series in 2014

After several years of being pressured by ‘sports fans’ the sports media and even the colleges themselves. It has finally happened.

The Bowl Championship Series, better known as the ‘BCS’bcs_logo 150
will be replaced by the College Football Playoff system starting in 2014.

This will be the last season of the multi-bowl system.

The BCS conference commissioners announced this new Football Playoff System will totally replaced the individual bowls games now played. This meeting was held this past April 2013 in Pasadena, California and lasted three days.

They also selected the remaining three sites for the six-bowl semifinal rotation in the new system and the site of the first championship game which will be held January 12, 2015.
The website www.collegefootballplayoff.com has been set up and is running. This site allowed fans to vote on a new logo. It also has a Twitter handle.

When it was finally announced that ”We’ve decided to call the playoff what it is the College Football Playoff,” BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who will hold the same position in the playoff system, said in a statement..

If you are interested in how the BSC commissioners arrived at their decisions; you can clink on any of the following links.

FOLLOW THE STORY
Sept. 2012: Commissioners work through playoff issues

June 2012: Consensus reached on playoff

April 2012: BCS big steps toward playoff

Jan. 2012: Emmert would support playoff

The BCS Commissioners even hired Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park, Kansas to help come up with a name and brand the new system.

If everything works out perfectly, the new postseason format will create two national semifinals to be played New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, with the winners advancing.

The six bowls in the playoff rotation will host marquee, BCS-type games on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day during the seasons they do not host a semifinal. Three semifinal spots have already been decided: the Rose, Orange and Sugar bowls.
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Four other bowls have bid for the final three spots. The clear front-runners are the Cotton, Chick-fil-A and Fiesta. The Holiday Bowl in San Diego also put in a bid.

The first semifinals playoff games will be played at the Rose Bowl and the Sugar bowl.

The site of the first national championship game in the new system was also determined at these meetings and the finalists were Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the billion dollar home of the NFL team and the Cotton Bowl, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., home of the Buccaneers.
Arlington is the favorite to land that first championship game. However, the home of the Dallas Cowboys won out and will host the very first College Playoff Game.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1616337-college-football-playoff-title-game-will-be-played-at-cowboys-stadium

Also on the agenda at this meeting with the commissioners was the composition of the selection committee that will set the field for the playoff. They have said they would like the committee to be similar to the one that picks the teams for the NCAA basketball tournament, made up of conference commissioners and athletic directors.

This is a huge overhauling of a system that at one time was the envied of the sports world, but as College Football
has grow up along with social media, fantasy football , which is not only being played in the NFL but also at the college level now and with the ever increasing amount of money that colleges get from TV coverage.  
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The money doesn’t stop with just TV coverage either, it flow of money also comes from ‘games’ sold using the college logos and even more money coming from endorsements from advertisers, such as Nike.
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College football is not just for college students and their alumni anymore, it is all about the TV coverage and money.

This is the main reason behind the fact that college football had to move beyond the crazy bowl system that they are using now and into a system that will clearly have a winner and only one winner! were_number_1-75

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Sports On TV For September and October

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This is the time of year that all sports fan wait all year for!

Both September and October are great months for sports and sports enthusiasts. I mean just about any sport can be found on the TV.

ready_for the playoffsYou still have baseball, as it is winding down and the playoffs are just around the corner in the month of October, Who will represent the National league and who will represent the American league? Some familiar teams and a couple of new ones look like they are fighting all the way to the end for a chance to make the ‘Playoffs’ and move on to a chance to play in the World Series. The first wild card playoff game is already schedule to be held October 1st with The World Series scheduled to start October 23rd. There is also the game of the moving and trading around of players and managers, which will start as soon as very next day after the end of the regular season.

The NFL has also just started and this season the NFL can be seen on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. That is if you have access to the ’NFL’ station for the Thursday night games. tv_camera 75www.nfl.com.

Of course if that isn’t enough football for you, you can always pick up a game of college football almost every night of the week, especially Saturdays. College football started a couple of weeks ago and already they have been several upsets and lots of gossip about who’s to blame for that teams loss.

There are still a few soccer games on TV as well, you just have to really look for them. And in case you haven’t heard the the USA team beat Mexico City to make the World Cup finals.

Oh, and let’s not forget Hockey, the pre-season started this month, in fact Hockey Fans, Sept 17, the LA Kings played the Ducks of Anaheim!

http://www.nhl.com/ice/schedulebyweek.htm?navid=nav-sch-main#

Now, let’s talk basketball, are you ready for Lakers and Clipper games? Before you can blink an eye, basketball season will be starting. October 5 to be exact with the Lakers playing the Golden Warriors in Ontario’s Citizens Business Bank Arena located in San Bernardino County.

This make be the last season Kobe and several other Lakers Players, that alone should give your eyes and ears open for ‘The Kobe Show’

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College Basketball is schedule to begin their pre-season games at the end of October. You can
use this link below for UCLA’s Men’s Basketball schedule.

http://www.uclabruins.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=30500&SPID=126928&SPSID=749889.

Or for USC’s Men’s basketball schedule go to this link

http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-baskbl/sched/usc-m-baskbl-sched.html

No matter what sports you are ‘into’ it is a great time of the year to be a sport fan, you can even find a few golf tournaments still being played for you enjoy.

My only wish for us here in Southern California is to finally get our own NFL team.sports4dummies_template 75
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Then, I will have to be content to go to a few local college games and watching the NFL on TV.
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_/id/8850327/no-teams-file-los-angeles-move-2013-sources

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Review and Results of March Madness

Here is my Review and results of ‘MARCH MADNESS’?

March Madness

March Madness


As I explained in my other blog posting,
March Madness is all about men college basketball.

Especially the NIT and the NCAA tournaments.

Where hours are spend agonizing over what schools to pick, do we go for the long shot or pick the favorites.

Some fans will use the school mascots as the deciding factor. What school’s mascot will win over the other school’s mascots? There are still others that will simply flip a coin.

It all comes down to only 68 teams competing over a matter of just a few weeks starting in March, hence the term ‘March Madness’ and it doesn’t end until there is just one team left standing.

The winning college teams enter the NCAA tournament; the college teams that are the runners up enter the NIT tournament as their consolation prize. But it’s the NCAA tournament that will have people glued to their TV, radios and their computers.

ESPN even started a place where people could sign up and tract their brackets. Well over 3 million people signed on to ESPN’s March Madness to select their teams and filled out their brackets, with millions doing it with small and large groups. It just fun.

If you are not a basketball fan it would be hard for you to imagine what all the fuss is about.

I joined in on the fun and picked most of the favorites to win and before the end of the tournament even got close, most of my brackets were a complete bust. However, while it lasted I was glued to the TV, watching and holding my breath as my teams either won or lost, enjoying every minute of it.

It wasn’t always like this, long before the idea of March Madness, there was still college basketball. I can remember watching college basketball long before the notion of bracketing was even born. In fact, I am not sure when the idea of using bracketology sprung up. It probably has something to do with our ‘social media’. Even the President of the United States filled out his bracket. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/20/president-obamas-bracket-2013-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament.
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All I know is that I was a UCLA fan back when John Wooden was their coach www.coachwooden.com and I am still a fan, although I do have a little to less to cheer about this past year and the year before that. I am hopeful that with the hiring of a new coach, that they will be able to get past the first round in next year’s tournament http://www.presstelegram.com/sports/ci_22925919/ucla-introduces-new-bruins-basketball-coach-steve-alford?source=rss

We all know that Baseball is still listed as ‘The Great American Past Time’. But with the invention of the brackets, college basketball might be the new great American past time at least during March Madness.

There has been quite a bit of news lately regarding the loss of production in the work force do to this madness for college basketball. Some employers have tried to embraced it and use it as a means to improve moral in the workplace, others just see it as a waste of time, their time and their time is money.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Sports/2012/0313/NCAA-Tournament-2012-means-distracted-workers.-What-s-an-employer-to-do

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2170-march-madness-work.html

I see no end to this phenomenon known as ‘march madness, as long as everyone loves a winner and these games are set at such a fast pace, what’s not to love.

TV sponsors know this and have adjusted the showing of ‘March Madness’ to guarantee a large viewing audience. No longer does March Madness actually end in March but closer to mid-April, ensuring the games are mostly played over weekends thus a larger audience.

I have tossed out this year’s brackets and have shifted my sports interest back to baseball and regular basketball. It was fun while it lasted and although I personal did not do well this year with my choices, I can’t wait until next year.

Diana
Sporttalk4dummies.com

March Madness 2013


WHAT IS ‘MARCH MADNESS’?

What is it about men’s college basketball? Especially the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) and the NCAA (National Collegiae Athletic Association) tournaments.

March Madness 2013

March Madness 2013

We spend hours agonizing over what schools to pick, do we go for the long shot or pick the favorites. Some fans will use the school mascots as the deciding factor. What school’s mascot will win over the other school’s mascots? There are still others that will simply flip a coin, but no matter how it gets done, it seems that everyone had their bracket.

It starts with smaller tournaments all over the United States, each division only able to send it best college teams to the tournament. It all comes down to only 68 teams competing over a matter of just a few weeks starting in March, hence the term ‘March Madness’ and it doesn’t end until there is just one team left standing.

Can they get to the final 4

Can they get to the final 4

The winning college teams enter the NCAA tournament; the college teams that are the runners up enter the NIT tournament as their consolation prize. But it’s the NCAA tournament that will have people glued to their TV, radios and their computers.

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Well over 3 million people signed on to ESPN’s March Madness to filled out their brackets, with many more just doing it for fun and not using ESPN at all. If you are not a basketball fan it would hard for you to imagine what all the fuss is about.

I joined in on the fun and picked most of the favorites to win and before the end of the tournament even got close, most of my brackets were a complete bust. However, while it lasted I was glued to the TV, watching and holding my breath as my teams either won or lost, enjoying every minute of it.

It wasn’t always like this, long before the idea of March Madness, there was still college basketball. I can remember watching college basketball long before the notion of bracketing was even born. In fact, I am not sure when the idea of using bracketology sprung up. It probably has something to do with our ‘social media’. Even the President of the United States filled out his bracket. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/20/president-obamas-bracket-2013-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament.

All I know is that I was a UCLA fan back when John Wooden was their coach www.coachwooden.com and I am still a fan, although I do have a little to less to cheer about this past year and the year before that. I am hopeful that with the hiring of a new coach, he will be able to get past the first round in next year’s tournament http://www.presstelegram.com/sports/ci_22925919/ucla-introduces-new-bruins-basketball-coach-steve-alford?source=rss

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Professional Baseball

Professional Baseball

But with the invention of the brackets, college basketball might be the new great American past time at least during March Madness. There has been quite a bit of news regarding the loss of production in the work force do to this madness for college basketball. Some employers have tried to embraced it and use it as a means to improve moral in the workplace, others just see it as a waste of time, their time and their time is money.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Sports/2012/0313/NCAA-Tournament-2012-means-distracted-workers.-What-s-an-employer-to-do

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2170-march-madness-work.html

I see no end to this phenomenon known as ‘march madness, as long as everyone loves a winner and these games are set at such a fast pace, what’s not to love. TV sponsors know this and have adjusted the showing of ‘March Madness’ to guarantee a large viewing audience. No longer does March Madness actually end in March but closer to mid-April, ensuring the games are mostly played over weekends thus a larger audience.

I have tossed out this year’s brackets and have shifted my sports interest back to baseball and regular
basketball. It was fun while it lasted and although I personal did not do well this year with my choices, I can’t wait until next year.

Diana Olmos
SportsTalk4Dummies.com