We're just hours away from the beginning of what I hope will some day be recognized as a national holiday.
Yes, the NCAA men's basketball tournament is about to start. And there's still time to enter the NXT Bracketstravaganza!
The NXT hoops challenge is back for yet another year and is ready for another name in the top slot.
Last year's winner and college hoops savant, Kevin Wack, shared his tips and a humble reflection from last year's competition.
All you have to do to enter is head over to the Bracketstravaganza Yahoo! group and enter. It takes a Yahoo! ID, which is quick and easy to make unless you don't already have one. The picks have to be in before the first game tips around noon.
Up for grabs this year are unlimited braggin' rights, personal glory and a special edition, NXT Desk-made championship T-shirt. (Though everyone seems more interested in getting one of those bobbleheads. So maybe we'll have to reconsider.)
I'll be off the next two days, recovering from SXSW and soaking up as much basketball as possible. You will most likely be able to find me at Dock Fore over the weekend. Stop by and say "Hi," share a beer and watch some upsets.
I'll try and post standings at some point over the weekend, so we can keep up the trash talk and provide support for those whose brackets get detonated in the first weekend.
If even the President has time to not only fill out his bracket, and break it down with Andy Katz then I think you can too.
(But really Mr. President? Memphis? Do you know Mizzou's Mike Anderson had Memphis' number when he coached at UAB? Just saying.)
Finally, to get you further fired up, here's "One Shining Moment." Take a moment of silence when you watch it this year for Doug Towey, the CBS executive who paired the song with the tournament, died recently.
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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