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Signs that Spring is coming
Yesterday, the Red Sox played their first exhibition games beating Boston College and losing to Minnesota. Spring is just around the corner even though it was cold and blustery in Boston. The big...
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Almost Time for the Big Dance
I’m looking at the March 9 Sports Illustrated cover showing the Elite Eight picks – as they say themselves “for now” and thinking it is a measure of just how unpredictable the tournament is going to...
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Final Four Picks
Here are my picks: Elite Eight: Louisville, Boston College, Connecticut, Memphis, Pitt, Duke, North Carolina, Syracuse Final Four: Louisville, Connecticut, Pittsburg and North Carolina – the Number...
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My Final Four – 50% Result
I picked the number one seeds: Louisville, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, North Carolina. And we got: Michigan State, Connecticut, Villanova and North Carolina. I keep telling myself that a great batter...
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Final Four and Opening Day
Last week Amalie Benjamin wrote in the Boston Globe FORT MYERS, Fla. — It’s almost six weeks into spring training, and already one member of the Red Sox has had surgery, pitchers are headed toward five...
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Tar Heels Win!
Just enought time to gloat a bit. The President and I may have messed up the rest of our brackets, but we did pick the ultimate winner. It was a great ride for Michigan State, but in the end it was...
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Tar Heels Visit the White House
Anyone who reads this blog with any regularity has probably figured out I would write about the North Carolina Tar Heels visiting the White House yesterday. Everyone who follows March Madnes(and many...
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One day before the House votes on health care
It is Saturday afternoon. The Tar Heels won their NIT game, my NCAA bracket is doing so-so. and the Sox won. There is a lot going on including the all important countdown to 216 votes in the House. A...
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Bracket busted
My picks for the final four this year: Duke, Michigan State, Florida State, and North Carolina. Duke went out early and Florida State didn’t make the Sweet Sixteen. What I get for ACC loyalty....
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Dean Smith and Carolina basketball
My mother, Marii Hasegawa, loved Atlantic Coast Basketball, but she really loved the Tar Heels the best. Even after my sister got her Masters degree from Duke, my mother refused to root for them when...
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