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Brackets ahoy!
I never watch basketball. I always fill out a bracket.
Some years back, when Peyton Manning hosted “Saturday Night Live,” they ran a very funny sketch where a “SportsCenter”-type program, the host of which is played by Jason Sudeikis, interviews the two leading pickers in the channel’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket contest.
One of them (Manning) is an extremely-knowledgeable basketball fan who has closely studied every team and matchup in the tournament. The other (Amy Poehler) has no basketball knowledge whatsoever, and made all her picks based on uniform color, names of old friends and enemies, cute nicknames, and so on. Manning’s character gets more and more frustrated as he realizes that this woman has picked every game just as accurately, and in some cases more accurately, than he has.
I occasionally watch football and baseball on TV, although I’m completely clueless about the nuances of strategy. I never watch basketball. I don’t know why; it was the big spectator sport/social event at Oral Roberts University, which has never had any sort of football…
