Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How is it that college sports is so big in the USA? Except for the Oxford-Cambridge rivalry, nobody gives a s*** for college sports anywhere else in the known universe.... Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> wrote: > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > >> On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Nathan wrote: >> >> They are talking about an obscure American sport that is not cricket ;-) >>> >> >> Definitely not cricket. "March Madness" is an affliction that hits US >> basketball fans every spring. The champions and runners up of each major >> college association play each other in an elimination tournament. Sixty >> four >> teams start, one finishes. To win, a team must defeat every opponent. >> That's >> six straight wins against comparably skilled teams. It is similar to the >> UEFA Champions soccer playoff except that the basketball event is >> compressed >> into a few weeks rather than half a year. By the end of the event, >> basketball fans are virtual lunatics, watching favored teams triumph or >> fall. Loyalties are transferred from team to team as the contest >> continues, >> culminating in the final playoff. The final teams pitted against each >> other >> are Michigan State, from economically depressed Detroit and North >> Carolina. >> The Carolina team is technically superior. In a game last December it beat >> Michigan State by 36 points. But the Michigan team seems to have high >> motivation on its side and carries the hope of its community. A classic >> sports matchup, sort of David and Goliath like. >> >> My comment that UM hates MS refers to the fact that the state of Michigan >> has two major colleges, the University of Michigan, a semi elite college >> in >> the affluent city of Ann Arbor, and Michigan State, a more working class >> oriented college/university >> > > located in East Lansing... > > > Steve > > > > > in the grungy city of Detroit. They have been athletic rivals for as long >> as I can remember. Still both come from Michigan, which in the strange >> logic >> of the March Madness, makes fans favor them over North Carolina. The odds >> are against them though. >> >> Larry Z >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >