[Leica] Not cricket

[sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)]

This probably needs to go to the forum, because I may comment something to
the effect that my University is installing One Million dollars worth of
football carpet, while our Indian American Republican Governor (not American
Indian) Bobby Jindal is cutting our academic budget by 7.2 million dollars.




On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>
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