The Madness

Often times, I just wait to see what my mom posts about and then I take that topic and stir in my own ideas and opinions and make a new blog post.
Mom's Great Blog Ideas + My Additions = Poor Attempt at Blogging

Regardless. I'll be discussing March Madness from my point of view today:

I hate watching sports. As much as I love to play them and as much as I love winning...I hate watching other people do it. (I think I've blogged this rant before.) But as this March approached, mom offered a tempting scenario involving my participating in her CBS.com bracket and her giving her winning child (assuming we win) $10. As is the case with most offers of money, I couldn't resist.

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I'm not sure if you can read this, or if the site will allow you to view my link without logging in...but my final four choices were: Kentucky, Missouri, Syracuse, Kansas. With Kentucky and Syracuse in the playoffs and Kentucky taking home the title.

I actually did do a fair amount of research...which may seem hard to believe considering my choices (Syracuse? I missed the memo about some injured player). I read a little article that told me to see if the opponents had played earlier in the season or if they had any common opponents earlier in the season. The same article told me to "chose upsets tastefully", so I thought I'd give Harvard a little run? I didn't really give UNC a fair look. I guess they're the choice against Kansas. And Mizzou. Well. I gave them the BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. Which they didn't really utilize, did they?


My current standing is 5th of 20 with a score of 43 (whatever that means), so I would say that is nearly impressive. Except that 7 of these opponents are younger than me and two are my grandparents. Soooo...interpret "impressive" as you see fit.

As a final point to this post, I would like to attest to the benefits of participating in March Madness, particularly in the source of conversation it provides. Multiple times this month I have come in contact with a male and questioned his March Madness decisions. I'm not going to say this was incredibly sexy of me...but it totally was...right? Mom has often joked about texting me sports updates to impress boys, but I never realized how effective it could be.