March Madness’s Descent Into Money Mania March 31, 2025
The hoop-heads were livid. ...
Is March Madness All Luck? March 26, 2025
The beauty of March Madness is that anything can happen. The horror of March Madness is that, really, anything can happen. Unlike the college-football playoffs—which are highly restrictive, and weighted toward bigger schools from powerhouse conferenc...
John Calipari and the Razor-Thin Margins of Legacy March 21, 2025
They are dressed in blue and ready for blood, thousands of them, pouring through downtown Lexington, Kentucky, on a Saturday night in February, layered, liquored up, and ready to scream. “My guess is I’m going to get booed,” John Calipari said earlie...