If Any, Behind The Madness, by Robert Lipsyte, New York Times. If they don't continue the executive privilege of failing upward, the economy could be in a dangerous losing streak after all.
Life is a metaphor for the Final Four.
Forget about those hoop-happy young men and women scrapping for their schools, for our viewing entertainment, for the propagation of Budweiser. They're not what March Madness is really all about. March Madness is not about affirmative action, despite the presence of so many predominantly black teams representing predominantly white colleges. Enter my father, a lifelong sports nonfan. Three years ago, when he was 94, his remote jammed on a channel showing college basketball and he was mesmerized by a game he hadn't watched since the 1920's at City College.