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How to Fill Out Your Bracket Perfectly
The chances of picking a perfect bracket are one in 147,573,952,589,676,412,928. If you’re a pessimist, then you’re thinking something like, I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning twice...
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Duke Loses and All Is Right With the World
Stick a fork in the Good Men Picks bracket. It’s DONE. Yep, last night UConn knocked off our national champion, San Diego State. As of now, we only have one remaining Final Four team (UNC), and even...
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VCU Gives Us the Story We Want
Two people don’t have terrible brackets In the ESPN bracket competition, two people have the Final Four correct. Two out of 5.9 million. And one of the guys with a perfect Final Four isn’t even in the...
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Your National Championship Preview
Will anyone actually watch the game? Tonight, at 9:23 p.m. Eastern, the Butler Bulldogs will take on the Connecticut Huskies for the NCAA Basketball Championship. That tip-off time means that on the...
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How Should We Remember Butler-UConn?
The 2011 NCAA Tournament is over. Connecticut beat Butler 53-41. It’s UConn’s third title, all three since 1999. This also makes Jim Calhoun the fifth coach—along with Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight,...
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The NCAA Can’t Have It All
The NCAA wants miracles, and it wants NBA-quality talent. As the National Championship showed, it can’t have both. March Madness and I had a pretty good run of it this year. It was courteous enough to...
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How to Not be “That Guy” in Your Kids’ Lives
Tom Limbert offers advice on how to be a great coach and supportive parent, from some of the greatest coaches in the history of professional sports. You’ve seen him. He eagerly attends his kids’...
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Is the NCAA Knocking Down the Gods of College Sports?
Jim Calhoun, AP Photo/John Gay Liam Day hopes the NCAA’s new regulations will help prioritize students’ futures over the wealth of the universities’ sports programs. The 2012-2013 college basketball...
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You Only Live Once
Jay Hewitt got drunk, acted foolish, and threw up. And it was one of the smartest things he’s ever done. Despite attending the University of Connecticut, the home of drinking oneself to death, I...
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Under The Tough Exterior of Tough Juice: The Evolution of the NBA’s Caron Butler
Mike Kasdan speaks with the NBA’s Caron Butler and learns that athletes can rise above and be role models. The blunt punch line of that famous quote about athletes being role models is that they’re...
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Sports and Math Collide at Yale and UConn: Upset Loss to Yale Spawns Complex...
As if an upset loss weren’t enough. Mike Kasdan is sad to report that UConn math students are being forced to relive the loss in probability class: “Thanks a lot Professor Chen!” —- Earlier this...
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Who Runs the (Basketball) World? U Conn.
Embed from Getty Images — 819 Days. That’s how long it’s been since the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team last tasted defeat. In the 2 years 2 months and 27 days since the Huskies took...
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3 University Research Studies Find Common Traits in Great Dads
Many dads will set out to be better fathers in 2017 than they were in 2016. However, sometimes the parenting resources for dads are lacking, and they’re left guessing as to how to make improvements.10...
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Kobe Bryant’s Legacy Outside of Playing Basketball
— The backstory: On January 26, the basketball community and the world was shocked to learn about the sudden passing of both Kobe Bryant, 41, and his 13-year old daughter Gigi. They, along with seven...
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Ben Gordon Becomes The Latest NBA Player To Speak Out About Mental Health
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ “Mental illness touches everybody. Every community, every person. Either you or somebody you love...
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