You've got your bracket filled out for the NCAA Tournament and you wanna cheer on the team you picked to win it all. But where does one go to root with like-minded fans? A new map from Mapfaced solves your problem! They have a list of 33 schools and the corresponding bars that will welcome your Carolina Blue, chant "Hoya Saxa!" with you, or enjoy your off-key singing of "On, Wisconsin!" Mapfaced even has......

Back in 1990 the Rock The Vote campaign was founded and aimed towards getting the MTV generation into the polling place. Now the politicians are joining MySpace in an effort to reach the younger generation. MySpace Impact is where you can access each Presidential candidates profile. Some candidates have their profiles set to private, perhaps in an effort to get more "friends" (since you have to add them before viewing it). So far, Obama (who's......

With March Madness behind us and baseball upon us (Mets' home opener in progress!), a smoothing transition between basketball and baseball is necessary: like beer bracketology. The Washington Post conducted a tournament of head-to-head, single elimination, blind taste tastings over four weeks, in order to distinguish one beer above all other contestants as an MVB. We are pleased to report via the New York Sun that the Brooklyn Brewery's Brooklyn Lager was crowned the champion......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post about our Mayor's girlfriend. She responded back on charges that she's not a "girl's girl" and, whoo boy-- the floodgates? They......

There may be March Madness in the air, but East Village Idiot has the cure for New Yorkers who can't get behind the NCAA: March Radness, which take 64 disparate NYC moments/ people/ objects/ stores/ trends/ nonsense and sees who will reign supreme. Some key matchups are:Bloomberg Region - The U.E.S Crowd (seeded 7) vs. The B&T Crowd (10) - Trans Fat (1) vs. Rats at Taco Bell (16) Isiah Region - The Knicks......

Is it going to be Florida’s year again? Can the likely #1 pick in this year’s NBA draft, Greg Oden, lead Ohio State to a championship? Is Georgetown ready to return to elite status? These questions and many more will be answered over the next three weeks as March Madness begins. Locally, there isn’t much to root for. Syracuse got left out of the tournament despite a 10-6 record in the Big East and UConn......

Everybody is getting screwed this year during March Madness! If you thought your brackets getting screwed left and right was bad, how bad would it suck to be one of the people busted Saturday by the NYPD at the height of gambling season. The NYPD raided a $45 million gambling ring with several locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens according to Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes. The raids led to the arrests of 10 people......

When Japan advanced to play Cuba in the finals of the World Baseball Classic, the matchup was not what Major League Baseball commissioner had envisioned or set up the tournament to produce. On Monday, Japan won the game 10-6 and the first championship of the World Baseball Classic. As they celebrated, Gothamist was left to wonder whether the tournament can become a fixture in the United States. Several problems exist. Although fans of other nations......

- From our friends over at Thrillist: the next time you have a hankering for wild boar, or antelope, or . . . um, llama patties (we didn't make this one up), visit exoticmeats.com - Sure, you may know that tomorrow is the first Saturday of March Madness, but did you also know that it's also the 13th Annual National Corndog Day? To honor the day, parties are being held across the US, (and even......

After two disappointing losses on Saturday, hopes of a NY-area team making the NBA playoffs are looking fairly grim. The Knicks stand 5 1/2 games out of a playoff spot with just 12 left to play, while the Nets are a (somewhat) more manageable 3 1/2 games back. Current #7 and #8 East seeds Indiana and Philadelphia have played with serious heart in the last week, notching wins against the likes of the Spurs,......

Head over to Macy's Herald Square this Sunday to see all sorts of animals dressed up in crazy outfits during the 9th Annual Macy's Petacular. And if you can successfully put your pets in a clothes, you can have them enter the competition - registration begins at 10AM, with the runway walkoffs at 12:30PM. This weekend is also the opening of the famous Macy's Flower Show, whose theme this year is Gardens of Fantasy, with......

As everyone gets their bracket on and settles in for March Madness, the new Wes Anderson-directed Dasani commercials will start to air. Ernest Lupinacci, a partner in Anomaly, the upstart advertising agency that won the Dasani business from red cell/Berlin Cameron, spoke to the Observer about the ads that feature humans dressed up as animals:"The idea behind the spots was that if you found someone who only drank water, and if they drank this water,......

Ah, that time of year, where Cinderella isn't just a fairy tale, but something that several teams from all over the nation hope to be in the NCAA Men's Tournament. After an exciting week of conference tournaments, it's time to let the money flow in all those office pools [jpg brackets and .pdf brackets]. Does one go with a top seed like Illinois, or a sleeper pick. What top seed falls in the first two......

Staten Island's Wagner College fell just short of making the NCAA Tournament last night, falling to Fairleigh Dickinson University, 58-52 in the Northeast Conference Championship. With Wagner eliminated, it doesn't look like any teams will represent New York City in March Madness. Wagner finishes the season with a record of 13-17 despite losing 15 of 17 to start the season. They were vying for their 2nd trip to the "Big Dance" in school history, the......

Well, it seems like the end of the NFL season is now behind us. The Super Bowl is over with a 24-21 victory for the New England Patriots over the Philadelphia Eagles. The game was a lot closer than some people predicted, but it was a great game. It was the first Super Bowl tied after one half and after three quarters. With a touchdown at the towards the end of the game for the......

While Gothamist is a bit iffy about the new Mr. Peanut (as the Times' Stuart Elliott puts it, moving from a "dignified dandy, meant to be timeless in his appeal" to showing "off his moves on the basketball court and the dance floor," posing as a centerfold, and remembering when he was a "baby legume"), we do like the March Madness commercial where Mr. Peanut is playing various school mascots. Mr. Peanut is ridiculously skilled,......

Today we'd like to announce the addition of Tien Mao, known for his little read book, to our growing Gothamist family. Tien, a lifelong New Yorker, will be covering the sports beat, just in time to ring in the March Madness, the new baseball season, and Gothamist's first Little League season. So, welcome Tien. Thanks to everyone for their support. We're thrilled with how The Gothamist Forum has been going and you'll be hearing from......

Newsday has been running its own version of March Madness: pitting various TV shows against each other. The brackets are by decade (90s, 80s, 70s, 50-60s) and with the second round complete, we're down to the Sweet Sixteen. Of course Gothamist thinks it's total bullshit since Law & Order didn't even advance from the first round (and it was only ranked 14) - third seed ER beat it 50.4% to 49.6%, but it's funny and......