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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'ncaatournament'

March 18, 2008

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......

Continue Reading "Map of the Day: Where to Watch March Madness"

March 25, 2007

It's officially spring, and that means lots of NY Times wedding announcements. Twenty-six, to be exact. Total Number of Weddings: 26 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 23 Oldest Bride: 65 Youngest Groom: 25 Oldest Groom: 73 Biggest Age Difference: 21 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 4 (30 31, and two couples at 27) Number of Harvard Graduates Married: 3 Number of Yale......

Continue Reading "Times Weddings By the Numbers"

June 30, 2006

Name, age, occupation, where are you from? Kevin Dailey, 36, salesman and promoter from Hudson County. You're a co-founder of Brooklyn Kickball - when you tell people about kickball, what are their responses? For the most part when you first go around telling people about kickball, some people think it's the greatest idea ever, some people were just too cool to consider it, yet would sometimes show up, and other people were like, "what do......

Continue Reading "Kevin Dailey, Co-Founder, Brooklyn Kickball"

March 27, 2006

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......

Continue Reading "NYPD Stomps Out The Madness"

March 26, 2006

Let's step away from some of the more popular sports for a second. Move aside basketball and your NCAA Tournament. Take a chill pill baseball with your World Baseball Classic and Spring Training. Yesterday the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum hosted the Big Apple Grapple, which featuring the some of the world's best male and female arm wrestlers. All battling for NYC's King and Queen of Arms. Unfortunately, there are no results online for this scintillating display......

Continue Reading "Big Apple Grapple Like Over the Top?"

March 19, 2006

OK, so Gothamist was talking about the NIT, but a #1 is still a #1, no? Yesterday the Manhattan Jaspers won their first round NIT game against the Maryland Terrapins. Sure, Maryland players and fans have no interest in the tournament (only 4,761 were at the game), but that's no really not much of an excuse. Win the win, Manhattan and Hofstra are now the only local men's basketball teams that are still playing in......

Continue Reading "#1 Bounced From Tourney"

March 13, 2006

It is an annual right of spring; “Selection Sunday” gives way to “Moaning Monday”, a chance for the teams who didn’t make the NCAA Tournament to complain. Florida State, Michigan, Cincinnati and Maryland are all grumbling today after not being invited to the big dance. Locally, Hofstra certainly has a lot to complain about. They had the 30th RPI in the country and beat George Mason, a team that made the tournament, twice. Hofstra’a exclusion......

Continue Reading "The Madness Begins"

March 10, 2006

Gerry McNamara won a national title in his freshman year at Syracuse and he wasn’t going to miss the tournament in his senior year. McNamara hit a game tying three-pointer with 10 seconds left to force overtime in Syracuse’s 86-84 upset over UConn in the Big East Tournament. Syracuse will now face Georgetown in the semifinals tonight. The Hoyas outlasted Marquette 62-59 to advance. Pittsburgh and Villanova will meet in the other semifinal tonight after......

Continue Reading "GMac's the Man"

March 18, 2005

No 16 seed has ever beaten a number 1 in the NCAA Tournament history, and it remained that way last night as Fairleigh Dickinson lost 67-55 to the University of Illinois in opening round action. The Knights managed to give the Illini a scare, however, taking a brief lead in the first half and only trailing by one at the end of the half. The second half was a different story. Illinois outscored FDU 22-8......

Continue Reading "FDU Gives Illinois a Scare"

March 17, 2005

Well folks, the NCAA Tournament just began and Gothamist thinks productivity has dropped a notch around our offices. Right now, we've got three scoreboards up and running (ESPN, Sportsline, Yahoo) and they're all updating live, live, live!! Click on over if you want to see how your brackets are doing. Right now, it seems like Alabama is trailing Wisconsin-Milwaukee by 12 points. Lucky for us, we didn't pick Alabama to go very far, especially since......

Continue Reading "Tournament Begins, Productivity Dips"

March 14, 2005

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......

Continue Reading "The Road to St. Louis Begins"

March 10, 2005

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......

Continue Reading "Wagner Falls Short of Tourney"

March 17, 2004

Gothamist's Cinderella pick for the NCAA Tournament is ready. The Post reports that the team is confident. Senior guard Luis Flores thinks Manhattan has "a pretty good chance if we do what we do." Flores is also very proud that Manhattan is from New York, "We're Manhattan, we're a New York team, and our 1, 2 and 3 are from New York City." Those positions are filled by Jason Wingate (Rice), Flores (Norman Thomas), and......

Continue Reading "Jaspers Ready for NCAA's"

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