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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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Debunking 4 NBA Myths
The Knicks back in the playoffs is the best thing ever. The way some make it sound, you’d think the New York Knicks’ return to the playoffs resembled some sort of peasant uprising that resulted in the...
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March Madness: I Feel Sorry for You and Your Silly Little Bracket
Oliver Lee Bateman has a warning for all the March Madness bracketologists out there. Yeah, I really do feel sorry for you. Think you’ve got the inside dope, don’t you? Confident that you’ve got...
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The Madness of March
With all eyes on college basketball, Billy Bey questions whether college is for everyone. The madness of March is upon us. The 68 teams have been picked, the regions have been set, and office copiers...
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Dolph Pulliam and The Governor of Iowa: Two Good Men
Jamie Reidy comments on the story of Dolph Pulliam, the first African-American television broadcaster in Iowa. Dolph Pulliam served as defensive leader and emotional catalyst for the 1969 Drake...
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March Madness: The Fiction Special
Carlton Suede is about to dunk the ball. Without an ounce of grace — his mutt of a mother used to call him “our clubfooted son” — he is rising through the lower ether. Above the marshmallow-thick...
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The Best Moments in Sports: 2012
Recapping the year’s best moments in sports. Following up on my list of worst in sports from 2012, here is my list of the best moments. In contrast to the craven and avaricious behavior that dominated...
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2013 Men’s NCAA Bracket Predictions (If selected via the “notable alumni”...
In Jim Jividen’s celebrity alumni version of this year’s NCAA Tournament, playwright Arthur Miller and actor James Earl Jones take on Joe Montana in a championship game for the ages. For the past...
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Bring on One and Done
Liam Day explains why the “one-and-done format” in the NCAA Tournament is the most exciting way for it to be done. The NCAA Tournament begins tomorrow. (Yes, I know the play-in games for the new...
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Teen Beat, or How I Love the College Game
Yago Colas explains why, despite all the youthful mistakes, the turnovers and the bad fouls, he loves college basketball. Everything that stirs us and causes us to cringe during the NCAA Men’s...
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What the Mike Rice Episode Says About College Basketball
The Mike Rice story is about more than just one aberrant coach. Liam Day argues it exposes the system that college basketball has become. I won’t go into detail about what exactly Mike Rice, the now...
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An Ode to Basketball
As the NCAA Tournament concludes tonight with the National Championship game, Erik Crosier offers the only two ingredients you need to achieve your Zen: a ball and a hoop. America gets a little...
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The Quaint Notion of Amateurism
In honor of March Madness, which began this week, GMP Sports has combed its archives for the best articles about the tournament. Here, Liam Day, in a post from 2012, argues that the players you’ll be...
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Are the NCAA Decks Stacked Against Smaller Schools?
Argun Ulgen explains how the Atlantic 10′s Men’s Basketball Tournament Champion got the short end of the bracket in this year’s NCAA Tournament. Virginia Commonwealth University Rams Men’s Basketball...
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NCAA Tournament Diary, Day 1
GMP’s Doug Zeigler paired some of the finest regional beers with a slate of second round upsets. In his diary of the afternoon, he shares his thoughts on everything from Dayton’s patience on offense...
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Why I Love College Basketball
Continuing with the best NCAA Tournament articles from the GMP Sports archives, Yago Colas admits he has a soft spot for the college game, one grounded in the knowledge that the players we’re watching...
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Pay Them Already
The North Carolina scandal demonstrates that, if college athletes aren’t going to get even the education that is their ostensible compensation for generating billions of dollars, then they should at...
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For Dove Men+Care, Jay Wright Was an Easy Decision
Villanova men’s basketball coach was signed to be one of the spokesmen for Dove Men+Care’s ‘Easy Decision’ campaign. Between his style, his composure, and his obvious care to do the best he can for the...
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The Sweetest Upset
Forgotten now, but four years ago the NCAA backed down in the face of fan opposition to a plan to expand the annual men’s basketball tournament to 96 teams. Brian Lutz says its one of the few times...
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