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Ian: I live in the Canadian Arctic without cable so you're providing all my Madness commentary.
Good God, that sounds awful.
I don't mean that you live in the Canadian Arctic. I mean that I'm providing all of your March Madness commentary. Beware! I'm making it all up!
Glenn A.: Between all of the "TV timeouts" and the other hundred or so they get now it makes the last 2 minutes of a game take what feels like 6 hours to complete.
Feels like? It does. I have a graphic representation of that that I'll mention tomorrow.
Michael Porcaro: There will always be that segment of the population that will never embrace women’s basketball, like ESPN Radio’s odious Colin Cowherd, but they need to close the gap between wheat and the chaff before the women’s tournament becomes a serious topic of sports conversation.
I agree and have written as much in the past. I think the women's game is at the stage now where the Tournament should be 32 teams, though they could stretch it to 48 without hurting anybody. It's at a roughly similar stage to where the men's game was when the Tournament began to expand beyond 16 teams. In those days, the gap was still huge between the top teams and those below, say 50, but the era of UCLA dominance was closing. That's where women's basketball is now, with the chokehold of Tennessee/UConn loosening.
Cory Boone: I like the creativity of the penalty-box idea, but it's too derivative for my taste.
mintosh: Maybe I misuderstand, but I don't think Kaufman has really thought this one through. If you treat the center line as out of bounds when it has been crossed by the offense, then when the defense taps the ball back across it, the ball goes back to. . . the offense. It is, then, even less detrimental to them that it has been tapped out of their hands the either other option. Can someone please explain Kaufman's point to me.
It's just an end line for the offense. What I mean is, if the ball goes back over the center line, it's a backcourt violation, whoever touched it last.
