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Category: SPORTS

  • You have a moral obligation to oppose Steve Alford

    You have a moral obligation to oppose Steve Alford

    Editors Note: Occasionally here at The Tailgate Society we bring in guest contributors.  These contributors can help shine lights on subjects that that we might have overlooked or couldn’t give the subject the proper justice.  This is one such occasion. — Ted Flint   By Hawkize, TGS Guest Contributor     I can be brash. Okay, that’s […]

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  • Kansas NCAA Tournament losses, ranked by awfulness

    Kansas NCAA Tournament losses, ranked by awfulness

    The problem with expecting your team to win a championship every year is that most years end in disappointment — but some years hurt more than others. Behold my official ranking of Kansas NCAA Tournament losses, arranged from least anguish to most.

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  • Betting the brackets – Sweet 16 & Elite 8

    Betting the brackets – Sweet 16 & Elite 8

    We’re down, but not out.

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  • Hot Coach Madness: the NCAA’s most handsome leaders

    Hot Coach Madness: the NCAA’s most handsome leaders

    This marks my fourth year of completing a March Madness bracket and every year I use the same guiding principle when determining my picks: which team has the hottest coach? That’s right, while others are looking for teams that have Cinderella potential, I’m looking for the Prince Charming of the NCAA. Evaluating the physical attractiveness […]

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  • Betting the brackets – Degenerate style

    Betting the brackets – Degenerate style

    What better way to enjoy the NCAA Tournament that by throwing a bunch of money around?

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  • March Sadness: Heartbreak in the Heartland

    March Sadness: Heartbreak in the Heartland

    March Madness is the best time of the year for sports fans.

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  • Mascot Bracketology with TGS

    Mascot Bracketology with TGS

    It’s the most wonderful time of the year again — March Madness. While you’re going to see post after post after post on the internet of so-called “experts” telling you why this 12-seed is going to upset that 5-seed in the first round, you don’t really care do you?

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  • Bracket Busters: Your Guide to the First Four

    Bracket Busters: Your Guide to the First Four

    On Sunday, 68 teams heard their name called to play in the greatest tournament in all of sports. Well, kind of. You see, the Big Dance only works with 64 teams—at least in its current format. It’s a beautiful system: six beautiful rounds of basketball that cut the field of teams in half each round. […]

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  • Bracketology for KenPom truthers

    Bracketology for KenPom truthers

    We all have those friends that love to throw KenPom stats in our face when talking college basketball. So I’ve decided to see what the bracket would look like if the seeding was done using KenPom metrics.

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  • Let’s break down the Big Dance

    Let’s break down the Big Dance

    Finally, we’ve reached the three most exciting weeks of the year as Selection Sunday has passed and the NCAA Tournament is set to tip-off on Thursday. Well, I guess it is technically Tuesday, but the First Four sucks and I’m not counting it in this article. If you disagree with that, you probably suck, too — […]

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