The 15

Oyez, Oyez! All those having business before the Tournament Selection Committee of The15net dot com division of The Local Collaborative, take heed and listen:

The following media members, Dale Arnold, Ron Borges, Dave Brown, Tom Caron, Jared Carrabis, Jon Couture, Duke Castiglione, Greg Dickerson, Vern Dozier, Mark Farinella, Chris Forsberg, Steve Happas, Michael Holley, Adam Kaufman, Jay King, Ken Laird, Hector Longo, Mike Lynch, Bobby Manning, Chris Mannix, Jen McCaffrey, Lou Merloni, Mike Mutnansky, Dave O’Brien, Michael Parente, Paul Perillo, Dakota Randall, Alex Reimer, Dan Roche, Eric Rueb, Rich Shertenlieb, Fluto Shinzawa, Christopher Smith, Butch Stearns, Tara Sullivan, Gary Tanguay, and Eric Wilbur will NOT be participating in this year’s March Sadness Tournament. For reasons.

We regret to inform the voters that, due a recent unfortunate accident, Jeff Howe will not be participating in this year’s tournament. He is currently busy hugging his loved ones a little tighter in an undisclosed location. He has been granted a medical waiver, one we were going to use for Dan Shaughnessy before realizing it would be a darn shame if he missed out on winning a posthumous title. Jeff wants you all to know that he will be back as soon as possible, tanned and rested, ready to a manifest his next traumatic event.

Congratulations to new contestants Chris Cotillo, Courtney Cox, Chad Graff, Mike Kadlick, Kendra Middleton, & Tyler Milliken plus Cerrone Battle, Gethin Coolbaugh, Henry McKenna and Shukri Wrights! The last four ‘wild cards’ were included thanks to special dispensation from the Selection Committee, despite having otherwise disqualifying factors, such as insufficient ties to an actual media organization, residency outside New England, and not being real.

The remainder of the field is as follows:

Automatic Radio Bids: Marc Bertrand, Christian Fauria, Michael Felger, Andy Gresh, “Hardy”, Greg Hill, Adam Jones, Rich Keefe, Tony Masserotti, Meghan Ottolini, Joe Murray, Fred Toucher, Scott Zolak, plus 2^nd & 3^rd bananas Christian Arcand, Jim Murray, Jon Wallach, and Jermaine Wiggins.

Online media: Steve Buckley, Nick Cattles, Mike Giardi, Dan Greenberg, Joe Haggerty, John Karalis, Taylor Kyles, Khari Thompson, Jerry Thornton, Jared Weiss, John Zannis-

Print media: Peter Abraham, Albert Breer, Andrew Callahan, Tom E. Curran, Mark Daniels, Kevin Paul Dupont, Chad Finn, Christopher Gasper, Karen Guregian, Sean McAdam, Bob Ryan, Dan Shaughnessy, Gabrielle Starr, Gary Washburn-

Televison: Trenni Casey, Michael Hurley, Ted Johnson-

At-Large bids: Brian Barrett, Rob Bradford, Chris Curtis, Mark Dondero, “Fitzy”, Nick Gemelli, Andy Hart, Evan Lazar, Dan Lifshatz, Matt McCarthy, Phil Perry, Brian Scalabrine, & James Stewart.

Brackets to be announced Thursday of this week.