Mediot Madness – The Sour Sixteen – Day Two

Now for the two remaining Regions, V and N to tussle and further reduce the mediot field of competitors. Polls will remain open for 24 hours, until 10:00 AM EDT Wednesday, March 29th.
Now for the two remaining Regions, V and N to tussle and further reduce the mediot field of competitors. Polls will remain open for 24 hours, until 10:00 AM EDT Wednesday, March 29th.
We now will take who remains and cut them in half. No, not literally. Regions C and T lead off. Polls will remain open for 24 hours, until 10:30 AM EDT Tuesday, March 28th.
The Sour Sixteen are set. Favorites and plucky underdogs. All worthy competitors. Should be fun. Voting will resume Monday, March 27th.
And just a brief flashback as to who were the 16 mediots left at this point in the Tournament in 2022 and 2019:
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyJapan. Think they’re any good at World Baseball Classics?
Kim English? I guess. You know who was available to coach Providence? Patrick Ewing.
Jaylen, a bit of free advice? Keep your trap shut until after the parade.
Bruins. Owning. But due for a letdown versus Montreal?
Purdue Men’s Basketball should try and get some of those notoriously permissive Big Ten refs to work the Tournament one of these years.
Qualin. Dont’a. Hightower. Thanks for your service.
Is Curtis drinking again? It’s a fair question.
Cakes are cooking for William Shatner, Dick Pound, Don Chaney, Bob Costas, Matthew Modine, Elvis Stojko, Shawn Bradley, Marcus Camby, Reese Witherspoon, Joey Porter, and J.J. Watt.
Andy Kaufman revealing himself to be alive so he can accept the WWE Hall Of Fame induction would probably be the funniest thing ever.
If you have two Artie Demoulases, you have none.
Dear Merriam Webster’s – think I just invented another new word: agridustrial, for the agriculture industry, or the industry of agriculture – I know there’s already agroindustrial, but my word (agridustrial) is shorter, and cuter.
Cooley Family Disharmony?
It just dawned on me, but next month (April 15th) is the 10-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Hey gang of Just So Storytellers! This week’s Phrase that Pays is, “It’s Unfair to Track the Bear to His Lair!!”
You’re not a real sports fan unless you enjoy Division 3 women’s basketball.
Quokkas!
There’s a Harvard Extension Medical School now, apparently?
Service Update: The full-line speed restriction on the Green Line has been lifted. Test trains confirmed that all speed signs are in place. Targeted block speed restrictions are now in effect on the Green, Red, Orange, Blue, and Mattapan Lines.
Please don’t follow. Go back to mary-mary land.
Shannon Sharpe is a 54-year-old LeBron James stan. Thats just sad, bruh.
I wasn’t at the concert; did E Street Ombudsman Garry Tallent have to correct Bruce mid-monologue?
Baseball and auto racing both require constant left turns. Is there any sport that requires right turns? Let us know in the comments.
I might enjoy one of those dinosaur balloons.
Reunion! Defensive back (or safety?) Jalen Mills and the Patriots have agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $6.1M, per source.
I’d give the moon if it were mine to give.
For your love.
I’d give the stars and the sun ‘fore I live.
For your love.
To thrill you with delight
I’ll give you diamonds bright
There’ll be things that will excite
To make you dream of me at night
For your love.
Gary Glitter’s youth addiction is more real than Kyle Draper’s retroactive alcoholism. (Unfortunately)
Honk if you remember Newport Jai Alai.
Why don’t I ever get flagged down while driving by a naked Amanda Bynes during a psychotic episode?
Definitely organic that every person who has ever commented on Kara Lawson uses the exact same superlative to describe her basketball mind.
The ‘who won’t wear the ribbon?’ guys from Seinfeld were not meant to be role models.
It’s rather strange there aren’t any video game-themed restaurants in the US, as far as I know. Are there any in Japan or Korea?
A: “Abe Saperstein”.
I cured my Long COVID by staring into a powerful UV light for an hour a day while my Mom paid my rent. True Story.
St. John’s, are they on probation yet?
I missed Wayne’s birthday! Hopefully his fatha didn’t.
Best bet for the weekend: a Bluejay defeating a Tiger? Preposterous.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, plus the members of #the15 were used in this column. Sunday in the Park with George!
And now, Region C and Region T get their time to shine. Polls will remain open until this time tomorrow, March 22nd.
UPDATE: New Tiebreaker Poll for voting! So vote! Until 2:30 PM EDT!
(Feel free to check out the matchup preview below if you’re unsure who to vote for!)
It’s time for the uninterestingly named Round of 32! We will keep all the matches in-region, rather than jump around as in the opening rounds. Two today, two tomorrow. Today concerns Regions N and V. Why? Because we are clearly ‘NVious’ of all these wonderful media personalities, right? Hahahahahahaha!! Polls will remain open until 10 AM EDT tomorrow, Tuesday March 21st. Choose carefully.
“Stay off the roads” they say as they’re driving around showing you how bad the roads are.
Jakobi lateraled away a few million from his bag.
KG wants to know if Marcus Smart’s cereal also tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios.
It’s not MY dead money. Aloha, Jonnu.
Is UConn poised for a March Madness run?
So we give them a bunch of Oscars so they will stop sending us novel coronaviruses, is that it?
There is no such thing as a post June 1 trade.
Craig Teed was just scouting prospects.
Boeheim. And Ewing. Makes you think.
You haven’t heard much about the Ides of May, July, or October for the better part of the past 425 years.
Cakes are cooking for Mark McGrath, Sabrina Salerno, Louis Riddick, Mike Tomlin, Eva Longoria, will.i.am, Kevin Youklis, Daryl Murphy, Tom Chilton, and Tatiana Shmailyuk.
Do YOU ever sit back and contemplate the life jackpot that Taylor Swift hit? Those looks AND that voice in one person. The odds of that genetic combination seem borderline impossible.
I like Marquette’s coach, he speaks well and I’d feel safe around him.
The 1950’s were the height of human athleticism.
That Steven Adams AT&T commercial has big ‘Brian Orakpo, All-Pro Linebacker’ energy.
Service Update: Riders should plan for additional travel time & longer headways on the Red, Orange, Blue, Green & Mattapan Lines this week as T engineers continue to perform repair validations & speed verifications following a DPU site visit last week.
There’s heart attack snow in the heart attack driveway.
Mindy Kaling, she’s from Boston. Home of Harvard University. I’m pretty sure Mindy knows what a trust fund kid is and I’m pretty sure she isn’t one herself.
DePaul and Xavier aren’t original Big East teams?
Short Round was also the kid in The Goonies? Did not know that.
Nicaragua is having a tough World Baseball Classic. Lordy!
Hey gang of disavowed Carmine Hose podcasters, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I could see you being like a sneaky 17.”
Has Josina Anderson ever talked to a honkie NFL player?
Taxing un-realized capital gains is the government’s version of claiming you slept with every woman who wouldn’t go have coffee with you.
Well my wave length gets a little longer,
Every time I wave goodbye,
Sentimental break down,
You know I break down and lie,
Where I’m not supposed to lie my head,
Always seems my softest pillow.
A: Merle Oberon.
Stop using Japanese release dates for video game consoles…
Bob Melvin Saturday Jay Groome–acquired by the Padres for Eric Hosmer last season–may open the season im the majors as a lomng reliever.
Salma Hayek has got to be the hottest 70-year old of all time.
Every time I see a clip for the Barstool Man Cave Gambling Cave thing, I get depressed.
Honk if you remember Pi being irrational.
News Item: Diamond Sports Group, which operates Bally Sports regional networks, has filed for bankruptcy.
YOU drove The Player to a tax haven. You did!
We finally got a History of the World Part 2, but not holding my breath for Rock & Roll Part 3.
Nothing like a tournament at New England Center in Marlborough to put a cap on the Hockey season.
Is every Boston-adjacent celebrity endorsing one of the sportsbooks or is it just my imagination?
Corpus Christi is not an island.
Get well soon, Mr. Springsteen. All the sportswriters, and I mean all of them, are hoping and/or praying for your speedy recovery.
Big battle brewing between Blackburn and Shukri to be Bean’s 6 AM Saturday Revs co-host.
Best bet for the weekend: Not Rutgers. Sorrey!
Know this: Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, as well as Peter Gammons, Bill James, BSMW posters Feejis, plus the members of #the15 were used in this column, All the things that I used to say, All the words that got in the way, All the things that I used to know have gone out the window.
Here’s the last bunch of first round matchups, slobberknockers all. Polls to remain open until 10 AM EDT Tomorrow March 14th.
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlyAfter two days of voting, this is how things stand. And the drama resumes tomorrow, with some big names still to go:
Felger! Gasper! Volin! Zolak! Dondero! Curran! MegO! Thornton! A James and a Jim! Plain Black Hat! Guregian! Hill! Uh, Bertrand! And ADAM KAUFMAN!!
Five matches decided, five more in the home stretch, so let’s go to the next 10 contests in Round One! Polls open until 4 PM EST (1 PM PST) on Saturday, March 11th.
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