March Sadness 2025 Day Two Part 2
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2025 March Sadness Day Two Part 1
Here is Part 1 for your voting enjoyment, Part 2 will post in a couple hours.
Polls will remain open until 8:30 PM EDT, enjoy the mediot madness!
03/12/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
With Khusnutdinov and Jokiharju coming to Boston and Sophia Jurksztowicz returning, Jack Edwards retired just in time.
Sam Hauser has lowkey played some good defense against LeBron James.
I’m sure Lucy will land on her back.
Speaking of thriving, I just saw Blake Griffin in a Red Lobster commercial. Mixed-race athletes DO love cheddar bay biscuits. My grandpa was right.
Daylight Savings Time came outta nowhere this year huh?
Marchand, Carlo & Coyle traded. Always tough when a good sound bite guy leaves.
I like Kornet, but sometimes he has hands like Johnny Tremain.
Jeff Howe is my go-to insider because I like my free agent news confirmed slightly later than everyone else.
Cakes are cooking for Barbara Feldon, Johnny Rutherford, John Paul Sr, Frank Welker, Liza Minelli, Mitt Romney, James Taylor, Bill Payne, Caren Kaye, Carl Hiaasen, Dale Murphy, Steve Harris, Courtney B Vance, Darryl Strawberry, Titus Welliver, Fran Harris, Steve Finley, Steve Levy, Aaron Eckhart, Jake Tapper, Isaiah Rider, Ben Kenney, Casey Mears, Claudio Sanchez, Cristina Teuscher, Tara Mounsey, and Dont’a Hightower.
NBA players have to grow a backbone and tell their sneaker company “No, I will not wear your pink sneakers. I’m wearing purple for Chrissakes!”
It will be weird not hearing Godchaux complain about his contract during Training Camp.
You know who else was 33 when they died? That’s right. Chris Farley.
Hey gang of the moderately unsuccessful, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “When you’ve achieved nothing, what else is there?”
I’m probably really late but Ryan Seacrest hosts the Wheel?
The Krafts have better set some weight room renovation and AirKraft wi-fi retrofit money aside.
Green Line D & E Branch: Delays of about 15 minutes due to a signal problem near Lechmere. Trains may stand by at stations.
Hirohito had an early lead, too.
I find humor in the fact that I’m in better shape than one of the best players in the NBA. Looking at you Luka.
My advice? Waste your money on other things.
Sources: Boston Celtics Director of Scouting Remy Cofield is leaving the NBA to become the GM for the Arkansas athletic department.
Last week’s performance is gonna make Trevor Story’s inevitable season-ending injury that much more exciting!
Hearing whispers the economy is much more reasonable in Iowa.
Imagine having to get up and go to work the day after you try to fight a mascot at a hockey game.
Van Lith is Dutch for yes please.
JJ Redick looks like the front man for a Maroon 5 cover band.
I’ve always been apprehensive about doing the tap to pay credit card thing at stores, but I tried it today and holy cow – Absolute game changer! So much better than the swipe or insert.
No matter where you go
I will always be around
Won’t you tell me what you found, girl?
Ooh, girl, want you
Knock down the old grey wall
Be a part of it all
Nothing to say, nothing to see, nothing to do
If you would give me all
As I would give it to you
Nothing would be, nothing would be, nothing would be
No matter where you go
There will always be a place
Can’t you see it in my face, girl?
Ooh, girl, want you.
Vegas/The State typically always wins against individuals.
New lunch options at the Ninety-Nine?
Wait, Porzingis has an actual virus, and not the Hellenic Flu? Huh.
Honk if you remember Peanut Butter Twix.
Both Lipscomb and North Alabama are infinitely better than High Point.
New look B’s 2-0? Someone go tell the Performative Bruins Whores that Marchand and Coyle were cancers.
Maybe we could just move the clocks 1 minute at a time for 60 days?
St Mary’s going to be dangerous in the NIT.
Of course Stolen Valor Jerry owns some Salute to Service gear.
The original ‘Suits’ wasn’t set in LA before?
Best bet for the weekend: Red Sox earn a W over the Twins edging closer to the Mayor’s Cup.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Best of luck and God Bless.
2025 March Sadness Day One – Round One
Update – Polls stay open until 10 PM EDT. Enjoy Day One!
2025 March Sadness Wild Card Play-In Games
The polls will remain open until 8 PM EDT, Enjoy the start of the Tournament!
2025 March Sadness Tournament Bracket
If some of the seedings seem strange to you, there’s a reason for that, and possibly a good reason. We have instituted a few rule changes regarding the top seeds this year. One- only one top seed allowed per media outlet. Two- if the media member has been a multiple time #1 Seed and not won the championship, they cannot be a top seed this go around, And Three- If you are a #1 seed and lost to a #16 last tournament, you are similarly ineligible to be a top seed.
Play -in Games Region C 10 Seed Jeff Howe vs wild card Meghan Ottolini (WEEI/Celtics), Region V 11 Seed Matt McCarthy vs wild card Bobby Manning (CLNS), Region N 9 Seed Brian Barrett vs wild card Jared Weiss (The Athletic)., and Region T 7 Seed Pete Abraham vs wild card Kayla Burton (NBCSB).
Play in games will be on Monday, March 10th. The rest of the field will begin on Tuesday, then Thursday and Friday of next week.
03/05/2025 Cleaning Up the Sports Junk Drawer
Has Joel Embiid considered Nugenix? Could help with the knee pain. Plus, she’ll like it too!
And Kyrie now as well? Why do bad things happen to good people?
I’ll be honest: I heard a hack man died and thought we finally lost Jerry Thornton.
Bob Kraft hand-picked a guy 5 years ahead of time to replace the GOAT and he may never coach again. Beautiful stuff.
Man, the world lost so many titans of the film industry in the last year.
Oh good! The NBAs leading fake intellectual (maybe number 2 behind his buddy in Dallas) teaming up with TVs leading fake scientist to make a fucking sneaker. Yippee.
Thank you for your service, Trent Frederic.
You’re telling me that Josh couldn’t figure out a way to use Deebo?
One of the more underrated shots in the league is the wing taking the running hook off of a eurostep when attacking a closeout. A lot of guys get the open lane to attack one-on-one and they have to do a step through to a contested 5-footer, but so many miss it a lot.
I had no idea that Mexico has a woman president. Did you know?
Cakes are cooking for Fred Williamson, Randy Matson, Murray Head, Kent Tekulve, Eddy Grant, Marsha Warfield, Penn Jilllette, Charlie Reid, Craig Reid, Michael Irvin, John Frusciante, Eva Mendes, Wally Szczerbiak, Karolina Wydra, Dan Carter, Jake Lloyd, Kyle Schwarber, Taylor Hill, Justin Fields, and Beatrice Chebet.
It’s great having Dale back around, but every time I see him, I tend to think of Sophia and hope she’s doing ok.
Hey gang of Ramadan reflectors! This week’s Phrase that Pays is, “Number 8 on the court, number 20 on your hijacker manifest…BASHEEEEEER JIHAAAAAD!”
Could Adrien Brody play the lead in the Brad Marchand biopic?
All the original New York Dolls are now dead.
Green Line C Branch Update: Shuttle buses replace service between Cleveland Circle and Coolidge Corner due to an overhead wire problem near Brandon Hall.
I’m just saying, Bill Nye has been suspiciously quiet on his whereabouts during Gene Hackman’s death.
Despite hailing from Albany, Abbey Buttacavoli can’t be a more Rhode Island name.
If you have more money, you can buy more things.
One time I got a bag of broccoli florets and it was all stumps. My wife complained and Birdseye sent us $20 in coupons.
‘Fucking Dart Adams?’ That’s historian, journalist, lecturer, and Boston Native Fucking Dart Adams to you
News Item: Bill Belichick and UNC in negotiations be featured on Offseason Hard Knocks after NFL Films could not find an NFL team to do it after the Joe Schoen debacle last year.
Fun Fact: I saw The Joe Schoen Debacle play The Rat back in ’93.
One year from today we will have World Baseball Classic 2026 games.
Lil Jerry falls back on what he knows in times of crisis: being horrifyingly unfunny.
Brazil nuts are rich in Selenium.
This Gene Hackman loss won’t feel real until I read Rear Admiral’s paint-by-numbers obit on Barstool.
When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out, yeah, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And If I haver, hey, I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door.
[inarticulate Scottish noises]
Hard Knocks probably objected to the costs of needing dedicated production assistants to shoo Jordon out of every shot. And Lombardi, too.
Dybantsa? What is that? Dutch?
Listen it’s a terrible tweet. But, have faith in Dutch’s plan.
Just looked at Gasper’s Twitter bio. He describes himself as a “car geek.” lol What’s he driving, the car from ‘The Ambiguously Gay Duo?’
Honk if you remember Torvill and Dean.
Word going around: Padres superstar Fernando Tatis Jr. is considering hiring Bad Bunny’s Rimas group to personally manage him (for marketing and maybe more)
EDM has derailed many careers.
Is there any other spy series equal to “The Americans”?
Truly amazing the same people who reveled in the hit piece on Belichick and the complete undermining of him in his final year are now acting insulted and surprised Robyn Glazer has gotten the media machine turned on her. You were okay with it 14 months ago.
When do we get Lenny Clarke’s appearance in the new Celtics documentary?
The Kansas City Chiefs are trading 4x Super Bowl champion Joe Thuney to the Chicago Bears, sources say.
Is rain ever described as anything other than “much needed?”
Happy Ash Wednesday to all my mackerel snappers out there. You guys better take on Lent like a hero. None of this “I won’t have sprinkles on my ice cream” bs. Real penance, real suffering.
Best bet for the weekend: Revs score a goal in their match at Philadelphia.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
March Sadness 2025 Field of Contestants Announcement
Attention, please! All those having business before the Tournament Selection Committee of The15net dot com division of The Local Collaborative, take care and know the following will comprise the Field of 68 in the 5th Annual Mediot Madness/March Sadness Tournament:
Peter Abraham (Globe) Christian Arcand (WEEI) Brian Barrett (The Ringer) Alex Barth (98.5) Cerrone Battle (98.5) Marc Bertrand (98.5) Rob Bradford (WEEI) Albert Breer (NBCSB) Steve Burton (WBZ) Andrew Callahan (Herald) Tom Caron (NESN) Jared Carrabis (NESN/98.5/Underdog) Tom “Freeze Pops” Carroll (WEEI) Drew Carter (NBCSB) Trenni Casey (NBCSB) Nick Cattles (CLNS/98.5) Courtney Cox (WEEI) Chris Curtis (WEEI) Mark Daniels (MassLive) Mark Dondero (98.5) Kevin Paul Dupont (Globe) Mike Felger (98.5) Chad Finn (Globe) Chris Forsberg (NBCSB) Chris Gasper (Globe/98.5) Mike Giardi (BSJ) Dan Greenberg (Barstool) Karen Guregian (MassLive) Joe Haggerty (BSJ) Andy Hart (WEEI) Michael Holley (NBCSB) Jeff Howe (The Athletic) Greg Hill (WEEI) Ted Johnson (WEEI) Adam Jones (WEEI) Mike Kadlick (CLNS) Rich Keefe (WEEI) Doug Kyed (Herald) Taylor Kyles (CLNS) Evan Lazar (Patriots) Dan Lifshatz (98.5) Jackie MacMullan (Kraft Dynasty LLC) Tony Massarotti (98.5) Sean McAdam (MassLive) Matt McCarthy (98.5) Kendra Middleton (98.5) Jim Murray (98.5) Joe Murray (98.5) Dave O’Brien (NESN) Phil Perry (NBCSB) Rob “Hardy” Poole (98.5) Mike Reiss (ESPN) Bob Ryan (CLNS) Brian Scalabrine (NBCSB) Dan Shaughnessy (Globe) Christopher Smith (MassLive) Gabrielle Starr (Herald) Nick “Fitzy” Stevens (WEEI) Jimmy Stewart (98.5) Jerry Thornton (Barstool) Fred Toucher (98.5) Matt Vautour (MassLive) Gary Washburn (Globe) Scott Zolak (98.5)
Wild Cards – Meghan Ottolini (WEEI/Celtics) Kayla Burton (NBCSB) Bobby Manning (CLNS) Jared Weiss (The Athletic). These contestants will be in the four ‘play-in games’ prior to the First Round matchups.
Brackets to be announced Thursday of this week.
(The Selection Committee reserves the right to substitute a new contestant for any and all Audacy employees who may be laid off on Thursday & are slated to participate in this tournament.)
02/26/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
I say the Competition Committee should reach a compromise: ban the Tush Push but keep The Brotherly Shove.
Walking around Montreal during/after a blizzard is a great workout.
Do birds like cheese?
They might have support groups for those who listen to spring training baseball on the radio.
Garden crowds are the best.
Let’s be real. The Canadian flag would make for a terrible bikini.
St. John’s is the best hoops team in New York.
A belated R.I.P. to figure skating legend Dick Button. He is survived by his partner, Clit Zipper.
Cakes are cooking for Bill Duke, Mitch Ryder, Michael Bolton, Connie Carpenter-Phinney, Joe Mullen, Dave Palone, J.T. Snow, Meeno Peluce, Sasha Danilovic, Erykah Badu, Jenny Thompson, Marshall Faulk, Chad Urmston, Corinne Bailey Rae, Katherine Hull Kirk, and Li Na.
The first a capella “Sweet Caroline” of the year always gets me.
Dan Lifshatz and Kendra Middleton have the chemistry of a Hollywood producer and the young actress he violates on the casting couch.
Hey gang of haters, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I’m gonna go ahead and take the under.”
Patrick Schwarzenegger is on ‘The White Lotus?’ Any relation?
Blue Line: Delays of about 10 minutes while Signal personnel perform maintenance between Maverick and Airport. Trains may stand by at stations.
Bill Simmons invented the documentary.
Imagine being mad the NY Yankees did away with their stupid appearance policy.
In the future, everyone will be Ted Sarandis for fifteen minutes.
Matthew Stafford’s exploration of his market value the last few weeks has indeed attracted significant interest from teams, notably the Raiders and the Giants, per sources. Teams are anticipating the Rams will now be driving up the asking price if they decide to move him.
Statistically, Nelson Cruz and Giancarlo Stanton are pretty much the same player.
The Oscars have to be the Super Bowl for Twitter.
Who’s has more fatalities since 1975: SNL cast members or Pittsburgh Steelers linemen?
Shout out Portugal!
The Yankees will no longer play Frank Sinatra’s “Theme from New York, New York” after losses, the club confirmed. Instead, there will be a rotating selection of songs — Sinatra’s “That’s Life” was played today.
Wearin’ her perfume, Chanel no. 5
Got to be the finest girl alive.
She walks real cool, catches everybody’s eye.
She’s got such good lovin’ that they can’t say goodbye.
Not too skinny, she’s not too fat.
She’s a real humdinger and i like it like that.
She’s the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on.
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on.
Sixers have like four guys going with the Frederick Douglass cut.
Honk if you remember Margo Adams.
Johnny Cash is overrated.
Does Pete Blackburn have the Little Sads?
I was kinda hoping Diana Taurasi would delay her retirement announcement long enough to deprive another player deserving of a spot in the next Olympics.
The 4 Nations Face-off? A cute, fun tournament, but doesn’t compare to the Miracle on Ice.
Dan Hurley knows he can shut the fuck up every now and then, right?
Also, Jay Glazer has devolved into a Dick Tracy villain or the henchman of some megalomaniac.
Emily Kaplan, is she Amish?
Everyone look at Gronk. He needs attention.
I can handle a couple seasons of a rebuild, Bruins. Do what you gotta do.
Best bet for the weekend: more load management for Cooper Flagg.
Material from interviews, wire services, Twitter, Meta, other writers, league and team sources, Bill James, and the members of #the15 were used in this column. Because you’re mine. I walk the line.
02/20/2025 Cleaning Out the Sports Junk Drawer
If Canada loses, they have to take Rear Admiral from us.
What’s your suggestion as to how to fix the NBA All-Star Game? Let us know in the comments.
Alex Bregman a Red Sox? PTT!
My brain keeps autocorrecting Torrey Craig to Torey Krug.
Is everyone related to Patrick Mahomes a complete embarassment?
More people being shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade than at the Philadelphia celebration proves Tom Brady isn’t the GOAT.
Put a bounty on Joel Armia, it’s what Reg Dunlop would have done.
Not to go full Dondero, but LeBron James has been a lousy steward for the sport during his career.
Cakes are cooking for Buffy Sainte-Marie, Clyde Wright, Phil Esposito, Andrew Bergman, Sandy Duncan, Billy Zoom, Patty Hearst, Joel Hodgson, Charles Barkley, Ian Brown, French Stewart, Jeff Maggert, Andrew Shue, Lili Taylor, Liván Hernández, Stephon Marbury, Chelsea Peretti, Lauren Ambrose, Justin Verlander, Rihanna, Kristóf Milák, and Olivia Rodrigo.
I’m a little late to this, but I just want to congratulate Greg Bedard on defeating Awaken 180.
I was gonna hit up a Wednesday yard sale, but I have a wedding to go to.
Jayson Tatum, who has a “Hitch” tattoo, wants to be in the sequel with Will Smith and Kevin James.
Green Line Reminder: Feb. 22-23 No train service between North Station and Babcock St (B), Kenmore (C+D), & Heath St (E) due to maintenance. Use buses for service to Copley/Back Bay. Use Orange Line between Back Bay and North Station.
Hardpressed to find a normal weather situation I wouldn’t take over this nonsense.
The most insufferable corner of the internet right now are the dudes eating their meals on wooden cutting boards and acting like they’re Jesus Christ.
Rafael Devers looks like a kid from a country that received some ‘Chiefs Super Bowl LIX Champions’ t-shirts, but he didn’t get one because all they had were mediums.
Great part of #FourNations is the young hoppers listening to kick-ass old-school rock tunes.
Imagine saying hello on Twitter to Ed Harding.
Like what mid chicks do to boost their looks, always hire a lawyer fatter than you are. It’s very slimming.
Lots of things valued at $182 are given away for one dollar!
Hey gang of alliteratives, this week’s Phrase that Pays is, “I have been nothing but creepy and aggressive to you. Please respond.”
Has Triston met Jordon?
I don’t know, maybe the guy who’s on the cover of the video game box is more famous than the guy who’s allegedly famous for playing the video game.
So Elon knocked up Sophia Jurksztowicz, right? What other explanation is there?
The loss of Eric Bieniemy finally came back to haunt the Chiefs.
For what it’s worth: TD Garden is not preparing for a presidential visit for the championship game between the United States and Canada.
This went over more heads than the history of clouds.
Thanks for asking, but I could never be a US Senator. I don’t have a cool name like “Barasso” or “Klobuchar”. Also I don’t dress well enough. Also I am a few million $ short. And too old. But thanks for asking. OK, nobody asked.
BLEHHHH! Dead father!! BLEHHHHH!!!
Guy why do you have a picture of my back on your Sports List?
Lonnie Walker IV has agreed to a two-year, $3 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, his agent George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group told ESPN. Walker has played for Zalgiris Kaunas in the Euroleague and had an NBA-out in his deal. He now enters his 7th NBA season.
The delay-of-game warning remains the worst rule in sports. All you’re doing is delaying the game further just to announce that you don’t approve of people delaying the game.
Globe Pitchbot makes Jerry Thornton look like Patrice O’Neal.
Lavar Ball reportedly had his foot amputated after suffering a serious medical issue. Those Big Baller Brand sneakers must have been awful.
You fella, you tearing up the street.
You wear that white tuxedo, how you gonna beat the heat?
Do you take me for a fool?
Do you think that I don’t see,
That ditch out in the valley that they’re digging just for me?
Yes, I’m going insane.
You know I’m laughing at the frozen rain.
And I feel like I’m so alone.
Honey, when they gonna send me home?
Bad sneakers and piña colada, my friend
Stomping on the avenue by Radio City with a
Transistor and a large sum of money to spend..
Mark Farinella looks like a guy who emits an unpleasant odor.
Feds can only ‘swoop in,’ much like how a franchise tag can only be ‘slapped’ on a Patriots player.
Honk if you remember Anderson-Little.
Instead of booing the Canadian National anthem, the US crowd should theatrically yawn and ostentatiously check their watches.
Miguel Tejada is the Vern Stephens of the 21st Century.
Pranav Gil is an innocent man.
Saturday Night Live over 50 seasons has had 15 cast members die? Seems low. The Iroquois has lost at least that many deckhands.
You’ll DH and you’ll like it you pudgy malcontent.
Best bet for the weekend: more slow jams in the weight room.
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