It was August 22, 1901, and Orville and Wilbur Wright were on a train from Kitty Hawk, NC, back to their home on 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton. The brothers were dejected after further glider testing on the dunes produced more questions than answers. Nothing was making sense and even [.....]
DAYTON (OH) -- The NCAA has shelved the RPI and replaced it with the NET. Taking their news to the web and social media on Wednesday, the Division I Men's Basketball Committee announced the change in an effort to create a more perfect mathematical formula to rank all 351 teams [.....]
What do UDPride, Jerry Palm, Warren Nolan, CollegeRPI.com, CBS Sports, Ken Pomeroy, RealTimeRPI.com, SBNation, most of the players, coaches, athletic directors, fans, reporters, broadcast journalists, and even Wikipedia all have in common? Beyond random probability and freaky coincidence, we’ve all been led to believe – simultaneously and to exacting specificity [.....]
The Mock Selection participants returned to NCAA Headquarters on Friday, Feb. 13th for an 8:30am continental breakfast. Following the nourishment, attendees picked up where things off the prior evening by focusing attention on an incomplete Bullpen. Just 10 at-large spots remained and 27 teams were still in contention. BUBBLICIOUS Dayton, [.....]
The Mock Selection Exercise began at 2pm on Thursday, Feb. 12th. Scott Barnes, Chairman of the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee, spoke to us about the general duties of the committee and our role as stand-ins to experience the selection process firsthand. The actual committee met prior to our arrival in [.....]
With preliminary coursework complete, participants arrived in blustery Indianapolis on Thursday February 12th for a 2pm roll call. Located on the western edge of downtown, the NCAA Headquarters lies adjacent to the NCAA Hall of Champions. Known more for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis pulled off a recruiting coup in [.....]
March Madness is big business, but the business of choosing the NCAA men’s basketball tourney bracket is even bigger. What transpires in the week leading up to Selection Sunday by NCAA bracket crunchers ultimately sets the table for the most exciting month in sports programming all season. CBS and Turner [.....]
DAYTON (OH) -- It's time to stop providing opinions and start producing facts about the competitive balance of the seven Big East private catholic basketball-only institutions and their rival counterpart: the Atlantic10 conference. We have em'. For months, we've heard these comments: "The Big East basketball schools are completely superior [.....]
DAYTON (OH) -- To Whom it May Concern, namely DePaul, Marquette, St. John's, Providence, Georgetown, Seton Hall, and Villanova: I understand that you've been having a Maalox Moment or two, so I'd like to address some of your concerns to help explain your indigestion about the continuing implosion of the [.....]
DAYTON (OH) -- I flunked high school physics, nevermind came close to a passing grade. It’s a subject matter with long-hand formulas for every equation, complicated and often-times confusing syntax, and a habit of making every chapter from the textbook look like kanji. Few things about high school physics stuck [.....]
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