Tuesday, March 12th  Today is the start of a beautiful season
that springs up about this time every year; college basketball.
Time for madness, playoffs, the NCAA tournament and the massive
craze of bracketing. Where for at least the first week, the
sports world shuts down for the entire country to pour over the
slate of games and the winners.  You know what I'm talking
about, right? The brackets? Filling out a bracket sheet for the
field, picking winners for the entire tournament. March Madness.
It's a pretty big deal here in school. There's a stack of empty
brackets in almost every room today – the field was just set
last night. It's the buzz, it's what we're all doing before the
bell of each class. Huddled up in groups, analyzing and
critiquing each other, quietly passing around dollars for buy-
ins.  Mr. Nude even gives us half of gym period to give us time
to enter into a pool that he'll run for the particular class. By
the end of the day, I'll have filled out three different bracket
sheets, each a littl