NCAA Challenge Update

So with Purdue and the rest of the Big Ten vanquished, some of the drama has admittedly faded from the Men's NCAA Tournament. But the intense competition among the elite basketball prognosicators at Talking Eds B-Ball Smackdown continues unabated. At this juncture (Saturday morning) in the middle of Round 3, 490,287th-ranked Chris has a 20 point edge over 848,616th-ranked Mike, who in turn leads his 1,217,361st-ranked son by 20 points. Phil leads 1,780,033rd-ranked Miles by 30 points, who leads his mother by 20 points. And here we arrive at one of the strangest coincidences in basketball lore: tied for 2,105,534th place are Jamie, (ironically) Steve, and Max. Who'd have thunk? So if you're looking for ongoing high drama in the NCAA, keep a close eye on how the race 2,105,534th place plays out! Hillary and Barack have got nothing on this one, baby!

TalkingEds NCAA Challenge

I've set up the fourth annual Eddy family NCAA competition on ESPN.com. To exercise your basketball prognosticating prowess, click here. On the off chance you remember your member name and password from last year, you can enter them in the upper right. Otherwise, sign up for an new account. Then you can join a team. Ours is Talkingeds B-Ball Smackdown (pretty cool, huh?)and the password is "eddy." Fill in your bracket and let the games commence!

Keep in mind that no basketball expertise whatever is required to participate; in fact, it generally proves to be a handicap. You'll need to complete your bracket by tip off of the first game on Thursday, probably about noon.

Feel free to forward this invitation on to other appropriate individuals: relatives not on the Talking Eds list (Cousin Pat? Recently acquired nephew Alan?), significant others, etc. Children, spouses, pets are welcome.

Special recognition to anyone who can name more than one of the past winners of this august competition. I know I can't.