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The NCAA Tournament is more than a basketball tournament. It's also a gambling activity everywhere from offices to Facebook
By Matt Levin
The Final Four begins this weekend. The event represents a culmination of two weeks of passionate college basketball, where 65 NCAA Tournament teams were whittled down to four. Those four squads now will face-off in Atlanta until one team remains - the national champion.
McProspects: SU has 2 McDonald's All Americans
By Zach Schonbrun
Starting tonight, Syracuse basketball fans can stop moping about this past season and begin looking at the next. And the next starts with Donte Greene. Greene has a lot of goals in mind heading into tonight's McDonald's All-American High School basketball game in Louisville, Ky.
Berman: Expectations for '07-08 start forming tonight
By Zach Berman
Tonight could change the perception of Syracuse men's basketball for next season. If Syracuse signees Donte Greene and Jonny Flynn perform well in tonight's McDonald's All-American Game, the touted recruits can be elevated from simply Dick Vitale's "diaper dandy" status to a greater level - one residing between Durant-ian and Vitale excitement.
WLAX | Quillinan discovers success on other side of ball for SU
By Christopher James
Halley Quillinan, always an offensive threat, flashed her defensive skills on Saturday. The freshman attack forced a turnover against Connecticut with 35 seconds to play in regulation, leading to a Kristin Brady goal that forced overtime. Two more Brady goals in the extra period propelled the Orange to the 18-16 win, marking the second-best comeback in school history, after being down by four goals in the second half.
SOFTBALL | Syracuse stays strong through end, wins 3 on weekend
By Jason Tarr
In the first game of a doubleheader at Providence, the Syracuse softball team took an early 2-0 lead and looked to coast to a win. Four errors, a number of mental miscues and seven runners left-on-base later, the Orange was kicking itself for dropping a winnable game.
NATIONAL LAX | Competition doesn't interfere with friendly coaching triangle
By Kyle Austin
A look at the results from mid-March shows that Hofstra lacrosse had a tough couple of games: a 9-8 loss to Johns Hopkins on March 10 followed by a 5-4 loss to Princeton eight days later. But for head coach Seth Tierney, they were losses to two of the nation's top lacrosse programs and to two of his best friends.
GAMBLING | Facebookers find many reasons to play
By Matt Levin
The New York Times recently reported the popularity of the March Madness pool on the social-networking Web site Facebook has resulted in the NCAA having to clarify its position in relation to athletes entering the online pool. The NCAA announced it "strongly discouraged" participation in the free contest with a grand prize of $25,000, although filling out a bracket for the contest would not technically be a violation of NCAA policies.
GAMBLING | Scandal in '51 still resonates in Big Apple
By Matt Levin
In the tunnel that leads to the Carrier Dome football field there's a photo of an athlete with a miserable expression on his face. A bunch of microphones are plunked before him as he confronts reporters, telling them the penalty he must accept after it was discovered he gambled on sports.
