Can’t wait until the next season of college basketball? Suffering from March Madness withdrawal?
Daily Basketball is giving out five copies of the Rock Chalk Championship DVD (retail $19.95!). If this is like any of our previous contests, all it takes to win is to enter the contest.
A quote from the release flyer:
Relive it all…Every memory…Every shot…Every critical game that made this a season for the ages for Jayhawks fans everywhere. This is the only DVD available that chronicles the miraculous 2007-08 regular season…including highlights from the Big 12 Tournament…and highlights from all of Kansas’ NCAA Tournament Games and the unbelievable Finals!
Five random winners will be selected from a random pool of “tickets.” There are a few different ways you can accumulate tickets:
Link to Daily Basketball on your blogroll or in a post (2 tickets)
Favorite Daily Basketball on Technorati (2 tickets)
Give Daily Basketball a thumbs-up and leave a comment on the StumbleUpon page (3 tickets)
Write a guest post for Daily Basketball (5 tickets, along with a link back to your site)
EDIT: New! Advertise this contest on your own blog or web site. (3 tickets)
To enter the contest, please leave a comment below explaining how many tickets you have and how you earned them. Links and such will be verified. If you’d like to write a guest post (which will likely guarantee a copy of the DVD), then let me know. The five randomly selected winners will be chosen from the entries submitted by June 4 at 6:00 PM Eastern time.
TICKET COUNTER (last updated June 2, 1:50 PM Eastern time):
Kellex (completed #1, 2, [3], 4, 5): 11 tickets
Carolyn (completed #1, 2, 3, 4, 5): 11 tickets
Mr. Chitwood: 16 tickets
Shotgun (completed #1, 2, 3, 4, 7): 11 tickets
EDIT: Reminder! Today is the last day for contest entries. Please submit ASAP.
The On Deck Circle hosted this most recent edition of the Carnival. While it didn’t have a specific theme, there were a lot of great posts submitted about this year’s playoffs. Head on over to the Carnival, and find links about playoff ghosts, the science of scoring, and Mike D’Antoni. Definitely some great stuff, take a moment to check it out!
March 18, 2008 at 4:56 pm · Filed under NCAA, Other
Daily Basketball is hosting a March Madness bracket challenge, hosted by Yahoo! and sponsored by WhatIfSports.
The contest is free to join, with prizes going to the top three finishers. WhatIfSports, a sports simulation site, is providing gift certificates (value at $40, $20, and $10) to first, second, and third place, respectively.
If you have a moment to check out our sponsor, WhatIfSports, you’ll find an incredibly in-depth analysis of this year’s tournament bracket. Using their simulation technology, they’ve run 10,000 simulations of the tournament to predict the most likely NCAA champion.
WhatIfSports offers severals addicting sports simulation games. Users can recruit, manage, and coach a college basketball (Hoops Dynasty), pro baseball, or football team. Users can also simulate all-time matches between sports teams. Who’s better, the 2008 Celtics or the 1986 championship team? You can predict it at WhatIfSports.
Hopefully that didn’t sound overwhelmingly like a sales pitch, but WhatIfSports is offering some pretty amazing prizes if you join our Tournament Pick’em Contest.
Visit our bracket group below to join the contest.
For the next three weeks, millions of dollars are lost in workplace. Not just because of lost wagers on the next NCAA champion, but because millions of people take the time to research, analyze, and speculate on the bracket. Sixty-five teams have a shot, but only one emerges as the champion.
Doc’s Sports features several pages of NCAA tournament information. They also cover the NBA, college football, baseball, and more.
The site has a printable copy of the 2008 bracket, as well as copies of the NCAA brackets from the previous five season. Every true bracketologist needs several copies of this year’s bracket to fill out, and while it’s hard to say when you’ll need a copy of the 2004 bracket, nothing about March Madness is meant to be reasonable.
Doc’s Sports also features a list of the full schedule, from the play-in game (March 18) to the championship game (April 7) — along with the location of each game.
Also included is a page with the point spreads for each game. It’s tough work to predict the upsets, but Doc’s Sports collects the spread from several sites.
If the “cutest mascot” or “favorite color” approach isn’t working for you bracket, print out a copy or two of the bracket and read over the spreads.
Face it; your kids don’t really want to go to your office / workplace. After five minutes, they’ll want something to eat, after 10, they’ll want a soda and after 15, you’ll wish they belonged to someone else. This year, celebrate with the NBA and take a player to work. Your co-workers will faint, your boss will be your new best friend and your kids might even fall into line. We here at the NBA realize not every one has access to a real live NBA player, so there are alternate suggestions:
January 13, 2008 at 5:50 am · Filed under Other, Videos
If you think dunkers like Chris Andersen shouldn’t be allowed to participate in dunk contests, how about this guy from a Lithuanian team? He doesn’t even get close to pulling off this dunk…
At least he it only took him one failure to realize it wasn’t going to happen.
