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Local Student has good feeling about March Madness Bracket

  • Robbie Franklin
  • Mar 24, 2015
  • 2 min read

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Among the millions excited for the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament is local High School sophomore, Alex Stewart, who reportedly downloaded the ESPN SportsCenter App two weeks ago. Stewart, despite only watching the first half of a Kentucky-Texas A&M game earlier this month, is very confident about the March Madness Bracket he has put together this year thanks to his new app. “From what I have seen, Kentucky knows how to dunk, which is really cool. I find it difficult to see them losing,” Stewart said as he placed #1 ranked Kentucky at the top of his bracket.

Stewart went on to explain the lower half of his bracket, in which he has the Indianapolis Colts, who have made huge splashes in the first few weeks of NFL free agency, beating out the Boston Bruins to get into the round of the ‘Super 8.’ “I have gotten a lot of criticism at school for having the Bruins losing so early in my bracket, but I think that is just because here in Massachusetts we feel like rooting against them is a sin or something” said Stewart, “But as all those analysts on TV say, anything can happen in March Madness. I take their insight to heart.”

After about an hour of further consideration, Alex made some changes based on the wisdom of TV Sports Analysts and instead predicted that Tim Tebow would lead the currently-not-in-the-tournament Florida Gators to a championship title by default after Kentucky lost an alleyway knife fight against the San Francisco 49ers, and then all of the 49ers players retired before the tournament ended in fear of getting concussions in the final game.

 
 
 

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Hipster Quote of the Week:

The message at the end of “The Tortoise and the Hare” isn’t that ‘slow and steady wins the race’, but actually a well-remembered quote from the 1977 Disney classic “A New Hope”: “Great kid! Don’t get cocky”. Bullshit that the hare was gonna lose that race if he didn’t choose to stop for a nap and a snack and whatever else he did. Bullshit that the tortoise was going to catch up in any capacity if the hare didn’t slow down for him. Maybe that platitude makes sense, but definitely not in this situation.

 

A race is a sheer contest of speed. No other skills go into that. The tortoise and the hare aren’t making miniature wooden horses and getting judged on the craftsmanship of their products alongside their finish time; they are moving from one point to another. In no universe does slow and steady win that race. Slow and steady wins no races, except for races where the point is to go as slow as possible. Even in cases where slow and steady could be considered a possible alternative to fast, such as the aforementioned miniature-wooden-horse-making competition, someone who can do similar quality work at a much faster pace still wins that competition.

 

Slow and steady does not win the race. Not being too full of yourself does.."

 

~Nick Gilfor

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