Finals Week, Part I - History
Here we go, once again! It's the second non-annual Mid-Majority Finals Week. The test is 40 questions long, 10 each in four sections: History (today), Geography (Wed.), Mathematics (Thu.) and Bracketology (Fri.). You'll have 24 hours from the postmark of each message (roughly 7:15 PM Eastern.. this is a night class, you know) to complete each portion of the test.

Bias
In case you haven't heard, our great nation recently concluded a long and protracted and polarizing popularity contest that decided, among other things, our heads of state and guiding ideologies for the foreseeable future. It was often marked by severe disagreements that pitted American against American.

Living In A Box
The Jimmy V Classic, a doubleheader of high-profile games designed to be shown on a certain national sports television outlet, was held the other day up at Madison Square Garden.

...And Then We Moved The Capital
"Hoops Nation" is a concept nearing its four-year anniversary. Our definition has little or nothing to do with this Hoops Nation, which is a fine and well-written directory of pick-up playgrounds from coast-to-coast. Ours is a land of individual entities bound together by a shared struggle and a common dream, under a wide banner of 251 stars. Hoops Nation is not the constantly-shifting Top 25.

Checking in from Headquarters
We've all waited seven months for college basketball to return. When it did come back, we got three days of pre-planned, pre-scheduled blowouts, all in the name of video games and cancer research. Sub-Red Line teams were brought in to act as scrimmage partners in made-for-television showcases for Top 25 teams. This has been no fun at all.