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Bracketology has expanded beyond basketball too. For example, a 2007 book called The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything used the NCAA-tournament format to rank a wide range of minutiae, from cooking tools to hairstyles to animated characters. Bart Simpson outlasts Homer in a stirring first-round matchup, and in the video-game tournament, Tetris beats Zelda to take the title. No upsets there...
Harvard (8-6) fell to eventual tournament winner No. 16 Texas Tech (16-1) in the first round, steamrolled Penn State (12-3) in the second, and yielded in the final round to Boise State...
Breaking into the top 16 of the race was no guarantee for Clarke entering Saturday morning. The 1,650 is unique in that the players only get to swim once, as opposed to other races that involve a preliminary round prior to the final race. Her fate thus rested on a single thrust of energy...
After doubles play concluded, sophomore Sam Gridley set the tone for the singles round with a 6-3, 6-0 win in her first action of the road trip...
Council members shouted demands for the names of sources and locations. They expressed indignation at the mention of pro-Israel Bedouin and the report that some Bedouin even cheered for Algeria (Egypt's fiercest soccer rival) during the final round of the African Cup of Nations. Several council members launched into wider diatribes about U.S. policy in the Middle East and Israeli conspiracies in the Sinai. But most of all, they wanted the reporter to apologize for tarnishing Sinai's name. "You interviewed smugglers. And those people are outlaws," said a council member, Abdel Hamid Salem. "President Mubarak...