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Time again\u00a0for the EWM Yahoo! NCAA men’s basketball tournament pick’em<\/a> – 15th<\/sup> annual. Same as\u00a0last year, we’re using Fibonacci scoring (2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21), continuing with\u00a0the upset bonuses, +2 points for upsets in the first two rounds, +1 for upset picks after that. Everyone<\/em> is welcome to join this pool, which will include some of the surest, most over-confident pickers of all time. Take a sip of homebrew kombucha to quell any nerves. There’s no time<\/em>\u00a0time for calling your mortgage appraiser, warming the oven to make a pizza, gazing into your half-empty crystal glassware for clues about what tomorrow never wanted to hold.<\/p>\n

Sign up! Free, free<\/em>, FREE, yes, freee<\/em> to you: join this year’s group on Yahoo!, Wabi Sobby\u00a0(ID#43578)<\/a>. If you have questions, elbow me with all you’ve got via email at dereknmueller\u00a0at gmail.com. Invite your friends, frienemies, faux-frenemies, Canadian compadres, Facebook abandoners, wishful critical<\/em> thinkers, mentors, interim interim interim associate provosts, sentiment analyists, old fashioned pulse takers, motor scooter drivers who have parked illegally in the contact zone, members of Relationshoppers Anonymous, elementary school cohorts, neighbors of Appalachian permaculturists, people who say<\/em> they do yoga but who haven’t done yoga in a week, distractable sabbaticaleurs, avant-garde tattoo artists, grandparents at the frozen yogurt place, weasel whisperers, assessment specialists, etc. The group has space for the next 49 who sign up. Giant stakes: reputations are made (or treated to eternal lessons in impermanence) right here.<\/p>\n

Yahoo! Tournament Pick’em
\n<\/a>Group: Wabi Sobby (ID# 43578)
\n“15th annual.”<\/p>\n

Firm up your selections any time between the selection show on Sunday evening, March 11, and first tip of the round of 64, whatever time that is\u00a0EDT on Thursday, March 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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