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When I was younger, I was a rabid Indiana Pacers fan. I vividly remember watching Game 1 of the 1995 Eastern Conference semifinals against the Knicks on TV with my dad, screaming my head off while Reggie Miller scored 8 points in 11 seconds to win the game. I lived and died by Reggie’s clutch shooting, helped along by the Pacers’ supporting cast of Rik Smits, Mark Jackson, Jalen Rose, the Davis “brothers,” and an aging Chris Mullin. Good but never great, those teams were fun to watch if only because I knew every other fan in the league hated Reggie Miller. No player but Reggie could get away with all the trash-talking, flopping, and manufactured fouls that he did, but it made all those dagger-like 3-pointers that much better. He was my guy.
Man “So screwed” in NCAA tournament pool, won’t shut up about it
LACROSSE, WI – Eric Kammeyer is so screwed in his office’s NCAA tournament pool, he reported to his friends this weekend. Kammeyer, a 28 year-old computer programmer who is a self-proclaimed “sports junkie”, paid $5 to join the contest, filling out a tournament bracket with his well-educated guesses of the winners in each round.
Kammeyer is in 12th place in the office pool, behind four people who “don’t know shit” about basketball, “some other assholes”, and Maureen Everhardt, the department’s administrative assistant who reportedly based her picks on strength of each team’s mascot.