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#MarchMadness: Michigan's Trey Burke Wins Naismith Trophy

Although the Michigan Wolverines lost the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship game to the Louisville Cardinals Monday night, Trey Burke won’t be going home empty-handed: On Sunday, the Atlanta Tipoff Club named Burke winner of the 2013 Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T as the men’s college basketball player of the year, solidifying the sophomore point guard’s place in school history as the first Wolverine to receive the prestigious award. Other […]

#MarchMadness: Louisville Crowned National Champs as they 'Win for Ware'

The Louisville men’s basketball team rallied from behind one last time in this year’s tournament to defeat Michigan, win national championship honors and earn a place in history for coach Rick Pitino. Pitino is the first coach in NCAA history to win a national title with two different teams (also with University of Kentucky in 1996), and it all happened on the same day he was named to the Naismith […]

#MarchMadness: Your Guide to the National Championship Game

Got your pom-poms handy? Who’s it going to be, fans: Louisville or Michigan? Here’s ViralRead’s dossier on each team, including probable starters and their stats and- yes- our pick for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Champion to be crowned tonight in Atlanta (game time, 9:23 p.m. ET, CBS).       LOUISVILLE: Team probable starting 5 (-vs- Wichita State) Chane Behanan, F 9.6 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 1.1 apg Gorgui Dieng, C […]

#MarchMadness: Final Four Finishes - Louisville v. Michigan: It's ON!

Louisville staved off one last flicker of the wand from Cinderella’s fairy godmother, rallying from behind to defeat Wichita State. Michigan fought tooth and nail to outscore the vaunted 2-3 zone D of Syracuse, holding the Orange to only 56 points with some impressive D of their own. So now, we are set. 64 teams whittled down to these two collegiate powerhouses. Big East, Big Ten, Big Game. Two teams […]

#MarchMadness: Your Guide to the Elite 8 - Today's Games

Oh, how very close we are getting to the Final Four! Cinderellas have waltzed into history, top seeds have been defeated. But there’s still a lot of basketball to watch, including today’s portion of the Elite 8 round. Find our analysis below. Meanwhile, you can take a look at our predictions for yesterday’s Wichita State -vs- Ohio State (dare we say?) shocker. Michigan (4) -vs- Florida (3) 2:20pm ET (CBS) […]

UPDATE #MarchMadness: Your Guide to the Sweet 16 - Tonight's Lineup

Did you check Viral Read’s Sweet 16 primer for yesterday’s games? Here’s tonight’s offering. Tonight’s games: Oregon (12) -vs- Louisville (1) Louisville wins: if they keep playing like Louisville. As Dana O”Neill at ESPN.com puts it: “Since a five-overtime loss to Notre Dame, UL is beating teams by an average of 21 points per game. No one has gotten closer than 12 points.” Oregon wins: Dana Altman, the coach of the […]

Jesse Jackson calls Detroit a "Plantationocracy"

Detroit’s had more than its fair share of troubles as have been well documented over the past decades. Its financial distress finally culminated in Michigan governor Rick Snyder appointing Kevyn Orr as Emergency Financial Manager of the city. Orr is a bankruptcy specialist and attorney from New York who was involved in the managed bankruptcy of Chrysler in 2009. Quite predictably, this decision has evoked rage amongst civil rights leaders […]