re: March Madness! April Dud?

insouciantlad — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:11:23 GMT

Don't you mean Western-Kentucky and Drake??

re: March Madness! April Dud?

clintor3 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:06:28 GMT

Whoopsies. The typos and pretty much mindless goof-ups are regrettably what are legion in this piece:

(1) In the same graf as "legion," we are introduced to the Frenchified-looking SEC "champins" (though "champion" already is French, j'ai bien peur).

(2) Then comes this sentence, a multiple offender: "'March Madness' is a genuine phenomenen and the pinnacle of tournament excitement is the first week with 48 games in four days and pretty much nobody yet eliminated from his or her pool." A threefold goof, given: (a) It's a run-on. (b) "Phenomenen"? (c) A major NCAA tourney error, i.e., if you say "48 games in four days" (March 20 through March 23), then you're talking about either the men's or the women's tournament. No need to do the p.c. cover-your-bases thing with the "his or her" stuff. It'd be 96 games if you want to encompass everyone who could be "eliminated from his or her pool."

(3) Later, we get "semi--comatose," with an em dash, rather than the hyphenated "semi-comatose."

(4) There's the random nonuse of commas to set off North Carolina, Illinois, Syracuse and Kansas from their respective championship point totals, but the real zinger is the repetition of the year 2005: "North Carolina 75 Illinois 70 in 2005 and Syracuse 81 Kansas 78 in 2005." The Syracuse-Kansas game was 2003.

(5) And here's the grand finale: "Memphis State." That's sooooo 1994.

re: March Madness! April Dud?

clintor3 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:09:51 GMT

And I left off the sixth mistake, since it's been pointed out by the other poster -- that Western Kentucky beat Drake, not Gonzaga.