I think it's getting to the point that there's so much information out there that fans have access to, that we don't really need an announcer to tell us what's going on.

It's not as if I'm writing anything radical on the Web site - but everyone seems to think that it is, because there's no sense of the structure that everyone is so used to.

They were all talking about this amongst themselves - but it was not something that they shared with their readers. And one reason was that they were afraid of getting in trouble with the press-relations department and having their press passes pulled.

Every single sports reporter covering the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade thought that Barry Bonds was on steroids.

It was a prank bracket. That person also had Monmouth in the Final Four.

When our fans start going nuts, you can't hear yourself think.