- While there is lots of excitement about the NCAA pairings, there's not as muchgrumbling as in recent years, probably because the field has been expanded to 68teams.
- No. 1 Kentucky in the No. 1 seed in the South regional, despite losing the SECChampionship game to Vanderbilt Sunday.Photo by Ian McCormick

Jim Beviglia
Jim is a resident of Old Forge, PA who works full-time as a track announcer at aharness racing track in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Jim has been freelance writing forCultureMap since February, concentrating on music reviews and lists as well asFantasy Football articles. Before CultureMap, he wrote for other music-relatedsites, contributing several well-regarded song countdowns of artists likeThe Beatles and Bruce Springsteen. He is a devoted Dad to his daughter,Daniele, who inherited his love of music, and has been with his girlfriendMarie, lovingly referred to in his articles as "The Better Half", for sixyears.
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