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March Madness serves as the ultimate sports equalizer. The seemingly infinite number of outcomes, and the requisite unforeseen upsets, annually level the bracket playing field. Even the most uncoordinated and uninformed Tournament rookies can -- and frequently do -- conquer the cocky braggarts who spend months poring over trends and statistics. And with myriad options of tracking the tournament ...

Tonight's First Four games in Dayton, Ohio, will tip off the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament. Until then, Google has a remedy for March Madness, offering 3-D virtual tours of the tourney's 14 host arenas. You can get a sneak peek, inside and out, at the places in which all the hoop heartbreak and joy will go down. In addition to the 3-D tours, Google has created a map that pinpoints the ...

There's really no reason why college basketball fans should miss any of this year's NCAA basketball tournament, which kicks off on March 15th. Aside from watching live games on TV or streaming for free on the Web, live tournament games will be available for free on the iPad and iPhone for the first time. In the past, you needed a paid app to stream live games on the iPhone. CBS, which is now ...

As Pete Carroll or Reggie Bush could tell you, working around the NCAA's semi-ridiculous rules on recruiting high school football players can be a pretty arduous task. And, apparently, it gets even more difficult when Facebook's involved. Last month, the football program at the University of Florida was slapped with secondary NCAA violations, simply because one of the team's coaches posted ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Relive your elementary school days on your iPhone with a new mobile version of Microsoft's classic, vertical sports-scroller 'SkiFree.' [From: Gizmodo] While it's ...

March is one of our favorite times of the year, because it's when the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament takes place. Offices are empty and sports bars are full, as much of the nation's workforce gathers to watch the world's greatest sporting event -- March Madness (take that, World Cup). If you're not familiar with this 64-team tournament, we've found the perfect Web site to teach you all about ...

Sports teams have a dubious relationship with Twitter. The LPGA loves the darn service, while the NBA penalizes on-court micro-bloggers. The NFL and college football are still feeling out their roles in the Twitterverse, and coaches are leading the way. For some, the service is tougher to figure out than the spread offense, while others excel in the limelight, like Tom Brady in a Manhattan ...

While the NCAA hasn't set any guidelines for college athletes using Twitter, Texas Tech head football coach Mike Leach has brought the hammer down on the micro-blogging site. Leaving no room for interpretation, according to Fanhouse, Leach said Monday, "Anybody that wants to play for us doesn't have a Twitter page." This bold pronouncement came just 24 hours after two players, offensive lineman ...

In a move sure to ruffle the feathers of more traditional sports journalists, St. John's University has granted a man press credentials to tweet from the sidelines of its men's basketball games. According to Mashable, this will be the first time a press-row credential has been given to someone solely for the purpose of using Twitter. Peter Robert Casey, the man who will draw the ire of some and ...

For the newest edition in our ever-expanding coverage of Facebook getting its users into trouble, we bring you the story of Taylor Moseley, a first year student at North Carolina State University. Ever the enthusiastic basketball fan, Moseley recently created a Facebook group titled "John Wall PLEASE Come to NC State" as an homage to the nation's top-ranked high school basketball player. The ...

Victory! We can still claim superiority over the machines! And as long as we continue to be better at picking winners during the NCAA's March Madness, we should be safe from the emergence of Skynet. Computer scientists have been using statistics, databases, and computer models for years to try and predict the outcome of sports tournaments. Of particular interest is the NCAA's basketball ...

Every moment of March Madness can now be experienced via iPhone, thanks to a new deal between Mobinet and CBS. For $4.99, iPhone and iPod touch customers will have access to 63 NCAA basketball games through the new CBS March Madness app. The app can be purchased Thursday, although the games themselves don't start until next week. To actually watch games live, you must have access to Wi-Fi. ...

In a move destined to give gadget heads with gridiron proclivities a reason to rejoice, Verizon has announced that its V Cast customers will have access to live, full-length NCAA college football bowl games on their cellular phones this season. While the major BCS championship bowls will not be offered, subscribers with V Cast-outfitted phones will be able to view 24 of the less-heralded ...

When you can't be there in person, watch it on TV, or catch a live video stream of an event, live-blogging is your last option for catching up-to-the-minute updates of the action. Live-blogging, as it sounds, is when a blogger continuously updates his blog in real time as events unfold -- no doubt to the annoyance of everyone in earshot of his incessant keyboard tapping. One of the most feverishly ...

Video game giant EA was in New York during the NFL Draft to celebrate the not-so-coincidentally-timed announcements of its 'Madden 08' and 'NCAA Football 08' cover athletes. Titans chucker Vince Young will ham it up on the 'Madden' cover when it's released in August, but college honors went to Boise State QB, Jared Zabransky. We caught up with Zabransky, as well as some his fellow NCAA cohorts, ...