• Survive '25

    The magic of Madness

    Grab your seats, sports fans. “The Big Dance” is here. For the next couple of weekends, I’m putting any agita-inducing global madness on ignore and focusing on a more rewarding obsession: March Madness, the 2025 NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. What began in 1939 has become one of the greatest annual U.S. sporting events. Sixty-plus teams from coast to coast plot a path to the national title in this iconic single-elimination tournament. It’s the stuff that dreams are made of. And some good stories. When asked by a reporter if he’d don his lucky jacket during the 1977 tournament, Marquette University basketball coach Al McGuire said, “You gotta…