Wed- Sports heavy

In honor of March Madness, today's post will be basketball heavy.

I've already ordered Michael Lewis' new book The The Big Short, but WSJ says just read this Harvard undergrad's thesis. Pretty impressive.

Where US foreign aid goes.

The real life Matrix.

Erin Andrews' ordeal comes to an end, kind of.

Congratulations to Houston Yates for winning the Texas state championship. They are currently ranked #1 in the country on MaxPreps and they broke the national record for consecutive games scoring 100+ points. They took some grief for running up the score on some teams. Well, I finally got a chance to see them play and wow are they good. They press the entire game and just run waves of people off the bench. Hard to explain how difficult it is to play against a team like that. Even if you have superior talent, it is tough to win because you kind of have to play their style and the problem with that is that is is "their" style. They practice it every day and you don't.

College basketball's most valuable teams.

NYT article on the nun who keeps Xavier basketball players graduating. "Xavier, a Jesuit university in Cincinnati, is entering the N.C.A.A. tournament seeded sixth in the West Region with a 24-8 record. But Sister Rose Ann Fleming is a perfect 77-0. Since she became the academic adviser for Xavier athletics in 1985, every men’s basketball player who has played as a senior has left with a diploma." That is incredible.

The UConn women have now won 72 games in a row (breaking their record of 70) and have won all of those games by double digits. That's phenomenal. Unfortunately, this guy is right.