Word: pooling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...cocky I-won-the-NCAA-pool-in-my-high-school-two-years-in-a-row voice, I mentioned that Coach Jarvis was certainly going places: I picked St. John's to go to the Championship Game. "And who knows?" I added. "They could certainly win. It's March Madness. Anything could happen." It could, and it did. If the guy at Radio Shack even paid attention to my prediction, he'd be cursing the basketball gods, because his high school pal's team got bounced in the second round. By Gonzaga. And I still don't know where Gonzaga...
...Pool: This is the most popular way to wager money on the NCAA tournament. Usually twenty educated basketball enthusiasts pay $5 for the right to lose it to some lucky idiot who guessed that Seton Hall would beat Temple...
...According to the Post, Gore earned "one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses, and one B-minus," during his sophomore year at Harvard. His classmates remember him that year as spending a lot of time "shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers, and occasionally smoking marijuana...
Everyone who indulged in putting together a bracket this week for America's favorite office pool should be familiar with the concept that it is very difficult to beat a good team three times in the same season...
...want the house to be primarily for the students," says Sean Palfrey, first-year master of Adams. The family room, for the extended Adams House family, holds a welcoming wooden table for weekly dinner talks with members of the senior common room. In addition to ping-pong and pool tables and a TV room, the basement contains a theater prop shop stocked with tools and open to students. Palfrey's favorite parts of the house are the intricate closets, packed with shelves and delicate woodwork, and the gorgeous and gigantic kitchen. But the house's best-kept secret...