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NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Round of 32 Results

These are the results of the Round of 32 for Teams that are appearing in tonight’s Regional Semifinals.

* == Upset.

Seed Score Team Record Seed Score Team Record Region
(1) 82 Louisville 30-5 (8) 56 Colorado State 26-8 Midwest
(4) 57 St. Louis 27-6 * (12) 74 Oregon 27-8 Midwest
(1) 70 Kansas 30-5 (8) 58 North Carolina 25-10 South
(4) 78 Michigan 27-7 (5) 53 VCU 27-8 South
(2) 66 Duke 26-4 (7) 50 Creighton 28-7 Midwest
(3) 70 Michigan State 26-8 (6) 48 Memphis 31-4 Midwest
(3) 78 Florida 27-7 (11) 64 Minnesota 21-12 South
(7) 71 San Diego State 23-10 * (15) 81 Florida Gulf Coast 25-10 South

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NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Day 1 Regional Semifinals Late Evening

The late, late game is the battle of the underdogs tonight.

Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
9:45 CBS (1) Indiana 29-6 (4) Syracuse 28-9 East
10:17 TBS (9) Wichita State 28-8 (13) La Salle 22-9 West

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Day 1 Regional Semifinals Early Evening

Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
7:15 CBS (2) Miami 29-6 (3) Marquette 25-8 East
7:47 TBS (2) Ohio State 28-7 (6) Arizona 27-7 West

NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Round of 32 Results

These are the results of the Round of 32 for Teams that are appearing in tonight’s Regional Semifinals.

* == Upset.

Seed Score Team Record Seed Score Team Record Region
(2) 63 Miami 29-6 (7) 59 Illinois 23-13 East
(3) 74 Marquette 25-8 (6) 72 Butler 27-9 East
(2) 78 Ohio State 28-7 (10) 75 Iowa State 23-12 West
(6) 74 Arizona 27-7 (14) 51 Harvard 20-10 West
(1) 58 Indiana 29-6 (9) 52 Temple 24-10 East
(4) 66 Syracuse 28-9 (12) 60 California 21-12 East
(1) 70 Gonzaga 32-2 * (9) 76 Wichita State 28-8 West
(12) 74 Mississippi 27-8 * (13) 76 La Salle 22-9 West

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NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Day 4 Late Evening

Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
9:35 ESPN2 (1) Baylor 33-1 (8) Florida State 23-9 Midwest
9:40 ESPN2 (1) Notre Dame 32-1 (9) Iowa 21-12 South
9:45 ESPN2 (3) Penn State 27-5 (6) LSU 21-11 West
9:50 ESPN2 (1) Stanford 32-2 (8) Michigan 22-10 West

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2013: Day 4 Early Evening

This schedule kind of sucks because many games are relegated to networks even more obscure than ESPN2 (ESPNU anyone, anyone, Bueller?).

Last night this page had links where you could watch games on-line, I don’t know if you have to pay or register or what.

What I will say is that it’s a shame and a disgrace for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament to be treated this way.  It shows disrespect for a game that is altogether superior to Men’s Basketball dunk fests of boredom.

Time Network Seed Team Record Seed Team Record Region
7:05 ESPN2 (3) North Carolina 28-5 (6) Delaware 31-3 East
7:10 ESPNU (2) Duke 30-2 (7) Oklahoma State 22-10 South
7:10 ESPN3 (4) Purdue 25-8 (5) Louisville 25-8 Midwest
7:15 ESPN2 (2) Kentucky 28-5 (7) Dayton 28-2 East

It’s Just Good Business

So you’ve been reading about those bare shelves at WalMart.  Even I thought it was due to their vendors getting tired of being squeezed and late payments (contracts typically call for payment within 90 days of delivery, WalMart waits until the last possible moment to cut a check- always).

Well, there’s another reason that should have occured to me as a former supervisor of shipping and receiving (that’s the fancy title I put on my resume to point out I ran the loading dock and stockrooms, and handled inventory from the back of the truck to the sales floor along with returns to warehouse).

I seldom appeal to expertise, but I’ve seen this first hand.

Customers Flee Wal-Mart Empty Shelves for Target, Costco

By Renee Dudley, Bloomberg Business

Mar 26, 2013 9:47 AM ET

During recent visits … she failed to find more than a dozen basic items, including certain types of face cream, cold medicine, bandages, mouthwash, hangers, lamps and fabrics.

The cosmetics section “looked like someone raided it.”



“If it’s not on the shelf, I can’t buy it,” she said. “You hate to see a company self-destruct, but there are other places to go.”

But, but it’s there in the store!  We have the paperwork to prove it!

“Our in stock levels are up significantly in the last few years, so the premise of this story, which is based on the comments of a handful of people, is inaccurate and not representative of what is happening in our stores across the country,” Brooke Buchanan, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. “Two-thirds of Americans shop in our stores each month because they know they can find the products they are looking for at low prices.”

Well then where is it?

It’s not as though the merchandise isn’t there. It’s piling up in aisles and in the back of stores because Wal-Mart doesn’t have enough bodies to restock the shelves, according to interviews with store workers.



At the Kenosha, Wisconsin, Wal-Mart where Mary Pat Tifft has worked for nearly a quarter-century, merchandise ready for the sales floor remains on pallets and in steel bins lining the floor of the back room — an area so full that “no passable aisles” remain, she said. Meanwhile, the front of the store is increasingly barren, Tifft said. That landscape has worsened over the past several years as workers who leave aren’t replaced, she said.

“There’s a lot of voids out there, a lot of voids,” said Tifft, 58, who oversees grocery deliveries and is a member of OUR Walmart, a union-backed group seeking to improve working conditions at the discount chain. “Customers come in, they can’t find what they’re looking for, and they’re leaving.”

Years ago, supervisors drilled a message into employees’ heads: “In the door and to the floor,” Tifft said. That mantra now seems impossible to execute.



“The merchandise is in the store, it just can’t make the jump from the shelf in the back to the one in the front,” said Falletta, who works the second shift. “There’s not the people to do it.”

Well why is that do you suppose?

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2013: 3/24 Results

* == Upset (if you can call a 9 seed over an 8 seed an upset).

Seed Score Team Record Seed Score Team Record Region
(2) 67 Duke 30-2 (15) 51 Hampton 28-6 South
(2) 61 Kentucky 28-5 (15) 41 Navy 21-12 East
(4) 77 Purdue 25-8 (13) 43 Liberty 27-7 Midwest
(6) 66 Delaware 31-3 (11) 53 West Virginia 17-14 East
(7) 73 Oklahoma State 22-10 (10) 56 DePaul 21-12 South
(7) 96 Dayton 28-2 (10) 90 St. John’s 18-13 East
(5) 74 Louisville 25-8 (12) 49 Middle Tenn. 25-8 Midwest
(3) 59 North Carolina 28-5 (14) 54 Albany 27-4 East
(1) 97 Notre Dame 32-1 (16) 64 Tennessee-Martin 19-15 South
(8) 60 Florida State 23-9 (9) 44 Princeton 22-7 Midwest
(3) 85 Penn State 27-5 (14) 55 Cal Poly 21-12 West
(1) 72 Stanford 32-2 (16) 56 Tulsa 17-17 West
(8) 53 Miami (FL) 21-11 * (9) 69 Iowa 21-12 South
(1) 82 Baylor 33-1 (16) 40 Prairie View A&M 17-15 Midwest
(6) 75 LSU 21-11 (11) 71 Green Bay 29-3 West
(8) 60 Michigan 22-10 (9) 52 Villanova 21-11 West

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