Guest: Allan Barra
Sports Columnist,
Wall Street Journal
Contributor,
The New York Times
David Porter
Author,
Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball (Taylor Publishing, 2001)
Bob Thompson
Professor of Film & Television, Syracuse University
Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television, Syracuse University
President of the Popular Culture Association
Jack Grubbs
University of Kentucky basketball fan
Wally Renfro
Public Relations Director, NCAA
Millions of Americans are gearing up to watch the NCAA basketball tournament. It's become a national rite of spring. Games are televised late into the night and office workers everywhere are betting on them. Some believe it's become the nation's premier sporting event. The appeal of NCAA basketball on Talk of the Nation from NPR news.
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