Now that I have your attention…
Consider this your official invitation to the SBC Blogtown NCAA Tournament Men’s Bracket Pick’em Challenge. The SBCNCAATMBPC, for short. :)
Click this link and head on over to the Yahoo! Sports Tournament Pick’em Page. [link is fixed - sorry] When you click the link, a new window will pop up so that you can flip back to this one and follow the directions.
Upon arrival at the Pick’em home page, you will want to click on the orange box on the far right, “Join a Group.”
At this point you will be prompted to enter a yahoo id, if you aren’t signed in with one already. If you have one, sign in. If you don’t have one, create one for free. You don’t have to use the email or anything if you don’t want to do so. You can enter an alternate email (the one you use all the time) to receive info about tournament stuff.
You will have the option of joining a private group or a public one. Pick the one on the left – “Join Private.”
You will need to enter the group #: 37321; and the password: “fellowship” – just the word, not the quotation marks.
Click the button, “Save & Continue” and you will go to the homepage. You will have until Thursday, when the Tournament begins, to make your selections.
We already have a decent group signed up. 250 maximum teams are allowed and I doubt we get that far.
Winner gets… I don’t know. Leave a comment and make a suggestion as to what the winner gets. Ultimately, though, I get to pick what they get, so don’t bother suggesting that the winner gets to shave my head or something. :)
Alright, enough talkin’. Get to pickin’.
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David Phillips
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 5:40 am:
Hey Art,
Since I win the first competition, meaning that I’m commenting that your link is BROKEN!!!! :-D, I should now be declared champion and a gift card to Starbucks is in order!
JK…but I did want to tell you the link isn’t working
Marty Duren
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 8:19 am:
You are the new king of acronyms…
Wes Kenney
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 9:46 am:
My final four: Florida, Kansas, Texas, Texas A&M
Go Big XII!
Dorcas Hawker
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 12:28 pm:
Okay, I signed up. I haven’t attempted this since 1985 when Villanova beat Georgetown. We’ll see how almost random guessing and confidence that Texas A&M can beat anybody works as a picking strategy.
Oh, in honor of their 1985 season, I also picked Villanova to do well through the third round. And I have a feeling that Texas teams in general are going to do extraordinarily well.
volfan007
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 2:17 pm:
of course, i must go with my heart…..the tennessee vols will win it all.
david
Bob Cleveland
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 4:29 pm:
Sorry, I’m just not all that much into college football.
Kevin Bussey
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 5:02 pm:
After Bama choked down the stretch I could care less. We are going after the NIT title! :)
Gary
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 5:03 pm:
Winner should get an autographed picture of Art in one of his 2 PINK SHIRTS!!
David Phillips
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 6:03 pm:
I don’t know Gary, I think I would prefer a picture of Art in his pink tutu as the header for his blog. Now THAT, would be my wish for a prize ;-D
Dorcas Hawker
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 8:22 pm:
How about this for a prize: Art doing a guest appearance on someone else’s blog. Whoever wins, they pick the topic within a selection of 10 that Art suggests, then Art writes the piece and the person gets to post it on his/her blog. That way the winner might get a bit more blog traffic, and also get the prestige of having an original piece of Art on his/her very own blog.
David Troublefield
on Mar 12th, 2007
@ 9:06 pm:
Nah . . . tutu is better!
Clif Cummings
on Mar 13th, 2007
@ 12:14 pm:
Made my picks!
Read ‘em and weep!
Its going to be a Big XII sweep!
Kansas goes against Texas in the final two -
But I can’t root for Texas – to the sooners I must be True!
Dorcas Hawker
on Mar 13th, 2007
@ 2:44 pm:
Kansas isn’t going to get to the third round.
Marty Duren
on Mar 13th, 2007
@ 4:32 pm:
Ok, we’re in. My son told me who to pick, so we’ll see if he is a prophet.
Dorcas Hawker
on Mar 15th, 2007
@ 10:48 am:
Let the games begin!