From the desk to the ball court
THE first national-championship college basketball game of the season took place on March 31st, and was satisfyingly thrilling: the University of Arizona, a dark horse, beat the University of Kentucky 84-79. Yet does anyone really need the college leagues? Increasingly, it seems not.
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