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Not to be outdone, Mitt Romney is encouraging Republican voters to handicap this year's NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship.

You can take the Obama Bracket Challenge here.  But be careful, if you pick against Harvard, your name might be added to the terrorist watch list.

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…of being a dick.

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Out of over 5.9 million brackets entered in EPSN.com's Tournament Challenge only two people picked the Final Four correctly, and only one of them, Joe Pearlman, is in serious contention to win the big final prize.  (See his bracket above and hear an interview with him here.)

I didn't watch the interview with Joe.  But I assume it went something like this:

ESPN: So how did you come to pick these four teams?
JOE: Well, I picked Kentucky because they are a perennial powerhouse, Connecticut because of their great run in the Big East tournament, and Butler because they made the Final Four last year.
ESPN: And what about VCU?
JOE: Oh, that was easy.  I just sold my soul to Satan.

Joe has VCU winning the whole thing.  Good luck, Joe.  At this point, it doesn't seem any more silly than every other pick you made.

The NCAA Men's Basketball Championship begins today with the first two games of the "First Four."

I say screw the teams.  I'm rooting for this guy's hair and mustache combo.  Though anyone who can pull off such luscious white locks is already a winner in my book.

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It's my job to scour the Internet all day long, meaning I'm basically paid to waste time on the web, but come March, I definitely step it up a notch.

Thanks to March Madness On Demand, you can stream every single NCAA game on your computer.  And trust me: I plan on doing exactly that.  See that window above.  That'll be open on my computer constantly for at least the next two Thursdays and Fridays.

It's not that I enjoy wasting time at work; it's that I have a severe gambling problem.

Is gambling more important than work?  Well, that depends on if Vanderbilt covers the spread…

This week is "Championship Week" in college hoops culminating with "Selection Sunday" where the 65 team field for this year's NCAA basketball tournament is revealed!

Then, starting next Thursday, March Madness begins!

Well, actually there's the "play-in game" on Tuesday.  But that's not really "madness."  That's more like an "early warning sign of dementia."

What is March Madness, you might ask?  Well, it's that special time of year where people all over the country pretend to love college basketball so they have an excuse to gamble at work.  Not that NCAA hoops can't be exciting, but it's hard to get worked up over a 1st round Butler vs. Cornell match up without "40 bags of Cheetos per entry" on the line.

Now, I don't want to condone gambling… because that takes all the fun out of it: The best kind of gambling is illegal gambling.  But it's never too early to start reaching out to all of your coworkers and Facebook friends and local bartenders and Mafia-affiliated bookies to see who is having an NCAA pool this year.

Trust me, there is nothing worse than having next Thursday roll around and being the only person in your office not rolling back drunk from a two hour lunch at the sports bar prepared to scream at streaming video of the second batch of games online.

It's American productivity at its finest!