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April 7, 2011
The Champion of the Bracketless Bracket
The NCAA tournament ended with a brick-laden thud in the championship game. But even if Butler had somehow found a way to win (perhaps by making more than 9 field goals), Joel Landas would still have won Gelf's inaugural Bracketless...
Sports
March 30, 2011
Bracketless Bracket: The Final Two
After two weeks and 64 games, the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament is down to just four teams. Gelf's Bracketless Bracket field has constricted even further—only two contestants are still competing for the grand prize. The favorite is Joel Landas, who has been dominating the field since the early rounds. (Earlier, Landas told Gelf how he decided which teams to pick.)
Sports
March 23, 2011
The Bracketless Bracket Leader Speaks
All of the NCAA tournament's 6 and 7 seeds have washed out after the first two rounds, as have all the teams seeded 13th and below. That leaves nine of the 16 seed lines still alive in Gelf's Bracketless Bracket tournament, and Joel Landas is the only contestant to have a team still playing in each one. As the current leader, Landas is also the only contestant to have racked up more than 3000 points, and he has a 260-point lead over his closest competition.
Sports
March 21, 2011
Bracketless Bracket: Sweet Sixteen Update
The first two real rounds of the thoroughly entertaining 2011 tournament are over, and two things are abundantly clear. First is that our student-athletes should spend more time learning when is and isn't an appropriate time to foul. Second is that Brian Westbrook will not be winning this years Bracketless Bracket tournament. Over the course of just two games, every single team in Westbrook's bracket has lost, meaning he can earn no more points in this competition. Since he already has the lowest point total, he will definitely be the overall loser of the Bracketless Bracket tournament. (Indeed, everyone else has at least one team left in his or her pool.)
Sports
March 13, 2011
Bracketless Bracket Update
Gelf's Bracketless Bracket tournament—the Bill James-designed contest in which readers pick their favorite team from each seed line—has attracted more than 500 entries so far from around the world. The most popular choice overall? Contestants chose seven seed Washington in more than half of the brackets. Basketball Reference's Neil Paine tells Gelf that based on the 10,000-tournament simulation he ran, Washington was the easiest pick. "The Huskies have 1.41 expected wins," Paine writes in an email. "No other 7-seed has more than 0.71 expected wins. The have a 73.7% chance of beating UGA in round 1, and are a great value with a 47.7% chance of beating big-name UNC in round 2."
Varsity Letters
March 12, 2011
April 7: Varsity Letters Boxing Night
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's (Le) Poisson Rouge. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, Thomas Hauser, George Kimball, and Gary Andrew Poole will read from and talk about their work. Veteran boxing writers Hauser and Kimball have new collections out with profiles of some of the ring's most colorful characters. And Poole will discuss his biography of Manny Pacquiao.
Non-Motivational
March 5, 2011
March 10: Gelf Goes to the Movies
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to Brooklyn on Thursday, March 10 for a very special cinematic event. Join us in a screening of cult classic The Room, considered by experts and non-experts alike the worst movie of all time, at the reRun Gastropub Theater, New York's only movie theater/bar hybrid. Door opens at 9; movie at 9:45.
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Varsity Letters
February 21, 2011
March 3: Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's (Le) Poisson Rouge. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, John Eisenberg, Doug Merlino, and Jon Wertheim will read from and talk about their work. Eisenberg will revisit Vince Lombardi's first season in Green Bay, before coach became legend. Merlino will recount his season playing basketball a quarter century ago on a team that was an experiment in racial harmony, and how that season affected the players' lives. And Wertheim will offer up insightful and surprising discoveries about sports analysis and psychology.
Varsity Letters
January 11, 2011
February 3: 5th Anniversary Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, February 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge, with a special event ahead of our fifth anniversary. Varsity Letters founder Dan Shanoff—who will be celebrating the launch of his new news site, Quickish— and Gelf—which has been hosting the event since December 2006—will be co-hosting the event. It will feature more than a dozen sportswriters, including Varsity Letters alumni and first-time speakers, who will take the stage in rapid-fire, three-minute installments to recall a defining moment in sports.
Varsity Letters
January 5, 2011
January 6: Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, January 6, at 7:30 p.m., with an all-NFL night, just before the playoffs begin. At this free monthly event, hosted by Gelf, N. Jeremi Duru, Anthony L. Gargano, and Chad Millman will read from and talk about their work. Duru will explain how the NFL opened up its hiring process for coaches. Gargano will provide an unvarnished look at life in the league. And Millman will trace the rise of the Steelers, even as Pittsburgh was crumbling around them.
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