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OFFICE BETTING HAS BECOME ACCEPTABLE IN THE WORKPLACE, RESPONDENTS SAY IN LATEST VAULT.COM SURVEY

79% OF RESPONDENTS SAY BETTING POOLS ARE WORKPLACE APPROPRIATE; MARCH MADNESS MOST POPULAR EVENT; FOOTBALL THE MOST POPULAR SPORT

New York, NY, (March 12, 2013) Get your company’s NCAA Basketball Tournament brackets filled out. March Madness kicks off next week and, with workers facing longer hours in the office and continued stress over today’s economic climate, office betting has become more acceptable than ever, according to a recent survey by Vault.com.

As diehards of this site (Mom? Are you there?) already know, The Hoops Manifesto runs a College Dunk of the Year Tournament every spring.  Our next nominee for the 2012/13 edition is Syracuse's C.J. Fair.

As diehards of this site (Mom? Are you there?) already know, The Hoops Manifesto runs a College Dunk of the Year Tournament every spring.  Our next nominee for the 2012/13 edition is Michigan State's Keith Appling.

The internets are ablaze due to this dunk Keith Appling threw down a few minutes ago against Iowa.  Many are calling it the Dunk of the Year.  You be the judge:

(Debby Wong-USA TODAY Sports)

This has been a wacky college basketball season.  Teams are playing hot potato with the #1 spot in the polls, the defending champs have fallen off the face of the earth, and a "mid-major" team is currently at the top of the heap.  With the madness of March just around the corner, let's take a look back at the biggest surprises - both positive and negative - this NCAA season.  To do this, let's compare our preseason NCAA top 25 with the current AP poll to see which teams have surprised the most.

(John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)
 

Each year I try to do something new with the NCAA tournament. Two years ago I recorded the CBS and ESPN Selection Sunday specials, then watched them just before the Final Four to see how the experts did with their instinctual picks. That was the year that VCU went from the First Four to the Final Four and none of the experts even mentioned them as a deep, deep sleeper. I guess that shows experts (which some people might lump me in that group) can not predict the future better than anyone else. By the way, if you want more information on how poor experts are at predicting the future, you can read the books of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, including The Black Swan.

Holy smokes - what DeAndre Jordan (with help from Chris Paul) last night to Brandon Knight should be illegal.

I was trying to figure out how to adequately sum up what happens in this video so I could come up with a concise title for this article, but there's just too much to summarize.  Jamal Crawford.  Blake Griffin.  Dunk.  Enjoy.

Big up: Deadspin

As diehards of this site (Mom? Are you there?) already know, The Hoops Manifesto runs a College Dunk of the Year Tournament every spring.  Our next nominee for the 2012/13 edition is Louisville's Chane Behanan with this vicious cram.

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As diehards of this site (Mom? Are you there?) already know, The Hoops Manifesto runs a College Dunk of the Year Tournament every spring.  Our next nominee for the 2012/13 edition is Mercyhurst University's Jonathan Ouegnin.

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(Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports)

Shabazz Muhammad's lock on the first overall position on our consensus 2013 NBA mock draft has been broken.  A new freshman - Ben McLemore of Kansas - has taken the crown.... for now.

Rather than fill cyberspace up with yet another mock draft, The Hoops Manifesto has determined the consensus top 60 prospects for the 2013 NBA Draft.  We took the mock drafts from four of the web's best: DraftExpress, NBADraft.net, NBA Draft Room, and WalterFootball.com, crunched the numbers and came up with our list.