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10:45 AM, Mar 26, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

Florida Gulf Coast University has an economics department that takes free markets seriously. This isn’t a motley collection of ideologues who are indifferent to the suffering of the poor or who naively believe that free markets create nirvana ... The economists at FGCU take one of the central propositions of economics—people respond to incentives—and push it as far as they can take it.

Right. And the example is there, on campus, for all to see. Work hard on fundamentals, including free throw shooting, and you could make millions, marry a Maxim model, and become the head basketball coach who takes some little unknown school at least to the sweet sixteen.

10:15 PM, Mar 23, 2013 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

As the men of Harvard exit the NCAA tournament at the hands of the Arizona Wildcats, you'll surely want to wish them a fond and hearty farewell. So sing along with the final verse of "Fair Harvard," written by Reverend Samuel Gilman for the university's 200th anniversary in 1836.

11:26 AM, Mar 23, 2013 • By GEOFFREY NORMAN

Mighty Georgetown, a number two seed, fell to Florida Gulf Coast, a number fifteen seed, last night. Florida Gulf Coast has only been eligible to play in the tournament for two years.

9:15 AM, Mar 22, 2013 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

On March 21, 2013, history was made. Ivy League champion and 14th seed Harvard men's basketball team busted brackets everywhere as it upset 3rd seed New Mexico, winning its first NCAA playoff game ever and notching its first victory over a top-ten team. Read all about it here and here.

Barack Obama and Reggie Love playing basketball

9:01 AM, Jan 27, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

In an interview with the New Republic, President Barack Obama is asked, "I'm wondering if you, as a fan, take less pleasure in watching football, knowing the impact that the game takes on its players."

9:25 AM, Apr 2, 2012 • By DAVID WOLFFORD

Tonight’s NCAA national championship game between storied basketball programs Kentucky and Kansas probably won’t top the 1992 East Regional final between Duke and Kentucky. Sportswriter and ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowski meticulously recaps that March Madness landmark twenty years later in The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds that Changed Basketball.

Happy Hour: In the White House office pool, Qaddafi is a #1 Seed

7:00 PM, Mar 16, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

So Obama filled out his NCAA bracket -- we hear he's picked Qaddafi to go all the way.

A congressman most Americans have never heard of disparages the world's greatest living military leader with a pop culture reference. Zing!

Another Innocuous Pro-Life Ad Draws Criticism

5:16 PM, Feb 24, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM

When Tim Tebow's pro-life ad ran during the Super Bowl, I wasn't a fan of it. It seemed so innocuous as to be a lost opportunity. Why did Focus on the Family pay so much money, create such a ruckus only to punt (forgive the pun) the issue when the Tebows finally came on-screen? It was a nice ad, which drove traffic to the Tebows' powerful story, on Focus' website, but I thought it should have done more.

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