It’s March Madness. The NCAA basketball playoffs begin. For many sports fans this is the biggest and best event of the sitting-on-the-couch-drinking-beer sport year.
More interesting to me than baseketball is the Final 4 in chess. Is this the year that lowly Miami Dade Community College takes it all?
The team is made up of Cuban refugees and immigrants. They already upset Harvard in December and are gearing up for this year’s Final 4 next month in Dallas.
A front page story on the underdogs upstarts appeared in The Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Edition, March 4-5, 2006.
The perennial University chess superpowers are worried about the t-shirt and flipflop clad Cubans.
Rick McCharles 