One shining moment, we're a few weeks away from that, but these next few weeks are always fun.

One of the best three-week periods on the sports calendar gets underway in earnest tomorrow with 16.

First round games, starting at basically 12.15 and going until after midnight.

Same thing on Friday.

Yesterday, Max and I filled out half of our brackets.

Max, tell everybody how they can join us in the ESPN bracket challenge.

So you can just go to the Team 980 Twitter, and the link is up there.

I'll retweet it today, so it's refreshed on everyone's timeline.

But you just go there, click the link, and you punch in capital T-E-A-M-980 for the password,

and you can join our ESPN bracket challenge.

I also want to tell you that college hoops on Team 980 is presented by Bud Light.

Easy to drink. Easy to enjoy. That's Bud Light.

So yesterday we did the right side of the bracket, the West and the Midwest regions.

And I've done something this year, even looking at the picks that I'm about to give out in the east and in the South regions.

I am Mr. Chalk right now. I'm about to give out in the east and in the south regions. I am Mr. Chalk

right now. I typically am not. I told you this during the break, but there's not a lot of

analysis beyond my normal analysis, which is sort of anti-public pro-sharp. And really the favorites are going to be the anti-public plays

primarily on these first two days of the tournament on Thursday and Friday. I did give out a

short dog last night in Howard, but they actually went off as a favorite in some spots.

They actually went off as a one-point favorite in a bunch of spots before Tip last night.

For whatever reason, there seems to be a lot of the, you know, jump on the March Madness

betting train, let's bet underdogs in round one,

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