Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers. No topic out of bounds. No opinions left

unsaid. An institution for sports talk and information. This is the sports reporters.

Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.

I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

We welcome you to the Monday morning edition of the sports reporters.

We join you each Monday and Thursday, and we're kind of pumped about things.

Right now, this is the NCAA tournament time.

And Michael, we're four days into the tournament, gentlemen, and I'll just put it this way

and throw up the jump ball for you guys.

I am getting what I like out of the tournament. Are you?

Yeah, but, you know, it's funny. I'm going to, my parting shot today will be how overwrought these announcers are.

Okay. It has been extremely entertaining. And there is one super team this year.

And when I look at this field, Mitch, I don't know how you feel about that.

When I look at this field, these teams are so evenly matched across the board.

Once you see the game being played.

And if you don't know what the seatings are, you see, especially in this crazy year,

how equal everybody looks. And so when a low- don't know what the seedings are. You see, especially in this crazy year, how, you know,

how equal everybody looks. And so when a lower seed beats a higher seed, it doesn't make me feel as if the earth ought to stop spinning on X-A-S. And I was saying to the guys before, we started

today, when I watched Loyola play play and I know how good their regular

season record is they're just under sheeted as far as I am concerned despite the fact that they

were in a final four of a few years ago and have a great coach so it has been extremely entertaining

...