Roger Alton Roger Alton

Spectator Sport | 4 April 2009

Right now in the States there’s a televised event they call the Mega March Madness.

issue 04 April 2009

Right now in the States there’s a televised event they call the Mega March Madness.

Right now in the States there’s a televised event they call the Mega March Madness. This is the college basketball play-offs, and the eight nightly games are all played simultaneously. So if you go into a bar anywhere from Hoboken to Hawaii, from Manhattan to Monterey you can take your pick from eight screens to watch with your Bud. Or all at the same time. And it’s looking like next week’s Masters will be golf’s equivalent to the Mega Madness.

Sport has many heralds of spring — but nothing makes you get that endorphin rush quite like the first sighting of the bougainvilleas at Augusta National.

Just when you thought the build-up to the Masters couldn’t get any better, up pops Tiger Woods to claw back Sean O’Hair’s five-shot lead in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Orlando in a nerve-shredding climax late on Sunday night.

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