"March Madness" in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:33 AM -0500 3/25/05, sagehen wrote:
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>>But March Madness, as a basketball term, had been used well before
>>Musburger said it, by the Illinois High School Association. The group
>>began running a boys basketball tournament in 1908, and in 1939, its
>>assistant executive secretary, Henry V. Porter, wrote an essay
>>suggesting that a "little March madness may complement and contribute
>>to sanity and help keep society on an even keel."
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>Surely the madness of the March hare must enter into this somehow....?
>A. Murie
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Sandomir doesn't mention either the March hare or the Mad Hatter, but
I also assume they're implicated somehow.  He does note Andy
Borowitz's observation that "under pressure from the National
Institutes of Health, the N.C.A.A. has changed the name to 'March
Bipolar Disorder'."

Larry