March
madness They call it “March Madness”. Literally: Frenzy March. In the States
instead the reference to this month of the year involves the most loved
discipline by the American public that is the basket. Nothing strange by
now; in a country where Michael Jordan, the axe of the Chicago Bulls, retired
few time ago, is more famous than the Pope, it can be that the 
professional
championship stars (NBA) catalyses along four or more weeks the whole sporting
attention of the country. It is not thinkable, in comparison terms, to relate
colours and intensity the “March Madness” is lived to any agonistic discipline
of our Athenaeums. To give an up to comparison we must quote the Football
God, reigning sovereign in our peninsula. Here's some data: at the earliest
four teams finals disputed at Saint Petersburg, a town overlooking the west
coast of the Floridane that I had the luck to presence, in the splendid
as well as impressive frame of the Tropicana Field there were 42.000 spectators
both days the semi-finals and decisive match between Duke and U-Conn were
played. If you think that the Juventus, the team having the greater appeal
and number of fans in Italy, does not succeed in calling more than 20.000
persons in average at the home matches at the “Delle Alpi” stadium and has
been compelled to plane again the building of a more dimensioned stadium,
maybe you can have the whole extent of the NCAA event. To render better
the “March Madness” effect in the Stars and Stripes earth, it can be useful
to refer to funny statistics. At least one American out of two divorces
from his wife. The average American shows the same for the four years spent
at the University reporting it as the most beautiful period in his life,
swearing endless love to his own athenaeum. Putting them together, the two
surveys may 
help
us to understand ever more: the loyalty of the United State citizens to
the university colours is decidedly greater than toward their own consorts.
The basket played by those boys, at the most 20 years old, is a real national-popular
phenomena that, inside the limits of the sporting correctness, enlivens
the regional rivalries in the Columbus' s earth. It starts-off 64 teams
from all the country and throughout direct elimination only four arrive
to the final event. One of the few events, together with the SuperBowl,
that is the grand final of the Football championship, really able to stop
America. Since the increasing popularity, the decisional organs are compelled
to take into account as the seat of the event for the mythic Final Four
only installations featured by over 40.000 persons capability. The CBS for
example, one of the most renowned American television networks, has paid
for the exclusive of this final tournament 1725 billions dollars for eight
years. Naturally those huge meeting, amusement and dollars, the reverse
of the medal must not and cannot be neglected. And that could deserve so
much big titles and surveys. It's mainly here it is revealed the average
American nature, a little dim, unaware in investigating beyond the NCAA
phenomena
and only wanting to live his own eventual very strong identification within
the university territory. For many people the Final Four finals are still
in fact the most strong and pure Stars and Stripes sporting event, where
twenty years old boys still technically rough, attempt the social climbing
on the trace of great champions as Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jabbar or Larry
Bird, who had inevitably passed under Caudine Forks of the college basket.
Few consider the most important figure guiding or to say it better being
the martinet of the protagonists of the parquet; that is the trainer, the
so celebrated and involved coach. To say that a NCAA technician has power
of life and death over his own boys may seem excessive. But virtually, it
can really depends on the strategic will, the reliance and the mood of one
of these absolute steersmen, the career and maybe the life itself of these
budding basketball players. The NABC, very powerful trainers association
is the real owner of the college basketball. It is it who shares, along
with the participating schools, the bigger pieces of the billionaire cake
put on the table thanks to the advertising and incomes proceeding from televisions.
They are who acquire new cars, fabulous mansions and wardrobe, leaving the
players neither the crumbs. Many of these boys do not have either the money
to get their parents at the stadium to clap to them. Maybe compelled to
wear then shoes or others, naturally chosen not without any incentive by
their own coach. These are the rules. On the other hand the athletes, after
4 years at most, are over. Who remains instead is the coach who every year,
beyond the mentioned honours, must charge also the load to find a quintet
able to make thousands fans dream. But there's nothing to object; at such
conditions the game is worth the candle. Well then the March madness is
so through and through.
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