Opinion

Familiar Four prove NCAA tourney is not ‘Hoosiers’

For all the talk of college basketball’s brave new world, it suddenly looks a lot like the old one. So anyone asking why the same dozen programs are still playing musical chairs at the Final Four every year – Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Villanova this time around – would do well to recall how Willie Sutton answered the feds when they asked why he kept robbing banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” Grit and gumption are great, but as the Saint Peter’s Peacocks were reminded in a hurry Sunday, they only take you so far.

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The change you seek starts within your heart and mind

In observing our culture in recent days, it is lamentable the manner in which we treat each other. The cries for respect and decency are being drowned out by calls of dissension and discord. Look around. You see it in our schools, politics, media and even within our own families. We are losing our ability to be in a relationship with others because of our lack of goodness.

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