{"id":2987,"date":"2009-03-20T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:39","slug":"its-beer-and-brackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/20\/its-beer-and-brackets\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s beer and brackets for News&#039; sports writer as NCAA Tournament kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/alg_espn_zone.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/alg_espn_zone.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"The ESPN Zone in Times Square\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New York Daily News gave staff writer Matt Gagne &#8217;04 an assignment he&#8217;s been training for since his Bates days: Cover the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament from a sports bar in Manhattan. With a couple of friends, including a chum from Bates, Gagne watched the first-round games from the ESPN Zone in Times Square. &#8220;Others came and went, but Mike and Dave were in it for most of the haul,&#8221; wrote Gagne in his story, peppered with Bates references. &#8220;They had dozens of bracket pages spread out all over the table, some neatly stored in a three-ring binder while others were crumpled like old ATM receipts. At times they looked like teachers correcting homework; other times it felt like our restaurant tab was riding on the last horse race at the Meadowlands.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/college\/2009\/03\/20\/2009-03-20_its_beer__brackets_for_news_sports_write.html\">[More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News gave staff writer Matt Gagne &#8217;04 an assignment he&#8217;s been training for since his Bates days: Cover the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament from a sports bar in Manhattan. With a couple of friends, including a chum from Bates, Gagne watched the first-round games from the ESPN Zone in Times Square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,24,133,195,11009],"tags":[11051,4856,6429],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-creativity","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-journalism","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88857,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/88857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}