On Tuesday, an undefeated Notre Dame women's basketball team faced off against the undefeated Connecticut Huskies in the championship game. Here's a collection of some of the real-time fan reaction and commentary. ...
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HLS Gives You Whiskey
Loyal Readers, you're the best. You cheer for the Irish, put up with our April Fools jokes, you endure #HLSrecapMadness voting shenanigans, you threaten me when I exclude you from Twitter summaries... You deserve a reward. #wHLSkey Last football season, I joked that #HLSrecap needed to find a corporate partner so I could reward you people with nimble thumbs and quick wit. But we didn't want anything too "corporate" or stuffy, and I hatched upon the idea of finding a whiskey partner. About ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Championship Round
Alright, people. Here we go: for all the (metaphorical and hypothetical) marbles, I present the final tweets as voted by you, The Internet. You may be upset at me (and rightly so) about suspicious seeding and shenanigans that cast a dark cloud over the first half of the tournament that brings us a final matchup of an 8-seed vs. a 12-seed. I'll counter by asking why you people eliminated so many worthy tweets in the early rounds. While the aptly named #HLSrecapMadness is an online ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Final Four
So it has come down to this. Sixty-four tweets, innumerable shenanigans, and we're left with four brave souls (I don't think we have any gingers left in this competition, do we?). Because voting on The Internet is serious business, I wanted to give you some more background on each of your finalists. You'll find their answers to my hard-hitting questions below. ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Elite Eight
We're coming down to the wire, ladies and gentlemen. It was a good year to be seeded in the 6-13 range, as all but one of our remaining 8 contestants used this lower-profile status to their advantage. I've made a couple adjustments on how poll votes are collected, so we should see some lower totals. The" Get Out The Vote" campaigns are still encouraged, however. ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Sweet Sixteen
Well the Round of 32 ended in a flurry of activity -- polls didn't close on time, leads changed hands at the last minute, we may have had people delete entire Twitter accounts, @HLS_hamster mistakenly took a vacation day and stopped powering the site server... You know, typical #HLSrecapMadness. As for me, the votes say I came up just short on Poot, but everyone knows nobody comes up short on Poot. It is with a heavy heart that I press on, although I'm out of the tournament. Cast Your ...
#HLSrecapMadness 2014: Round of 32
Well, that was great fun, wasn't it? I was about to chide myself for poor seeding, but then actual March Madness happened, so #HLSrecapMadness looks downright tame by comparison. No matter, we're still here and ready to rumble -- half of the lower seeds advanced, and we've already lost two 1-seeds and last year's champion. Cast Your Vote! We're going to move a little more quickly now -- polls close Wednesday, and I'll be back on Thursday with the #HLSrecapMadness Sweet Sixteen. To all you ...
Welcome to #HLSrecapMadness 2014
Let's face it: we're all missing football just a bit. I think Twitter is the World's Greatest Sports Bar, and I take fan tweets during Notre Dame Football games and create a game summary we like to call #HLSrecap. But now it's March Madness time, and while we can all appreciate some good college basketball, we're combining the sudden-death format of a 64-team basketball bracket with the greatest tweets of the 2013 ND Football season. You vote on who advances. History of #HLSrecapMadness ...
#HLSrecapMadness Round of 64: Leather Helmets Region
Polls for this round close at 5:00pm ET on Saturday, March 22. #8 MarktheNomad vs. #9 IrishElvis https://twitter.com/MarktheNomad/status/381525836425617408 https://twitter.com/irishelvis/status/391681179637673984 Judging by the postgame comments from Mark Dantonio, I'd say the first tweet fairly encompasses ND's offensive strategy against the Spartan defense. And the tweet from yours truly... [poll id="121"] #7 GoIrishGlory vs. #10 ...
#HLSrecapMadness Round of 64: Jumbotronless Region
Polls for this round close at 5:00pm ET on Saturday, March 22. #8 SteveinIowa1 vs. #9 TheIrishWon https://twitter.com/SteveinIowa1/status/379046607842336768 https://twitter.com/TheIrishWon/status/391706606783574017 If these two are any indication, the next generation of Notre Dame fans is being groomed according to time-honored tradition, but only one of these can advance. [poll id="104"] #7 oaknd1 vs. #10 ...