What other tournament in the world is better than March Madness? Maybe the World Cup. But the World Cup is a once every four years kind of anomaly and not yet beloved American phenomena because, in juxtaposition, the annual NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament is a month of mayhem and excellence American athletes dominate. Americans have not yet caught up to the superlative talent the rest of the world exhibits in the Beautiful Game’s most prestigious competition. Stateside, domestically, however, and in this year, too many sportswriters, analysts, and fan bases’ collective surprise, there’s now unprecedented and voluminous reason on the West Coast to rejoice, celebrate and
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