{"id":1327,"date":"2008-03-22T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2008\/03\/22\/the-best-march-madness-highlights-anywhere\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T14:36:03","slug":"the-best-march-madness-highlights-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"The Best March Madness Highlights Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA doesn&#8217;t allow news organizations to show highlights of March Madness tournament games until all of the games are over for the evening. That can really put a crimp in your sports reporting, especially if you&#8217;re in a college-basketball-crazy market like the North Carolina Triangle region, where Duke, UNC, and NC State are.<\/p>\n<p>NBC17 and Penn Holderness found a way around it, though. They&#8217;re re-enacting highlights from games using dolls. For example, here&#8217;s the Duke\/Belmont game from Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xMIzMiikQo&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7xMIzMiikQo&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the best one, though. The best one is the one they did last night for the UNC\/Mount St. Mary&#8217;s game, in which the Mount St. Mary&#8217;s players are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc17.com\/midatlantic\/ncn\/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2008-03-21-0021.html\">represented by Care Bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA doesn&#8217;t allow news organizations to show highlights of March Madness tournament games until all of the games are over for the evening. That can really put a crimp in your sports reporting, especially if you&#8217;re in a college-basketball-crazy market like the North Carolina Triangle region, where Duke, UNC, and NC State are. NBC17 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Best March Madness Highlights Anywhere<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}