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2011 NOTY: Dragonwagon Regional, Part 2
This might be the toughest, most well-rounded foursome in the tournament. One inexplicable Native American. One Borscht Belt-meets-True Value. One apostrophe plus Beaver Cleaver. And one stock...
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2011 NOTY: Dragonwagon Regional, Part 3
Osama Bin Laden. Not much of a name.Monsterville Horton IV. Quite a name.Vote below.No. 3 Philander Moore:Kick returner at Cam Newton’s juco. No. 14 Dr. Loveday Conquest:Fish professor.Click Here for...
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2011 NOTY: Dragonwagon Regional, Part 4
Taco. Mmmmmmmm.....Vote.No. 7 Rev. Demon Sox: Retired Lutheran minister. No. 10 Tore Vikingstad:Norwegian hockey player. Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys |...
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2011 NOTY: Chrotchtangle Regional, Part 1
Welcome to the Crotchtangle Regional. Above is a seminal document in NOTY history: the June 1990 notarized affidavit verifying two instant Name of the Year legends, first ballot members of the Hall of...
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2011 NOTY: Chrotchtangle Regional, Part 2
Vote.No. 5 Quinta Funderburk:Arkansas WR with awesome haircut.No. 12 Orel Oral: College swimming coach.Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys | Feedback TabView...
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2011 NOTY: Chrotchtangle Regional, Part 3
Vote.No. 3 Spartacus Chino:Illinois h.s. wrestler, nose tackle. No. 14: Heidi Hohl:Tennessee real estate agent. Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys | Feedback...
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2011 NOTY: Chrotchtangle Regional, Part 4
And thus we conclude the first round of voting. Thank you for your patronage.No. 7 Jadeveon Clowney: No. 1 college football recruit in nation; handcuffed for Living While Black. No. 10 Charlie...
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Bulltron Regional, Second Round, Part 1
We will miss Mercedes Bunz, who was taken out in a 52-48 squeaker by Col. Many-Bears Grinder. Not so much for her name -- a quality pun, but not Final Four material -- but for her pompous,...
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We could watch the brilliant Xtranormal animation about Boston newsman Joe Shortsleeve's set-to with Beantown firefighters all night. Which is why we're thrilled that the No. 3 seed dispatched adorable...
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Sithole Regional, Second Round, Part 1
Yes, first-round voting in all regions is now officially closed.Second-round balloting is in progress in the Bulltron. Two match-ups here and two more here. Your remaining second-round pairings...
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Sithole Regional, Second Round, Part 2
Sorry for the delay. Life.In any event, Atreyu is a metafictional character from The Neverending Story, a young Greenskin warrior from the Grassy Plains... His parents were killed by a purple buffalo...
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Dragonwagon Regional, Second Round, Part 1
Vote.No. 1 stonegarden grindlife:UCLA grad student.No. 8 Rexachilles Imperial:Texas swimmer.Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys | Feedback TabView MicroPollNo. 5...
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Dragonwagon Regional, Second Round, Part 2
That's Monsterville Horton IV. And here are some things we have learned about him:Monsterville Horton, IV grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and was introduced to the exciting world of wine at the...
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Chrotchtangle Regional, Second Round, Part 1
To quote Richard Ford, we're sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry about your office pools. Sorry about the stalled momentum. It's been a busy spring at NOTY. The 2011 tournament will just have to...
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Vote!No. 14 Heidi Hohl:She's a real-estate agent!No. 11 Delector Durley Jr.: He's a Leatherneck!Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys | Feedback TabView...
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The Sweet 16
Here's another way to look at this year's drawn-out NOTY Tournament: More time to savor the onomastic greatness. Or, what's the rush?The High Committee is heading overseas. Sure, they have the...
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We won't bother you with the details of our busy fall and winter, or our existential NOTY crises. OK, we will for a second. We've been doing this for more than a quarter century, in one form or...
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Sithole time! Vote:No. 8 Chuntania Dangerfield:Houston county employee.No. 4 Delorean Blow: North Carolina DWI offender.Click Here for PollOnline SurveyConjoint Analysis | Polls | Mobile Surveys |...
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Sweet 16: Dragonwagon Regional
We love it when the highest-brow media discover NOTY. We flash back three decades, picture Baskerville Holmes or Herman Veal or Darryl Derryberry scrawled on a piece of lined yellow paper and taped to...
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While you do the Chrotch—or is it actually the Kroch?—please enjoy the dance stylings of the Sweet 16's own Neptune Pringle III, with fellow B-Boy Break Dancer Mat Guenther, "dueling to the music of...
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