Elite Eight, Part 1
Solo Alone, Chuntania Dangerfield, Ebenezer Noonoo and you up there, Leviticus Payne. Coach want to see you. And bring your playbook. After a scant year, we're down to two in each of our esteemed...
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Elite Eight, Part 2
It wasn't even close.With a shocking rout of No. 11 seed Monsterville Horton IV, Dragonwagon Regional No. 2 Taco B.M. Monster announced himself as the favorite to flash the sign of the championship...
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The Final Four
Sure, in just six days, Grantland can complete a Wire bracket. (Can't wait for the White Shadow bracket; I've got Coolidge over Salami in the final.) Here at NOTY, meanwhile, it's taken us a mere year...
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2011 NOTY Final
Flag us for delay of game. We won't stomp around like Ndamukong Suh (whose name, while not NOTY worthy, does mean "house of spears" in the dialect of his father's ancestral tribe, which is pretty...
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Your 2011 Name of the Year
Is Taco B.M. Monster. Of course it's Taco B.M. Monster. What were we thinking those scant 13 months ago when we gave Taco B.M. Monster a No. 2 seed? Did we actually believe the Dutch...
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NOTY: Under New Management
The NOTY High Committee is old.That's the only explanation we can conjure for our rank abdication of this esteemed event, that which grounded our lives for more than a quarter century; which gave the...
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Chrotchtangle Regional Round 2: #11 Magnus Moan vs. #14 RamAmandeep, #7...
There's a lot to love at the bottom of the Chrotchtangle this round. The first match is a tale of two upsets: Olympic skier Magnus Moan defeated Skylar Stormo in Round 1, while #14 upstart Ram Amandeep...
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Dragonwagon/Chrotchtangle Round 2 Results, Updated Bracket
Click to enlarge.First order of business: the battlefield has grown bloodier since we began Round 2. The survivors are shown above.Here's the Dragonwagon postgame:Top-seeded Dr. Suparman Marzuki...
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Bulltron Regional, Sweet Sixteen: #1 Pornsak Pongthong vs. #13Marijuana Warr,...
We began with 64 names. Now there are sixteen. By the end of this week, we will cut that number in half. As always, our Twitter will have all pertinent updates.---Top seed Pornsak Pongthong strolled...
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Sithole Regional, Sweet Sixteen: #1 Baby Swinger vs. #5 NormanConquest, #6...
The mensches over at the Filmdrunk Frotcast, who've been following along with our game, commented a while ago that the Sithole was the weakest region of the bracket. This is becoming clearer as we...
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Dragonwagon Regional, Sweet Sixteen: #1 Dr. Suparman Marzuki vs. #4Smokey Don...
We're halfway through the Sweet Sixteen! That was fast. Here's our Twitter.---Four seed Smokey Don Pipes may be the nominal underdog in our first matchup of the day, but the Oklahoman has looked like a...
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Chrotchtangle Regional, Sweet Sixteen: #1 Fancy English, Jr. vs. #4Fitzroy...
The first of the Sweet Sixteen survivors in the Chrotchtangle is Fancy English, Jr., who knocked over a North Carolina bank in the seventies. In my mind's eye, Fancy was the most genteel bank robber...
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We thinned our flock by half again this week. Gone are the lazy days of warmer months: the competition is getting fiercer as we separate ever more chaff from the wheat in search of the cream of this...
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Bulltron/Sithole Regionals, Elite Eight: #1 Pornsak Pongthong vs. #2Yolanda...
Well, after several weeks of upsets, scares, and near-misses, both the Bulltron and Sithole Regionals are now down to the top two seeds. Both are shaping up to be titanic struggles. As a reminder, we...
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Dragonwagon/Chrotchtangle Regionals, Elite Eight: #4 Smokey Don Pipesvs. #7...
--We've got two potential nail-biters on today's docket, folks, as well we should; two coveted Final Four slots are on the line.Repping the north side of the Dragonwagon: the soothing sounds of #4...
View ArticlePlease Welcome Your 2013 Name of the Year Final Four
Wow.It took four incredibly close battles, but we have our Final Four. One matchup came down to a single vote, and another was tied at midnight and had to be decided in overtime.Pornsak Pongthong...
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Final Four: #1 Pornsak Pongthong vs. #2 McWisdom Badejo, #4 Smokey DonPipes...
This is it. This is the week we've all been waiting for. The Final Four begins today, with the Final commencing on Thursday. GET HYPE...AND FOLLOW US ON TWITTER.---For a while, it seemed as if Pornsak...
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2013 Name of the Year Title Match: Pornsak Pongthong vs. Leo MosesSpornstarr
Of course.By our estimation McWisdom Badejo was an unlikely favorite, but he had a sizable cadre of supporters this round, nearly landing an upset against the fiercest Thai challenger this side of...
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Leo Moses Spornstarr is Your 2013 Name of the Year
A champion has finally been named.Okay, if you're into semantics, Leo Moses Spornstarr was named twenty-some years ago. But as a commenter pointed out, there is no prior Spornstarr line, no Spornstarr...
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A Shitavious Gruntfest, Indeed
The sun is shining. Flowers are starting to bloom. For the first time since 2010, Name of the Year is starting during March Madness. Praise be!This year's bracket is above. Both the old guard and the...
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