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      MARCH MADNESS TOURNAMENTS

      Who's the maddest of them all?

      Announcing the Winner of Mental Floss’s Literal March Madness

      Forget basketball. We’ve rounded up 32 of the angriest, most irritable beings in the universe.

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      The Surprising Link Between an 1851 Chess Tournament and Today's March Madness Bracket

      The modern chess set is named after Howard Staunton, a chess master who popularized its use. But his lasting contribution to sports might be in one that wasn’t even invented by the time he died in 1874.

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      Why Do We Call the NCAA Basketball Tournament 'March Madness'?

      The story of March Madness has everything: Chaucer, sex-crazed hares, Alice in Wonderland, lawsuits, and a basketball coach-turned-poet from Illinois.

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      9 More March Madness Online Tournaments

      Excitement is building for the upcoming college basketball melee that is March Madness, but there are plenty of fun tournaments to keep track of for those of us who don’t follow sports.

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      10 Other March Madness Tournaments 2015 (part two)

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      11 Other March Madness Tournaments 2015 (part one)

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      9 More Alternate March Madness Tournaments

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      This is Madness

      11 OTHER March Madness Tournaments

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