NCAA basketball universe revolves around Portland for a few days
Published March 19, 2009 at 4:54 a.m.
When a dozen towering young men in dark blue warm-up suits with orange trim settled beneath the chandeliers and ferns of Mother’s Bistro in Portland for breakfast, the onlooking coffee sippers knew this was no ordinary Wednesday.The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the economic engine of college sports’ governing body and a favorite office gamble, is [...]