Every year at this time, the sports world bears witness to extraordinary drama, heartbreak, controversy, exultation, and triumph playing out right in front of us.

Oh, sure it happens to the 64 teams in the NCAA Tournament (we all know play-in games don't count), but I'm talking about the millions of amateur bracketologists who experience the highs and lows in a tournament office pool.

This annual rite of early spring makes what happens on the court look like an elementary school bake sale. Here now, for the first time, that action is captured (the office pool, not the bake sale) in all of its gut-wrenching, superstitious, frustrating, devastating, and altogether stressful glory during the most intense 19 days in sports.

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