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Go Spartans!

By Ed Brayton

The fact that MSU is playing North Carolina for the national championship tonight is absolutely astonishing to me. It's not very often that life plays out the way a movie script would have it written but the number of storylines coming together in this year's NCAA tournament is pretty incredible when you think about it.

First of all, it's the 30th anniversary of Michigan State's first national championship. Even if the Spartans had busted out in the first round, this final four was going to be a celebration of the legendary 1979 championship battle between Magic Johnson's MSU team and Larry Bird's Indiana State Sycamores. The fact that the current team made a run to be there for it could not have been written any more perfectly.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 06, 2009 (boomark / email).