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Bracket Challenge: Readers vs. Writers - The Heat Index

Bracket Challenge: Readers vs. Writers

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on March 25, 2008 1:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Patrick O is leading the Sun Bracket Challenge after the first weekend with 219 points, giving him an eight-point lead over Danny P.

Tom Sc. with 206, Gordon H with 200 and Thomas Su with 197 round out the top five heading into the Sweet 16.

While The Heat Index was not allowed to "officially" enter the Sun Bracket Challenge, meaning we can't win the glorious prizes or "officially" taunt the feeble readers and their silly picks, we did fill out a bracket.

There are eight of us on staff in the sports department: three editors and five writers. One of us did not participate.

None of us would have cracked the top 32 if we were "officially" entered in the Bracket Challenge. Um, yeah.

Pat Mooney has top honors with 173 points.

Me? I have 143, not even in the top 10 in our 18-person pool.

DMH: 164
Wanberg: 160
LaTour: 147
Nolan:145
Sosa: 126

I almost made a mistake and put 150 for Nolan's score, which would have been almost right. Carly Nolan, the wife of sports editor Brad Nolan, does have 150.

Don't sweat it boss. I feel your pain. My girlfriend Celeste is leading that 18-person pool of ours with 193 points.

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Brad Engel is the longest-tenured member of The Sun sports staff and has won several national and state awards in his coverage of preps as well as the Chicago Bears, Chicago Fire and general sports.

Paul LaTour has been honored with national awards in each of the last three years and currently serves as The Sun's sports enterprise writer in addition to his duties covering high school and college sports.

Dustin Michael Harris joined The Sun in August 2005 and has covered everything from high school sports to men's college basketball in addition to his new role as one of The Sun's sports columnists.

Patrick Mooney covered politics, prep sports and professional baseball for several print and online media outlets before joining The Sun in August 2007. He concentrates on prep sports, writing features, profiles and breaking recruiting news.

Sean Fuchs joined The Sun in January 2008 and covers prep football in addition to swimming and diving and other high school sports. During his career, he’s won national awards covering prep, college and pro sports.

Brad Nolan worked as a Sun sports staff writer for nearly five years before taking over as sports editor in April 2005. Since then, The Sun has continued to be honored as one of the top sports sections in the nation.

Chris Sosa formerly served as The Sun's assistant city editor before taking the assistant sports editor position in January 2007. He also writes a weekly sports column for The Sun.

D.J. Wanberg has served in several different capacities during his long-standing career with The Sun. Most recently, he worked as a sports staff writer and sports night editor until being named associate sports editor in 2006.