Jim is a resident of Old Forge, PA who works full-time as a track announcer at aharness racing track in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Jim has been freelance writing forCultureMap since February, concentrating on music reviews and lists as well asFantasy Football articles. Before CultureMap, he wrote for other music-relatedsites, contributing several well-regarded song countdowns of artists likeThe Beatles and Bruce Springsteen. He is a devoted Dad to his daughter,Daniele, who inherited his love of music, and has been with his girlfriendMarie, lovingly referred to in his articles as "The Better Half", for sixyears.
While there is lots of excitement about the NCAA pairings, there's not as muchgrumbling as in recent years, probably because the field has been expanded to 68teams.
No. 1 Kentucky in the No. 1 seed in the South regional, despite losing the SECChampionship game to Vanderbilt Sunday.