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There. >> its wild and crazyiest march madness youve seen. put it in perspective, the teams in there now are virginia commonwealth universities and butler and kentucky a fourth seed and never in the ncaa tournaments have there been a final four without a one or two seed. the first year its ever happened. >> harris: and you say that actually the viewership has been up and people wanted to see the big guys taken. >> who doesnt like the cinderella story and a shocker. and butler head coach, theyre ...

>> were talking about puppy cams, nanny cams, and its rolling for hours at a time. so you can imagine this is using up a lot of bandwidth over the course of, you know, several hours a day. and the concern, this was part of comments made by a cisco executive recently and he was saying, this is really putting a train strain on the internet because its not able to keep up with the demand for all of this. when people sit at work, theyre sitting and having this on their desk all day at times and they...

The perfect bracket, not a single slam dunk. no one has a perfect bracket left at least not in the tournament challenge being run by espn.com. 5.9 million brackets were picked. none of them correctly picked. all 16 teams remaining. only one person out of 5.9 million has 15 of the 16 teams correctly. it makes sense when you consider the enormous number of potentiaç outcomes. a 64 team tournament offers more than 9.2 quintillion possible outcomes. youre much better trying to win the mega jackpot ...

He wasnt president then. in 2009, he picked the champs correctly but missed the other three members of the final four. in 2010, he was 0 for the final four. so with a chance to redeem himself in 2011, the president is taking the safe route. hes picking four number one seeds. he filled out his bracket with espn.com senior writer andy katz who joins me. the presidents final four all chalk. talk about a guy not prepared, huh, for the -- to break down the madness, huh? >> well, ill tell you once aga...

What was the smart talk out of the president regarding dukes advancement to the final four? >> well, as youll see as we debut the piece at noon on sports center on espn, he did reference since he did not advance duke to the final four a few years ago, he got flack from coach k. and reggie love, his personal aide. as we do know, he did advance duke to the final four, but this was before the news that coach k. had late yesterday that kyri erving may play this weekend, hes been out with a toe injur...

Cnn.com/impactyourworld. you can certainly help as well. here is a look at this hours top stories. in libya, the crews are saying the momentum is turning against the rebels. the passion is still high. this is a rally against moammar gadhafi and praising france for recognizing it as libyas true government. elsewhere, reality reigns. troops used their fire power to recapture rebel strongholds. in yemen, protest rerupted into violence. a medic tells cnn dozens of people are injured. cnn cannot co...

Embarrassed to be with me. we talk about the show, you see the pod and bakery products i provide for the staff. our web folks are saying, my gosh, what have you got? this is hotter than espn.com. they didnt say that but clearly were hinting it. is it the money or the drug? an advisory panel for the food and drug administration voting to pull the plug on a popular medicine for women in the advanced stages of breast cancer. the panel says the drug is not effective. but at $8,000 a pop, congressm...

What do you make of lebron james having a one-hour special. it only takes two seconds to say im gong or im staying. >> it really does, but hes the biggest brand the nba has right now. theyre going to make the biggest spectacle out of it. >> is he doing it or -- >> i think hes doing it, but i also think espn is doing it. its only fitting he would partner with espn to make this announcement. >> i was speaking to a well-known sports writer and he says it just proves lebron james has a big ego. he h...

August? >> coast guard officials said they were a little bit ahead of schedule, about a week ahead of schedule. i said what does that mean? they said they still dont expect to be completed until mid august. and in statements from the past, they said mid august. they may be a couple of days ahead of schedule and everybody hopes that certainly is the case, but were not looking at, according to what they told me any significant development in getting that well done this month. >> another story peop...

Stage. i think the germans are going to be -- what do you call them? argentinia? >> and then there were four. the netherlands, uruguay, germany and spain are the teams left standing after the weekends exciting world cup quarterfinals action which means its time again for roger bennett, co-author of espn world cup companion and co-coast of espn.coms "off the ball." in washington, frank foer. we were listening to the podcast. that was you and joe on friday. >> hes a prophet. everybody else had a s...