{"id":25261,"date":"2026-03-28T20:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/28\/if-college-sports-are-broken-why-is-march-madness-as-popular-as-ever-yakima-herald-republic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T20:45:57","slug":"if-college-sports-are-broken-why-is-march-madness-as-popular-as-ever-yakima-herald-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/28\/if-college-sports-are-broken-why-is-march-madness-as-popular-as-ever-yakima-herald-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"If college sports are broken, why is March Madness as popular as ever? &#8211; Yakima Herald-Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">If college sports are broken, why is March Madness as popular as ever?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Yakima Herald-Republic<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If college sports are broken, why is March Madness as popular as ever?&nbsp;&nbsp;Yakima Herald-Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}