The Winners and Sinners portion of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has, appropriately, alighted in Providence, R.I. It’s an old mafia town, home once upon a time to the Patriarca crime family and a mayor who was elected as a crime buster but later did four years in the state pen for racketeering conspiracy. Stuff happened, but business got done.
Yes, the neighborhood fits. This is the perfect location to host Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Bill Self and Will Wade. So many March Madness wins, so many investigations and asterisks.
