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Warren Buffett offered one BILLION dollars for anyone who successfully predicted the winners of all of the games in the NCAA tournament.\u00a0 Early upsets\u2013for example, Mercer over Duke\u2013eliminated just about everyone who entered.\u00a0 Now no one is left standing.\u00a0 One person, Brad Binder, DID predict the first 36 games, including those upsets, but he wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1548,2331],"class_list":["post-18305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-ncaa-basketball-tournament","tag-warren-buffet"],"yoast_head":"\n
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