{"id":1821,"date":"2018-03-14T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2018-03-14T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T06:55:18","slug":"march-madness-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/college-fun\/march-madness-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em><strong>It\u2019s that time of year again!!! March Madness is here and boy are we excited!\u00a0 From now until April 2, get ready for some good old trash talking with rival schools, nail biting games, and of course&#8230; March Madness parties!\u00a0 Below is a quick guide to hosting a baller stress-free party.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best part about March Madness parties is that you don\u2019t have to worry about the entertainment since the games (and arguments on whose brackets are the best!) serve as entertainment themselves.\u00a0 Nevertheless, having festive movies on before and after the game is always a fun idea. Here are some of our favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space Jam<\/li>\n<li>Air Bud<\/li>\n<li>Semi-Pro<\/li>\n<li>The 6th Man<\/li>\n<li>\u201cO\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Finding Forrester<\/li>\n<li>Coach Carter<\/li>\n<li>The Basketball Diaries<\/li>\n<li>Love &amp; Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Hoop Dreams<\/li>\n<li>Teen Wolf<\/li>\n<li>White Men Can\u2019t Jump<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Brackets:<\/strong> Setting up a friendly competition where your guests fill out their brackets with a prize at the end is always fun! Looking for a quick download to track your bracket?\u00a0 Check out Martha Stewart&#8217;s form <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.marthastewart.com\/d7\/bracket\/bracket.pdf\">here<\/a> (yes we said it, Martha Stewart!). Oh, by the way, do you know what makes for a great commemorative gift for your bracket winner?\u00a0 Ahh yes, how about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yoursash.com\">YourSash.com sash<\/a>? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eats:<\/strong> Snackable and bite-sized foods are always crowd favorites. Chips and salsa, sliders, pizza, pretzels, brownie bites, and rice krispy treats, you name it.\u00a0 Check out some tasty looking recipes &#8211; themed and non-themed &#8211; below!<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love nachos?\u00a0 Find a classic recipe (or 19) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hannahmars\/yay-for-nachos?utm_term=.boxWb051X#.ed1YNJ1Eb\">here<\/a>\u00a0or check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dinneratthezoo.com\/irish-nachos\/\">Dinner at the Zoo&#8217;s Irish Nachos,<\/a>\u00a0where you bench the tortilla chips and sub in the potato chips!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dinneratthezoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/irish-nachos-2-3.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Don&#8217;t want to share food with your rival team?\u00a0 Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/farm-rich-bbq-courtside-sliders-3416179\">Food Network&#8217;s BBQ Courtside Sliders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/food.fnr.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/food\/fullset\/2016\/3\/2\/0\/RX-FarmRich_Pulled-Pork-Basketball-Sliders_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.462.suffix\/1456932111790.jpeg\" width=\"317\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Top it off with some easy-to-shoot dessert &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com\/cheesecake-pudding-shooters\/\">Cheesecake Pudding Shooters from The Girl Who Ate Everything.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/nilla-pudding-shooters-31.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keeping it Festive!<\/strong> You can dress the part either by wearing your favorite team colors or by staying neutral and wearing black and white stripes like a referee.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s friends or family you\u2019re having over, March Madness is a month where everyone can have a ball! (like what we did there? \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 Leave us a note &#8211; We&#8217;d love to hear about your March Madness party faves!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1827 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/yoursash.define3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2018\/03\/sport-high-united-states-of-america-ball.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Images courtesy of pixabay.com and pexels.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time of year again!!! March Madness is here and boy are we excited!\u00a0 From now until April 2, get ready for some good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,109,202,373,382,427],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-fun","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-event-planning","tag-life","tag-march-madness","tag-party-planning-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoursash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}