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Mascots, Luck and Cool Names: How to Fill Out Your March Madness Bracket

Welcome to the Weekend Read. This week we'll present three entertaining—albeit unscientific—ways to navigate your NCAA tournament bracket, our favorite stories of the week below and a peek inside the culinary scene at the NFL combine.

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• What offseason? This is how a frenetic four days reshaped the landscape of the NFL. (By Albert Breer)

• A fan favorite to some and a menace to the baseball establishment, Yasiel Puig is intent on becoming the Reds' marquee star after the Dodgers traded him away.