Aquote from last year’s bracket, appropriately titled “Who Won 2013?”

With every passing year, I’m closer and closer to trashing the “Who Won” bracket model in exchange for “Who Lost.” Or “What Ruined This Year for Me The Most, a Bracket of 1024.”

I’m no oracle, but there was definitely something in the air inDecember 2013, and that something was clearly trying to warn me about the following 12months. “Don’t go,” the sassy fog would say as it whisked past my ear. But I didn’t listen. In my mind...