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These past couple weeks have been quite a whirlwind. My first eight days were spent in the sunny desert known as Palm Springs, California with an amazing team of writers, editors, photographers, and videographers. Our job at what I found to be an amazing tennis tournament, was to capture everything that the PNB Paribas Open has to offer to both the athlete and the fan. Although I couldn't stay through the entire tournament in order to cover my next assignment, the men's NCAA basketball tournament, a lot of hard work was put in by everyone along with plenty of laughs as well. I want to thank Matt and Billie for bringing me onto the team this year. It was a pleasure working with you all!

Once I was finished soaking up the sun, I flew back just in time to spend a couple days covering what is one of my favorite tournaments every year, the NCAA basketball tournament, where the only thing you can count on is that there will be plenty of raw emotion and surprises. This year was no different.

And because of this, yinz get a double dose of blog posts, starting with my pictures of a place much warmer than Pittsburgh...