Takeouts: state economies follow Greece’s footsteps, the NIT tournament, college basketball’s ‘other’ big tourney

FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: Global economists have been examining the frightening harbingers of Greece’s economic fall, but the causes may be all too familiar to the U.S. American economies may be dangerously close to experiencing the same failings that we saw in Greece. Louise Story, Wall Street and finance reporter for The New York Times, explains which states might suffer the worst.

SPORTS TAKEOUT: Takeaway Sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin analyzes the NIT Tournament which begins tomorrow. Some call the NIT the “other” College Basketball Tournament and Abdul-Matin wonders if that stigma is still deserved.