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Is March Madness So Bad? Comparing Productivity Killers

The world's biggest sport spectacle—it reached 46 percent of the global population and every country and territory on Earth, from Antarctica to the Arctic Circle—is still an also-ran event in the U.S. Still, outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas estimates American viewership cost the economy $122 million. Compare that to $7.36 billion in the U.K.