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"God Said Yes To Michigan": We Called Every Tourney Team's Local Applebee's To Find Out What Happened In The GameFor the tournament, we're calling Applebee's franchises in different cities across the country immediately after the local institution has completed its game, win or lose. We'll pretend to be oblivious about what just happened in order to get a detailed game description from someone in the restauran...

What Happened In The Game? We Called Every Tourney Team's Local Applebee's To Find Out: Part IIFor the tournament, we're calling Applebee's franchises in different cities across the country immediately after the local institution has completed its game, win or lose. We'll pretend to be oblivious about what just happened in order to get a detailed game description from someone in the restauran...

What Happened In The Game? We Called Every Tourney Team's Local Applebee's To Find OutThe Applebeat was born when two writers without smartphones needed to know the score of an NBA playoff game. "Every town has an Applebee's," we thought. We tracked down an Oklahoma City Applebee's number with the assistance of an underworked 411 operator, and then, thanks to the establishment's frie...