BRACKET SOCIALISTS. Milwaukee's mayor proposes a state basketball tournament featuring the Badgers, Panthers, Phoenix, and Warriors Golden Porcupines as a way of someday attracting the Final Four. But check out the list of sweeteners the basketball cartel wants before it could award the tournament to Milwaukee: enough arriving planes to bring in 35,000 people (the Hiawatha service, which gets a lot closer to the stadium and downtown hotels, doesn't count); heating and basketball-friendly seating and press facilities at the stadium; and a lot more hotel rooms. But it's amateur athletics and it has nothing to do with money.