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The Badgers surely derailed a lot of brackets in the second round of the men's tournament on Saturday, after defeating the top-seeded Wildcats, 65-62.

If LA wins, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown gets Italian sausage, cupcakes and Long Island oysters. The prize for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo if the Rangers win? Rice cakes and a history book on California.

This holiday season, the people of Reading will celebrate with a 25-foot tall tree. The city's sparse tree last year looked more like the tree out of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Novelist, journalist and columnist PETE HAMILL. He's written seven novels, including "Flesh and Blood," and "Loving Women." Most recently he was editor-in-chief at the New York Post. He's latest book is a memoir of the years he spent drinking, "A Drinking Life: A Memoir," (Little, Brown & Co.) HAMILL quit drinking twenty years ago. One reviewer in Publishers Weekly writes about HAMILL's new memoir, "This is not a jeremiad condemning drink, however, but a thoughtful, funny, street-smart reflection on its consequences."

2: Actor BRIAN BENBEN is co-starring in the new movie, "Radioland Murders," as a radio scriptwriter trying to save his marriage. BENBEN also stars in "Dream On," the HBO comedy series. "The New York Times" has called his "Dream On" character "an adult Charlie Brown," with "offbeat charm."

2: Director of the National Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition at Tufts University, DR. LARRY BROWN. He directed a recent study titled "Statement on Key Welfare Reform Issues: The Empirical Evidence." The study revealed the assumptions behind the Republican "Contract With America" regarding welfare reform to be wrong. He agrees reform is necessary but feels reform must be focused on the right target.

"New York Times" defense correspondent MICHAEL GORDON and retired Marine Corps General BERNARD TRAINOR. They have collaborated on a book about the Persian Gulf war, "The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf." ( Little, Brown) The book examines why the war was "an incomplete success.

Actor MATTHEW BRODERICK. He's making his singing and dancing debut in the revival of the broadway musical, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." BRODERICK plays J. Pierrepont Finch, an ambitious window washer who climbs the corporate ladder by "fawning, brown-nosing, sucking up and a touch of backstabbing." The satirical musical was written by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows and first hit the stage in 1961. BRODERICK is best known for his acting, in such movies as "Torch Song Trilogy," "War Games," and "The Freshman." BRODERICK was recently nominated for a 1995 Tony Award for his performance in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

National Political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, RONALD BROWNSTEIN. He has collaborated on a new book, Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival (Little, Brown and Company, written with Dan Balz, national editor of the Washington Post). In the book they look at how the Republicans captured Congress, so shortly after the defeat of George Bush in the presidential election, and how the Republican party has changed dramatically in the last ten years.

In part two of our public hospitals series, Frank Browning reports on the debate at the University of San Francisco General Hospital over what changes may be needed in medical education to meet the challenges public hospitals face from managed care. To reduce cost, they're having to shift away from expensive specialty care in the hospital to preventive general care, delivered in an outpatient setting. That's not what they're accustomed to doing, but it's what most poor people who depend on public hospitals need.