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NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Friday, 12:20 p.m.
OK, so, maybe we didn't have the most ecstatic day of NCAA basketball yesterday — other than Duke, of course — but we have big hopes for today. (Besides, the most fun we had yesterday afternoon was reading Shanoff's live blog and your comments.) So, we rev it up yet again today. Here are the early g...
He Might Want To Lay Off The Nickname In Jail
So, for all of those who were losing faith in the justice system, you might this morning find yourself with some faith: Bears defensive lineman Tank Johnson is going to serve some jail time for the probation violation that involved all the, you know, artillery. A judge in Chicago sentenced him to 12...
This Is All Progressing Too Normally For Our Tastes
It's a good thing that Duke did lose to Virginia Commonwealth last night, because if the Blue Devils hadn't, we have no idea what everyone would be talking about today; it's really the only game of the first day of the tournament that had much of a storyline. (And, really, no one was that shocked th...
Hail, Hail, The Duke Is Dead, Long Live The Duke
We don't mean to imply that Virginia Commonwealth — the school where the band G.W.A.R. was founded, by the way — is extremely popular this morning, but The Truth About Duke Web site has VCU's logo as its background and we received six emails overnight simply with the phrase "GO RAMS!" in the subject...
The Day The Music Died
You know, it already just doesn't feel right without Duke in the NCAA tournament. It's just wrong. Wrong!...
Not The Most Exciting First Seven Games ... But There's Plenty To Go
All right, so there were no buzzer-beaters, no upsets — all the top seeds won, annoyingly — and no real tight games ... but we're just gonna assume that's the luck of the draw. We'd like to thank Mr. Shanoff for some excellent live-blogging of the afternoon games, trying to make some of those dullar...
We'd Suggest The Scrambling Eggs, As Long As The Owner Wears Proper Handgear
We're just gonna lay this one out there: Michael Vick has a restaurant, and, sadly, they do not serve Mexican food....
Leftovers: Breathe, J.D., Breathe
• J.D. Drew has an oxygen chamber. Makes sense. [UmpBump] • The yearly teams you hate in the NCAA tourney. [Slate] • Of the mock brackets we've seen of late, this is one of our favorites. [Deadly Hippos] • A rather brilliant McSweeney's piece on the "GameDay" crew analyzing a guy's sex life. [McSwee...
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Thursday, 2:40 p.m.
After that first set, hey, who's up for some more? (No upsets, but hey: Stanford totally came to play.) And by "more," we mean "endless nonstop lunacy for the next 72 hours." Four more this afternoon, all coming to you from Mr. Shanoff, whom we hope you enjoyed from the first set of games....
Blogdome: Some Hated College Hoopsters
• One guy's least favorite college basketball players of all time. We love that Nick Smith is on there. [On Second Glance] • If you had trouble understanding what Gary Matthews Jr. was saying, this might help. [Chicks Dig The Long Ball] • Evander Holyfield knows how to discover if someone's using st...
NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Thursday, 12:20 p.m.
All right, kids, it's time: Any minute now, the first game is going to tip off, stepping up at 12:20 p.m. with Davidson vs. Maryland in Buffalo. Here are the first three games:...
Scot Pollard Encourages The Kids To Smoke Crack
Cleveland Cavaliers forward/center/whatever-he-is Scot Pollard has a message for all you kids out there, and he wants to make sure you see it in prime time....
Final Hour For Deadspin Pants Party Pool
All right, kids, we're just more than an hour from the beginning of this whole NCAA tournament business — Who has Maryland-Davidson fever? We do, we do! — and this is pretty much your last chance to Join The Deadspin Pants Party tournament pool. As of this typing, there are 3,315 people in the pool,...
That's Not Quite What Pete Said, Actually
With all the hullabaloo around Pete Rose's "admission" yesterday that he "bet on the Reds every night" — a story so overblown that even Katie Couric was talking about it, chatting with beer pong specialist Armen Keteyian — Keith Olbermann, who did the Rose interview along with Dan Patrick on ESPN Ra...
It's A Great Night To Go To Bed Early
All right, kids, 'twas the night before the NCAA Tournament kicks off and everything goes right plum crazy for four days, then takes three days off, then goes slightly less nuts for four more days. We can't wait, and we suspect you can't either....
This Isn't Even The Best Chris Duhon Picture
Over the weekend, the gents at Free Darko stumbled across a Flickr stream called "Ballers w/ Randoms," a full treasure trove of NBA partying goodness, including two women kissing the hairless dome of Charlie Villanueva. Above, it's Chris Duhon right before the whole night went to hell....