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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA Tournament Day 2!: Who thought we'd get through Day 1 without Andy Katz getting his tie caught in the press room fax machine? • 1 p.m. NFL draft w/ Todd McShay: Why is your mock draft making fun of my shirt? • 3:30 p.m. Blaz...

NCAA Tournament Blogdome: Meeting Our Banging Quota
Around the blogs and back on Thursday's first round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament ......

NBA Roundup: Lakers Lose As Jackson Finds Himself Down 50 Large
Notes on Thursday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering if anyone is reading the Times columns ... anyone ... anyone ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament ... Indiana moves on, Knight doesn't. • NBA: Things just keep getting better and better for the Lakers. And by better, we mean worse. • NHL: Martin Brodeur laughs at...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as grampa mourns the death of Captain America ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament. East Region, Marquette (24-9) vs. Michigan State (22-11), 7:20 p.m., North Carolina (28-6) vs. Eastern Kentucky (21-11), 30 minutes after previous game; South Region, Ohio State (30-3) vs. Central ...

We Have Captain Beefheart Reaching The Sweet 16
Check The NCAA Live Blog!...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon-6 p.m. NCAA Tournament Day 1!: It's only 11 a.m. and my brackets are a smoking crater. Is there no justice!? • 2 p.m. MLS with Dallas' Kenny Cooper: Can soccer in the U.S. survive without proper hooligans? • 4 p.m. Football scient...

NBA Roundup: The Buck Stops Here
Notes on Wednesday's OTHER games in the National Basketball Association ......

Hey, This Game Wasn't Bad At All
Who would have thought that on the day of the NCAA Basketball Tournament's Grand Opening we'd all be talking about the NBA? Weird. But thank the Suns and Mavericks, who put on quite a show on Wednesday, proving that the NBA is going to be relevant from here on out. At least if there's a championship...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while taking the kids to Hooters ... • NBA: One Suns-Mavericks game was pretty great. Now imagine seven in a row for all the marbles. • College basketball: Well, we're not sure about those pants, but Syracuse is on its way in the NIT. • NHL: Red Wing Nation ... Detroit 4, Nashville 2...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as the Gashouse Gorillas form a conga line around the bases ... • College basketball: MasterCard National Invitation Tournament, first round, South Alabama at Syracuse [ESPN]; Fresno State at Georgia; Austin Peay at Air Force. You start the season 17-1, and end up playing Austin Peay i...

Ben Affleck Wants To Brainwash Your Baby
Anyone who has seen Daredevil — or anything, really — knows that a new Ben Affleck video is cause for genuine concern. But this news is even more terrible than you might imagine; it seems that the rabid Red Sox enthusiast is after your baby....

Mariotti Is Tired Of These Mother****ing Snakes In This Mother****ing Press Box!
Here's one thing we love about baseball: It doesn't matter how old you are; Little League, college, majors ... everything completely and utterly stops when someone sees a snake. You could be making millions of bucks; jaded, aloof, lawyered up and possibly juiced, and it doesn't matter. "Hey man, che...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with David Thorpe: NBA on a Kobe witchhunt? Well, he did turn me into a newt. (I got better). • 2 p.m. NBA Live, Bring it Home: Listen, if it's not home by now, it ain't comin' back. • 3 p.m. Page 2's Bomani Jones: Lookit me,...

NBA Roundup: Spurs Wedge Themselves Into The Conversation
Notes from Tuesday's games in the National Basketball Association ......

About Last Night
What you missed while tuning your fiddle ... • College basketball: Beware the Purple Eagle ... Clif Brown leads Niagara to date with Kansas (the missing f is for freshness). • NBA: Forget about the Spurs at your own peril. • NHL: The big five oh oh ... Mondano milestone leads Stars over Flyers. • No...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while taking a break from searching for your false teeth ... • NHL: Sabres at Penguins. Hey, give back those restroom fixtures! We're not moving! [Versus] • NBA: Trail Blazers at Nuggets. Do they serve Coke in the Pepsi Center? [Altitude] • College basketball: Florida A&M vs. Niagara a...

I Was A Fugitive From An NCAA Basketball Office Pool Chain Gang
So you say that you were with Dr. Martin Luther King during the protest at Selma? Ha, that's nothing. We marched with Representative Kim Meltzer (R-Mich.) during her courageous fight to make NCAA basketball tournament office pools legal....

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. Fantasy Baseball Focus: I would like to discuss in detail my reasons for drafting Reds pitcher Gary Majewski. How much time do we have? • 3 p.m. NFL Draft with Steve Muench: Berman to say the words "In my pants" following every...

Stuck On You: Isiah Thomas Edition
It's time once again for Stuck On You, where players, coaches and owners decide that after everything, all they've ever wanted was right there in their own backyard the whole time. This week we lead off with Madison Square Garden Chairman James Dolan, who looks across the room at embattled Knicks co...