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Never Challenge Blake Hoffarber To A Game Of H.O.R.S.E.
When they were handing out natural disasters in the NCAA conference tournaments, the SEC came up with tornadoes. The Big Ten ended up with lightning striking twice. (The MAC? Perpetual darkness.) Minnesota's Blake Hoffarber's last-second desperation jumper to beat Indiana 59-58 was brain-exploding u...
Tornadoes Don't Enjoy SEC Basketball
It's refreshing to hear that nobody got injured when the severe weather struck down on the Georgia Dome during the SEC tournament, which means we're allowed to have a little fun with this....
Those Are Some Stunning VGA Graphics
Holy polygonal Christ. After that video, it immediately makes me want to quit Deadspin this weekend, fly back home to where my PC laptop lies, buy an external floppy drive, find my Stunts disk, and make a bunch of tracks and race Skid Vicious on every one of them. It seems like a lot of work, but it...
Gene Keady's Giant Head Is Rated TV-14
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering why the hell you ever downloaded this stupid amazing game... • NBA: The Houston Rockets reach 21 straight wins, still many behind Joe DiMaggio. • Golf: Vijay Singh is 7 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods as those two must be the sole competitors in this tournament or someth...
The Final Hours Before Selection Sunday
• A grand anniversary. • Tommy Bowden, not always so nice. • Welcome back, Battlebots. • When sleds attack. • Mark Cuban has all kinds of confusing rules. • Man, Felix Pie. • Hey, UNC beat Duke. • Enjoying Billy Crystal. For once. • Daulerio returns. (With Bill Conlin!) • Oh, Bob, Bob, Bob....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as I, for one, welcome our super sheep overlords ... • College basketball: Atlantic Coast Conference quarterfinals, Charlotte, Duke vs. Georgia Tech (7 p.m., ET), Clemson vs. Boston College (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]; Big East Conference semifinals, New York, Georgetown vs. West Virginia (7 ...
The Wrong Way To Pay Your Players
Butch Cassidy: [spanish] Manos a... Manos, um... Manos arriba! Sundance Kid: They got 'em up! Skip on down. Butch Cassidy: Arriba! Sundance Kid: Skip on down! Butch Cassidy: Todos ustedes "arrismense" a la pared. Sundance Kid: They're against the wall already! Butch Cassidy: Donde... ah, you're so d...
Pi Is The Loneliest Number
Each day this week, Storming The Floor will be previewing that night's important games. Enjoy....
Manning Vs. Brady, Round II
OK, I might see Tom Brady wearing Ermenegildo Zegna clothing, but Eli Manning, I don't think so. Isn't he more of a Miller's Outpost kind of guy? Anyway, they were both on hand for the big Zegna store opening in Manhattan on Thursday, or so we are led to believe. Mr. Manning here actually looks very...
Gus Johnson Doesn't Get Quite Enough Love
OK, now do you guys think it would be safe to say that few television personalities not named Erin Andrews are more popular among these here Intertubes than Gus Johnson? We're the ones pumping the guy, dammit! James Brown? Play-by-play? Over Gus Johnson? Come on! He's loved around here. So why, then...
Welcome To Isiah Thomas Stadium
Did you know that there was a Cedar Rapids Kernels Baseball Club? They're the Iowan Class A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (man that's a lot of prepositions), and their nickname is the Kernels. Which means there's only one logical corporate sponsor. Ladies and gentlepeople, welcome t...
I, Like, Totally Had That Ball, Man (Cough!)
When Barry Bonds hit home run No. 762 at Coors Field on Sept. 5, 2007, notorious ballhawk Jake Frazier was in perfect position to grab it. As it's looking more and more like that will be Bonds' last homer ever, the ball is quite a prize; it's estimated that it could go for $1 million when it's put u...
Did You Drink And Dial?
Listen, man. You're our friend, and we know you care about us. And we know you disapprove, and we respect that. But there are some things that we have to do that you don't understand. You understand literature, movies, wine ... but you don't understand our plight....
Dude, You Can Put Your WHIP In It
Baseball Musings reports that a technology conference — and hey, what's more fun than those? — has been giving out: baseball roach clips....
Everywhere On Earth, There Are Arenas
• Arena Football is going international. Sort of. [It's Still Football] • Which celebrity might play in the NHL? [Going Five Hole] • Your guide to curling. [Food Court Lunch] • Kelvin Sampson, and Make-A-Wish day. [The Angry T] • Ben Braun still has a job? Really? [The Play In California] • The Big ...