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Your Last-Minute Bracket Cheat Sheet: What All The Smart People Say
The "first" "round" of the NCAA tournament is underway, and the deadline for bracket submissions is fast approaching. To help you out with your last-minute picks, we took a look a seven March Madness/college hoops models, and used them to build out seven different "expert brackets."...
Jamaican Newspaper Has Some Sick Burns For Lorde
Lorde really stepped in it this time, you guys. This is a picture of a brief item that ran in the Jamaica Star last month, after Lorde publicly stated her hatred for reggae music. As you can see, her thoughts on the genre were not irie with the Jamaica Star....
The Twins' Bear Mascot Can Catch Balls With His Mouth
No gross jokes, you guys. T.C. Bear is a good and talented bear....
This Is A Painting Of George Washington Dunking On Kim Jong-un
Last month, Redditor fact_school_cat made a reasonable request. It read, in part,...
EMU Player Rightfully Pissed Only 373 People Came To Watch Them Win
Eastern Michigan beat Norfolk State at home in their first game of the CIT Tournament for the program's first postseason victory in almost 18 years, and fewer than 400 people were there to watch. Glenn Bryant, a senior on the team, was justifiably angry at the turnout....
Is Being Cursed To A "First Four" NCAA Game Actually A Blessing?
The NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament starts tonight in Dayton with two games, as it has since 2011, with another two tomorrow night. The "First Four"—imagined as a parallel to the Final Four, even though the former features eight teams and the latter, uh, four—has traditionally been seen ...
25 Year After Bruce Pearl Narced On Him, Jimmy Collins Has Moved On
In case you were wondering: No, Jimmy Collins is not surprised by this....
A March Madness Pool Scoring System That Doesn't Suck
Before we get to today's Funbag, a quick bit of news: I'll be singing the U.S. and Canadian anthems tonight at the Raptors-Hawks game in Atlanta. I've also taken over the Hawks' official Twitter feed (@ATLHawks) for the day. Or at least until they kick me off. So join me today for MAXIMUM HAWKITU...
Bruce Pearl's First Con: The Scandal That Defined Auburn's New Coach
Auburn has hired ESPN analyst Bruce Pearl, the man who spent his coaching career either narcing on behalf of the NCAA's rules or making a paper hat out of them, to be its future former basketball coach. In 2011, shortly after Pearl had bombed out of Tennessee with a three-year show-cause penalty to ...
Why The NCAA Needs To Pay Former Players, Not Just The Current Ones
The continuing debate about whether high-level collegiate basketball and football players should be paid seems to be moving in the direction of these athletes receiving some form of compensation above their scholarship. In the last year we have seen steps towards forming a college athletes' union, ...
Ten Minutes Of Buzzer-Beaters From The College Basketball Season
Exactly what the headline says....
The Knicks Are Shameless
Phil Jackson's introductory press conference is just underway at MSG, and the Knicks are already pushing Jackson shirseys in the team store. Who wouldn't want to wear Jackson's iconic No. 18? The man averaged 6.8 points and 17.7 minutes per game during his Knicks career. He's a New York legend! ...
Senators Player Autographs Reply To "Twitter Troll"
Way back in November, Adnan, an editor at Sens blog Silver Seven, offered up a snarky tweet about Ottawa defenseman Marc Methot. It wasn't particularly mean, and it didn't include Methot's Twitter handle, but Methot, presumably searching for his name, noticed. He replied with the old "you've never p...
Italian Baseball Team's <em>Major League</em> Parody Gets Real Racist Real Fast
This starts out as a pretty great shot-for-shot remake of the American Express commercial from Major League. It's funny for a while—the costumes are right, and those Italian dudes are doing a good job at delivering their lines—but then you remember that the original scene ends with Willie Mays Haye...
Dikembe Mutombo Fakes Out Nuggets Mascot, Issues Iconic Finger-Wag
Nuggets mascot Rocky (last seen here unconscious) and Dikembe Mutombo (last seen here caught up in a gold scheme) teamed up for a bit of fun tonight in Denver during the team's recognition of Mutombo's career in the Mile High City....
Woman Stabs Husband Because Devil Said He Was "Worshipping NASCAR"
A 23-year-old Tennessee woman—upset that her husband was "worshipping" a NASCAR race—drove her car into the church across the street from their home, called her husband from the wreckage, and stabbed him in the chest when he arrived. Prior thereto, she was smoking weed all day and all night while ha...
Hank The Dog Gets A Hero's Welcome In Milwaukee
Hank the dog stays winning like no dog before him. Over the weekend, Hank arrived at his new permanent home in Milwaukee, and he was welcomed in style....