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Nike Turns Michael Kidd-Gilchrist And Other NCAA Hoop Stars Into Stock Photograph Models [Updated]
Nike decided to celebrate Selection Sunday by tweeting out a series of stylish posters with dumb tag lines that were made for each team in the tournament. Here's one for the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders:...
Vince Carter Gets His Ankles Destroyed By Kevin Durant
Hey Vince Carter, you are old! Your ankles would really appreciate it if you would stay away from 6-foot-10 mutants like Kevin Durant from now on. ...
Not Every Conference Tournament Had "Excitement" Or "Spectators"
You're looking at shots from the stands during the semifinal of the Great West tournament in Chicago, via Brian Sandalow of ChicagoSide. Usually, small programs can at least count on friends and family to make the hike to conference tourney games, but it seems even mom and dad preferred the Big Ten ...
The Midwest Is The Regional Of Death; Or, Why Louisville Misses The "S-Curve"
Your 2013 NCAA Tournament bracket is out, and...huh. Forget your bracket pool—that'll be as impossible as always—this year it's tough enough just to predict a winner. Vegas is stumped, and a big part of that uncertainty comes from Louisville, the early favorite, being stuck in the stacked Midwest re...
Here's Your 2013 NCAA Bracket
Notable notes: Kentucky was locked out. Something called "La Salle" made it in and Gonzaga is a No. 1 seed. Madness! ...
Last-Minute Handball Sends Wigan Athletic Past Newcastle
The Premier League is ridiculous this time of year. In addition to the giants fight for European qualification at the top of the table, you have really, really bad teams fighting to avoid relegation at the bottom. ...
Your College Basketball Open Thread
We've got four games left before Lunardi can finally shame the also-rans of this years Selection Sunday. Three games tip off now:...
Marc Gasol Loses Shoe, Is Reunited With Shoe, Commits Foul With Shoe
This is a weird sequence from last night's Grizzlies-Jazz Game. Early in the fourth quarter Gasol converted a quick turnaround hook and on his way back up the court, had his foot stepped on, losing his shoe....
Judge Delivers Guilty Verdict In Steubenville Rape Trial
Following more than two hours of testimony on Saturday from the 16-year-old Jane Doe victim—during which time it was revealed that one of the defendants identified, via text message, his own sperm on the victim in one of the circulated pictures—Judge Thomas Lipps found Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond...
Another Buzzer-Beater For Another High School State Championship
Here we have Mercy star senior Maria Weselyj hitting a three point shot as time expires to give her team a 54-53 win in the Connecticut Class LL state final. Had Weselyj not made the shot, Mercy would have lost four consecutive Class LL finals, making her Mercy's very own Jim Kelly. ...
Two Reported Dead After A Sprint Car Drives Off A Pit Ramp At Full Speed And Hits Multiple Bystanders
Chase Johnson's sprint car sped off its starting blocks and into the pit area this evening at the California Sprint Car Civil War Series, where it hit and injured multiple spectators, reportedly killing two....
Taste Test: Will Dorito-Sheathed Tacos Be The End Of Us All?
You saunter up to the counter at your local Taco Bell, you order your Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco (taking care not to actually say all of that, for fear of creating the accurate impression that you have paid rapt attention to the television advertisements and planned this trip in advance; instead ...
Northwestern Has Fired Bill Carmody After 13 Years Of Decent-By-Northwestern-Standards Basketball
In 13 seasons as the head coach at Northwestern University, an alleged Big Ten basketball program, Bill Carmody’s signature moment might’ve been getting hired in the first place. And that, presumably, is why the school fired him today. Cracker-box facilities, lack of tradition, and academic pressure...
Your College Basketball TV Schedule And Open Thread
So, so much potentially great basketball today. ...
Millionaire College Basketball Coach Describes College Basketball's Emphasis On Money As "Hypocrisy"
Our friend Sally Jenkins wrote a column on the death of Big East this Thursday, and quoted University of Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin, who was very passionate about the conference's widely perceived demise:...