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Mural Of Vanderbilt Coach Is Being Repainted For Obvious Reasons
Oof. You try to do the right thing and give the new football coach some shine and then, well, this happens....
Jimmy Patsos: A True Student Of Gary Williams
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NCAA Confiscates Reporter's Cat Mug
This may shock you, given its mission as a nonprofit devoted to the needs of its student-athletes, but the NCAA will fucking cut you if you threaten its corporate sponsorships. Those extend even to the drinking vessels used by media sitting courtside for tournament games. One intrepid Wall Street Jo...
Here's The Contract Steve Masiello Signed With USF
In case you were wondering, here is the contract current former suspended Manhattan College basketball coach Steve Masiello signed with South Florida before it found out he never graduated college. As is often the case, the devil is in the details....
Bryce Harper Got Kicked In The Head
It's not officially baseball season until Bryce Harper goes through a concussion exam. So, it's baseball season....
ESPN College Hoops Writer Makes Terrible "Bold Predictions"
Last Wednesday, ESPN college basketball writer Myron Medcalf made "10 Bold Predictions" for the upcoming Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight. Now that the dust has settled, it's clear that Medcalf's predictions were indeed very bold, and also very wrong. Let's go through them one by one:...
Aaron Harrison's Game-Winner Made $329,166 For His Coaches, AD
Aaron Harrison's game-winning three that put his team into the Final Four may very well end up being the iconic shot of this tournament. It was also a shot that that put a lot of money in a lot of people's pockets, and none of them is named Aaron Harrison....
Did Tucson Police Go Too Far In Putting Down Arizona Riot?
Despite Tucson police praising their handling of an unruly UA crowd following Saturday night's Wildcat loss to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight, its department of internal affairs will investigate video showing one officer violently blindsiding a female student who was reportedly just trying to get out ...
Cop In Riot Gear Violently Blindsides Girl During Arizona Riots
While police dealt with disorderly Arizona students in Tucson, one video's surfaced of an incident away from the main activity. In the clip, a police officer in riot gear comes out of nowhere to check a girl into a bench, for no clear reason....
Kentucky Heads To The Final Four On Aaron Harrison's Game-Winning Three
Kentucky's Aaron Harrison sank the game-winning three with 2.6 seconds remaining to take down Michigan, 75-72 and send the Wildcats to the Final Four. Holy crap....
Gainesville TV Station Recreates NCAA Highlights To Beat Restrictions
Broadcast rules stipulate that non-CBS stations can't show March Madness highlights until the day after the game, so ABC affiliate WCJB in Gainesville recapped the Gators' win over Dayton with its own recreated footage. It does not disappoint....
Arizona Bro Takes So Many Pepper Balls To Chest Before Being Restrained
Police were called in to contain rowdy Arizona students after the Wildcats lost to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight last night, but all the beanbag shots pepper balls in the world couldn't take one dude down. (For a little while, anyway.)...
Hockey Fight Concludes With A Hug And A Beer
We saw a hockey fight end with a high-five and hug earlier this month, but this brawl from the Federal Hockey League is much better....
Jonathan Quick Makes An Outstanding Kick Save While On His Stomach
Los Angeles goalie Jonathan Quick—or more accurately, his right leg—prevented a sure Winnipeg goal near the end of Saturday's Jets-Kings game....
Rain Causes Oakland Athletics' Plumbing To Flood, Again
The Oakland A's plumbing system was defeated yet again when it was overwhelmed by the weather yesterday. Toilet water for all!...
Arizona Loses To Wisconsin; Students And Riot Police Face Off
Arizona lost 64-63 in overtime to the Wisconsin Badgers earlier tonight for a spot in the Final Four, and now the campus is kind of a shit show. Riot police were lining up in front of a University boulevard bar more than an hour before the game ended and when it did, things rapidly deteriorated. By ...
Kevin Ware Is Transferring From Louisville
Almost one year ago today, Kevin Ware became a household name as the Louisville player who suffered quite possibly the most stomach-turning injury ever recorded. Ware exited the court on a stretcher during Louisville's eventual win over Duke to advance to the 2013 Final Four. With Ware as a rallying...
At 18 minutes and nine seconds long, the Tennessee-Michigan game took longer to finish the last 60 seconds than the combined final minutes of three different overtime games, and was easily the longest single final minute—a whopping 14% of the entire game, including halftime. Our post tracking the le...
Michigan Flop Ruins An Otherwise Great Game
Last night against Michigan, Tennessee came all the way back from a 15-point deficit with 10 minutes left to be in a position to get jobbed in the final seconds. With 10 seconds left in the game, Tennessee trailed Michigan by only one, 72-71. That's when the Volunteers put the ball in Jarnell Stokes...
Kentucky Beats Louisville, Has Most Orderly Couch Fire Ever
In the early morning Saturday, a few hours after Kentucky stormed back to beat Louisville 74-69 and advance to the Elite Eight, we received this video. It appears to be a single couch burning in the middle of the street along with several—I'd say...15, 20?—revelers chatting around the blaze. With i...