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We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 1 p.m. Pro bowler Pete Weber: You may wear sunglasses indoors and quote pro wrestlers, but you're a Cardinals fan, so all is forgiven, OK? • 1:45 p.m. Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.: Tougher opponent, Piston Honda or Bald Bull? • 2 p.m. Ba...
More Fun With Joakim Noah
Because Saturday's Final Four matchup between Florida and UCLA is a rematch of last year's national championship game, some bad blood is still stewing, or boiling, or whatever bad blood does, and UCLA fans are wanting revenge. And how does today fan fire himself for revenge? Funny PhotoShops!...
Afterwards, They Made Him Eat Actual Buckeyes
This is an old video, but it never fails to crack us up and remind us, when we are watching Ohio State play a sporting event on the largest possible stage, just what kind of people are rooting for them. We love how they jump in joy after it happens....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you find out "Galaxy Quest" has been canceled ... • College men's basketball: MasterCard National Invitation Tournament, semifinals at New York, West Virginia vs. Mississippi State; Clemson vs. Air Force. What, we can't call it the Final Four? [ESPN2] • College women's basketball...
Baseball Season Preview: Montreal Expos
One of our favorite in-person baseball memories is watching the Expos play at Olympic Stadium a few years ago. This was back when Omar Minaya was the GM, during that season when he tried to make a mid-summer wild-card run. We saw the second game Bartolo Colon pitched for the 'Spos after his trade. T...
Your Final Four Pants Party Update
All right, with just three games left in the NCAA Tournament, we thought we'd check in with the ole D—-spin Pants Party NCAA Tournament pool....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. Baseball with Rob Neyer: How could the Royals be eliminated already? It's still March. • 1 p.m. NCAAW with Graham Hays: What? No Dick Vitale? We're there. • 4 p.m. NCAA MBB w/Doug Gottlieb: As long as Texas is still alive, my poo...
As Billy Donovan Turns ...
It has been a while since a sport's biggest stage has been overwhelmed with something as tedious as a potential coaching change. The most famous example, of course, was when Bill Parcells had his one foot out the door while supposedly preparing his New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. We never fe...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch after the tarpon wins it all ... • Arena football: Dallas at Orlando. Football and air conditioning; made for each other. [ESPN] • College women's basketball: NCAA tournament, Greensboro Regional final, Arizona State vs. Rutgers; Fresno Regional final, Connecticut vs. LSU. Ah, anything...
Roll On, Eighteen Wheeler, Roll On
We're actually big fans of the huge semi trucks that college football teams use to transport all their equipment from game-to-game; when we went to the Rutgers-Illinois game this year, we actually waved to the guy driving the Illini truck. Illinois had lost 33-0, and he grouchily nodded back. At lea...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 2 p.m. NBA Insider John Hollinger: Forget gay. Which players wear toupees? • 3 p.m. Baseball with Jerry Crasnick: Has Sosa discovered a way to cork his body? • 4 p.m.. Indycar drive Dan Wheldon: Do you ever just want to go like, 30 mph...
Fun With Misprinted T-Shirts
This seems to happen every year, but we still get a kick out of it: It's the Final Four T-shirt that gets put together a wee bit too early. Forgive Hoyas fans who buy this as a taunting joke and Tar Heels fans who grab it just to imagine what might have been, had they remembered the basic tenet of p...
NCAA Tourney Blogdome: Table For Four
Around the blog and back on Sunday's games in the NCAA Basketball Tournament ......
From A Rote Tourney Comes A Thrilling Final Four
Of all the little traditions of college basketball, our favorite might be the cutting down of the nets. It's something unique to the game of basketball; in other sports, it's the fans who cause the on-field destruction after a victory. (And we're damn good at it too.) We do always worry a little abo...
We've Got Our Four
I asked for a game that would be close at the end, and technically, I didn't really get it. Overtime, as it turned out, was a time for beating some Tarheel ass. Georgetown trailed the entire game, managed to tie it up on a late Jonathan Wallace three, and then Carolina just decided they didn't feel...
To Watch Tonight...
• NBA. Denver Nuggets @ Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron vs. Darko never gets the same amount of hype as LeBron vs. Carmelo. It's not fair. 8:00, ESPN. • Women's College Basketball. NCAA Tournament. George Washington vs. North Carolina. I think I've had about enough Tarheel blue for the day. 9:30, ESPN2....
That's A Whole Lot Of Points
That was a lively little half of basketball. The pace, you'd have to think, favors North Carolina. There are 94 points on the board already, a total that has to be as uncomfortable for Georgetown as the 27 dogtags that Patrick Ewing Sr. is wearing....
Wouldn't Be A Final Flour Without Florida
The wheels were very very slow to come off for Oregon. They fought and they battled, and they were in the game with under a minute left ... but it always sort of felt like a slow death march for the Ducks, as you knew that foul trouble and Florida's advantage in the paint would kill them at some poi...
Florida Overcomes Some Ugliness
Florida spent the first ten minutes of the game handling the ball like the handsome gentleman who spent so much time attempting to fix the net. They looked extremely uncomfortable to start the game, turning the ball over and being totally out of sync....
Gators vs. Ducks, Coming At You
The tournament's lowest-remaining seed is about to take the court against the defending national champions ... though it's not quite the underdog story that those two facts might lead you to believe. Florida is favored by 7, though....