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Florida State Seminoles
1. Jennifer Sterger And Her Friends Are Not The Hottest Girls On Campus. And it's really not even close. The FSU Cowgirls are certainly the most famous pretty faces on the Internet from FSU, but a stroll through campus reveals that girls as attractive as Jen and her pals — or moreso — are pretty com...
Michigan Wolverines
1. Head Coach Tommy Amaker Is Squeaky Clean. That's what you would expected for a four-year starter under Mike Krzyzewski. But as good as Amaker played at Duke, he and the other five former Duke assistant coaches under Mike Krzyzewski have 13 NCAA appearances in the equivalent of 53 seasons to their...
Missouri State Bears
1. This Is The Best Missouri State Team In History. This is sort of like saying that my pet snake is my best friend even though he's my only friend, but still. The school changed its name from Southwest Missouri State following last year s centennial celebration. So technically this is the best team...
Creighton Bluejays
1. Trust The Frosh With The Rock. Creighton was 17-5 for the season before losing true freshman point guard Josh Dotzler to a knee injury, and went 2-4 without Dotzler, who will be back for the NCAA tournament. Dotzler isn't the first true freshman to start at the point for Creighton: Dotzler succee...
Cincinnati Bearcats
1. Bob Huggins Won Lots Of Games And Has Lots Of Baggage. In 16 seasons at Cincinnati, Huggins won 399 games and took the Bearcats to 14 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Of course he is just as well known for not graduating his players - 20 percent during his tenure, losing regularly in the ...
Hofstra Pride
1. What's in A Name? The team nickname was The Flying Dutchmen forever, and then it was changed to Pride in 2001. There was actually a bit of an uproar over this change, with many "well-educated" Hofstra alumni worried that the athletic teams would now be "gay" ... because, you know, Flying Dutchmen...
St. Joseph's Hawks
1. They Were Nearly "The Bomb." The famed Hawk mascot turned 50 this year, but the team nickname has been around since 1929, when a student yearbook editor started a contest for naming the athletic teams. "Hawks" just barely beat out "Grenadiers," the name of World War I soldiers who specialized in ...
Mexican Beans Sold Separately
Fantastic find from The Wade Blogs: Currently up for auction is a wristband worn by Barry Bonds in 1987 for the Pirates that says "Say No To Drugs."...
Oh, Forget It, We Just Won't Show Up
So here's something we'd never seen before: The Oregon softball team cancelled an appearance in a tournament this weekend because ... they were out of pitchers....
Inside The SEC Tournament
Deadspin Mole Dominic Bonvissuto is sitting courtside at the SEC Men s Basketball Tournament at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tenn. Here's a notebook of what's happening over there....
Jacking Yourself UP!
One of the excerpts from Game Of Shadows involves the authors claiming that because Bonds put on 15 pounds of muscle in three months, he must have been on steroids. (To be fair, this is one sentence in the book, and the only one we've seen so far that even slightly overreaches.) Baseball Musings t...
Four Tiny Tidbits On: The Indians
We re less than a month from Opening Day, so it s time to start previewing the season. Inspired by an old feature on The Black Table, we re going team-by-team and distributing Four Things You Don t Know about them. If you have suggested oddities on your team, send them to us at [email protected]. ...
Your Guide To Being A Cameron Crazy
We knew the Cameron Crazies, the famed Duke Blue Devils cheering section, was well-organized ... but we had no idea it was this organized....
Deadspin Tourney Sign Up Sheet
Teams OFFICIALLY in the tournament are in bold. Teams listed not in bold are considered "close to lock" status. Any team without a name next to it is available. Teams will obviously be added as they become locks and/or win their conference tournaments. If you want to write a school's Three Tiny Tidb...
You Got To Blog Just To Make It Today
We know what you're thinking: What does MC Hammer think about this Barry Bonds business?...
Barry Bonds And The Chamber of Secrets
Well, there's less than two weeks left until the official release of the book Game of Shadows, the Barry Bonds expose by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. We suspect that your kids have been on pins and needles in anticipation and have probably been bugging you ...
Oral Roberts Golden Eagles
1. Bill Self Was There Back When He Had Real Hair. Kansas' toupeed head coach started his coaching career at Oral Roberts in the mid '90s, a mere 10 years ago. He turned the team around, raising their record from 6-21 in 1995 to 21-6 in 1997, after which he went to Tulsa, Illinois and finally Kansas...
North Carolina State Wolfpack
1. State's Backup Big Man Can Strike Your Ass Out. Reserve forward Andrew Brackman is a decent college basketball player, but he's an outstanding pitching prospect. At 6'10", Brackman is a mullet-less Randy Johnson. 2. Mascot Love. State has both male and female mascots, creatively named Mr. and Mr...
West Virginia Mountaineers
1. They Have Horny Wives. Heather Pittsnogle, wife of handsome Kevin, has been spotted at games and on campus wearing a t-shirt that says, "I Got Pittsnogled" and features an arrow pointing downwards at her girl genitals. Beat that, Jackie Christie....
George Mason Patriots
1. Exercising David s Demons. Mason cracked the Top 25 on February 20 for the first time in school history after winning at Wichita State. It marked the first time a CAA team has been ranked since a 1987 David Robinson-led Navy team was No. 18 in the polls, and a Beastie Boys-led "Licence to Ill" al...