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Spike Albrecht Takes The Ultimate Heat Check By Macking On Kate Upton
The Michigan Wolverines may have lost the NCAA championship last night, but that doesn't mean that backup guard Spike Albrecht isn't feeling pretty good about himself this morning. Albrecht had a huge game, scoring 17 points in 28 minutes while sinking four of his five shots from downtown. Judging b...
The Art Of Screwing Up: How NCAA Refs Live With Their Mistakes
In the second round of the 2012 NCAA tournament, 16th-seeded UNC-Asheville trailed top-seeded Syracuse by three points with 38.2 seconds remaining, Orange inbounding the ball. This was a big moment for the Bulldogs, and it would prove to be a big moment, too, for a man whose name and face you wouldn...
Blake Griffin Decides Finger Rolls Are Stupid, Throws Down Dunk
This play is impressive enough at full speed, thanks to Griffin's ability to momentarily transform into Clyde Drexler and go gliding through the sky for a breakaway dunk. But then you see the slow-motion replay, and you realize that Griffin was planning on laying that ball in, only to change his mi...
<em>Saturday Night Live</em> Took On The Mike Rice Video Tonight
Tonight's Saturday Night Live unleashed this parody just as the Michigan-Syracuse game was coming to its ugly end, so the Mike Rice-savvy audience out there may have missed it....
Michigan Misses All The Free Throws, Wins Ugly Against Syracuse Anyway
A wire-to-wire (foul-fest, timeout-filled, commercial-break heavy) battle ended in Jim Boeheim making a number of very Jim Boeheim faces and a relatively easy call for the refs: Jordan Morgan taking a charge from Brandon Triche with 20 seconds left, which, in hindsight, finished off Syracuse. Michi...
Your Final Four Open Thread
Woo-ooooh, Final Four. Talk here if you're sticking around, tell us where and why you've placed your bets, console each other if there's a horrific injury. No idea why these teams made it as far as they did? See here, it's good. ...
What Makes Them So Good? A Video Breakdown Of The Final Four Teams
The Final Four play tonight, with Wichita State-Louisville at 6:09 p.m. ET and Syracuse-Michigan following it up at 8:49 p.m. Here, we're breaking down the four teams' special qualities: What should you know about Syracuse's zone? Who's that white guy who hits all the threes for Wichita, and how the...
Eric Murdock Sues Rutgers, Just Like He Promised
Former NBA player and Rutgers assistant Eric Murdock filed his long-awaited wrongful termination lawsuit against Rutgers today, claiming he was fired for attempting to blow the whistle on former coach Mike Rice. Rice was let go earlier this week, a day after Murdock's video was made public....
Dukies, Single People, And Women: Data Show Who Sucks At Picking Brackets
In a feel-good "enormous corporations share user-data" story, Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to give us a rare look into the demographics that drive March Madness picks. Drawing on data from the 60,000 users who used Facebook to login to Yahoo's College Tournament Pick 'Em, Michael Bailey (cr...
The Story Of "Wrong Way" Willie And The Buzzer-Beater That Lost A Game
It was March 3, 1978, the sectional semifinals of the Indiana high school basketball tournament, in the teeth of what they call Hoosier Hysteria. George Washington was playing Northwest, a team it had already beaten twice that season. Washington was up, 61-60, and had the ball. A second remained. Da...
Here's Richard Pitino's Minnesota Contract, Complete With A Limit On Private Jet Rides
Little Pitino has taken over for some pretty big names as he moves up the coaching ranks. First Isiah Thomas at FIU, and now Tubby Smith at Minnesota, where he was officially introduced today. Pitino has a six-year deal, and we've published his full and finalized contract below. Let's dive into the ...
Tim Pernetti Claims He Wanted To Fire Mike Rice Back In November, But Rutgers Wouldn't Allow It
Here's former Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti's resignation letter, addressed to university president Robert Barchi. There's one section in particular we want to highlight:...
The Same Month Tim Pernetti Learned About Mike Rice's Abuse, He Was Lecturing On The Ethics Of Being An AD
In November, Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti viewed a video of coach Mike Rice physically and verbally abusing his players. That very same month, he spoke on an NYU panel on the role of sports in society. His main responsibility as an AD, Pernetti told the assembled crowd, "is the well-being ...
Kevin Ware Presented David Letterman's Top Ten List
Maybe this is little more than CBS synergy, but it's still good to see Louisville's Kevin Ware talking instead of screaming....
AD Tim Pernetti Follows Mike Rice Out The Door At Rutgers
The true measure of any college sports scandal—a real scandal, not a bullshit "teenagers use drugs" witchhunt—is how high the housecleaning goes. Rutgers has reached DEFCON 2, as athletic director Tim Pernetti is out. It can still go higher....
Ed Rush Resigns Following Accusations of Targeting Sean Miller
Ed Rush, head of officials for the Pac-12, has resigned after allegations surfaced that he offered $5,000 and a trip to Cancun to any referee who targeted Arizona coach Sean Miller. ...