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Cal Breaks Out Rarely-Seen <i>Three Stooges</i> Defensive Scheme
Must have worked, Cal upset the No. 5 seed, UNLV 64-61....

All The Angry Emails Sent To UCLA By Fans Who Hated The Ugly New Zubaz-Style Uniforms
Three weeks ago, Adidas rolled out special basketball uniforms for Cincinnati, Kansas, Baylor, UCLA, Louisville, and Notre Dame, to be worn in the teams’ conference tournaments. Each uniform featured Zubaz-like camo shorts, camo shoes, and three of the uniforms—UCLA, Louisville and Baylor—came with ...

FIU Is Getting A New Court, And It Could Go Horribly Wrong
Florida International hired a new coach this season, a Pitino, and is joining Conference USA in the fall. To go along with the program overhaul, their court will be getting a makeover. These are two of the prospective designs. Maybe Tommy Bahama can get in on a sponsorship deal....

Mike Woodson's Shirt Is The Worst Shirt
I mean, damn. I have so many questions....

Why Are Obama's Brackets So Boring?
Originally published in Bloomberg View...

The 13 Most Annoying Men Of March Madness
We've done enough loving on March Madness this week. March Madness is a wonderful time of the year, but it is also to be hated on: The fluffy mascots dancing around like they own the place, the pepped-out pep squads cheering like they actually believe in something, the crabby coaches, the clueless a...

There Was An Actual LIU Blackbird At Last Night's First Four Game Against James Madison
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LeBron James Caps 27-Point Comeback, Is Frightening
Here's LeBron James erasing what was a 27-point deficit with an egregious pull-up three before turning towards the Cleveland crowd to strike a conqueror's pose. It's kind of scary, isn't it? Not scary because LeBron James is a frightening person, but because it's unsettling to know that someone can...

Still Filling Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket? Consult Our Handy Expert Metabracket
Presenting your 2013 NCAA Tournament Metabracket. Click the annotations to see which teams Nate Silver, Joe Lunardi, Seth Davis, Barack Obama, Matt Norlander, Jay Bilas, and Luke Winn picked to advance through each round. (Click the "Next" button in the lower right corner to see the Sweet 16 and onw...

The Nuggets Don't Have A Star Player, But They Don't Need One
With last night's road victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder—a win that came on the second leg of back-to-back games—the Denver Nuggets quietly extended their win streak to 13. The Miami Heat, of course, have reached 23 straight wins with supernatural ease, and are understandably the bigger NBA...

Picking Your Nose On Television Is Not A Violation Of BYU's Honor Code
Hot on the heels of a fervent nationally-broadcast nosepicker, a BYU fan is running with the nostril-spelunking baton. Last night's NIT bout in Provo between the Cougars and Washington turned out to be a snoozer, but even early on this gentleman was more interested in his own sneezer....

Facebook Data Give Us The Best Fandom Map of the NCAA Tournament
In January, Facebook dipped into its user data and put together the greatest NFL fan map we'd ever seen. Now they've done it again, mapping out county-by-county Facebook likes for the 68 teams participating in this year's March Madness. Michael Bailey broke down the data by conference, tournament re...

Joe Morgan And Family Find NIT Basketball Enthralling
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Kentucky, Like Its Players, Is One-And-Done
In the NIT! To an NEC team!...

LeBron James Is A Better Defender Than The Computerized Version Of An Ideal NBA Defender
There is plenty of great information to be gleaned from Zach Lowe's exclusive look at the Toronto Raptors' camera tracking system, known as SportVU, but buried within the piece is yet another anecdote that demonstrates the fact that LeBron James is not of this planet....



