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NCAA Pants Party: Boston College Vs. Texas Tech
Boston College Eagles (20-11) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (21-12) When: Thursday, 12:20 p.m. Where: Winston-Salem, NC...

Terrell Owens Will Not Turn In His Playbook Until He's Done Coloring It
No wonder Terrell Owens complains so much about not getting the ball. It's those damn quarterbacks who read the entire playbook. Filling their heads with running plays, audibles and routes to other receivers. His edition doesn't have all that worthless junk. But it does have a comics section. From t...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while attending the All-Star Game ... • NBA: All that's left of Nicholson is a set of chattering false teeth on the pavement ... Mavericks stomp Lakers for 17th straight win. • Tennis: Don't make a Federer case out of it ... Roger's streak ends at 41. • College basketball: That Ohio ...

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Georgetown 65, Pitt 42. I'm still waiting for Pitt to make their run. • Women's College Basketball: UMBC 67, Vermont 56. This was televised. I saw it. • New Mexico State 72, Utah State 70. I didn't see the game, but two of the AP's first three paragraphs were about how Reggie T...

Boston College Eagles
1. Our coach scared "the crap" out of Pitino. Forget the sophomoric jabs against coach Al Skinner. Sure Skinner and 1987 Kentucky Derby winner Alysheba have never been seen in the same place at the same time, and, all right, Skinner has an inexplicable mock turtleneck fetish, but so what? Skinner's ...

Purdue Boilermakers
1. Turnaround. The Boilermakers reached the 20-win mark for the first time since the 2000 season. Their 11-game turnaround from last season's nine-win campaign is one of the five best in the nation. Furthermore, their RPI at the end of last season was 175; this year it's 47. (For a point of comparis...

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Pitt 65, Louisville 59. Louisville has blown huge leads on two straight nights. Keep that in mind, tiny conference team that plays Louisville in the first round of the tournament. • NBA: 76ers 108, Lakers 92. Another game, another white man hit by a Kobe elbow. I guess someone ...

All In All, Not The Greatest Of Weekends
Boxing's a tough gig, especially if you're what's popularly known as a tomato can; someone to feed to a more talented boxer to fill out a card. The ironically named Patrick Sierra Jr. is such a fighter, for whom we feel a pang of empathy today with the news that, not only did he get pummeled in his ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while dancing a series of Irish jigs ... • NHL: Even we know that what Chris Simon did was not nice. • College basketball: Grin and Bear it ... Cal upends UCLA 76-69 in OT in Pac-10 tournament quarterfinals. • NBA: Manu The Moment ... Ginobli leads Spurs to 11th straight win....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while admiring the headline of the day ... • College basketball: Syracuse moves on in Big East Tournament, UConn, not so much. • NBA: LeBron Rocks ... James' 41 lead Cavaliers in double OT • Baseball: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Sammy! Sosa homers again as Rangers win....

Curt Schilling Has Something To Say. Really.
If you're like us, you ask yourself one question, every morning: Is there any way we could hear more opinions from Curt Schilling?...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while passed out from viewing this photo ... • NBA: Sweet Little Sixteen ... Mavericks rain blows upon Nets, clinch playoffs. • NHL: Attack of the Penguins ... beware a heavily padded man named Sidney ... • College basketball: The Wright Stuff ... Raiders upset Butler 60-55 for Horiz...

In Defense (?) Of Borges
In response to our Ron Borges and the Quote Pool Of Replenishing Nourishment item earlier today, a reporter (and colleague of Borges) writes in to (gently) take us to task, requesting that he/she remain anonymous. A quote:...

Ron Borges Suspended, But He's Not Alone
After the rather obvious plagiarism incident involving Boston Globe columnist Ron Borges yesterday, the Globe has suspended Borges for two months without pay. The union reps are standing behind Borges, but it's clear you won't see him in the paper for a while. It's all pretty much by the book; take ...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while looking for penguins in Kansas City ... • NBA: It's a Yao Ming after all, it's a Yao Ming after all ... but his return can't stop Cavs vs. Rockets. It's a Yao Ming World ... • Iditarod: And ... we have our first injury. Sled slip on ice and man go boom (we think the dogs planne...

Ron Borges' Cut-And-Paste Job
If you don't like The Boston Globe's Ron Borges and would like him to go away, you're in luck this morning: He pretty blatantly plagiarized his column yesterday from The Tacoma News Tribune. The evidence is obvious, and overwhelming....

About Last Night ...
What you missed while letting the Wookkie win ... • College basketball: Duke vs. North Carolina ... like a walk through a bad neighborhood in just about every way. • NBA: Kobe, meet the Suns. Suns, Kobe. • NHL: We're no experts, but this has to be some kind of penalty. Avalanche 4, Red Wings 3, OT...

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: Marquette 75, Pitt 71. And Georgetown is your regular season Big East champion. • Arena Football: Georgia Force 69, Arizona Rattlers 65. Three of every 10 throws by Chris Greisen went for touchdowns. 25-of-30, 337 yards... 9 touchdowns. • NBA: Spurs 97, Rockets 74. That's eight...

Barry Bonds Delivers One Into Your Gap
In the years that I've stopped paying attention, the memorabilia business has gone in directions I couldn't have anticipated... namely, up the ass....

About Last Night...
• College Basketball: (11) Southern Illinois 71, Drake 59. The Salukis have an RPI ranking of 5. Hm. Did not know that. • NBA: Sixers 117, Grizzlies 112. Three game win-streak for the Sixers... look out for these guys. • NHL: Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2. Sidney Crosby's the youngest player in NHL histo...