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NCAA Pants Party: Arizona Vs. Purdue
Arizona Wildcats (20-10) vs. Purdue Boilermakers (21-11) When: Friday, 7:10 p.m. Where: New Orleans...

About Last Night
What you missed while tuning your fiddle ... • College basketball: Beware the Purple Eagle ... Clif Brown leads Niagara to date with Kansas (the missing f is for freshness). • NBA: Forget about the Spurs at your own peril. • NHL: The big five oh oh ... Mondano milestone leads Stars over Flyers. • No...

"Please, Sir, May I Have Another?!"
Ah, spring training. A time to work all the kinks out, ease one's self into the rigors of a long baseball season, iron out all the soft spots in your game. And for Red Sox prospect Jacoby Ellsbury, it's when you learn how to handle a thrown baseball hitting you in the head from two inches away. All ...

When Rocky Breaks Hank Aaron's Record, Then We'll Be Worried
So, you know how Australian authorities were investigating Sylvester Stallone and his posse — as much of a posse as a 60-year-old man can have — for having all that HGH with them? Well, he has now officially been charged. And just in time for the DVD release!...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while mailing your NCAA brackets to the IRS and listing the Louisville-Stanford game as a tax deduction ... • NBA: Mavericks visit The Oracle, and the news is not good. • Baseball: Red Sox beat Yankees 7-5, but Carl Pavano looks pretty spiffy after eight-day layoff. • NHL: A hockey p...

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...