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Searching For Tom Lehrer
This is worth reading. Ben Smith on Tom Lehrer:...
Minnesota Wins Frozen Four Semifinal With Buzzer-Beating Goal
While this year's NCAA basketball tournament left us mostly in want of buzzer-beaters, the NCAA hockey Frozen Four delivered as Minnesota's Justin Holl scored a shorthanded buzzer-beater past North Dakota goalie Zane Gothberg and delivered the Golden Gophers into the national championship game....
This Is Not Buzz Williams
The Buzz Williams era at Virginia Tech got off to an inauspicious start when Virginia Tech welcomed the former Marquette coach by appending a picture of his former assistant—another cherubic bald man—to Williams's entry in the staff directory....
NMSU Forces Overtime With Long-Range Three After SDSU Turnover
A wild night of overtimes got longer after New Mexico State scored five points in the final 15 seconds to force overtime against San Diego State....
Texas Beats Arizona State With Cameron Ridley Buzzer-Beater
Texas big man Cameron Ridley was in the right place at the right time as he gathered in Jonathan Holmes's attempted buzzer-beater and laid in one of his own to down the Arizona State Sun Devils 87-85 and move the Longhorns into the round of 32....
Bonnies Upset A-10 Top Seed SLU With Bonkers, Buzzer-Beating Finish
First-seed St. Louis has just been knocked out of the Atlantic 10 tournament by ninth-seed St. Bonaventure thanks to a deep, buzzer-beating three from junior Bonnies guard Jordan Gathers. The game itself was incredible, as St. Bonaventure fought back from a 10-point halftime deficit, but the last 45...
Four-Overtime Minnesota State Semifinal Ends On 60-Foot Buzzer-Beater
Amir Coffey's buzzer-beater from well beyond half court delivered his Hopkins High School (Minnetonka) team to the Minnesota AAAA state championship game after a semifinal that required four overtimes....
Seton Hall Buzzer Beater Knocks Villanova Out Of Big East Tournament
In a crazy finish, Villanova, the 1 seed in the Big East Tournament and no. 3 in the nation, was knocked off by Seton Hall on a last second shot by Sterling Gibbs. This is why we love March. ...
Michigan High School Regional Final Ends On Wild Buzzer-Beater
Tonight's Michigan Class D regional championship between Sacred Heart (Mt. Pleasant) and Fulton ended on a wild buzzer-beating three that gave Sacred Heart the 49-47 win. Trust us, you've never seen a buzzer-beater quite like this....
OK State Buzzer-Beater Forces OT After Steal With Three Seconds Left
Leyton Hammonds stole an inbound pass and heaved up a buzzer-beating three to tie his Oklahoma State Cowboys with Baylor in Waco....
This Is A Pretty Ridiculous Behind-The-Back Buzzer-Beater
We pick up last night's game between Evergreen and Camas, in a Washington State high school district tournament, with two seconds left and Evergreen down two....
The End Of Weber State-Sacramento State Was Just Absurd
College basketball already had a hell of a showing Saturday with top-ranked Arizona losing on a last-second shot and Duke forcing overtime against Syracuse with a buzzer-beater, but there was another crazy finish yesterday that didn't feature two perennial programs....
Cal Ends #1 Arizona's Unbeaten Season With Last-Second Jumper
Justin Cobbs's fadeaway jumper gave Cal an upset for the ages tonight, as the buzzer-beater delivered a Pac-12 win that ended the top-ranked Arizona Wildcats' unbeaten season....
High Schooler Hits 80-Foot Buzzer-Beater To Send Game Into OT
This is Temidayo Yussuf of St. Joseph Notre Dame High School hitting one of the most ridiculous shots you will ever see. With his team down by three and 0.6 left on the clock, Yussuf grabbed a rebound following a missed free-throw and immediately launched the ball 80 feet in the other direction. So...
Arkansas Upsets Kentucky With Overtime Tip-Slam Buzzer Beater
After allowing a three-pointer to tie the game in regulation and another to tie it late in overtime, Arkansas bounced back when Michael Qualls tip-slammed the winning basket with 0.2 seconds remaining....
Mike Dunleavy Hits Half-Court Buzzer-Beater To Lose By Fewer
This is how it's going for the Bulls these days: Everything is basically futile. Be sure to stick around to the end of the video to see Dunleavy start to celebrate before realizing, "oh shit, we still lost."...
Buzzer-Beater Leads Colorado Past Kansas For First Time In Ten Years
Askia Booker's buzzer-beating three led Colorado to a 75-72 win over the sixth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks, the first CU-over-KU win since 2003. The Buffaloes had gone 0-19 in that span....
16 Adorable Animals React To BuzzFeeᴅ's Darren Rovell Story
Over the weekend, our pals at BuzzFeeᴅ published a long, insightful profile of sports business cyborg Darren Rovell. We felt compelled to share our thoughts on some of the choicer moments from the story....
The Magic Word
The greatest word in baseball is "horseshit." This isn't a matter of opinion, it's a scientific fact. From Kevin Kerrane’s fine book, Dollar Sign on the Muscle:...
90% Half Mental
There's a nice piece by Reeves Wiedeman over at Buzzfeed on Timothy Gallaway's 1972 book, The Inner Game of Tennis:...