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UConn Wins NCAA Championship
Shabazz Napier had 22 points on 8-16 shooting and was named the most outstanding player of the Final Four after UConn's 60-54 win over Kentucky in the NCAA title game. The Huskies became the first No. 7 seed to win the NCAA Tournament. ...

SuperCALifragilisticexpialidocious
That's a Mary Poppins reference during your NCAA Championship coverage. You're welcome....

Alex Poythress Shows No Ill Effects From Leg Injured In Celebration
Following Kentucky's win over Wisconsin Saturday night, Alex Poythress looked to suffer a pretty painful leg injury. He got himself stuck at the bottom of a celebratory pile-up on the court, and twisted his leg and was in obvious pain. By the look of things tonight, all seems to be OK. ...

How A Clever Kansas Play Went Viral And Took Over College Basketball
Kansas was on the ropes. Down five against Stanford with 21.5 seconds remaining, it appeared the Jayhawks would fail to make the second weekend of the NCAA tournament for the fourth time under coach Bill Self. This being March, though, a month where games aren't over until there has been a buzzer be...

What Will Aaron Harrison Do Tonight?
Kentucky guard Aaron Harrison has hit clutch shots in the Wildcats' last three games to help deliver them to tonight's national championship bout against UConn. The last two came in the games' final seconds, and bore such a remarkable similarity that we made a composite of them in the GIF you see he...

Two Hours Of The Lexington Police Scanner After UK Wins, Set To Music
Kentucky's thrilling wins over Louisville, Michigan, and Wisconsin have delivered the Wildcats to tomorrow's NCAA national championship. They've also prompted UK students to engage in, ah, "civil disobedience."...

Alex Poythress Gets Leg Tangled Up In Post-Game Celebration
Alex Poythress got his leg caught at the bottom of the post-game celebration on the court following Kentucky's win over Wisconsin. It looked kind of scary, what with him being stuck under his entire team, but hopefully it's a case of things looking worse than they actually are. ...

Drake Celebrates In Kentucky Locker Room, Says He's "Always" Been A Fan
For whatever reason, Drake was in the Kentucky locker room after the Aaron Harrison show kept rolling tonight over Wisconsin. After his appearance in the locker room, Matt Porter of the Palm Beach Post asked him how long he had been a Kentucky fan. His answer? "Always."...

Aaron Harrison Strikes Again; Kentucky Goes To Final
Holy shit, Aaron Harrison. With about five seconds left, Harrison buried another huge three-pointer to give Kentucky a 74-73 lead and a spot in the NCAA title game. ...

How Would An NCAA Union Actually Work? A Guide For Perplexed Pundits
The real triumph of the decades-long propaganda war against organized labor isn't best seen in the ever-declining rate of unionization, or ever-increasing income inequality, or even the way the word "union" functionally works as an epithet. It's seen, instead, in the fact that so many otherwise smar...

Aaron Harrison's Game-Winner Made $329,166 For His Coaches, AD
Aaron Harrison's game-winning three that put his team into the Final Four may very well end up being the iconic shot of this tournament. It was also a shot that that put a lot of money in a lot of people's pockets, and none of them is named Aaron Harrison....

Did Tucson Police Go Too Far In Putting Down Arizona Riot?
Despite Tucson police praising their handling of an unruly UA crowd following Saturday night's Wildcat loss to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight, its department of internal affairs will investigate video showing one officer violently blindsiding a female student who was reportedly just trying to get out ...

Cop In Riot Gear Violently Blindsides Girl During Arizona Riots
While police dealt with disorderly Arizona students in Tucson, one video's surfaced of an incident away from the main activity. In the clip, a police officer in riot gear comes out of nowhere to check a girl into a bench, for no clear reason....

Kentucky Heads To The Final Four On Aaron Harrison's Game-Winning Three
Kentucky's Aaron Harrison sank the game-winning three with 2.6 seconds remaining to take down Michigan, 75-72 and send the Wildcats to the Final Four. Holy crap....

Arizona Bro Takes So Many Pepper Balls To Chest Before Being Restrained
Police were called in to contain rowdy Arizona students after the Wildcats lost to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight last night, but all the beanbag shots pepper balls in the world couldn't take one dude down. (For a little while, anyway.)...

Arizona Loses To Wisconsin; Students And Riot Police Face Off
Arizona lost 64-63 in overtime to the Wisconsin Badgers earlier tonight for a spot in the Final Four, and now the campus is kind of a shit show. Riot police were lining up in front of a University boulevard bar more than an hour before the game ended and when it did, things rapidly deteriorated. By ...

Kentucky Beats Louisville, Has Most Orderly Couch Fire Ever
In the early morning Saturday, a few hours after Kentucky stormed back to beat Louisville 74-69 and advance to the Elite Eight, we received this video. It appears to be a single couch burning in the middle of the street along with several—I'd say...15, 20?—revelers chatting around the blaze. With i...

"They're Try'na Burn Down The House At The Corner Of State & Crescent"
Listening to the Lexington police scanner after a big Kentucky basketball win can be great fun....

Northwestern Players Win First Step Toward Union Recognition
The director of the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago district ruled today that Northwestern football players do qualify as employees, and as such are entitled to form a union. This is as big as it sounds, but there is a ways to go before amateurism as we know it is ended....

Mitch McConnell's UK Campaign Ad Goes From Bad To Worse To Deleted
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is up for reelection this fall, and yesterday he released a campaign ad to much fanfare. It featured some of the things that make Kentucky great, including what were supposed to be highlights of the state's two basketball teams celebrating championships. It did...