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Cincinnati And UConn Said To Ponder Starting Yet Another Geographically Absurd Conference
With the Big East in full meltdown mode, two of the traditional basketball powers are considering a move to the ACC—or, barring that, UConn and Cincinnati will take their ball and go start their own conference, according to The Sporting News. The only flaw in this plan is that the new conference wou...
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Saint Joseph's Player Gives Villanova Fans The Finger, Then Blows The Game [UPDATED]
There are goats. And then there are goats. Get a load of what Saint Joseph's junior forward Halil Kanacevic did during last night's loss to Philly rival Villanova. He shit the bed during the game's final two minutes, but he also made it easy for everyone to dog him for it because he had given the Vi...

Tommy Tuberville Literally Left Texas Tech In The Middle Of A Dinner With Texas Tech Recruits
Tommy Tuberville left Texas Tech for Cincinnati this weekend, an odd occurrence that left the athletic department at Texas Tech "completely blindsided." Also blindsided by Tuberville's exit: The recruits with whom he was having dinner, when Tuberville left—to go to the bathroom? to take a phone call...

Tommy Tuberville Is Going To Cincinnati Even Though There Will Hardly Be A Big East To Greet Him When He Gets There
Tommy Tuberville is going to fill Butch Jones's old ass groove at Cincinnati. Three years ago, coming off of a decade of success at SEC-powerhouse Auburn, going to a Big East team, even a strong Big East team, would have seemed crazy. Now, after three middling years at Big 12 Texas Tech, the most re...

This Fake Rumor About Jay Wright Resigning Because He Knocked Up A Co-Ed Is So Old, The Baby Could Have Been Born By Now
This rumor has been kicking around on Twitter and at least one Big East message board the last couple of days. It made its way into our inbox on Monday night. Note that Wright was initially going to resign yesterday:...

The Suns Will Give You Your Money Back If You Don't Have "Fun" And The Bobcats Will Give You Tickets For The Next Game If You Stay To The End Of This One
Neither the Bobcats nor the Suns are particularly woebegone NBA teams in strictly basketball terms—the Bobcats are enjoying perhaps their best start ever, sitting pretty at 7-8 having already equaled their win total from last season, while the Suns are a scrappy 7-10 with a rebuilding roster. If you...

Why The 12-0 Outlaw Ohio State Buckeyes Are A Monument To The Values The NCAA Pretends To Have
Originally published in Bloomberg View....

Great, Now Notre Dame Fans Will Think They're Good At Basketball, Too
The Fighting Irish downed Kentucky last night 64-50 thanks to a cold night of Wildcats shooting, prompting a Notre Dame court-storming and an even more-inflated sense of importance among followers of Our Lady. UK coach John Calipari responded by pledging to modify his previous refusal to play in Bl...

NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Is Tragically Bad At Basketball
We are unabashed fans of Brad Keselowski, because he gave this awesome, boozy victory speech on SportsCenter after winning the Sprint Cup. Keselowski is a good driver and a great interview, but as you can see in the video above, he is a horrendous basketball player....

The Bobcats Were So, So Awful Last Night
While Raymond Felton was ruining the end of an otherwise good Nets-Knicks game for a national audience, the Charlotte Bobcats were quietly having a statement game of their own—plunging deep into the depths of basketball shittiness during a 114-69 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Going into the ga...

In Prank War Before Big Game, High School Leaves Dead Cat On Rival's Doorstep
Tomorrow is the big Phillipsburg-Easton football game, an Thanksgiving tradition for the rival schools on either side of the N.J.-Pennsylvania border. Tensions can run high, but it's usually all in good fun. Over the weekend, Phillipsburg students stole "Red Rover," the stone bulldog statue that sit...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kansas State, Of Course)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...

Arizona Quarterback Returns From Concussion, Promptly Pukes Again
Remember Matt Scott? He's the Arizona quarterback who unleashed a flood of vomit after a helmet-to-helmet collision against USC a few weeks ago. Wildcats coaches asserted Scott was fine and did not, in fact, suffer a concussion during that game—but he did suffer one the next week against UCLA. Tha...

Kansas State Gets Blown Out By Baylor And Oregon Falls To Stanford At Home As The Top Two BCS Teams Get Their First Losses On The Same Night
A week from college football's end-of-season reckoning and Kansas State and Oregon, ranked first and second respectively in the BCS standings going into today's games, have taken their first losses of the season. The defeats likely pave the way for a new BCS leader in (gulp) Notre Dame, a 38-0 win...

The Real Grand Experiment? It's John Calipari's Kentucky
Originally published in Bloomberg View....

Charlotte Bobcats Commit A Chris Webber, Escape Minnesota With A Win Anyway
The hapless Charlotte Bobcats won in spite of themselves tonight against the Timberwolves 89-87, needing a Kemba Walker score in the final seconds to seize a lead partially frittered away when Reggie Williams called a time out the Bobcats didn't have and incurred a technical foul....

Jordan Crawford Tries To Shoot Jan Vesely's Free Throws In Hilariously Devious Fashion
Watch the video above carefully. The first thing you should notice is the Wizards' Jan Vesely battling for post position with the Bobcats' Tyrus Thomas. In the midst of the jostling, the referee calls a foul on Thomas, sending Vesely to the line. Or rather, toward the line. Now look for Jordan Cra...

John Calipari Thinks Little Of Duke's Acting Skills: "In The NBA, They'd All Be Suspended"
Kentucky went into halftime against Duke down two points, but that was fine by Wildcats coach John Calipari, who offered up the Blue Devils some post-NCAA career advice on his way to the locker room....

Ben Folds Five Wants To Be The Charlotte Bobcats' Pep Band
The Charlotte Bobcats won their opener the other night, which is an occasion in and of itself. Sure, things returned to normal the next night when they lost to the Mavericks by 27, but Bobcats fever is spreading, so much so that no less than alt-rock piano maestro Ben Folds wants to get his band (he...

College ShameDay: Who Embarrassed Themselves On Saturday (Besides Kentucky's Joker Phillips, RIP)?
Our weekly college football shame index. ...