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Here's A Picture Of Rick Pitino's New Tattoo

Pitino promised us that he would get a tattoo to commemorate his team's 2013 championship run, and he has followed through on that promise. It's a perfectly fine tattoo, I guess. Although we were hoping for something with a little more oomph. ...

Spike Albrecht Takes The Ultimate Heat Check By Macking On Kate Upton

The Michigan Wolverines may have lost the NCAA championship last night, but that doesn't mean that backup guard Spike Albrecht isn't feeling pretty good about himself this morning. Albrecht had a huge game, scoring 17 points in 28 minutes while sinking four of his five shots from downtown. Judging b...

"Lennay Kekua's Entry" Won ESPN's Tournament Challenge

Thanks to the several of you who tipped us off to this fun little bow on the NCAA Tournament. Lennay Kekua's entry correctly picked Louisville to win tonight (and a lot of other games, naturally) is ranked No. 1 on ESPN's leaderboard....

Louisville Beats Michigan; Rick Pitino Must Get A Tattoo

In the end, Rick Pitino out-coached John Beilein on the day he was named to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Pitino is now the only coach to win national championships with two different schools. He won at Kentucky in 1996 and now Louisville....

The Only Other Team To Offer Spike Albrecht A Scholarship Was Appalachian State

Michigan leads Louisville 38-37 after a hugely entertaining first half, highlighted by tremendous performances from Michigan freshman Spike Albrecht and Louisville walk-on junior Luke Hancock. ...

Mitch McGary, "A.K.A. 'White Chocolate' A.K.A. 'White Thunder,'" Had A Blog On ESPN In High School

While he was a high school recruit from New Hampshire, Michigan's now-star forward, Mitch McGary wrote about the process for ESPN....

It looks like Marshall Henderson had a nice time celebrating his team's SEC tournament championship. ...

Your College Basketball TV Schedule And Open Thread

So, so much potentially great basketball today. ...

Lindsey Vonn Was Airlifted From The Slope At The World Championships After This Brutal Crash (UPDATE)

Lindsey Vonn, the 28-year-old American skier and Olympic gold medalist, was airlifted from the slope at the World Championships in Austria this morning after a hideous, sudden crash in the Super-G. Her injuries are still unclear, though the AP reports that it appeared to be her right knee. If fe...

Lolo Jones Won A Gold Medal (In World Championship Bobsled)

Lolo Jones still has yet to win a gold medal in the Olympics, but today, she added a new and extra random addition to her small pile of world championship medals—she now has two golds for 60m hurdles, and one for the combined bobsled-skeleton team event at the Swiss winter world championships. She w...

Michael Phelps Wouldn't Have Competed In The 2012 Olympics If Not For Ray Lewis

OK, before we go any further, we have to address Michael Phelps's new look. Apparently, Phelps has been hanging out in a lot of coffee shops and going to a lot of Japandroids concerts since the summer Olympics. Or perhaps he's just a really big fan of that crazy guy who used to edit Gawker....

Shannon Sharpe Actually Makes Sense Talking About Bill Belichick's Refusal To Do Post-Game Interview

Following his team's loss at home to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship, Bill Belichick declined an on-field post-game interview with CBS's Steve Tasker. It was a childish move, but not necessarily a surprising one. On the the CBS post-game show in studio, Shannon Sharpe actually had som...

This Jim Harbaugh Freakout Is Priceless, The Ray Lewis Freakout Is Just Weird: Your NFL Conference Championships GIFs Roundup [Updated]

We're going to be putting our GIFs from the respective Conference Championship games right here. So if you're looking for Julio Jones's touchdown scoring, a security guard eliminating prowess, here's your spot, or weeping Ray Lewis, this here's the place. ...

Robot Football Coach Nick Saban Graces Georgia High School With His Presence, High School Explodes With Sheer Joy

It's getting obvious that it doesn't make much such to mindlessly venerate college football coaches—they're not gods, and when they're treated as such, they often start to believe that standards of human decency don't apply to them. That's why, when Nick Saban made a recruiting visit to an Georgia-a...

Your NFL Conference Championship Viewing Guide

This is the last week of multiple football games. What an incredible bummer. In a few weeks it will all be over and it will just be, ugh, February. Terrible. But anyway, let's enjoy the final real weekend of the year and worry about February in February....

Watch The Baltimore Police Department's Crazed, Militaristic Tribute To The Ravens (Includes Cop Rap)

Oh dear. What can one even say about this video, created by the Baltimore police department in anticipation of this weekend's AFC championship game between the Ravens and the Patriots? It's got everything that a terrible hype video needs: "Seven Nation Army" playing the background, bad camera angl...

Manti Te'o's Father Wants You To Unsubscribe From The <em>Honolulu Star-Advertiser</em> Because It Printed A Picture Of His Son Missing A Tackle

Yesterday, Brian Te'o, father of Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman candidate Manti Te'o, took to the Manti Te'o "Official" Fan Club on Facebook, which he apparently runs or has access to, to complain about the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's decision to put an AP photo of Manti Te'o, being bowled over by...

The Definitive List Of Actual, No-Bullshit College Football National Champions; Or, Why Alabama Is A Liar

Monday night, the Alabama Crimson Tide mercilessly clobbered Notre Dame in the BCS championship game. According to Alabama, it was the school's 15th national football title. Football has been an intercollegiate sport for 142 seasons, starting in 1869 (no one played in 1871). So that should mean that...

Watch A.J. McCarron Pretend Not To Be Freaked Out About How Famous His Girlfriend Is Now

The only thing worth noting about last night's BCS championship game was Brent Musburger's old-man boner over Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. In the video above, you can see reporters telling McCarron that his girlfriend was the night's breakout star, and then ...

ESPN Apologizes For Brent Musburger's Boner

ESPN actually came out with a comment about this. Here it is:...