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What's Going On Over There With Colorado State?
Lots of Colorado State in the news today: Rams forward Xavier Kilby — awesome name, by the way; sounds like a villain from The Avengers — settled a dispute with a teammate by firing himself a weapon next to his head....
Ron Zook Can No Longer Track Your Movements
Bad news for the Ron Zooks and (especially) the Houston Nutts of the world: The NCAA is cutting down on text messaging potential recruits....
USC Will Be The Most Popular Basketball Team Among Nickelodeon Viewers
High school basketball phenom O.J. Mayo is most likely going to USC for one year and then bouncing to the NBA, and everyone thinks it's because that's what O.J. Mayo wants to do. Not so. Mayo's leaving after one year because he's afraid to suffer the indignity of losing his starting job to the artis...
A Place Where Amaker Can Make A Difference For Underprivileged Kids
You know, it seems strange to think about now, but when Tommy Amaker was initially hired by Michigan, many people thought it was just the move to bring the Wolverines back to national prominence. We know now that it was exactly the move to turn the team into the NIT Terrorizing Force that it has bec...
Report: Kevin Durant Wants To Shake David Stern's Hand
We start today with a little bit of good news for fans of terrible NBA teams. Kevin Durant, according to DraftExpress.com, has decided to play basketball for money....
Much Anger In Aggieland
It would be safe to say that Texas A&M fans aren't handling the loss of Billy Gillespie to Kentucky very well....
From One Billy To Another
According to the estimable Pat Forde at The Leader, Billy Gillespie is leaving Texas A&M to become the new coach at Kentucky. Wildcats fans seem mostly pleased by the move, though they're still clearly recovering from their Billy Donovan envy....
Somewhere, There's A Little Dot That Looks Like Bob Huggins
One of our favorite innovations on this here Internets is the ability to track flights online using their flight or tail number. We've never been on a flight that has Web access, but if we ever do, we're gonna track ourselves, because if the flight crashes, we'll want to be the first ones on the pla...
Hey, Maybe Kentucky Should Try To Rehire Tubby Again
Continuing with our afternoon pro-Florida theme ......
They're The One That You Want
We got the impression from some Florida fans that we were not giving the two-time champions the proper reverence in the wake of their victories, and if that's true, we apologize. We meant no harm. It is an outstanding achievement, whether or not Joakim Noah has unnatural feelings toward his mother. ...
Meet Your D—-spin Pants Party Winner (Kind Of)
Well, the final standings are in from the D—-spin Pants Party Pool, and we have a mostly anonymous winner we suspect we'll be hearing from today....
Billy Packer's Curious Choice Of Words
By now, many of you have heard about the Billy Packer "fag out" comment — to Charlie Rose, of all people — but if you haven't seen the video, here it is, at the 35:34 mark....
Gauging Your Women's Sports Interest
If you're not adequately impressed by the countdown clock ESPN's giving us for the Rutgers-Tennessee women's national championship game tonight — here's something weird; in women's hoops, they have the professional draft the day after the national title game — then here's a sporting event that's pro...
Joakim Noah, Gleefully Making No Sense
Thanks to Every Day Should Be Saturday, we have the bizarre interview with Joakim Noah after the Gators' win last night which confirms, if you had any doubt, that nobody has the foggiest idea of what Joakim Noah's talking about....
Looking To The Past To Overcome The Present
Now that Florida has won its second national title in a row, everybody's an amateur historian — which is good, because sports would be no fun if it has professional historians. The big question: Are the Gators one of the best teams ever? The answer of course is that there is no answer, which is why ...
At This Rate, Florida's Gonna Win An Oscar This Year
It was rather difficult not to admire Greg Oden in this game, but Florida, man, those guys are good. Not the epic game we were hoping for ... but when you go 4-for-22 from the 3-point line, it doesn't really matter if you have a 64-year-old Bill Russell under the basket....
Give Us At Least ONE Shining Moment. One Will Be Fine.
All right, well, we think we can all agree that, as sports fans, we are owed an epic national title matchup tonight. This has been the least memorable NCAA Tournament of the last decade — except for those ones we can't remember — and the only thing that can salvage it is a Connecticut-Duke or George...
What A Win Tonight Would Mean: Florida
A national title, or a championship in any sport, resonates for years beyond just one small victory for a group of tall men. It stands for something not just in athletics, but for a university as a whole, a matter of civic pride, an achievement disparate groups of people can all stand alongside, joy...
NCAA Championship Game Blogdome: Let's Play Two
What they're saying, blogwise, about tonight's National Championship game ......
What A Win Tonight Would Mean: Ohio State
A national title, or a championship in any sport, resonates for years beyond just one small victory for a group of tall men. It stands for something not just in athletics, but for a university as a whole, a matter of civic pride, an achievement disparate groups of people can all stand alongside, joy...