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Verne Lundquist Will Straight Up Steal Your Lady

Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch dropped his annual media awards column today, and there's plenty of good stuff in there for anyone who wants to take a look back at the best and worst of sports media from the last year. But nothing in the column is as delightful as Verne Lundquist's story about ...

SIU Coach Blasts "Mama's Boys" Players In Exquisite Rant

After Southern Illinois's 73-65 loss at Murray State last night, Salukis coach Barry Hinson tore into his team with a six-minute rant that's right up there with history's best. Give a listen:...

Get Hourly Updates On Which NBA Team Is Tanking The Best

For fans of shitty NBA teams, the 2013 season is about little more than which team can manage to suck the hardest for a chance to draft Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker. Thankfully for those fans, TankingForWiggins.com exists....

Kentucky Fan Says UK Needs To Emphasize More Sports, Less Education

The UK student section's been having a bit of trouble filling up this season. And Chester, one of Kentucky Sports Radio's favorite callers, has himself a theory....

John Henson And His T-Shirt Think The NCAA Is A Scam

Milwaukee Bucks forward John Henson spent three years at the University of North Carolina before jumping to the NBA, and it looks like those three years as a Tar Heel left him with a pretty solid understanding of what the NCAA is really about. You're all right, John Henson....

Mark Emmert Rowed Back On The One-And-Done Rule Today

NCAA president Mark Emmert spoke at a public forum earlier today, and he said some surprising things about the one-and-done rule that prevents high school basketball players from skipping college and jumping straight to the NBA. ...

Kansas City Sportscaster Maintains He Didn't Call KU The "Gayhawks"

This is one of the more confusing controversies in a while. Jack Harry, a sportscaster for KSHB in Kansas City who doesn't hide his Missouri sympathies, said something on Sunday night. Check the video above and try to figure it out....

How Black Is Duke Basketball?

There's a lot of talk out there—and more than a little evidence—suggesting that this year's Duke Blue Devils, led by the very big and very mobile Jabari Parker, are the most athletic team in the school's history. We decided to investigate whether that claim is true. And since average vertical leap n...

Taylor University's "Silent Night" Continues To Be Fascinating

It's a creative tradition. For Taylor University's annual Silent Night, fans don't make a sound at a men's basketball game until the Trojans score their tenth point. You can hear shoes squeaking. After Taylor gets to 10, though? Taylor's fans act like their team just won an award for Best Basketball...

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....

Only in Philly: Dick Jerardi watches the city's six Division I teams at four venues in three hours Wednesday night. "I insist on a short detour down 34th and then back up 33rd to roll through Penn's campus and pay homage to the darkened Palestra. They could have made this a lot less challenging if a...

Delta Bumps Entire Flight For Florida Basketball Team

About 50 passengers were told that their fully booked flight had been canceled because of a mechanical problem. That's when they noticed the Gators basketball team boarding....

Wake Forest And Kansas Basketball Players Have Lots Of Arms

Arms and arms and arms. Yards of arms. Arms that are feet long....

Chane Behanan's 2012 Final Four Ring Is Up For Auction [Update]

And that's a problem, because Chane Behanan is still in college....

Mizzou's Cheering Section Gets Kicked Out Of Two Games For Being Awful

Mizzou basketball games have long been attended by a student cheering section known as the Antlers, and it is a cheering section that is apparently full of huge dick heads. The entire section has been kicked out of two games this year by university police, and the school's athletic department just r...

College Basketball Can't Handle Jabari Parker

Just five games into his college career, it's already frighteningly obvious that Duke freshman Jabari Parker is different from you, me, his teammates, his opponents, and every other college player in the country....

Jabari Parker Throws Down Awesome Coast-To-Coast Dunk

Jabari Parker finished last night's game against East Carolina with 21 points, nine rebounds, and six blocks. If you want to see all of the awesome shit Parker did while accruing those stats, watch the highlight reel above. But if you just want to see his most impressive play of the night, skip to ...

Turner Will Produce Team-Specific Telecasts For The Final Four

This season's Final Four will be the first time the semifinals are broadcast on cable. With that move comes the freedom to try something new: For both of the semifinal games, fans of each competing team will receive their very own broadcast....

How Grinnell College Bastardizes Basketball To Set Records

Jack Taylor's at it again. The senior guard at D-III Grinnell College scored 109 points yesterday, the third-highest total in NCAA history. The record holder? Taylor, who poured in 138 in a game last year. How does he do it?...

Belmont Fan Sings Miley Cyrus Before UNC Missed Free Throw; Bruins Win

Instead of yelling or hand waving, one fan tried to distract UNC's James McAdoo by tenderly singing Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball." McAdoo missed the free throw. Next time, bring it back to old Miley and sing "Party In The U.S.A.," though....