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Syracuse Avoided Being The First 1 Seed To Lose To A 16, Thanks In Part To The Referees
While the much-debated late line violation was the correct call, there were a number of times UNC-Asheville found themselves playing eight-on-five during the top-seeded Syracuse Orange this afternoon. Here's a sampling of some of the blunders that kept this game from being the first-ever 16-over-...
British Media Can't Stop Talking About How David Cameron Ate Hot Dogs At A Basketball Game
The British press has already dubbed President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron's trip to Tuesday's Western Kentucky-MVSU First Four game "The Hot Dog Summit," and U.K. news reports all appear to be uniquely concerned with Cameron's consumption of the mid-game snack....
Dogs Humping: Your Weekly Reminder That The Iditarod Is A Thing That Exists
Look at that face. What dog could resist it? That's General Thelma—an "all star" runner in the Iditarod—and she has been demoted from her lead position because she is in heat. It's spring and love the primal instinct to procreate is in the air, even in frigid Alaska....
Cop Claims His Mississippi State Fan Boss Fired Him Because He Talked About MSU Player's Arrest
This one's kind of involved, so let's follow the bouncing Bulldog:...
When Is A Goalie Not A Goalie? When He's A Center Forced To Stand In Net And Pray
With the backup goalie unavailable and the starter injured just two minutes into the game, the Erie Otters of the OHL were forced to turn to little-used center Connor Crisp. Crisp, who hadn't played goalie in organized hockey since he was five years old, threw on some secondhand pads and skates an...
UNC-Asheville Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the UNC-Asheville Bulldogs, who in beating VMI 80-64 won the Big South tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [ESPN2]...
The Worst College Basketball In America Is Played In The State Of Rhode Island
The nation's smallest state is home to four Division I men's basketball programs. As of right now, all four are in last place in their respective conferences: Brown is 1-9 in the Ivy, Bryant is 1-15 in the Northeast Conference, Providence is 2-13 in the Big East, and Rhode Island is 2-11 in the Atla...
Someone Just Tried To Disrupt The Best In Show Judging At Madison Square Garden
We have practically no information about this, other than that a woman with a sign tried to rush the stage as Best In Show was about to be announced at the Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. Twitter rumors say the sign said something about PETA, but we don't really have any con...
Looking For Love On Valentine's Day At Westminster
I have a girlfriend and a cat, and at Westminster I feel like I'm cheating on both. When's the last time you fell in love at first sight? When your heart and soul was completely handed over within seconds of meeting someone? When you and a complete stranger fell into a slobbery make-out session, wit...
Here's A Video Of Dogs Saying "I Love You"
Originally published Feb. 14, 2011....
Handjobs, Butt-To-Butt Action, And Other Sex Secrets Of The Champion Show Dog
For his new book, Show Dog: the Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred, Josh Dean spent more than a year following a champion show dog named Jack, a young Australian Shepherd. In the following excerpt, Jack—who is owned by a single mother from Pennsylvania named Kimberly Smith—trie...
Lapdogs And Luxury Boxes: A New-Look MSG Welcomes The Westminster Dog Show
James Dolan hates this dog....
Great Moments In NBC Programming Synthesis, Starring The Capitals' Jay Beagle
While we were deprived any beagles in last week's Puppy Bowl, NBC viewers were treated to two of them this afternoon. Returning from break late in Washington's game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden, NBC dropped this quick promo for the Westminster Dog Show which gets underway tomorrow ...
If You Missed The Puppy Bowl (Or Want To Relive It) Here's Your Highlight Reel
Here's Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl (which mostly sucked this year, thanks to a Disney tie-in and no beagles) compressed to about a minute. No, there aren't any halftime show highlights featuring kittens. The real Super Bowl halftime will feature plenty of that. [Video from Animal Planet. Music is ...
Ronald Nored's Broken Tooth Is Really Nasty
Ronald Nored's injury history is lengthy and painful-sounding: a busted knee, concussions, lacerations. The Butler guard has played through nearly all these injuries, his durability adding to his legend as a shutdown defensive player....
How <em>The New York Times</em> Fumbled Its Case Against The Yale Quarterback
Last week, The New York Times told a new story about how Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's candidacy for a Rhodes Scholarship ended. While the public was following the drama of Witt declining his Rhodes interview to play in the Harvard-Yale game, the Times reported, the Rhodes Trust and Yale had suspe...
David Backes, Blues Captain, Flew His Plane 700 Miles To Rescue Three Stray Dogs
Via Fox 2 St. Louis, we now have the most endearing story of 2012. David Backes is a good hockey player. They don't have to do good work to stand out. But Backes is the captain of the St. Louis Blues—they're good too, mind you, with the second-highest point total in the Western Conference—and he h...
A Horizon League Collision Left So Much Blood On The Court It Had To Be Scraped Off
Saturday's Horizon League tilt between Butler and Green Bay featured a blood splatter worthy of inspection by Dexter Morgan after a collision between Bulldog Jackson Aldridge and Phoenix Keifer Sykes....
Butler Coach Brad Stevens Is Still Too Boyish To Look Anything But Ridiculous When Complaining To Refs
Brad Stevens has managed the inconceivable feat of taking the Butler Bulldogs to the NCAA tournament final two consecutive years. He has not, as of yet, managed to advance his appearance past that of "awkward high schooler" and it's long taken away from the credibility of his attempts to yell at ...