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Bob Knight: Ice Cream Cone Enthusiast
Look at that man. Look at the smile on his face, the joy in his heart. A man enjoying one of life's simpler pleasures, everything in his countenance revealing the easy-going, pleasant personality of a man who has lived with love in his heart and every day without a stroke of anger....

Long Beach State Is Going Dancing
The Long Beach State 49ers played five teams in the RPI's top 25 this season in their out-of-conference schedule. They lost all of them, sure, but at least in this instance the burnishing of losses to quality teams prepared Dan Monson's squad for the tangled mayhem of Big West rivalries....

Here's The Gerald Green Dunk Everybody's Talking About
This simple play is the genesis for a litany of questions. Among them: Gerald Green is still in the NBA? (Yes, on a ten-day contract with the Nets.) Where has he been? (In the D-League, mostly, but also playing in China and Russia.) Why has the NBA beaten the punch to would-be screencappers to upl...

Louisville Is Going Dancing After The Worst Big East Final In History
Maybe this is what we deserve, or what the Big East deserves, though the clefts in its foundation are not of its doing, mostly....

Mississippi Valley State Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils, who in beating Texas Southern 71-69 won the SWAC tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [ESPNU]...

Ohio Is Going Dancing, Thanks To Akron Inadvertently Making A Free Throw
Congratulations to the Ohio Bobcats, who in beating Akron 64-63 won the MAC tournament and punched their ticket to the dance....

New Mexico Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the New Mexico Lobos, who in beating San Diego State 68-59 won the Mountain West tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [NBC Sports]...

Missouri Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the Missouri Tigers, who in beating Baylor 90-75 won the Big 12 tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [ESPN]...

Colorado Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the Colorado Buffaloes, who in beating Arizona 53-51 won the PAC-12 tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [CBS]...

NBA Fines J.R. Smith For Tweeting Picture Of "Biggest Ass Ever"
The tweet will cost J.R. $25,000. [NBA]...

Deadspin Up All Night: Stay Out Super Late
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. We'll be around the rest of the evening....

A Beta-Carotene Injection: The Week In Unintentional Dong Submissions
Fear not, dong lovers. Everyone's favorite Freudian Rorschach test is still here, we're just doing it on the weekends now. So, please, keep submitting all those gems, like this virile taproot submitted by reader Lars....

Lamar Is Going Dancing, Despite Having "Awful Seniors"
Congratulations to the Lamar Cardinals, who in beating McNeese State 70-49 won the Southland Conference tournament and punched their ticket to the dance....

In Response to Suspensions For Alleged PED Use, Denver Broncos Players Accuse NFL Of Corruption and Ineptitude
Denver Broncos linebacker D.J. Williams and defensive tackle Ryan McBean were each suspended by the NFL for six games and teammate Virgil Green (tight end) received a four game ban for violating the League's policy on performance-enhancing substances based on tests administered prior to the 2011 se...

Digger Phelps Does Not Like To Be Touched
ESPN's resident college basketball crank Digger Phelps has let some bad blood boil with fellow analyst Fran Fraschilla today—especially regarding how the North Carolina-NC State game ended—but Phelps's disdain for Fraschilla is no more apparent than in this clip, when Digger really, really does n...

Norfolk State Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the Norfolk State Spartans, who in beating Bethune-Cookman 73-70 won the MEAC tournament and punched their (first-ever!) ticket to the dance. [ESPN2]...

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....

Memphis Is Going Dancing
Congratulations to the Memphis Tigers, who in beating Marshall 83-57 won the Conference USA tournament and punched their ticket to the dance. [CBS]...

Florida's Casey Prather Ruined Kentucky Forward Kyle Wiltjer's Day With This Massive Dunk
Florida's off to a quick start against Kentucky in their SEC tournament semifinal, and there's no better example than this posterizing dunk by Casey Prather over the Wildcats' Kyle Wiltjer. [ABC]...

For Those Wondering If The Miami Dolphins Could Be Any More Embarrassing, Here's a Peyton Manning-Inspired Version Of That Titanic Song
As Peyton begins making the free-agency rounds, Miami fans have taken to the most reliable of valentines: parody song-making. This one features that Celine Dion song from Titanic. Hopefully for Miami fans this courtship ends on better terms....