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What It Feels Like To Hit A Buzzer-Beater
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Butler's Matt Howard on making the "One Shining Moment" montage....
A Golden Shower Isn’t Fun If You Didn’t Ask For One
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase six heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....
Tampa Bay's Dwayne Roloson Makes Incredible Save, Compelling Case That Hockey Is Also Still Going On
Here's a great save from Dwayne Roloson in the Tampa Bay-Montreal game that somehow found a channel to exist on last night. The Canadians won in a shootout, 3-2, so Habs fans will not get the chance to protest the NHL's overtime rules....
Your Tourney Day 2 Open Thread, Featuring The Debut Of Gus Johnson
The opening slate of games features Oakland-Texas, Tennessee-Michigan, Akron-Notre Dame, and George Mason-Villanova. We've been aware of a growing mini-backlash against Gus recently, so we'll lay down our official position now: he seems like a nice guy who really likes basketball, and isn't overexpo...
Morehead State's Demonte Harper Just Knew He'd Send Rick Pitino Home As A Loser
Your morning roundup for March 18, the day the world braces for the biggest, brightest full moon in a while....
Your NCAA Tournament Final Four Games Of Day One Open Thread
A good foursome of games to close out opening day. Michigan State vs. UCLA to start it off on TBS. Then, Gonzaga vs. St. John's on the network, Mizzou vs. Cincinnati on TNT and Utah State vs. Kansas State to close out the day on truTV....
The Hoops Messiah Of America's Second Most Dangerous City Mulls An NBA Comeback
In 2001, Dajuan Wagner scored 100 points in a basketball game for Camden (NJ) High. After a season-long layover at the University of Memphis, former NBA player Milt Wagner's kid was selected sixth in the draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers....
We Are All Dave McKenna XLII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit takes a shillelagh to the gob....
Your Early Evening NCAA Tournament Open Thread
Have a nice, refreshing mini-break? After dinner, it's time for UCSB-Florida, Wofford-BYU, Bucknell-UConn, and Belmont-Wisconsin. Remember, just because everyone's picking upsets, doesn't mean you have to. Now, isn't it about time you went home and figured out what channel number TruTV is....
The Strange Comedy Of A PR Person Pitching You Your Own Story
A few months ago, I wrote a story about Georges St. Pierre for Men's Health magazine. It just came out. The magazine sent me to Montreal to watch St. Pierre fight Josh Koscheck. A month after that, I met St. Pierre again at a photo shoot, where I was reminded that being a writer on pieces like these...
Here Are The Four Buzzer-Beaters From The First Five Games
Matt Howard's putback at the horn to put Butler over Old Dominion. Great whistle-swallowing by the refs....
Your NCAA Tournment Open Thread, Continued
Let's make this the place for the Greek chorus to comment on Princeton-Kentucky, UNCA-Pitt, Richmond-Vanderbilt, and N. Colorado-SDSU. Viewer's guide here, complaints about no Gus Johnson on day 1 below. We'll be in occasionally with updates, so go start pretending like you hate Princeton more than ...
The Sacramento Kings' Transformation Into A Third-Rate L.A. Basketball Team Is Underway
The booze-and-gambling inheritors who run the Sacramento Kings filed trademarks earlier this month on several names that might just mean something, according to the The Sacramento Bee. Among them:...
Your NCAA Tournament Early Games Open Thread
Consider this a break room to discuss the first block of today's games. First up: Clemson-WVU, ODU-Butler, Morehead State-Louisville, and Penn State-Temple. As always, the viewing guide to the tourney is here, and we'll pop in occasionally with highlights and upset alerts....
The Best Sports Apps for Your Smartphone
March Madness is here, spring training is afoot, and fantasy players of all sports are honing their picks. Sports fans have unprecedented access to games, scores, and sports news from anywhere with there smartphones. Today we're rounding up the best… [Lifehacker] ...
Dead Wrestler Of The Week: Captain Lou Albano
An occasional feature in which we honor the sport's fallen and examine their legacies. Today: Captain Lou Albano, who died of a heart attack in 2009....
Let's Marvel At D-Wade's Two-Handed Dunk, And Laugh At His Celebration In A Game They Would Lose
Wade's vertical should be measured in Bibbys instead of inches here, throwing one down (way down) in the second quarter of last night's game against OKC. Are we bringing back the Cabbage Patch? Let's not bring back the Cabbage Patch....
Four Shining Moments Reenacted By Lego Basketball Players
Your morning roundup for March 17, the day when the Apostle of Ireland's deathiversary contributes to many facets of the American economy. Act as responsibly as you see fit, folks....
Transgender Thai Wows TV-Show Audience With Bait-And-Switch Performance
Did you catch "Thailand's Got Talent" this week? If not, you missed a competitor much like Susan Boyle if Susan Boyle was a singer named Bell Nuntita who looks and sounds like a female angel until the masculine bass comes out to shine....
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Of Jay Cutler's Choice In Halloween Costumes
Not eight weeks after Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler's manliness was called into question after a playoff injury against the eventual Super Bowl champions, tipster Jeff S. forwards this "gem" of a photo from his days at Vanderbilt. It was Halloween 2005 when tough-guy and BMOC quarterback and pal disg...