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Sweet 16 Pants Party: Georgetown Vs. Vanderbilt
Georgetown Hoyas (29-7) vs. Vanderbilt Commodores (22-11) When: 7:27 p.m. ET Where: East Rutherford, N.J....

Sweet 16 Pants Party: Florida Vs. Butler
Florida Gators (31-5) vs. Butler Bulldogs (29-6) When: 7:10 p.m. ET Where: St. Louis...

This Is Probably Why We Don't Pay That Much Attention To Cricket
In a story that, shockingly, was the lede story on CNN.com last night, Bob Woolmer, the head coach of the Pakistani cricket team, appears to have been strangled in his hotel room after his team's shocking loss to Ireland in the Cricket World Cup....

Man, These Games Run LATE
Before we delve into last night's games, a legitimate question: Why doesn't the NCAA receive the complaints about the late endings of their most important games the way Major League Baseball does for scheduling the World Series so late? We know that they have to fit in two games, but the Ohio State-...

Time To Spark This Puppy Up Again
OK, these games are actually tipping back off tonight; SIU-Kansas kicks us off, and we'll be on far into the night. We've said just about everything that can be said about this business, so now we just pass the mic to you through tonight's games. Our fingers are still crossed for a Jayhawks bench co...

Sweet 16 Pants Party: Kansas Vs. Southern Illinois
Kansas Jayhawks (32-4) vs. Southern Illinois Salukis (29-6) When: 7:10 p.m. ET Where: San Jose...

Sweet 16 Pants Party: Ohio State Vs. Tennessee
Ohio State Buckeyes (31-3) vs. Tennessee Volunteers (24-10) When: 9:57 p.m. ET Where: San Antonio...

Lexington's Long National Nightmare Now Over
This just in: We'll try not to go all Politico / John Edwards on you here — for the record, we love that site, occasional big error aside — but we've received word from a TV station in Louisville and from another source that Kentucky fans desperate to rid themselves of Tubby Smith have had their wis...

Sweet 16 Pants Party: UCLA Vs. Pittsburgh
UCLA Bruins (27-5) vs. Pittsburgh Panthers (29-6) When: 9:40 p.m. ET Where: San Jose...

Introducing Tony Dungy's Least Favorite Sports Mascot
If the March Gayness blog pool at the Malcontent needs a costumed mascot, well, Flamy is available at very reasonable rates. Come to think of it, if he has the time, he could also be a fine representative of Manny Ramirez's grill-hawking efforts, or the next phallic-shaped object for golf's Christie...

Sweet 16 Pants Party: Memphis Vs. Texas A&M
Memphis Tigers (32-3) vs. Texas A&M Aggies (27-6). When: Tonight, 7:27 p.m. Where: San Antonio...

By The Time You Read This, Steve Alford May Already Be A Lobo
So to recap, Bobby Knight now in Lubbock, Steve Alford in Albuquerque. We all new that Knight was "going to the hot place," one day, but Alford? ESPN is reporting (and we know how that can turn out) that Alford is leaving Iowa and will become New Mexico's new head basketball coach, possibly by Frida...

What Joe Lunardi Hath Wrought
It's March, which means that just about every site has to have some sort of bracket competition to find the champion band, hot girl, food item, or whatever. Everything that can be bracketed probably has been, including fish (32 fish: only one can be the toughest), so let's wrap it up here, with thes...

Baseball Season Preview: Oakland A's
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....

Land Of The Giants
One would think that a team with four seven-footers in the starting lineup wouldn't need a last-second shot to win. But this is the American Basketball Association, where the official rules more resemble Calvinball than anything. Why didn't someone inform us earlier that, in their finale against the...

OJ Mayo, Signing Off In Style
So on Saturday night, incoming star freshman O.J. Mayo, who was no longer in trouble over that marijuana business, played his final game as a high school player. How's it go? Well, he earned a technical foul and was thrown out of the game....

Checking In On The Pants Party
On this tournament off-day, we thought we'd check in and see how our D—-spin Pants Party pool on ESPN was going....

'Oh, Messieur!'
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Xavier Fans Haven't Forgiven Greg Oden
If you were wondering whether or not Xavier fans had gotten over that whole Greg Oden pounding a guy to the floor business, the guy who runs the blog Free Xavier makes it clear that, uh, they're not....

Yo, Pass The Salt, Coach
Far be it from us to understate the importance of the NIT — no place is more dangerous than Crisler Arena in mid-March! — but during the Kansas State-DePaul game the other night, an injured Wildcat sat on the bench eating popcorn. Hey, nice seats if you can get 'em; pass my change back from the vend...