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NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Friday, 12:20 p.m.
OK, so, maybe we didn't have the most ecstatic day of NCAA basketball yesterday — other than Duke, of course — but we have big hopes for today. (Besides, the most fun we had yesterday afternoon was reading Shanoff's live blog and your comments.) So, we rev it up yet again today. Here are the early g...

He Might Want To Lay Off The Nickname In Jail
So, for all of those who were losing faith in the justice system, you might this morning find yourself with some faith: Bears defensive lineman Tank Johnson is going to serve some jail time for the probation violation that involved all the, you know, artillery. A judge in Chicago sentenced him to 12...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NCAA Tournament Day 2!: Who thought we'd get through Day 1 without Andy Katz getting his tie caught in the press room fax machine? • 1 p.m. NFL draft w/ Todd McShay: Why is your mock draft making fun of my shirt? • 3:30 p.m. Blaz...

NCAA Tournament Blogdome: Meeting Our Banging Quota
Around the blogs and back on Thursday's first round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament ......

This Is All Progressing Too Normally For Our Tastes
It's a good thing that Duke did lose to Virginia Commonwealth last night, because if the Blue Devils hadn't, we have no idea what everyone would be talking about today; it's really the only game of the first day of the tournament that had much of a storyline. (And, really, no one was that shocked th...

Hail, Hail, The Duke Is Dead, Long Live The Duke
We don't mean to imply that Virginia Commonwealth — the school where the band G.W.A.R. was founded, by the way — is extremely popular this morning, but The Truth About Duke Web site has VCU's logo as its background and we received six emails overnight simply with the phrase "GO RAMS!" in the subject...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering if anyone is reading the Times columns ... anyone ... anyone ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament ... Indiana moves on, Knight doesn't. • NBA: Things just keep getting better and better for the Lakers. And by better, we mean worse. • NHL: Martin Brodeur laughs at...

The Day The Music Died
You know, it already just doesn't feel right without Duke in the NCAA tournament. It's just wrong. Wrong!...

Not The Most Exciting First Seven Games ... But There's Plenty To Go
All right, so there were no buzzer-beaters, no upsets — all the top seeds won, annoyingly — and no real tight games ... but we're just gonna assume that's the luck of the draw. We'd like to thank Mr. Shanoff for some excellent live-blogging of the afternoon games, trying to make some of those dullar...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as grampa mourns the death of Captain America ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament. East Region, Marquette (24-9) vs. Michigan State (22-11), 7:20 p.m., North Carolina (28-6) vs. Eastern Kentucky (21-11), 30 minutes after previous game; South Region, Ohio State (30-3) vs. Central ...

NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Thursday, 2:40 p.m.
After that first set, hey, who's up for some more? (No upsets, but hey: Stanford totally came to play.) And by "more," we mean "endless nonstop lunacy for the next 72 hours." Four more this afternoon, all coming to you from Mr. Shanoff, whom we hope you enjoyed from the first set of games....

Blogdome: Some Hated College Hoopsters
• One guy's least favorite college basketball players of all time. We love that Nick Smith is on there. [On Second Glance] • If you had trouble understanding what Gary Matthews Jr. was saying, this might help. [Chicks Dig The Long Ball] • Evander Holyfield knows how to discover if someone's using st...

NCAA Tournament Live Blog: Thursday, 12:20 p.m.
All right, kids, it's time: Any minute now, the first game is going to tip off, stepping up at 12:20 p.m. with Davidson vs. Maryland in Buffalo. Here are the first three games:...

We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon-6 p.m. NCAA Tournament Day 1!: It's only 11 a.m. and my brackets are a smoking crater. Is there no justice!? • 2 p.m. MLS with Dallas' Kenny Cooper: Can soccer in the U.S. survive without proper hooligans? • 4 p.m. Football scient...

Final Hour For Deadspin Pants Party Pool
All right, kids, we're just more than an hour from the beginning of this whole NCAA tournament business — Who has Maryland-Davidson fever? We do, we do! — and this is pretty much your last chance to Join The Deadspin Pants Party tournament pool. As of this typing, there are 3,315 people in the pool,...

That's Not Quite What Pete Said, Actually
With all the hullabaloo around Pete Rose's "admission" yesterday that he "bet on the Reds every night" — a story so overblown that even Katie Couric was talking about it, chatting with beer pong specialist Armen Keteyian — Keith Olbermann, who did the Rose interview along with Dan Patrick on ESPN Ra...


