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About Last Night ...
What you missed while searching for your car ... • NBA: All Hail Nenad Krstic! His 21 points and 10 rebounds help Nets to ninth straight win, 110-72 over Suns. Bow, you dogs! • MLB: We are shocked to learn that it was mild-mannered Red Sox pitcher Julian Tavarez who touched off a benches-clearing br...
George Brett's Bloopers And Practical Jokes
Baseball players, you see, they're pranksters. Whether it's the hot foot, the rookie hazing or just a cream pie in the face during a television interview, those ballplayers, they like to fool around. Spend six months out of the year with the same 24 guys, hey, what's a little tomfoolery from time ...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you choose a nice Zinfandel to go with that roast squirrel ... • NCAA Women's Tournament: Regional finals: Utah vs. Maryland, at Albuquerque; LSU vs. Stanford, at San Antonio. The Cardinal has a player (Brooke Smith) who transferred from Duke, so you gotta love that. [ESPN] • NHL: D...
Steroids ... The Musical!
People are taking this steroid stuff too seriously, we think. We're in the midst of reading "Game Of Shadows" right now, and even though it's damning and impeccably sourced and all those Big Serious Important Things, we're also finding it awfully funny. We love Victor Conte, with his stoner musici...
Roger Clemens Hates His Crotch
You might think that Peter King's gruesome description of the preparations he took to prepare for his colonoscopy would be the most disturbing thing you'd read all day. It would seem like a good bet; Peter, we love the freedom you have online, but there is such a thing as decorum and good will to ...
Blogdome: Man, You Ugly
• The five most unattractive players in the Final Four. [The Coffeys] • Should they really have continued that race yesterday after Paul Dana's death? [NBX] • Couldn't they have done something to save Tiger Stadium? Anything? [Detroit Wonk] • Will college basketball be the same, post-George Mason? [...
Mike Anderson Will Vanquish All Foes
Over the weekend, the Missouri Tigers, hoping to finally rid themselves of the horror that was Quin Snyder, hired Mike Anderson, the former head coach at UAB, to take over their head spot....
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?
Wasn't that Bill Walton in the stands grinning during the final moments of UCLA's win over Memphis on Saturday? What was he smiling about? Was it the Bruins' 35 percent shooting from the field? Was it their 51 percent shooting from the free throw line? Ironically, it was in the 1973 NCAA champions...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • Noon. NBA with Marc Stein: Drawbacks to those new ESPN phones — your head doesn't fit on the screen and your annoying high-pitched voice scares my dog. • 4 p.m. Baseball with Gary Gillette: Your 2006 Baseball Encyclopedia makes a great...
George Mason's Win, From The Nosebleeds
From the guy who brought you that gruesome video of Iowa fans reacting to Northwestern State's victory over them in the first round comes an even better video: Footage from the George Mason student section as the final seconds ticked off the clock yesterday....
NCAA Roundup:All GMU, All The Time
• As exciting as the LSU-Texas and George Mason-Connecticut games were, the Florida-Villanova and UCLA-Memphis games were dogs. Particularly that last one; it had been a long time since we'd seen a team back into the Final Four. Not supposed to work that way. • One of the more underpublicized fact...
George Mason Makes The World A Better Place
Obviously, we'll be talking about this all week, but we'd just like to start off by saying a world in which George Mason can beat Michigan State, North Carolina and Connecticut in the span of a week is a world we feel newly invigorated about living in....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while giving your office pool bracket sheet a viking's funeral ... • NCAA Tournament: Holy crap! Father of the Bill of Rights knocks off UConn in overtime, mercifiully silencing Jim Calhoun's whining. • NBA: Vince Carter — remember him? — leads Nets over Pistons for eighth straight w...
Gators To Dance With George Mason; Final Four Is Set
Your Final Four is set: Bruins, Tigers, Gators, and Patriots. We've got three ferocious animals and a dead white guy who once did something historic that you'd know about if you paid attention in history class....
To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball: (4) Michigan State @ (1) Duke. Hey, Michigan State and Duke. I can think of some situations where this matchup would be exciting....
Florida Up On 'Nova
While still glowing from the earlier George Mason conquest......
Order Some Oversized Shorts For George Mason
They're going to need them in Indianapolis, because these guys have huge balls. They just beat UConn in overtime, 86-84. The amount of poise they showed down the stretch was amazing. Their post players in particular made plays down the stretch that were calm, poised, and smooth....
George Mason Continuing To Fight The Good Fight
If you're not watching it, I think you probably should be. George Mason has battled back to take the lead again over UConn with about 11:00 to play, forcing the Huskies to take a timeout. They've got heart, these Patriots. Even with all the ridiculous games the tournament has had so far, this one,...
Mason Doesn't Know It's A Show, They Think It's A Damn Fight
Actually, UConn leads by 9, which doesn't make it sound like it's that close of a game. But it was just a couple of minutes ago that Mason did briefly hold the lead, before UConn started burying three-balls like Larry Bird on All-Star Saturday Night. After that, the Huskies responded to close the ...
IRL Driver Paul Dana Killed In Practice Crash
Paul Dana, 30, died just before noon today after a crash at a pre-race practice for today's IRL IndyCar Series race. Another car had spun and hit a wall in front of him, and Dana slammed into it at full speed, over 216 miles per hour. The other driver, Ed Carpenter, is awake and alert at the hospi...