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NCAA Pants Party: Butler Vs. Old Dominion
Butler Bulldogs (27-6) vs. Old Dominion Monarchs (24-8) When: Thursday, 2:40 p.m. Where: Buffalo...
NCAA Pants Party: Texas A&M Vs. Pennsylvania
Texas A&M Aggies (25-6) vs. Pennsylvania Quakers (21-8) When: Thursday, 2:40 p.m. Where: Lexington...
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as your ice sculpture goes horribly wrong ... • Arena football: Los Angeles at Orlando. Because what's football without giant fishing nets and scoring on every possession? [ESPN2] • College women's basketball: NCAA Tournament Selection Show, at Bristol, Conn. Is Berman working this? Lo...
NCAA Pants Party: Louisville Vs. Stanford
Louisville Cardinals (23-9) vs. Stanford Cardinal (18-12) When: Thursday, 12:20 p.m. Where: Lexington...
What Tommy Lasorda Dreams ...
This is Tommy Lasorda during a Dodgers spring training game yesterday, dozing off during a spare moment and having visions, of course, of "swirly moves."...
NCAA Pants Party: Boston College Vs. Texas Tech
Boston College Eagles (20-11) vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders (21-12) When: Thursday, 12:20 p.m. Where: Winston-Salem, NC...
Leftovers: Jake, Keeping Busy
• Jake Plummer is spending his newfound free time playing handball. [Chicks Dig The Long Ball] • Not so salacious, those BYU cheerleaders. [With Leather] • Tubby Smith ... not in danger of being fired before the tournament! Good, Tubby, good. [ESPN] • If you didn't see, Federer lost yesterday. [SI.c...
The Caveman Guy Is Getting His Own Show ... With Phil Simms?
So here's a show we would watch: It turns out that the GEICO Caveman commercials are getting their own television show. We have no problem with this idea; we find the Caveman skits hilarious, particularly the one where he's on the cable news show....
NCAA Pants Party: Maryland Vs. Davidson
Maryland Terrapins (24-8) vs. Davidson Wildcats (29-4) When: Thursday, 12:20 p.m. Where: Buffalo...
ESPN Gets Its Richard Nixon On
We've always wondered if some of the head honchos at ESPN sit in a back room somewhere, with a slug of Scotch and babbling paranoid fantasies to a painting of Tom Mees, railing against those who dare to question its authority. And now we have proof: In an interview with The Big Lead, Mike Freeman, a...
NCAA Pants Party: Florida A&M Vs. Niagara
Florida A&M Rattlers (21-13) vs. Niagara Purple Eagles (22-11) When: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. ET Where: Chicago Dayton...
Baseball Season Preview: Cincinnati Reds
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....
Terrell Owens Will Not Turn In His Playbook Until He's Done Coloring It
No wonder Terrell Owens complains so much about not getting the ball. It's those damn quarterbacks who read the entire playbook. Filling their heads with running plays, audibles and routes to other receivers. His edition doesn't have all that worthless junk. But it does have a comics section. From t...
Join The D—-spin Pants Party Pool!
All right, it wouldn't be the NCAA tournament if we weren't overkilling the entire thing with endless previews, discussions, tidbits and, of course ... our yearly tournament pool....
NHL To Simon: Pack Your Crap And Get Out
Because we've never really shown it, here's the tomahawk chop by the Islanders' Chris Simon on the Rangers' Ryan Hollweg from Thursday. After mulling the attack over the weekend, the NHL doled out a 25-game suspension for Hollweg for thrusting his neck at Simon in a vicious manner. Or, no, the other...
Blogdome: Dungy's Moment Of Truth
• So Tony Dungy really is speaking at that anti-gay-marriage event. [OutSports • It's more difficult to make the NIT than you think. [The Big Picture] • The Badgers aren't looking so good. [Breaking The Press] • Drexel, robbed! [WBRS Sports Blog] • Talk to the Babes, Roger. [Babes Love Baseball] • S...
Bracket Breakdown: West Region
Later today, we'll begin rolling out our Tidbit previews of each team/first-round matchup, but to kick us off, we're gonna look at each region. Here's the Midwest region....
Hirshey: Going Crazy Over Arsenal (In A Bad Way)
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....
Bracket Breakdown: South Region
Later today, we'll begin rolling out our Tidbit previews of each team/first-round matchup, but to kick us off, we're gonna look at each region. Here's the South region....
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 3 p.m. Bracketology with Joe Lunardi: The one day we actually need you — Sunday — and you're nowhere in sight? • 4 p.m. NHL with Scott Burnside: Any way to combine your sport with curling? Because that would be cool. • 9 p.m. NCAAW Tou...