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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 ...
One Shining Moment... Of Pooh Sticking
In case you missed it on SportsCenter, today continues the 23rd annual World Pooh-Sticks Championship Race in Oxfordshire, England. The Japanese have returned to defend their title against... a lot of people with nothing better to do....
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...
You Can Help Injure Terrell Owens. Please, Give All You Can.
Howard Eskin, a sports radio host in Philadelphia, is raising money in order to pay the fine for any Philadelphia Eagle who "takes out" Terrell Owens. The guy who sent in the tip didn't give a definition for "take out," but given the nature of the Philadelphia sports fan, I have to assume that a s...
About Last Night...
• World Figure Skating Championships. After finishing sixth in Torino, American teen Kimmie Meissner pulls the huge upset and wins the World Championships. Sounds awesome. Next year, I'm going, and I'm tailgating....
UCLA To Meet The Tapeworms
This one was the college basketball equivalent of a 6-3 Browns/Bengals game in a freezing rain. For a while there, it didn't look like either team would get to 50 points. Much like Ben Howland, this game was not pretty....
UCLA Refusing To Be Whooped
The Bruins have taken a 28-21 lead with them into halftime after sweating Memphis into their worst shooting performance of the year. They're 0-for-10 from behind the line, and 10-of-37 overall. Most tricks are not impressed by 21-point halves....
Indianapolis Buffet Restaurants, Prepare For The Arrival Of Glen Davis
"We still not satisfied yet. We got TAPEWORMS in our belly. We wanna still eat." - LSU forward Glen Davis, with some interesting imagery...
To Watch Tonight...
• Women's College Basketball: (3) Baylor @ (2) Maryland. It's the Lady Bears against the Terrapins, and I don't think that's fair. Maryland should have to use female turtles, too....
Doing The Right Thing. Eventually.
A quick update on the Colin Cowherd situation: Gelf Magazine is reporting that ESPN Radio' Colin Cowherd plans to give credit to the M Zone for jacking their material on his radio show last week. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz told the magazine that the credit will be given on Monday's show....
All About The Big Men
LSU and Texas are tied at 26 at the half after Darrell Mitchell pulled a little pickpocket job and scored a quick two on an easy lay-up at the buzzer....
Today In The Premiership...
• Leicester 1-1 Reading. Reading has clinched promotion into the Premier League next season, for the first time in club history. See, Reading is cool....