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• NBA: Lakers 116, Trailblazers 111. Kobe had 65, 24 in the fourth quarter, and 9 in overtime. Kobe would beat 30% of NCAA tournament teams, 1-on-5. • College Basketball: Florida 112, Jackson State 69. You may have noticed a little bit of a talent discrepancy there. • NBA: Pistons 105, Suns 83. Impr...

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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...

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What you missed while taking the kids to Hooters ... • NBA: One Suns-Mavericks game was pretty great. Now imagine seven in a row for all the marbles. • College basketball: Well, we're not sure about those pants, but Syracuse is on its way in the NIT. • NHL: Red Wing Nation ... Detroit 4, Nashville 2...

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What you missed while tuning your fiddle ... • College basketball: Beware the Purple Eagle ... Clif Brown leads Niagara to date with Kansas (the missing f is for freshness). • NBA: Forget about the Spurs at your own peril. • NHL: The big five oh oh ... Mondano milestone leads Stars over Flyers. • No...

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What you missed while mailing your NCAA brackets to the IRS and listing the Louisville-Stanford game as a tax deduction ... • NBA: Mavericks visit The Oracle, and the news is not good. • Baseball: Red Sox beat Yankees 7-5, but Carl Pavano looks pretty spiffy after eight-day layoff. • NHL: A hockey p...

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What you missed while attending the All-Star Game ... • NBA: All that's left of Nicholson is a set of chattering false teeth on the pavement ... Mavericks stomp Lakers for 17th straight win. • Tennis: Don't make a Federer case out of it ... Roger's streak ends at 41. • College basketball: That Ohio ...

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• College Basketball: Georgetown 65, Pitt 42. I'm still waiting for Pitt to make their run. • Women's College Basketball: UMBC 67, Vermont 56. This was televised. I saw it. • New Mexico State 72, Utah State 70. I didn't see the game, but two of the AP's first three paragraphs were about how Reggie T...

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• College Basketball: Pitt 65, Louisville 59. Louisville has blown huge leads on two straight nights. Keep that in mind, tiny conference team that plays Louisville in the first round of the tournament. • NBA: 76ers 108, Lakers 92. Another game, another white man hit by a Kobe elbow. I guess someone ...

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What you missed while dancing a series of Irish jigs ... • NHL: Even we know that what Chris Simon did was not nice. • College basketball: Grin and Bear it ... Cal upends UCLA 76-69 in OT in Pac-10 tournament quarterfinals. • NBA: Manu The Moment ... Ginobli leads Spurs to 11th straight win....

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What you missed while admiring the headline of the day ... • College basketball: Syracuse moves on in Big East Tournament, UConn, not so much. • NBA: LeBron Rocks ... James' 41 lead Cavaliers in double OT • Baseball: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Sammy! Sosa homers again as Rangers win....

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What you missed while passed out from viewing this photo ... • NBA: Sweet Little Sixteen ... Mavericks rain blows upon Nets, clinch playoffs. • NHL: Attack of the Penguins ... beware a heavily padded man named Sidney ... • College basketball: The Wright Stuff ... Raiders upset Butler 60-55 for Horiz...

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What you missed while looking for penguins in Kansas City ... • NBA: It's a Yao Ming after all, it's a Yao Ming after all ... but his return can't stop Cavs vs. Rockets. It's a Yao Ming World ... • Iditarod: And ... we have our first injury. Sled slip on ice and man go boom (we think the dogs planne...

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What you missed while letting the Wookkie win ... • College basketball: Duke vs. North Carolina ... like a walk through a bad neighborhood in just about every way. • NBA: Kobe, meet the Suns. Suns, Kobe. • NHL: We're no experts, but this has to be some kind of penalty. Avalanche 4, Red Wings 3, OT...

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• College Basketball: Marquette 75, Pitt 71. And Georgetown is your regular season Big East champion. • Arena Football: Georgia Force 69, Arizona Rattlers 65. Three of every 10 throws by Chris Greisen went for touchdowns. 25-of-30, 337 yards... 9 touchdowns. • NBA: Spurs 97, Rockets 74. That's eight...

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• College Basketball: (11) Southern Illinois 71, Drake 59. The Salukis have an RPI ranking of 5. Hm. Did not know that. • NBA: Sixers 117, Grizzlies 112. Three game win-streak for the Sixers... look out for these guys. • NHL: Hurricanes 3, Penguins 2. Sidney Crosby's the youngest player in NHL histo...

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What you missed while shooting the curl ... • NBA: It's obvious that a freak radiation accident has given the Mavericks super powers. • Baseball: Zito vs. Soriano, Round One. • College basketball: Virginia beats Virginia Tech; Virginia Graham has mixed emotions....

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What you missed while planning your lunar eclipse party ... • College basketball: Texas fought the Law and the Law didn't win. • NBA: Suns finally lose to an Eastern Conference team, and it's, wait ... who? • NHL: No sooner does Bill Guerin make his debut for Sharks than he is sadly devoured by Pred...

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What you missed while wondering where the hell is Beeks? ... • NBA: Teams with carnivorous mammals in their nicknames now officially just barely trying when they play the Mavericks. • NHL: Bertuzzi, 24 others suddenly have a lot of packing to do. • College basketball: Attention ... Pittsburgh can st...

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What you missed while writing your will on your grounded Jet Blue flight ... • NHL: Holiday For Vowels ... Keith Tkachuk, Alexei Zhitnik debut for Thrashers in 3-2 win over Bruins. • NBA: Kobe, Lakers call out hoarsely: "We're not dead yet!" • College basketball: Jolly Olly Orange ... Syracuse upend...

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What you missed while getting together with your buddies to produce silhouettes of all your favorite movies ... • College basketball: Ohio State clinches Big Ten with win over Wisconsin; Florida observes with interest. • NBA: For those who consider it a rivalry, please note: Nets 101, Knicks 92. • N...