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Jimmy Patsos: A True Student Of Gary Williams

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NCAA Confiscates Reporter's Cat Mug

This may shock you, given its mission as a nonprofit devoted to the needs of its student-athletes, but the NCAA will fucking cut you if you threaten its corporate sponsorships. Those extend even to the drinking vessels used by media sitting courtside for tournament games. One intrepid Wall Street Jo...

Bill Self "Disappointed" By Naadir Tharpe's Boobsy Photo [NSFW]

This photo of Kansas junior PG Naadir Tharpe has been floating around. (We first got sent it on Saturday, and were told that it had already been circulating "for days.") KU coach Bill Self has seen it too, and he's not pleased....

Ten <em>Mid-Majority</em> Posts You Must Read Before The Site Dies In 7 Hours

Mid-major basketball maven Kyle Whelliston is shuttering The Mid-Majority tonight after ten years of operation, and deleting the site's entire content. It's been the home of some of the best college basketball writing around, and if you haven't had the chance to ever check it out, the clock is ticki...

Did Tucson Police Go Too Far In Putting Down Arizona Riot?

Despite Tucson police praising their handling of an unruly UA crowd following Saturday night's Wildcat loss to Wisconsin in the Elite Eight, its department of internal affairs will investigate video showing one officer violently blindsiding a female student who was reportedly just trying to get out ...

Kentucky Heads To The Final Four On Aaron Harrison's Game-Winning Three

Kentucky's Aaron Harrison sank the game-winning three with 2.6 seconds remaining to take down Michigan, 75-72 and send the Wildcats to the Final Four. Holy crap....

UConn Tumbles Into The Final Four

[Ryan Boatright takes a spill after scoring as UConn edged Michigan State 60-54 in a sloppy Elite Eight match. The Huskies are the first No. 7 seed to make the Final Four since tournament expansion in 1985. Photo by Frank Franklin II/AP]...

Gainesville TV Station Recreates NCAA Highlights To Beat Restrictions

Broadcast rules stipulate that non-CBS stations can't show March Madness highlights until the day after the game, so ABC affiliate WCJB in Gainesville recapped the Gators' win over Dayton with its own recreated footage. It does not disappoint....

"They're Try'na Burn Down The House At The Corner Of State & Crescent"

Listening to the Lexington police scanner after a big Kentucky basketball win can be great fun....

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Bo Ryan's Excited To See Aaron Rodgers

Wisconsin beat Baylor tonight to advance to the Elite Eight, and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers stopped by the Badgers' locker room after the game for some celebrating. Head coach Bo Ryan seemed happy(?) to take a photo with him....

Reporter Captures The Fleeting Glory Of Youth In One Spring Break Photo

Some Alabama students and football players traveled to Florida for their spring break, as many college students do. While posing for a reporter's photos, this well-hydrated motley crew—from the University of Arkansas—posed with their hands, cups, and cigs. One girl in the middle of the photo took it...

How Long Does The Final Minute Of An NCAA Tournament Game Take? [UPDATE]

The college basketball endgame can be a painful experience for viewers. With repeated fouling, free throws, and referees' video replay reviews, the final 60 seconds of this year's NCAA tournament games have drawn criticism from mavens and columnists both large and small. ...

This UNC Athlete's Paper Is A Joke. Who's To Blame?

On Tuesday, Outside the Lines broadcast a piece on the academic scandal unfolding at North Carolina, which according to a whistleblower funneled athletes into sham classes with minimal standards and workloads. The internet's big takeaway was this screengrab of one athlete's final paper, which report...

A Proper Dress Code For Getting Shitfaced At The Ballpark

Today our Tom Ley goofed on the silly new dress code restrictions for the St. Louis Cardinals Ballpark Village (i.e., a place where bros from Dardenne Prairie will get shitfaced after another triumphant Cardinals win against a morally inferior opponent). Ley pointed out that there was no shortage o...

We're Down To The Mean 16: Round 3 Of The Bitchy Bracket

So you, the public, have pared down the Bitchy Bracket to a lean and mean 16. And like real NCAA brackets, this is where the big boys start clobbering at each with giant-sized Hulk fists....

In College Basketball, The Rich Are Just Getting Richer—And Smarter

Hey, SportVU motion-tracking cameras are coming to college basketball. In fact, they're already there, the New York Times explains, in arenas at Duke, Louisville, and Marquette this season. This is good news for any number of nerdy, obsessive reasons, and laughable news because, once the technology ...

Mitch McConnell's UK Campaign Ad Goes From Bad To Worse To Deleted

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is up for reelection this fall, and yesterday he released a campaign ad to much fanfare. It featured some of the things that make Kentucky great, including what were supposed to be highlights of the state's two basketball teams celebrating championships. It did...

Georgia Men's Basketball Has Policies Against Orgies And Gangbangs

Thanks to a few University of Maryland journalism students' public records requests, we know what one collegiate athletic program expects from its players' fucking habits, among other activities....