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How Creighton Created The Craziest, Deadliest Offense In The Country
The box score from last night's Creighton-Villanova game—a game that ended with Creighton upsetting the No. 4 team in the country behind 21 made three-pointers—looks like a fluke. No team is supposed to heave 35 three-pointers in 40 minutes, let alone connect on 60 percent of them, right? Wrong. The...
Keifer Sykes Is 5-Foot-11 And A Dunking Maestro
Green Bay guard Keifer Sykes may only be 5-foot-11, but his height does absolutely nothing to prevent him from throwing down ridiculous dunks. ...
This Map Shows Exactly Where College Football Players Come From
Mode Analytics put together a fun set of interactive maps that show exactly which counties in the U.S. produce the most college football players. Did you know that Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, is a hotbed of punter and kicker recruiting? ...
Nick Saban Doing The Electric Slide?
Nick Saban doing the Electric Slide. (No, really, this is Nick Saban doing the Electric Slide.)...
UConn Coach Kevin Ollie Flips His Shit After Uncalled Foul
UConn coach Kevin Ollie was pissed when the officiating crew missed a rather obvious foul by Louisville's Wayne Blackshear on Niels Giffey during Saturday's game. Even though Ollie's anger was justified, he was quickly hit with two technical fouls and ejected from the game....
Patriots Asked About Smoking Weed While In Denver
The Patriots are on the road this week in Denver to play the Broncos in the AFC Championship game, so let's talk about drugs. Denver is in Colorado, where (like Washington, host to the NFC Championship) the recreational use of marijuana is legal. On Friday, multiple Patriots, including Bill Belichic...
Ken Pomeroy has kicked off his 2014 player of the year watch list, a quantitative ranking based on a "player's value to his team in combination with his team's strength." Doug McDermott (Creighton) holds the top spot for now, followed by Lamar Patterson (Pittsburgh), and Nick Johnson (Arizona). [Ken...
How Many Ads Are In Your College Sports Broadcast?
In O'Bannon vs. NCAA, the defendants made a stunning claim. Collegiate athletes cannot be paid for appearing in televised games, the NCAA argued, because those games—like, say, the Vizio BCS National Championship—are First Amendment-protected news programs, and not commercial broadcasts....
No, Fans Won't Stop Watching If College Players Get Paid
Defending itself in the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit, the NCAA has made some stunning claims. One, backed by an NCAA-commissioned poll, is that people so hate the idea of paying players that they will stop watching college sports if amateurism ends. In the filings, ex-CBS Sports President Neal Pilson estimat...
No, Paying Athletes Won't Bankrupt College Sports
The NCAA's biggest and most bruited argument against compensating players is that athletics programs couldn't take on the additional burden of player salaries without going bankrupt. The argument has a certain appeal to a certain kind of fan, the one who thinks sports took a turn for the worse at ro...
"Bad British Commentary" Makes College Football Delightful
"Notre Dame? Wow, a French team. Good luck to them."...
Arkansas Upsets Kentucky With Overtime Tip-Slam Buzzer Beater
After allowing a three-pointer to tie the game in regulation and another to tie it late in overtime, Arkansas bounced back when Michael Qualls tip-slammed the winning basket with 0.2 seconds remaining....
The Path To Remaining Unbeaten In The NCAA This Year
Like most basketball fans, I enjoy close games. A contest featuring teams separated by one or two possessions late makes for enthralling theater. At the end of a tight game, every good decision and crucial mistake is amplified. Even the crowd feels like it wields more influence with time winding dow...
Once An Afterthought, LeGarrette Blount Beats The Colts Down
Listed at 250 pounds, LeGarrette Blount is just a pound lighter than the Patriots' starting fullback, James Develin. He's not exactly a scatback. He's more of a supersized bowling ball over which someone had draped a jersey—a "north-south" runner, in scouting parlance, who in last night's 43-22 New ...
Northwestern To Wear Stupid Custom Uniforms Yet Again
On Sunday, Northwestern, aka the Billy Zabka Finishing School for the Villains of John Hughes Movies, will take the floor against Illinois wearing the disastrous uniform you see above. This basketball uni isn't nearly as bad as the "Wounded Warrior" getup that the school's football team wore earlier...
What The Hell Is Bill Walton Talking About?
Poor Dave Pasch. The ESPN college basketball play-by-play artist is repeatedly stuck with an increasingly unhinged Bill Walton, and last night's broadcast of the Arizona-UCLA game at Pauley Pavilion got weird again as Walton rambled on about who-knows-what....
Why Do Coaches Always Beat Up On The Little Sisters Of The Poor?
The Little Sisters of the Poor are in the news again, but surprisingly not as a sports metaphor for a patsy opponent. But now's as good a time as any to wonder: Where did this ubiquitous metaphor come from?...
For Some Reason Louisville Has Intentionally Hired Bobby Petrino
Multiple reports, following Yahoo's Pat Forde, are saying that Bobby Petrino — liar, scoundrel, indifferent recruiter, proven winner — will be the new head coach at Louisville, the very program he ditched in 2006 for a short stint with the Atlanta Falcons....