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If You Like Drama, Root for Maryland
Freshman Melo Trimble leads Maryland in games played, minutes, points, scoring average, free throws, free throw percentage, assists and steals. But Trimble's game is at least as pleasing to non-analytics obsessives. Early into a season in which his team earned a reputation for thriving in cliffhan...
<i>Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry </i>Is Acidic B-Movie Nihilism Done Right
The car-chase movies of the '70s really only had one plot: Someone drives a muscle car really fast, hoping to avoid police cars, some of which end up driving into streams or ponds. But each movie found a vastly different way to tell that one story. Vanishing Point, the genre's real masterpiece, to...
Penn State Students Chant "No Means No" At Maryland's Dez Wells
Yesterday, Maryland traveled to Happy Valley to play and ultimately defeat Penn State. It was a hard-fought game that went down to the wire, but perhaps the most interesting moment came midway through the first half, when Terps senior star Dez Wells went to the foul line....
Iowa's Adam Woodbury Can't Stop Poking People In The Eye
Okay, man, this is starting to get a little ridiculous....
The Monopolists
Last night, I went to Gelf's Varsity Letters reading series. Mary Pilon was there talking about her new book, The Monopolists. She was bright, funny, and interesting and her book looks intriguing. ...
Mississippi State Delays Orange Bowl Halftime With 42-Yard Hail Mary
The pass from Dak Prescott to Fred Ross was so unexpected it forced Orange Bowl organizers to get the prematurely-installed halftime show stage off the field so the Bulldogs could attempt an extra point. It's 21-20 at the half....
75-Yard Miracle Play Ruined By Failed Two-Point Conversion
This is perhaps the greatest college football play any of us have ever seen, and it was all for naught as Central Michigan went for two, and a 36-point comeback, and failed. CMU was down 49-14 at one point, and this play left the final 49-48—again, because they went for the win and didn't get it....
UCF Wins Share Of American Conference Title With Hail Mary Touchdown
UCF claimed a share of the AAC championship despite blowing a 26-9 fourth-quarter lead when Breshad Perriman hauled in a 51-yard hail mary to give the Knights a 32-30 victory over ECU....
UVA-Maryland Basketball Game Site Of Protest And "No Means No" Chants
A lot was going in College Park, Maryland, tonight, where the Maryland men's basketball team lost 76-65 to former-ACC rival University of Virginia in the ACC/Big 10 Challenge. A group of students held a die-in outside of the XFINITY Center to protest the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, an...
D-III School Beats Opponent At The Buzzer For The Second Straight Year
Division III college Hampden-Sydney beat the University of Mary Washington on an unusual buzzer-beating three Saturday. After a flubbed Mary Washington inbound pass, Hampden-Sydney's Mike Murray made a desperate three for the 58-57 win. The shot was weird, but the history between the two schools i...
Brett Favre Was The Third Choice For <em>There's Something About Mary</em>
Brett Favre's memorable cameo in There's Something About Mary wouldn't have happened if the Farrelly Brothers had gotten their way (and if Drew Bledsoe hadn't injured a woman stage-diving at an Everclear concert)....
Maryland, Penn State Fight Before Game, And A Handshake Refusal
Maryland captains refused to shake the hands of their Penn State counterparts before today's game in State College that featured a bit of a fight between the two Big Ten squads....
Football Team Scheduled To Play Marysville Forfeits League Title
Oak Harbor High School was scheduled to play Marysville-Pilchuck tonight for the Wesco 3A North league title tonight. Owing to today's shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck, that game won't be happening—because Oak Harbor has forfeited the game, and trophy, to Marysville....
Arizona State Upsets USC With Hail Mary [UPDATE: Now With ASU Radio]
Two weeks after Arizona shocked Cal with a Hail Mary game-winner, the Arizona State Sun Devils pulled their own miracle with a 46-yard bomb that found Jaelen Strong for the winning score as time expired....
Arizona Hail Mary Beats Cal
Arizona erased a 22-point second-half deficit to stun Cal in Tucson tonight with a 47-yard Hail Mary from Anu Solomon to Austin Hill at the final gun....
Maryland Scores Bizarre Accidental Touchdown, Has It Taken Away
Maryland guy calls fair catch. West Virginia guy plows into Maryland guy. Maryland guy can't make catch. Maryland scores touchdown....
New Maryland Uniforms Are Inscribed With <em>The Star-Spangled Banner</em>
Every other college football team can go ahead and stop trying to be the most American, because the University of Maryland has unveiled a new set of helmets and uniforms that are pure America....
The Comedian Who Loved Himself: Martin Mull When He Was Almost Famous
Originally published in New Times, January 1978. Reprinted here with the author's permission. ...