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To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you say goodbye to the current NCAA 3-point line ... • College basketball: NCAA Division I tournament, first round (noon and 7 p.m., ET). Sadly, your brackets committed suicide late last night. [CBS] • Figure skating: ISU World Figure Skating Championships, women's short program and...

About Last Night
What you missed while preparing for the first day of spring ... • College basketball: Your dream of finally winning the NCAA office pool by boldly picking Belmont over Duke dies the way that most of your dreams do ... with you face down in the avocado dip, sobbing quietly. • Soccer: OK, I'm going to...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as Duke shoots about 70 3-pointers ... • College basketball: NCAA tournament, first round (noon and 7 p.m., ET). My brackets! They're sinking! Man the lifeboats! [CBS] • College basketball: National Invitation Tournament, second round, Southern Illinois vs. Arizona State (midnight, ET)...

When Will Bobby Knight Finally Snap?
Blog Antwonomous, whatever that means, asks the question we've all been wondering: When's Bob Knight going to finally flip out on ESPN?...

About Last Night
The NCAA Tournament is here! It's just like Christmas morning! • NBA: Allen Iverson completes perfect homecoming by nailing game-winn ... wait, what? He missed the shot? Never mind. 76ers 115, Nuggets 113. • MLB: Problem solved; the Bad News Bears Boston Red Sox are going to Japan! • NHL: If you lef...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while recovering from a horrible lap dancing injury ... • College basketball: National Invitation Tournament, first round, Alabama-Birmingham at Virginia Commonwealth (7 p.m., ET), San Diego State at Florida (9 p.m., ET), New Mexico at California (11 p.m., ET). Excuse me Cal, may we se...

About Last Night
What you missed while opening the pod bay doors to Heaven ... • College basketball: Mount St. Mary's beats Coppin State 69-60, mathematically eliminating you in your NCAA office pool. • NBA: And suddenly it was over, and a malaise settled over the Houston area. And the Rockets never won another game...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while *cough* casting a spell *cough, cough* to ward off dementors *hack! wheeze!* ... • College basketball: NCAA Tournament play-in game, Mount St. Mary's at Coppin State (7:30 p.m., ET). Come see if the Eagles will become the first 21-loss team to play in the NCAA Tournament. [ESPN] ...

About Last Night
What you missed while fleeing random monkey violence ... • NBA: Celtics win on St. Patrick's Day. This would be significant if any of their players were Irish. • MLB: Mr. Baseball ... Matsuzaka to start for Red Sox in Japan opener. • NHL: Wild beat Avalanche to climb into first. Thank you for watchi...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch after you wake up in Dublin, Ireland ... and you live in Cleveland. And you have no idea how it happened ... • Women's college basketball: NCAA Tournament Selection Show in Indianapolis (7 p.m., ET). Pat Summitt controls the space and time; can change the brackets with her mind. [ESPN]...

About Last Night
What you missed while throwing a fit over penis-shaped bendy straws ... • College basketball: Apparently there's some big tournament later this week. • NHL: Florida Panthers are unstoppable, will soon surpass Houston Rockets' win streak. • NBA: Well, this one pretty much seals Seattle's move to Okla...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while consuming male genitalia ... • 6:00 p.m. — NCAA tournament selection show. Wherein analysts' only thoughts on the first round pairings are as eloquent as ours: "Wow, that'll be a good game. And that could be an upset." [ESPN] • 6:30 p.m. — Brier Championship: Alberta vs. Ontario....

About Last Night...
Jeez, I knew she was pissed, but I didn't think she was going to make a lawsuit out of it, considering I apologized profusely ... • NCAA Basketball: Georgia beat Kentucky. Then Georgia beat Mississippi State. But Georgia has yet to qualify for NATO membership. • NBA: Pau, right in the ankle. Lakers ...

And Now ... A Coach Reaction Montage
As Virginia Tech fell to North Carolina on the final shot, Dick Vitale declared "there should be an investigation" if Tech doesn't receive an at-large berth to the tournament, which does hold a modicum of truth. There are 65 invites, and with 12 ACC teams, that leaves 53 slots for the entire country...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch while mocking people who waste time on the Internet making these videos, then getting back to your 3,000 word sports blog dissertation on the relationship between 9th inning walks and hockey overtime ... • 6 p.m. — Pac 10 championship: Stanford vs. UCLA [CBS]; A-10 Championship: St. Jo...

About Last Night ...
What you missed while wondering why the hell you ever downloaded this stupid amazing game... • NBA: The Houston Rockets reach 21 straight wins, still many behind Joe DiMaggio. • Golf: Vijay Singh is 7 strokes ahead of Tiger Woods as those two must be the sole competitors in this tournament or someth...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch as I, for one, welcome our super sheep overlords ... • College basketball: Atlantic Coast Conference quarterfinals, Charlotte, Duke vs. Georgia Tech (7 p.m., ET), Clemson vs. Boston College (9 p.m., ET) [ESPN2]; Big East Conference semifinals, New York, Georgetown vs. West Virginia (7 ...

About Last Night
What you missed while Kevin Johnson hoses out your room ... • College basketball: If you laid all of Stanford's big men end-to-end, well, that would look pretty comical, wouldn't it? Stanford 75, Arizona 64. • NBA: Why? Because I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me! I'm the Wiz ... • NHL: Sens beat Habs ...

To Watch Tonight
What to watch instead of attending the NASCAR race ... • Boxing: Lightweights, Bobby "Dave Coulier" Pacquiao vs. Urbano "Smelling Salts" Antillon; heavyweights, Tye "Mrs." Fields vs. Josue "Hemophiliac" Blocus, at Las Vegas (9 p.m., ET) [Versus] • College basketball: Big East Conference quarterfinal...

About Last Night
What you missed while test driving the 2009 Dodge Hobbit ... • NBA: Rockets may never lose again. • NFL: Eli Manning picks David Carr to be his running mate in '08. • College basketball: So it's going to be Cal vs. UCLA, round two. How will the refs screw up this time?...