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NCAA Live Blog: Friday Noon Games
All right, we're ready to do this again. Two live blogs again today, starting with the following matchups....
The Dork RPI
So here's something we wish we would have had before we filled out our bracket: A complete dissertation of The Nerd Factor, a definitive way to predict college basketball games by alloting for a particular team's "nerd atmosphere" and how it relates to on-court success. Factors include:...
Home Run No. 715 — Welcome to Thunderdome
It's out there somewhere, tucked into a box with several of its brethren, sitting in an equipment room somewhere in a National League City — just chilling. It's the baseball that will eventually be hit by Barry Bonds to pass Babe Ruth's career home run mark, and shouldn't we stop for a moment to i...
Team USA Gets Extra Week Of Spring Training
The wailing and gnashing of teeth, the rending of garments, is upon us: The United States has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. The team finished 3-3 for the tourney, and some people are screaming that Team USA was a "debacle" and that it's a shame that the "world has passed the cou...
We Have To Ask ...
Suggested questions for today's ESPN SportsNation chatters ... • 11 a.m. MLB with Jerry Crasnick: Just thinking about the World Baseball Classic. Can Buck Martinez be impeached? • 12:30 p.m. Bowler Tommy Jones: You represent of the only sport that features an automatic ball return — I mean, not incl...
Terror Stalks The NCAA Tournament ... Steamy, Delicious Terror ...
We realize that a bomb scare in a crowded sports venue isn't exactly a recipe for hilarity. But add snack bar condiments, a dog and the fact that it was all a false alarm, and it starts to get funny fast. As we told you yesterday, Cox Arena at San Diego State was evacuated on Thursday when a bomb ...
NCAA First Day Roundup: Give Us Some Upsets
News And Notes From An Excellent First Day Of NCAA B-B-B-B-B-Basketball ... • The main reason everyone was so befuddled by Billy Packer's demented rant on the NCAA Selection Show last Sunday was because he was railing against exactly what fans like the most about the tournament; small-school teams...
About Last Night ...
What you missed because you can't chance seeing that Applebee's shrimp commercial one more time ... • NCAA Basketball Tournament: Where to begin? Let's just say that the end of regulation of the UNC-Wilmington vs. George Washington game was the most exciting we've seen in many a moon phase. • World ...
Well, That Takes Care Of Seven
After an completely exhausting first afternoon of NCAA basketball, it seems amazing we've only ridded ourselves of seven teams so far. That's it? Yipes. Fifty-six teams still to go down. We're not even close to having survived this....
To Watch Tonight
What to watch as you arrange your various NCAA office pool brackets in front of you like bingo cards ... • Baseball: World Baseball Classic, second round, Mexico vs. USA, at Anaheim, Calif. Ah, Mexico, our old adversary. So we meet again ... [ESPN] • College Basketball: NCAA Tournament, first round ...
NCAA Live Blog: Afternoon Games
Three down. Twenty-nine to go. The games are:...
Last Call For Pool Entries
All right, you just have about a half hour left to join the official Deadspin Bracket Pool. There's no charge, obviously, because gambling is the work of the devil, and we even have some prizes for whoever wins this mammoth thing. (Currently at about 1,350 people.) The "prizes" are mainly just items...