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Your NCAA Tournament Final Four Games Of Day One Open Thread
A good foursome of games to close out opening day. Michigan State vs. UCLA to start it off on TBS. Then, Gonzaga vs. St. John's on the network, Mizzou vs. Cincinnati on TNT and Utah State vs. Kansas State to close out the day on truTV....
Your Early Evening NCAA Tournament Open Thread
Have a nice, refreshing mini-break? After dinner, it's time for UCSB-Florida, Wofford-BYU, Bucknell-UConn, and Belmont-Wisconsin. Remember, just because everyone's picking upsets, doesn't mean you have to. Now, isn't it about time you went home and figured out what channel number TruTV is....
Your NCAA Tournment Open Thread, Continued
Let's make this the place for the Greek chorus to comment on Princeton-Kentucky, UNCA-Pitt, Richmond-Vanderbilt, and N. Colorado-SDSU. Viewer's guide here, complaints about no Gus Johnson on day 1 below. We'll be in occasionally with updates, so go start pretending like you hate Princeton more than ...
Your NCAA Tournament Early Games Open Thread
Consider this a break room to discuss the first block of today's games. First up: Clemson-WVU, ODU-Butler, Morehead State-Louisville, and Penn State-Temple. As always, the viewing guide to the tourney is here, and we'll pop in occasionally with highlights and upset alerts....
Your Pre-Selection Final Four College Basketball Open Thread
In the waning hours before brackets start getting filled out, the lone question amid four conference championship games is whether Penn State, Dayton or Richmond would get into the NCAA Tournament with a loss. Penn State and Richmond both look good, but today's likely a play-in for Dayton, which fi...
Your Stony Brook, Harvard/Princeton And Many More College Basketball Open Thread
Stony Brook tipped off with Boston University at 12:02 p.m. for the uh, um, er, America East bid to the NCAA tournament. The highly anticipated brainblast between Harvard and Princeton at Yale goes off at 4 p.m....
Your NBA Sunday Games Open Thread
The Chicago Bulls visit the Miami Heat at 1 p.m. The Lakers go to San Antonio at 3:30 p.m. Wizards meet the Pistons at 6 p.m....
Your Bi-Hourly Top 25 Matchups College Basketball Open Thread
At noon, it's Kansas at Missouri. At 2 p.m., Notre Dame visits Connecticut. Two hours later, Villanova tries to start winning again with a game at Pittsburgh. Six o'clock takes Florida to Vanderbilt....
Your Good Day For College Basketball Fans Open Thread
Syracuse at Georgetown is about to tip off. The game comes about two weeks after the Hoyas won in the Land of Orange, but they'll be without Chris Wright, whose 93-consecutive-starts streak will end....
Your Riverdanced College Basketball Open Thread
In tonight's premier Top 25 showdown, Utah State travels to Saint Mary's in a game that will settle, once and for all, who's truly the No. 23 team....
Your Heat vs. Celtics Open Thread
Both the Celtics and the Heat have 14 losses on the season. When they get done playing this afternoon, one will be in sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference and the other will have sole possession of second place....
Here's A College Basketball Open Thread
Yes, Syracuse/Louisville and Kentucky/Vanderbilt are already underway. Good Top 25 matchups, for sure. But Ohio State/Wisconsin and Pittsburgh/Villianova are coming up (2 p.m. and 9 p.m., respectively), and since they're Top 14 matchups, they get open-thread timing priority....
Your Super Bowl XLV Pregame Show Open Thread
Four-and-a-half hours of pregame coverage is about to start on Fox. Water torture for the brain. So, here's a collection of Super Bowl XLV stories that have filtered in over the course of the past few days....
Your College Basketball Open Thread
Twenty of the top 25 teams play at various times today. But, there's only one Top 25 match-up: No. 11 Kentucky at No. 23 Florida. And that's not until 9 p.m....
Your NFL Pro Bowl Open Thread
The NFL's also-ran showcase is on TV tonight. So is "The Lost Valentine," a film in which "a reporter seeks the truth about a World War II pilot," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Betty White. Advantage: Sarah....
Your NHL All-Star Game Open Thread
Here are 10 things that the Winnipeg Free Press thinks you should look for during today's NHL All-Star Game in Raleigh. Thankfully, TSN explains how choosing sides for a sporting showcase came to resemble a Strawbridge School third-grade kickball pregame....
Your Day Of Basketball Open Thread
The Miami Heat visit(s) Oklahoma City at 1 p.m. while the Celtics face the Lakers, around 3:30 p.m. At the college level, a nation lines up in support of the St. John's Red Storm....
Your 1985 College Basketball Open Thread
There are four Top 25 showdowns today: Louisville at UConn, Georgetown at Villanova, Minnesota at Purdue and Missouri at Texas....
Your AFC Championship Game Open Thread
Tipster "Dr. Yunzer" kindly sent a link to a column by a Steelers fan who put some of his late father's ashes on the Heinz Field turf. One of those "sports are bigger than just sports" messages. [Post Gazette]...
Your NFC Championship Game Open Thread
There has been no shortage of links sent in about this game. Links about tattoos. And white kids rapping about how Wisconsin weather is super hardcore. And cooked bear meat. And old-heads trying to sing....