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Your Final Four Open Thread: Ohio State vs. Kansas
Ohio State and Kansas battle for a chance to play Kentucky for the national championship on Monday. It's a rematch with much more on the line and this time Jared Sullinger is playing. You know the drill. Have at it in the comments....
Final Four Open Thread: Louisville vs. Kentucky
Hello, friends.™ This one is for the chance to play for all the Tostitos. Winner goes on, loser goes back to Kentucky—a double whammy. Pop in down below to talk hoops with your internet brethren....
When Does Major League Baseball Season Begin?
When is Opening Day? Did you know it already happened? This week, the Mariners and Athletics split a two-game series in the Tokyo Dome. Kids in Oakland and Seattle rushed home from school to watch them from 2 to 5 a.m....
Your NCAA Tournament Elite Eight, Day Two Open Thread
Baylor and Kentucky start the day off at 2:20 p.m. and then Roy Williams and UNC take on the still-special Kansas Jayhawks at 5:05 p.m. All the action is on CBS and in the comments below. Enjoy....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sweet Sixteen
Right right right. The NCAA field is down to 12 teams, what with half of the regional semifinals having been played last night. But it's still the Sweet Sixteen round for the eight teams slated to play tonight out of the Midwest and South regions. There's Xavier-Baylor at 7:15, Ohio-North Carolina a...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sweet Sixteen
There are two games each from the East and West regions on tap tonight: Wisconsin-Syracuse at 7:15, Louisville-Michigan State at 7:47, Cincinnati-Ohio State at 9:45, and Florida-Marquette at 10:17. Floor's yours. Discuss them in the comments....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread Day Four: The Night Games
2012 Tourney darlings Norfolk State take on Florida at 6:10 p.m. on TNT, Ohio and South Florida tip off on TBS at 7:10 p.m., Lehigh and Xavier start on TruTV at 7:45 p.m., Purdue and Kansas follow at 8:40 p.m. on TNT and Cincinnati and Florida cap the evening at 9:40 on TBS....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread Day Four: The Daytime Games
Well, here we go again. Today's action begins with everyone's favorite upset for the day, N.C. State taking on Georgetown at 12:15 p.m. The fighting Rick Majeruses of Saint Louis take on Michigan State at 2:45 p.m. and, finally—for the afternoon—Creighton and North Carolina tip off at 5:15 p.m. All...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread Day Three: The Night Games
Onward and upward we go. Vanderbilt and Wisconsin tip off at 6:10 p.m (TNT), VCU and Indiana follow up an hour later at 7:10 p.m. (TBS) and Iowa State and Kentucky gets going at 7:45 p.m (CBS). Colorado and Baylor tips off at 8:40 on TNT and New Mexico and Lousiville are the night cap at 9:40 on TB...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread Day Three: The Daytime Games
Day three. Here we go. Kansas State and Syracuse kick things off at 12:15 (CBS). Then it's Zags-Buckeyes at 2:45 p.m. (CBS) followed by Murray State and Marquette at 5:45 p.m., also on CBS. Comment below....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread, Day Two: The Night Games
St. Louis! Memphis! 6:50! Then Lehigh-Duke at 7:15, Ohio-Michigan at 7:20, and Purdue-St. Mary's at 7:27. Followed by LIU Brooklyn and Michigan State at 9:20, Xavier and Notre Dame at 9:45, South Florida and Temple at 9:50, and Detroit vs. Kansas at 9:57. Comment away, please....
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread, Day Two: The Daytime Games
Time to do it all over again. Here come Texas and Cincinnati at 12:15, followed by N.C. State and San Diego State at 12:40, Alabama and Creighton at 1:40, and Virginia and Florida at 2:10. Then teatime starts with St. Bonaventure against Florida State at 2:45, Belmont and Georgetown at 3:10, Vermont...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Feeling-A-Little-Sleepy-And-Bored-Honestly Games
Congratulations! You've now spent more than an eight-hour workday watching basketball. The final stretch begins with UConn and Iowa State, tipping at 9:20. Then it's New Mexico State and Indiana at 9:45, Loyola (Maryland) and Ohio State at 9:50, and Colorado-UNLV, the last plate on the dessert cart,...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Finish-Bolting-Dinner Games
No more slack in the brackets; the staggered start times are clumping together now. At 6:50, you get Western Kentucky against Kentucky. Then it's VCU and Wichita State at 7:15, quickly followed by West Virginia and Gonzaga at 7:20, with South Dakota State and Baylor at 7:27. Keep the comments flowin...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Sneak-Out-Of-Work Games
Here comes the second batch of the first round, starting at 2:45 with BYU-Marquette. As national productivity dwindles on toward zero, we get UNC-Asheville against Syracuse at 3:10, Long Beach State and New Mexico at 4:10, and Harvard-Vanderbilt at 4:40. To the comments, while you're still sober eno...
Your NCAA Tournament Open Thread: The Pretend-To-Still-Be-Working Games
Here come the Murray State Racers and the rest of your early-early games, starting with the 12:15 Murray State-Colorado State tipoff. At 12:40 Southern Miss meets Kansas State, at 1:40 it's Davidson and Louisville, and at 2:10 your college basketbinge is fully underway, with Montana against Wisconsi...
Prelude To A Selection: Your College Basketball Open Thread
There are four remaining games (three of them at 1 p.m.) scheduled today and then "March Madness" officially begins. Or continues. Whatevs....
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Weekend: Your College Basketball Open Thread
I had this whole great thing written breaking down each game with the most mind-blowing analysis the world had ever seen, but internet connectivity issues ruined it all. Just know that it would have made Dick Vitale look like a gimmicky old man—it was that good. Anyway, here you go, chat down below ...
<i>Silent House</i> And The Rise Of The Gimmicky Horror Movie
On Friday, the horror movie Silent House comes out. One of its selling points is that it stars Elizabeth Olsen—who was terrific last year in a very different sort of horror film, Martha Marcy May Marlene—but probably the hook that will be most intriguing to genre fans is that the whole movie takes p...
The U.S. Women's Open Of Bowling Will Be Held Outdoors, In The Least Magical Place On Earth
What you're looking at is an artist's conception of the U.S. Women's Open, which will follow in the footsteps of the NHL's Winter Classic and the NCAA's aircraft carrier game by being held outside, under the desert sun, in downtown Reno, Nevada. I can't think of a better gift for your worst enemy....