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About Last Night ...
What you missed while knitting a ransom note ... • NBA: Turning 60 ... Mavericks beat Bucks for 60th win, but down goes Nowitzki! • NHL: Oh, Buffalo ... Sabres beat Devils in East showdown. • Baseball: Curt Schilling takes time out from his blog to do a little pitching for the Red Sox....
There's More Than One Way To Skin A Softball Player
This, friends, is the College of Southern Idaho softball team and their VERY clever slogan this year. CSI — wee! — is a tiny junior college with an incredibly innovative way of promoting its players. They ask them if they're "shaven or unshaven."...
About Last Night ...
What you missed while recommending that Johnny "sweep the leg" ... • NBA: Kobe, Lakers mauled by Grizzlies. • College women's basketball: Move over John Wooden, you dinosaur. Pat Summitt is the god now. • Tennis: That net thingy keeps getting in the way ... Federer loses, again....
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What you missed while walking your toad ... • NBA: The need for long-range Sheed ... Rasheed Wallace's 60-footer helps Pistons beat Nuggets. • NHL: Winging it ... Hasek's 75th career shutout leads Detroit over Anaheim. • College women's basketball: Tiger Town ... LSU topples UConn to advance to Fina...
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What you missed while grooming your beard ... • College Basketball: Final Four is set; Roy Williams will not be participating. • NBA: Kobe Bryant; slacker. Lakers 115, Warriors 113. • NHL: Simon Says, So Sorry. Rangers 2, Islanders 1....
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• Women's College Basketball. Rutgers 53, Duke 52. .1 on the clock, down 1 point, shooting two free throws ... and neither of them even get close to going in. That can't feel good. I'm sorry, Lindsay Harding. • College Hockey. Maine 3, UMass 1. The Black Bears are in the Frozen Four. I am happy for ...
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• College Basketball. Florida 65, Butler 57. If Billy Donovan keeps this up, he might be considered for that awesome Kentucky job. • NBA. Lakers 111, Hornets 105. The Hornets were able to hold Kobe to 50. • College Basketball. Georgetown 66, Vanderbilt 65. And the Hoyas travel on....
Sweet 16 Pants Party: North Carolina Vs. USC
North Carolina Tar Heels (30-6) vs. Southern California Trojans (25-11) When: 9:57 p.m. ET Where: East Rutherford, N.J....
Time To Open The Big Can Of Monkey Whupass
Thankfully, late-night monkey zoo abductions have been virtually stamped out here in the U.S. But in Great Britain, where they are common, monkeys must be ever vigilant. Still smarting from the owl fiasco at the Moscow Zoo, the same gang of thugs apparently decided on a monkey heist for their next c...
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What you missed while saving El Moolah ... • College basketball: NCAA Tourney ... Mighty Oden smites Tennessee's last shot. • NBA: If Kobe Bryant reaches a milestone against the Grizzlies, does it make a sound? • NHL: Poor Opus. DiPietro, Islanders stop Penguins....
Sweet 16 Pants Party: Kansas Vs. Southern Illinois
Kansas Jayhawks (32-4) vs. Southern Illinois Salukis (29-6) When: 7:10 p.m. ET Where: San Jose...
Hoot, There It Is
Look, you may say this has nothing to do with sports, but we don't care. Sometimes a story transcends compartmentalization ... You do not come into the owl's house talkin' trash!...
About Last Night
What you missed while filling out your March Madness cricket office pool bracket ... • NBA: Mavs upend Cavs. Eastern Conference surrenders. • College basketball: NIT ... Hot: Air Force. Not: Syracuse. • NHL: Finally, a day in hockey without a single fight or inju ... oh, wait ......
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What you missed while planning the heist of the century ... • NBA: Sun Gods: Phoenix clinches the West for third straight year. • NHL: Toronto 2, New Jersey 1 ... and oh, look, another fight. • College women's basketball: You cannot stop Duke, baby!...
OJ Mayo, Signing Off In Style
So on Saturday night, incoming star freshman O.J. Mayo, who was no longer in trouble over that marijuana business, played his final game as a high school player. How's it go? Well, he earned a technical foul and was thrown out of the game....
The NFL Chases Down Itself
So here's a fun game. Last month, a Brooklyn law professor posted the NFL's "express written consent" copyright notice thing to YouTube. The NFL, being the NFL, asked YouTube to take it down, which is kind of funny, actually....
About Last Night ...
What you missed while finally giving into your cousins and getting a MySpace page... • College basketball: Orange you glad I didn't say banana? Syracuse marches on in NIT. • NHL: Jaromir Jagr, conquerer of Penguins. • NBA: Big win gives Atlanta Hawks pause to reflect. Let's listen in, shall we?...
Nothing But Fleabags For You, No. 15 Seed!
There's a clear caste system in college basketball, and it appears it is set up entirely by where you are seeded. Just take a look at Southern Illinois; as a No. 11 seed a few years ago, they were shacked up in a moldy, rundown hotel. Now, as a No. 4 seed?...
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What you missed while being questioned by Columbo ... • College basketball: There it is, we hear it somewhere in the distance ... Conquest. USC 87, Texas 68. • NBA: Kobe's been rather active lately. Lakers 109, Timberwolves 102. • NHL: And so the Jarkko Ruutu Era begins. Penguins 4, Senators 3....
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• NBA: Lakers 116, Trailblazers 111. Kobe had 65, 24 in the fourth quarter, and 9 in overtime. Kobe would beat 30% of NCAA tournament teams, 1-on-5. • College Basketball: Florida 112, Jackson State 69. You may have noticed a little bit of a talent discrepancy there. • NBA: Pistons 105, Suns 83. Impr...