April 8th, 2008
Congratulations to the Kansas Jayhawks, NCAA Champions. Mario Chalmers hit a three with two seconds left, taking the game to overtime and creating the enduring image from the tournament. In the extra session, Kansas finished off Memphis convincingly. Memphis was undone in part by their poor free-throw shooting in the final minutes. Luckily for the […]
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March 30th, 2008
In the end, the Cinderella team fell just short in the only close game of the final four. Interestingly, it wasn’t the one man on the one-man team who took the shot. Rather, Stephen Curry passed the ball to Jason Richards at the final seconds. He missed and Davidson fell just short, 57-59. And so, […]
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March 27th, 2008
Chris Webber is retiring. And now, the requisite time-out clip. Let’s just get it out of the way.
Yes, Chris Webber’s legacy will forever be tied to the Fab Five — along with cohorts Jimmy King, Ray Jackson, Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose — and that fateful timeout. And although they never technically existed, I still […]
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March 17th, 2008
Sixty-five. It’s just so much worse. Sixty-four is a beautiful number. It’s two to the sixth power, eight squared. It’s a beautiful number. It has cache. It even has nostalgia for my generation; we were reared on Nintendo 64. Sixty-five is inelegant. It leads to an imbalanced bracket — there’s an odd growth protruding, ruining […]
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March 6th, 2008
Pat Reilly has had enough. He can’t watch this bullshit anymore. He’s going to watch some NCAA ball instead of coaching. Seriously.
Riley said Thursday that “there’s a possibility” he will “miss one or two” upcoming Heat games because he wants to travel to the various NCAA conference tournaments and start seeing players who’ll potentially be […]
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March 3rd, 2008
When I first heard that Harvard basketball was suspected of recruiting infractions, my first reaction was: why couldn’t Tommy Amaker have tried to pull that stuff in Ann Arbor? Michigan basketball is built on a solid foundation of awesome teams built on shady recruiting tactics. I know the Fab Five technically didn’t exist, but still, […]
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February 21st, 2008
When I first saw the news that Candace Parker, star of the Lady Volunteers basketball team, was going pro a year early, I was taken a bit aback. Why would someone possibly leave school early to join the WNBA? Then I read the article. She’s not leaving early. She’s graduating this year. This is not […]
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February 20th, 2008
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski got all passive-aggressive about the fact that North Carolina has a lot of injured players and that people know that North Carolina has a lot of injured players. So, naturally, when talking about his own injured player, Coach K said his team didn’t discuss injuries “unlike other schools.” This apparent slight […]
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February 19th, 2008
The current month is February. Lest you think I am mistaken, note the general sorrow around you and my general inability to find compelling stories to blog about. It is undoubtedly February. On Saturday, it will still be February when Tennessee plays Memphis. Now, this may be a one-versus-two matchup and Memphis may be undefeated […]
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February 5th, 2008
I always expected the last days of Bobby Knight to be, well, like the last days. There would be fire and brimstone, certainly. Probably beasts and flying chairs and most likely Bill Parcells. It would not be quiet. It couldn’t be. Of course, it was. Knight retired (quit) abruptly yesterday, putting his son Pat at […]
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January 31st, 2008
The good news, West Virginia, is that Michigan is in no way interested in Bob Huggins. He’s all yours!
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November 28th, 2007
Every day I like to check the “most popular” section of the Yahoo! Sports’ photo section. It’s a quick way to check to see if there’s any particularly funny photos. And I’m nothing if not a populist. So there I was, checking out some photos of Drew Gooden driving past a hapless Kevin Garnett and […]
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