Once again we will host an NCAA men’s basketball tournament pool.
The field of 65 is set, with Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse the four No. 1 seeds. You can sign up any time prior to the start of the first game Thursday.
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NCAA Hot Jock: Duke’s Jordan Davidson
After we featured Purdue’s Chris Kramer, a reader suggested Duke guard Jordan Davidson. Love or hate the Dookies, you have to admit that Davidson looks great in a suit (below).
Post some of your other NCAA hotties.
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NCAA Hot Jock: Purdue’s Chris Kramer
The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament starts Thursday, and in addition to the great hoops action, it’s also an eye-candy feast.
Let us know who some of your favorites are. I’ll offer, via a reader, Purdue senior guard Chris Kramer:
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Brittney Griner’s punch: How bad was it?
Rising Baylor women’s basketball star Brittney Griner landed a hard punch to the face of Texas Tech player Jordan Barncastle in a game Wednesday night (video after the jump). The Baylor coach has suspended Griner for the next two games (which includes a Big 12 tournament game).
I’m no fan of fighting in sports (one of [...]
March Madness to have 96 teams soon?
I love the first few days of March Madness. Even in a season when I don’t pay a lot of attention, I’ll watch those first couple rounds. But as if six rounds over three weeks wasn’t enough, the NCAA is talking very seriously about expanding the number of teams in the tournament to 96 or [...]
NCAA gives blessing to Focus on the Family ads
As if watching Focus on the Family pimp their perspective on life during the Super Bowl wasn’t bad enough, word has it that NCAA.com is running banners for the group, and that CBS plans to run their commercials during the NCAA basketball tournament with the NCAA’s blessing. Pat Griffin writes:
Ok, we endured the Focus on [...]
Athlete designs clothes for masculine women
Former Belmont University basketball standout Sheika Taylor is turning her eye to fashion and releasing a clothing line specifically designed for more masculine women.
“It is inspired by my own masculine style, but features a lot of my creative personality,” she said. “I strive to display elements of art in my garments by using different techniques.”
She [...]
St. Joseph’s basketball player comes out
St. Joseph’s women’s basketball player Lauren Robinson has come out publicly in a wonderful article in The Hawk, the student newspaper at St. Joe’s. Robinson talks candidly about being gay and Catholic at a Catholic university.
It’s hard to go to Mass and sit there sometimes and listen to people talk about the founding principles of [...]
Hoops glam shots raise homophobia issue
The increased use of using fashion and glamor to market women’s college basketball has raised the issue again of homophobia in the sport. Jayda Evans, writing for the Seattle Times basketball blog, does a terrific job in laying out the trend and tying it into homophobia by presenting female players as heterosexual lust objects rather [...]
Wishing Duke’s season WAS canceled…
Not that you needed it, but reason No. 384 to hate Duke basketball: They are NOT FUNNY! At least a few of them take their shirts off. I guess. Should I put this under the “humor” category? Eh, when they flame out in the second round of the tournament it’ll be funny, so I might [...]
Shawne Merriman suing Christian Laettner
Duke basketball great Christian Laettner seems to be struggling a bit with the economic downturn, as his Venture Capital company is the target of a couple lawsuits for allegedly being in default on loans. One of the people suing him and his firm is San Diego Charger Shawne Merriman, whose Maryland-based company leant Laettner $3 [...]
Quick hits: Cavs, Kentucky, Lance, Africa
Cavaliers blow big first-quarter lead, then LeBron takes over in the second half.
A nasty fight between Kentucky basketball and their fired head coach Billy Gillespie is brewing. Where can I sign up to be the worst coach at Kentucky in 80 years and expect a $6M payoff?
Lance Armstrong (right) falls in his latest race after [...]
Stephen Curry: Worse rapper than white guys
I was ready to write about how these Davidson students were setting white rappers back even past Vanilla Ice, and then a minute into the video Stephen Curry appeared and executed the worst 12 seconds in rap history. It’s so bad, you gotta see it.
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Morning hits: Madden curse, pink bats
MLB’s pink bats coming back.
Forget a Super Bowl matchup: Cardinals and Steelers latest victims of Madden curse.
Don Banks‘ latest NFL mock draft. Todd McShay’s latest (even though he generally doesn’t know what he’s talking about).
Did you bet on Toledo basketball or football from 2003-2006? You may have gotten scammed.
Is a London-based Super Bowl really in [...]
UConn: One of the greatest ever?
Now that the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team has steamrolled to another national title and a 39-0 record, the question has to be asked: Where do they rank among the greatest college basketball teams of all time? Consider these tidbits. They are only the 11th Division 1 college basketball eam (men or women) to [...]