“Weak” Pac-10? As there is every year, lots of talk centered on how “weak” the Pac-10 was this year, and how they didn’t deserve six spots. Even President Obama got in on the mix, saying how weak the conference was, specifically calling out Arizona and UCLA (they both won), and axing all of them before [...]
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My first day of Madness
On Monday evening I was watching Comcast Sportsnet when the studio host announced that some tickets to the NCAA Men’s Basketball 1st and 2nd round games at the Wachovia Center had just been made available. Now, I’m not a major basketball fan and am by no means an expert, but seeing the tournament unfold year [...]
Duke basketball and homophobia
A writer for the New Republic, who attended Duke, writes an essay about how the Blue Devils team has been subjected to more homophobic taunts over the years than any other. From Christian Laettner to Bobby Hurley to J.J. Redick to Greg Paulus “kissing a boy,” the easiest way some Duke haters have to vent [...]
NCAA: We own ‘March Madness’
Organizations, businesses and websites will need to think twice before using a trademarked NCAA phrase or bracket system this year in their ads. Due to the dwindling economy, the use of NCAA phrases is being used to bring in more revenue than usual from places like bars and websites. However, the lawyers of the NCAA [...]
Last chance: play the Outsports NCAA pool
Just a few more hours to sign up. Click here to sign up for the 2009 Outsports NCAA men’s college basketball tournament pool. Signup is free.
Also, our NCAA expert says North Carolina will win it all.
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Watch a little hoops then till your garden
As the NCAA tourney unfolds this week, consider this: The most popular personal activity among fans of the men’s tournament is gardening. Seriously. Some 48 percent of the college basketball fans surveyed by Scarborough Sports Marketing said they’d indulged in gardening in the last 12 months, which is slightly higher than the national average. While [...]
NCAA’s strangest, funnest mascot and band
Yes, I am biased. I’ll admit it. But for my money, the funnest mascot in the country is the Stanford Tree. While almost every other school has some mean, vicious mascot (Wildcat, Wolverine, Bear), Stanford’s mascot is a dancing inanimate object. And each year that inanimate object changes. Some years it’s a pine tree; some [...]
Dick Vitale’s annual post-selection whining
Tournament Selection Sunday always includes two elements: The selection of 65 teams for the tournament, and a bunch of whining by Dick Vitale about teams that got ‘snubbed’ (video below). This year it’s St. Mary’s, who Dick and a bunch of others say was wrongly left out. The complaint is that the “little guy” got [...]
NCAA tournament by the mascots
One of the things I enjoy about the NCAA basketball tournament is the nicknames and mascots. With over 300 teams in Division 1 men’s basketball, there is sure to be some cross-over as well as some great unique names we don’t hear every day (or every year).
There are several nicknames that made it into the [...]
Syracuse wins a 6-overtime marathon
So, how good was Syracuse’s 127-117 Big East men’s quarterfinal basketball win over Connecticut that lasted six overtimes and 3 hours, 46 minutes and ended at 1:22 a.m? I am asking since I missed every second of it, but in reading about it, it sounded like a classic.
Believe it or not, it was only the [...]
Video evidence the refs cheat for Duke
Count me among the many who feel the referees cheat to help Duke basketball win games. It all stems from the 1991 NCAA basketball semifinal between Duke and UNLV in which UNLV got called for everything and Duke got away with everything. The talk will surely heat up again as the Blue Devils head to [...]
Greg Paulus ‘kissed a boy and he liked it’
Oh those crazy UNC fans are at it again. Now that they mention it, there have been a lot of cute guys to come through Cameron Indoor Stadium. There are many great lines, but one has nothing to do with Duke players being gay. Remember this when filling out your bracket:
“March is here, our team [...]
Memphis uniform PR disaster averted
The Memphis Tigers quite nearly became the targets of some jovial ribbing and some nasty, targeted attacks when they pushed to wear uniforms of FedEx’s colors (orange, purple and white) in their upcoming game this Wednesday night, instead of their usual blue and white. The NCAA actually gave them permission to do so, but officials [...]
Coaches wife sues, wants more scoring
Deadspin hit the nail on the head with this one: A headline writers’ dream. Mississippi head men’s basketball coach Andy Kennedy was arrested last month in Cincinnati for allegedly punching a cab driver and yelling racial slurs at him. Kennedy immediately sued the cab driver for defamation. Now his wife, Kimber, is also suing the [...]
Zach Pucthel now out-ish pro baller in Israel
About 16 months ago we brought the story of Zach Puchtel, a former Univ. of Minnesota basketball player who came out of the closet during a fashion show in the spring of 2007. Since then, he’s been hard to pin down on various levels: His sexuality is fluid and he says he’s not gay; He [...]
