NCAA
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There’s a Kenny Powers Look-alike on the Florida State Baseball Team (Pics)
Nobody sent me the memo, but apparently sports doppelgängers are all the rage this year. First came the Paul MacLean look-alike, then the Evolution of Jagr guys, then the Scott Hartnell twin, and then the Bieber-double at Chase Field. So what’s next in the world of sports look-alikes? How about a Kenny Powers doppelgänger. I [...]
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Jack Hoffman Rookie Card Sold for $6,100 for Charity, But the Winning Bidder Won’t Pay Up
Remember the story of Jack Hoffman, the brave little seven-year-old battling brain cancer who got to play in the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ spring game and score a touchdown? Yeah, that was a pretty awesome story, and for a while it was getting even better. You see, Upper Deck produced a small batch of special edition rookie [...]
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Rick Pitino Makes Good on Promise to Players, Gets Louisville Championship Tattoo (Pics)
After the Louisville Cardinals lost an epic, emotionally-draining quintuple-overtime game to Notre Dame back in February, Rick Pitino made a promise to his crestfallen players: if they won the last seven games of the regular season, the Big East Tournament, and then the National Championship, he would get a tattoo commemorating the achievement. Well, right [...]
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Michigan Three-Point Specialist Nik Stauskas Knocks Down 70 of 76 Three-Pointers in Five Minutes (Video)
The Michigan Wolverines’ Nik Stauskas has always been a sharp-shooter. When his Southern Ontario high school considered not fielding a basketball team, the kid transferred to a high school in Connecticut, then to a high school in Massachusetts, where he quickly established himself as one of the best three-point shooters in the country. That got [...]
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University of Nebraska-Omaha Player Performs Great Escape During a Rundown (Video)
When a baseball player gets caught in a rundown, it is probably fair to assume that about 95% of the time they will get caught, resulting in an out. As for the five percent that get away, four percent are likely the result of an error by a defensive player, while the other one percent is the [...]
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Manti Te’o's Fake Dead Girlfriend Lennay Kekua Won ESPN’s March Madness Bracket Challenge
Last night the Louisville Cardinals beat the Michigan Wolverines to take home the 2013 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship. In the process, they brought to a close tens of thousands of March Madness pools around the world, including ESPN’s Bracket Challenge. So who won the $10,000 gift card to Best Buy? Oh, just the fake [...]
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Towel Guy Takes a Spill During National Championship Game (GIF)
Being a ball boy, towel boy, grounds crew staffer, or mop guy is a tough job. What you do is essential for the sporting event you’re working at; however, you’ll get no public accolades or reward for doing the job well, and everyone makes fun of you if you do something embarrassing. Fall over on [...]
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Rick Pitino was Startled by Fireworks Following Louisville’s National Championship Victory (Video)
Although Michigan was able to make it close at the end, Louisville managed to secure a comfortable six-point lead heading into the final seconds of the NCAA Basketball National Championship Game last night in Atlanta. As a result, Louisville coach Rick Pitino was able to play it pretty cool when the buzzer sounded and his [...]
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Fourth Grade Russ Smith Dribbling a Basketball Takes You Into Tonight’s NCAA Title Game Between Louisville and Michigan (Video)
Tonight, many of you will watch the NCAA Basketball Tournament Final between the Louisville Cardinals and the Michigan Wolverines. And at one point, you may see Cardinals guard Russ Smith make a move on a defender and drive to the basket with ease, and you’ll probably think to yourself, “when did this guy become such [...]
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Jack Hoffman, 7-Year-Old Cancer Patient, Scores 69-Yard Touchdown at Nebraska Cornhuskers Spring Game (Video)
For the last couple of days, it seems like we’ve brought you almost nothing but stories about parents brawling, fans streaking, dudes punching women, or drunk idiots puking all over the place. So if you’re a regular reader, you might be kind of disgusted with humanity by now. Well, we’re sorry about that. So to [...]
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SNL Mocks the Mike Rice Rutgers Basketball Scandal (Video)
The abusive behavior exhibited by former Rutgers coach Mike Rice towards his players, which eventually led to his firing and the resignation of the school’s Athletic Director, was no laughing matter… …until the people at Saturday Night Live decided to provide their own spin on the entire ordeal. Less than one week after footage of [...]
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Kevin Ware Presents David Letterman’s Top Ten List (Video)
Less than one week ago, Kevin Ware of the Louisville Cardinals was laid out on a court at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis with a broken bone sticking out of his right leg. Since then he has undergone surgery to repair the compound fracture he suffered, and just four days later he was able to [...]
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University of Detroit’s Doug Anderson Annihilates the Competition at the College Basketball Slam Dunk Contest (Video)
It’s not easy to entertain college basketball fans during the week leading up to the Final Four. We’re all coming off of four straight days of nonstop college basketball action, and with the end of March Madness in sight, the NCAA makes us wait five whole days before they play the National Semifinal Games. I [...]
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Turns Out Rutgers Basketball Coach Mike Rice Is an Abusive Homophobic Douchebag (Video)
Back in December, former Rutgers assistant men’s basketball coach Eric Murdock went to Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti and showed him some video of head coach Mike Rice exhibiting what Pernetti called, “inappropriate behavior and language.” As a result, Pernetti suspended Rice for three games and fined him $50,000. However, Murdock was not satisfied with [...]
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Andrew Wiggins Throws Down a Reverse 360 Through-The-Legs Dunk at JamFest (Video)
For those who have never heard of Andrew Wiggins, he’s an 18-year-old basketball phenom who was born in Toronto, Ontario, and is currently playing out his senior year at Huntington Prep High School in Huntington, West Virginia. Just recently, he was named the 2013 Naismith Prep Player of the Year and the 2013 Gatorade Boy’s [...]
