Basketball
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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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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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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 [...]
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ESPN Airs “F*&k The Gators” Chant During Live Broadcast of Florida Gulf Coast Pep Rally (Video)
Florida Gulf Coast University has been getting plenty of attention over the past couple of days, after they became the first ever 15th seed to reach the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Tournament by defeating San Diego State on Sunday. Although, one could argue that the little-known school is suddenly getting too much attention, after [...]
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NCAA March Madness GIF: UNC Cry Baby
The North Carolina Tar Heels and their fans have done plenty of celebrating at the NCAA Tournament over the years, as they have won three championships over the past two decades (1993, 2005 and 2009). Only Kentucky and UConn have had that much success at the March Madness tourney over the course of the past [...]
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Florida Gulf Coast Becomes First 15th Seed to Reach the Sweet 16 (GIF)
When the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles beat the Georgetown Hoyas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, they were not the first #15 team to beat a #2 team. Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, there had been six other occasions in which a team seeded #15 [...]
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Here are Some of the Funniest Fan Signs in NCAA Basketball History (Video)
Sports fans can be a creative bunch, and NCAA basketball fans are certainly no exception to this rule. Whether they are from Duke, North Carolina, Indiana or Lehigh University (yes, even Lehigh), these college kids seem to have a knack for thinking of the wittiest insults to hurl at their bitter rivals, and of course, they [...]
