Tag Archives: college 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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9 Abusive College Coaches
Everyone knows that, in the heat of competition, athletes, coaches, and fans can get pretty fired up. However, that doesn’t give anyone a free pass to say or do anything they want. There are still lines that people just should not cross. For fans that means not running on to the field, or beating each [...]
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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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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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The 11 Most Unlikely Final Four Teams Ever
Over the weekend, the Wichita State Shockers defeated both La Salle and Ohio State to reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1965. Was this a shocking* outcome? No, not quite. I, for one, suspected that the Shockers might be capable of a deep run. However, their trip to [...]
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The Cheerleader Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament
The Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament has been selected, and the college basketball action resumes on Thursday at 7:15 P.M. eastern. However, if your team is out, your bracket has gone to hell, and all you’re really looking forward to is the college basketball cheerleaders, there is good news: you don’t have to [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 26th) – Michigan State Spartans
It was on this day in 1979 that Michigan State would play Indiana State for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Michigan would defeat Indiana 75-64, lead by point guard Magic Johnson, who was also named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. To this day, the 1979 championship game is still the highest-rated college basketball game in [...]
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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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12 Coaches with a Lot of Money at Stake in the 2012 NCAA Tournament
Tens of millions of people around the world are financially invested in the outcomes of NCAA Tournament games. The schools stand to reap major financial windfalls via surging TV revenue, merchandise sales, and ticket sales if their teams do well. Individual players could see their NBA draft stock skyrocket with a couple of clutch performances, which [...]
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24 GIFs of College Basketball Fans Being College Basketball Fans
With the 2013 NCAA Tournament getting underway today, we can all stop pretending to be Vegas bookies and go back to doing what we do best: being college basketball fans. This, really, is a good thing. Impartial observers don’t make college hoops fun. Fans do. After all, if every team in the Big Dance didn’t [...]
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President Obama Has Filled Out His Presidential March Madness Bracket (Video)
It’s crunch time, sports fans. You’ve got a little less than a day to get those NCAA Tournament brackets filled out. And if you need a little help making your selections, well, that’s what the President of the United States is for, right? On Wednesday, ESPN did their annual segment on SportsCenter in which President [...]
