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Archive for March, 2011

UNLV Brings NCAA Tournament Tradition Back to the Forefront

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

When it comes to the Mountain West Conference, everybody knows about the teams that carried the league this season. No. 2-seeded San Diego State and No. 3-seeded BYU have plenty of folks thinking a team from the league could make a run to the Final Four this year. While UNLV's chances ...

NFL Lockout News: Heath Evans Will Talk Your Ear Off About Football, Business, Moronic Comments By His Colleagues, Etc.

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

I've said it before and I'll say it once more: offensive linemen and fullbacks tend to be well respected by their teammates and coaches, and not only for their on-field contributions. Many seem to also have a way of building camaraderie and chemistry in a group dynamic, a trait that's ...

John Dunne On Slowing Down E’Twaun Moore and JaJuan Johnson “Yeah boy a couple of our fathers and some hail marries.”

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

The St.Peter's Peacocks are a small New Jersey area school that most college basketball fans outside of the one's who may go to schools in the MAAC have never probably even heard of. Head coach John Dunne won only five games with his squad in the first year (2006-07) he ...

Erin Andrews Would Be Great As the Bachelorette

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

While Erin Andrews has been widely known in the sports world as the gorgeous blonde reporter for ESPN, she has also dabbled in a little reality TV as well. Of course Andrews participated in Dancing with the Stars on ABC and performed extremely well. Another reality show on ABC that ...

Bob Huggins Still Has No Idea What to Expect From His Team Heading Into the NCAA Tournament

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

The NCAA Tournament officially got underway last night with the “First Four.” UNC Asheville beat Arkansas Little Rock and then Clemson whipped UAB, who looked like a team that didn’t belong in the tournament. Probably because they didn’t belong in the tournament. Now that Clemson won, West Virginia knows who ...

Kansas State Is Glad to Make the Tournament But Not Content

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Kansas State was rewarded for their successful season as the Wildcats earned an appearance in the NCAA Tournament and their third in the last four seasons by receiving an at-large bid.  They are set to play the Utah State Aggies, who went 30-3 and won the WAC Conference, on Thursday ...

The Predictalator’s Final 4: Ohio State, Duke, Notre Dame and Pitt

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

PredictionMachine.com is a website that plays the game 50,000 times before it’s actually played. For the NCAA Tournament, the “Predictalator,” a computer simulator plays through every play of every game,  to not only provide picks and predictions for each of the first round games, but to ...

Tom Izzo: “I like the opportunity we have, we are excited about it.”

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Thanks in large part to a lack of depth nationally and their reputation in the Big Dance, Michigan State made it into the NCAA tournament despite losing 14 games, and stretched their consecutive tournament streak to 14, currently third-longest behind Kansas and Duke.  They have been to the Final Four ...

Mike Brey Won’t let Notre Dame Overlook Akron: “College basketball is so crazy we have to be very ready to go.”

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

All things considered, Mike Brey has done a very nice job building the Notre Dame basketball program into a perennially solid club in what's now an incredible difficult Big East Conference. Brey has won over 60 percent of his games roaming the sidelines for the Irish, and he's been named ...

Is Louisville Poised to Make a Final Four Run?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Dick Vitale isn't afraid to put Louisville in his Final Four. The Cardinals are coming off a solid run in the Big East tournament where they battled to the final minute of the title game with Connecticut, but fell short and wound up with a No. 4 seed in the ...