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Listing of the top seeds, analysis, top game summaries.
NEIL JOSHI, The Sports Lounge
JSB COLLEGE BASKETBALL COLUMNIST
Top-ranked and undefeated Memphis narrowly escaped its toughest test of the season, rallying past a determined UAB squad for a 79-78 victory on Saturday afternoon.
Down by seven with just over a minute to go, Calipari’s Tigers found a […]

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ESPN’s “Greatest Highlight.” Decide for yourself if it’s great.
MITCHELL BLATT
SportsCenter, THE source for all sports news, has a new segment that, once again, has nothing to do with sports news. Here’s an example brought to you by Chris “WHAAAT?!!@#$%” Berman:

If you could first get through his comparison of the Stanford band to the […]

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And not a moment too soon
SCOTT JACOBS
Do you smell the freshly cut grass? Can you see the dirt being poured onto the field and the white lines painted over that? Watch the guys push in home plate so that it won’t move and put up the ol’ fences around the outfield up […]

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Check this, folks. I got so popular at JSB that MVN wants me. Now, I’m doing posts a few times a week on MVN Outsider. Thanks for all of your support. I promise I won’t go all Tony Kornheiser on you and start writing “columnetes” every few weeks.
UPDATE: That […]

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COLIN LINNEWEBER
• Former Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker, a village idiot who alienated the city of New York with his racist and homophobic comments, became the latest outcast to finger New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez as an abuser of steroids. On Monday, the obnoxious hick from Georgia claimed that in spring training of 2002 […]

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PETA Wants the Entire MLB to Attend Animal Sensitivity Training; I email them about it
Pedro Martinez was caught on video at a cockfight in the Dominican Republic. The video has since been taken down, but PETA, in light on Michael Vick killing dogs, wants the entire MLB to attend animal sensitivity training. So, […]

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MITCHELL BLATT
Isiah Thomas played under Bobby Knight as Indiana, including the year he won a title in 1981. You would think he’d have nice things to say following Knight’s retirement. No.
Thomas said:
The man and the person that I am, I don’t think I would be this way had he not been my coach. […]

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I don’t need long intros to promote my interviews, so I’m going to try to cut down on the promos now. It’s simple: Bethelhem Shoals is famous for his “insane” style of posting on basketball at http://freedarko.blogspot.com/
He also writes weekly for the Sporting News. Read: Free Darko Interview
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