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    Are you ready, ladies? Saturday night is the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. Two games, four teams and about five or six hours of TV time that you will have to endure have the pleasure watching with your significant other, spouse, husband as he roots for his UConn Huskies or Kentucky Wildcats or one of those other teams that busted everyone's brackets.

    What are you going to do? Play Angry Birds for five hours? Rearrange every sock drawer in the house? No, sireebob. You can watch with him and have some fun too -- we came up with The Stir's Final Four Drinking Game! Yes, as you sit on the couch, pour yourself a glass of vino or pop open a beer and enjoy spending some quality time together. Bonus: You really don't have to know a whole lot about basketball -- cheers to that!

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    They always say it's the quiet ones you have to watch. I'm starting to believe it. Because it isn't any of the millions of guys who have been screaming at the TV for the past three weeks of March Madness who correctly picked the Final Four teams in their bracket. It's Diana Inch.

    Out of the millions of people who entered their brackets online, Inch is the one person who knew VCU, Butler, Kentucky, and UConn would meet in Houston this weekend. So who is Inch? She's a high school librarian in Oregon (see what I said about quiet?), a girls' soccer coach, and one-time volleyball player ... and apparently one of the very few people in America with a soft spot for the bracket-busting Virginia Commonwealth University?

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    Butler busted a whole lotta brackets when they owned Florida last week, moving on to the NCAA Final Four. School-spirited students and sports fans on Butler's Indianapolis campus scrambled to find tickets and make travel arrangements for Saturday night's game in Houston, Texas.

    For about $165 per person, fans can hop a chartered bus to the big game. And for around $1,000, students can take the high road and book a last-minute weekend flight. That's a pretty big chunk of change for the average college basketball fanatic student.

    For a certain four-legged friend, however, money is no object. In fact, Butler's mascot Blue 2 gets nothing but the best. He has his own seat on a chartered plane to the Final Four.

    It gets better.

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    So, yes, the Final Four starts Thursday in Houston with tons of other events besides basketball games -- there's the three-point competition and, of course, the college slam dunk championship. Like in the NBA, the best dunkers in college basketball will be competing for braggin' rights and the title "Best Dunker." Who am I rooting for? Jacob Tucker.

    You regular readers of our Sports section know me -- I'm a sucker for the underdog. I root for the little guy. So, Jacob Tucker plays for Illinois College, a Division III school. He'll be the only non-Division I player in the competition. He got voted in via a Facebook fan poll, with a whopping 88% of the vote.

    But get this. Not only will he be going up against guys from big b-ball schools, he'll be the shortest. Jacob Tucker is 5'11", folks. All of the other guys? All 6'3" or taller.

    Does he even stand a chance? Oh yeah, baby, just check out his moves!

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    The Final Four is merely days away. Do you have any of the teams heading to the end? I know, millions of NCAA basketball fans have lamented how VCU and Butler kind of imploded their brackets. But, what's done is done, people. Let's look ahead now, and see who may win the whole kit and kaboodle. If I were to bet, I'd bet on Butler. Why? Matt Howard's socks.

    Yes, his socks. Tattered, a bit loose, how shall we say it ... nasty? They are clean, mind you, but definitely not pretty.

    Tattered, but lucky, baby!

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  • Florida Gators Won't Talk Dirty to the Press

    posted by Maressa Brown March 24, 2011 at 5:47 PM in Sports
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    What would happen if the UF Gators had to adhere to the same premarital sex rules as their opponent in tonight's fourth-round NCAA tournament game, BYU? Sure, it's totally hypothetical, and it's like comparing apples to oranges, but consider it for a moment, because I think it's definitely an entertaining "Sweet 16" question ...

    So, UF would FAIL miserably. And Orlando Sentinel reporter Mike Bianchi was out to prove it recently when he confronted not just one, but three UF figureheads with the inquiry yesterday.

    Chandler Parsons, Florida's Southeastern Conference Player of the Year (and quite the cutiepie), shook his head and laughed, and when Bianchi pressed him to give the percentage of UF players who have had premarital sex, he seemed to sort of evade the question by instead commenting on the brouhaha over dismissed BYU player Brandon Davies:

    Rules are rules, and he knew what he was doing, and it's something we can't really worry about ... It's not really my business.

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    I first saw the 3 Goggles when trying to be a supportive wife during the NCAA Tournament as my husband's team, Syracuse, was struggling against Marquette. Two Marquette players sank 3-pointers -- propelling Marquette to victory and the Sweet 16 -- and I saw it. The 3 Goggles.

    What's the 3 Goggles? The celebratory sign made by the player who made the 3-point shot or fellow teammates who are amazed by it or fans who are impressed. How do you make a 3 Goggles sign? Make the "A-OK" sign (with thumb and pointer finger together, other three fingers outstretched) and hold them over your eyes. That's the 3 Goggles, folks!

    For those of us that are forced to watch enjoy these sports matches but may not be as invested in them, it's nice to come up with games, distractions, ways to pass the time. That's why I'm adding the 3 Goggles Gulp to my NCAA Tournament Drinking Game!

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    Earlier this week, one-legged wrestler Anthony Robles won the NCAA championship and showed us anything is possible. While most of us are busy wringing our hands over our brackets (really, who saw Pitt losing in the second round, who?!), there's another great sports story in the news that doesn't have to do with men shooting hoops.

    This one has to do with women shooting hoops, specifically Courtney Vandersloot. The 5'8" guard for Gonzaga went where no college woman -- or man -- has gone before. In the second-round NCAA tournament game against UCLA, Courtney scored her 2,000th point, making her the only college hoops player to score that much and have over 1,000 assists. When she shoots, she scores. When she passes, they score.

    The most points any man had with 1,000 assists or more was 1,731. So Courtney can clearly expect tens of millions in endorsements and a five-year professional contract for twenty mil a year, right?

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    The NCAA wrestling championship wouldn't usually catch my eye (I don't know much about the sport -- my only exposure to it was through Saved by the Bell when Slater was on the team, then Tory during the awkward years when no one mentioned that Kelly was missing), but Anthony Robles' wrestling story stood out.

    A college senior at Arizona State University, Robles defeated Matt McDonough from Iowa State to become the national champion in the 125-pound weight class. While most of the nation was focused on college basketball this weekend, Robles' story should have taken center stage.

    Not only because he's a champ, but because he's a champ who was born without a leg.

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    It's no surprise that Vols head coach Bruce Pearl must now kiss his tenure at Tennessee goodbye. If you're following the NCAA tournament, you've probably heard by now that Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton informed Pearl of the decision this morning.

    See, Pearl is currently being investigated by the NCAA and he's admitted lying to the organization about recruiting practices that violated the NCAA rules.

    And it's not like this was just a one time "whoops." No, the NCAA recently sent a notice of allegations to Tennessee that documented 10 major violations that happened while Pearl was in charge -- including an unethical conduct charge. He lied to investigators about a photo that was taken of him with two high school juniors.

     

     

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