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Father. Husband. Craft beer snob. Cook. @YahooSports features, college basketball writer.

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@JeffEisenberg
Jeff Eisenberg
6 years
Annual Selection Sunday predictions: - CBS somehow takes 30 minutes to unveil a one-page bracket - Twitter complains Duke got the easiest draw - John Calipari complains UK got the toughest - Dick Vitale rants about snubbed mid-majors - Charles Barkley picks Auburn in Final Four
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5 years
“Nipsey made me cool to my son. He made me reputable. He made me honest. He made my son trust me.” How the late Nipsey Hussle helped mend the once-broken relationship between Texas Tech's Brandone Francis and his dad:
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7 years
Selection Sunday predictions: - TBS airing the selection show will cause confusion - Twitter will complain Duke got the easiest draw - John Calipari will complain UK got the hardest - Gonzaga will be underseeded - Dick Vitale will throw an fit over Notre Dame not making it
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2 years
The four most dreaded words in college basketball: "With that being said"
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7 years
To a man, Gonzaga has credited North Carolina and refused to blame the refs. No surprise to see this group handle a tough loss with class.
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6 years
You probably won't see much writing from me the next few weeks for the best possible reason. This little man arrived Saturday!
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6 years
Update: Fitchburg State's Kewan Platt has been indefinitely suspended from the team and barred from campus, per the school.
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4 years
He won over Michael Jordan by crashing his car. He went by the nickname Hollywood. He wouldn't ditch his mullet perm no matter how much his son begged. Meet John Michael Wozniak, the trash-talking security guard who on Sunday rocketed to posthumous fame.
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5 years
Virginia Tech was left for dead after losing its top five players and its coach from last year's Sweet 16 team. All Mike Young has done is start 6-0 capped by a Maui upset of preseason No. 1 Michigan State.
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8 years
Man, Wichita State could be so good next season. Might even get an 8 or 9 seed from the committee.
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8 years
People told T.J. McConnell he'd never play D-I, never start at Arizona and never make the NBA. Such a great story.
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SportsCenter
8 years
T. J. McConnell at the buzzer to beat the Knicks! #SCtop10
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10 months
Maui semis: Purdue (2) vs. Tennessee (7), Kansas (1) vs. Marquette (4) That's not just Final Four-caliber. That's better than most Final Fours.
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7 years
Between the FBI ensnaring USC and Arizona, UCLA's international incident in China and the disastrous on-court performance, the Pac-12 has just completed the worst basketball season ever for a power-six league
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5 years
"The NBA doesn’t want to talk about this. They want to sweep this under the rug." Why a couple staged a pro-Hong Kong protest to get kicked out of a 76ers game:
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6 years
Gonzaga is headed to its fifth straight Sweet 16, the longest active streak of any program in the country. Not bad for a program "that always underachieves in March." 🙄
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9 years
Magic Johnson on Kobe: 'Closest thing we've seen to Michael Jordan'
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6 years
NASCAR'S best hope of finding the female star it lacks may be the hard-working, hard-driving daughter of a motocross icon. Meet @HailieDeegan , the 17-year-old with ambitions of being more than the next Danica Patrick.
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6 months
Here's the ultimate measure of how impressive Gonzaga's nine-year Sweet 16 streak is: Only Houston (4) entered this NCAA tournament having made even two Sweet 16s in a row.
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4 years
Juwan Howard's staff has learned to stay seated when the team bus arrives somewhere. Howard insists players exit first. It's a subtle gesture of humility that helps explain why he has excelled as a college coach when so many ex-NBA stars have failed.
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4 years
In a year without Duke, Kentucky, Indiana and Arizona, Patrick Ewing and the Georgetown brand are a welcome addition to this NCAA tournament. College basketball is better when the Hoyas are relevant.
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3 years
This NCAA tournament will be better off having Memphis in it. Penny and the Tigers are a hell of a lot more interesting than whatever seventh-place power-conference team they just bumped off the bubble.
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8 years
A potential Kentucky vs. Wichita State second-round matchup would be KenPom No. 4 vs. KenPom No. 8. That's just ridiculous.
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7 years
Dan Monson's best Jud Heathcote story is can't-miss. From when Monson's dad was Jud's assistant at Michigan State:
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7 years
Only one word to describe this portion of the resignation letter from Michigan State president Lou Anna Simon: Tone-deaf.
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8 years
Arizona's timeout with 0.9 seconds left is no accident. The Wildcats were not happy when UCLA called a late timeout in Tucson last month.
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5 years
For Brandone Francis and his father, Nipsey Hussle was more than just a world-renowned rapper. He was a cherished family friend who helped mend a once-broken relationship between father and son.
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6 years
Seriously, this is amazing. Arizona State's record vs. KenPom top 50: 3-1. The rest of the Pac-12's record vs. KenPom top 50: 2-24
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Jeff Eisenberg
3 years
On his final day as owner of the Iowa Cubs, Michael Gartner told employees there were 'new business cards' in the envelopes he was giving them. What was actually inside turned out to be something far more generous.
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6 years
Not sure we'll get a better game in Minneapolis next month than Carolina-Duke III or Kentucky-Tennessee III the past 24 hours.
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7 years
Why should UCLA be grateful LiAngelo Ball is withdrawing from school? This is the Bruins' chance to be done with LaVar's madness for good.
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3 years
Johnny Juzang: "We went out fighting. There’s no better way. There are no regrets. Everybody fought to the last play."
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2 years
It's March 29, 2015. Kentucky is 38-0. An undefeated national title is two wins away. Another decorated recruiting class is en route. Calipari is at the apex of his powers. Not many people would believe you if you told them how the next seven-plus years would go.
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Jeff Eisenberg
7 years
An open letter to Texas star Andrew Jones from another college basketball player fighting leukemia:
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Jeff Eisenberg
3 years
Extortion and recruiting violations will make for salacious headlines, but here's the truth: If a couple minor level II violations is all an extortionist can dig up, then Louisville is probably cleaner under the current regime than most of its power-conference peers.
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2 years
Duke is super young. Carolina hasn't yet recaptured last March's form. Syracuse is bad. Louisville is worse than bad. No one else in the league has proven themselves yet. Virginia's going to mess around and win the ACC again, isn't it?
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5 years
It's not your imagination. Bruce Pearl's hair has changed color since last weekend.
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Jeff Eisenberg
7 years
The Rick Pitino scandal playbook: 1. Act shocked. 2. Take no responsibility 3. Promise fans better.
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7 years
Statement from Rick Pitino through attorney Steve Pence.
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7 years
Tony Barbee, who never had a winning record in four seasons at Auburn, appears to be laughing at his successor for losing in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
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4 years
Lost in the growing heap of scorching-hot Gonzaga takes is that Mark Pope is doing a really, really nice job at BYU.
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7 years
Personally I find it very hard to believe a coach as detail-oriented as Sean Miller had no idea what his ninth-year assistant was doing.
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4 years
If Virginia has to miss the NCAA tournament for this, the shame of it will be that it was so avoidable. The lack of a week-long cushion between conference tournaments and Selection Sunday was a mistake from the start.
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9 months
So far in non-league play, Mountain West teams have beaten: Creighton (2), Gonzaga, Colorado, Washington (3), TCU, Saint Mary's (2), Georgia Tech, VCU, Boston College, Stanford and Cal The top seven Mountain West teams have also combined for one sub-100 KenPom loss.
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Jeff Eisenberg
7 years
The "Duke gets every call" crowd should watch that blatant missed hold on Wendell Carter on the possession preceding Virginia Tech's game winner.
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7 years
Arizona should give an assist to the refs for icing the Texas A&M free throw shooter with that needlessly long review
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11 months
Inside the rise and fall of Mikey Williams, teen phenom, social media sensation, NIL trailblazer and, now, cautionary tale.
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6 years
I'm not usually a rah rah college basketball guy, but this is the kind of game that would have NBA purists rolling their eyes if these jerseys said Kansas and Arizona instead of Cavs and Celtics.
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8 years
Why Wisconsin's @BronsonK_24 is driving 11 hours on Friday to join the protest against a North Dakota oil pipeline
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6 years
The arrest of IMG Academy's director of college entrance exam prep raises an obvious question: If Mark Riddell was taking tests for students seeking admission to elite universities, how do we know he wasn't doing it for IMG athletes as well?
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7 years
Believe it or not, resigned Alabama staffer Kobie Baker's former job is ... NCAA assistant director of enforcement.
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7 years
How a former high school history teacher became the key to the defensive renaissance that has carried Michigan to the Final Four
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8 years
Have a pretty good excuse for not covering Arizona-UCLA today. At 1:42 a.m. this morning, this little lady arrived.
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7 years
Name a program with two better wins than Arizona State? Sixteen days after hanging 102 points on Xavier, the Sun Devils just went into Allen Fieldhouse and toppled Kansas.
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6 years
Ten years ago today, college basketball coaches across the western seaboard took a collective gulp and wondered, "Why did we pass on this kid?" On the night Kawhi Leonard offered a glimpse of what he'd become:
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5 years
Ice cream barista. Gunshot victim. Disneyland cast member. Restaurant owner. Chauffeur. Freelance photographer. Artist. Bartender. Cardiac patient. 13-year-old basketball player. Ten stories of everyday people whose lives Kobe Bryant impacted:
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Jeff Eisenberg
6 years
Even crazier, Beard is going to back-to-back Elite Eights at Texas Tech with two entirely different rosters. Red Raiders lost five of their top six scorers from last year.
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6 years
Tiger is in contention on Sunday at a major. Jimmer is draining step-back threes on ESPN. What year is it?
Jimmer hits the step-back three before the buzzer to give Team Fredette a 51-44 lead at halftime! #TBT2018
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7 years
There's a fine line between maniacal competitor and hothead. Inside Xavier guard J.P. Macura's attempt to successfully walk it:
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5 years
Not long ago, Sierra Canyon had no basketball gym, nor had it ever produced a D-I player. Now it's a trendy destination for the sons of NBA legends. How did this tiny school build a super team around Bronny James? It's a story a decade in the making.
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6 years
Virginia is a home win over Louisville away from its fourth ACC title in six seasons. For context, it had five ACC titles in program history prior to the Tony Bennett era.
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7 years
Believe it or not, this is what Rick Pitino said in June when Brian Bowen committed. The irony is rich now.
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5 years
“The amount he works at it is almost sickening. He’s a lunatic.” No, @Dame_Lillard 's cold-blooded 37-foot dagger wasn't a bad shot — or even a lucky one. It was actually the result of months of preparation.
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4 years
On Oct. 17, 1961, two Boston Celtics greats left a Kentucky cafe angry and humiliated after being denied service because of their skin color. That night, they protested by boldly leading the NBA's first walkout over racial injustice.
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8 years
ACC, Big East are the only leagues in which every school put a player on a NBA opening day roster. Oregon State spoiled it for the Pac-12.
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7 years
UConn keeps Jim Calhoun even though he used an agent to recruit a player but fires Kevin Ollie with cause over workouts? Please. This is about wins and losses, nothing more. A good lawyer will get Ollie his full buyout.
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Jeff Jacobs
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Per Kevin Ollie firing for just cause: The full extent of alleged wrongdoing and NCAA investigation is unknown but, according to sources, Jalen Adams & Terry Larrier were involved in impermissible workouts and weren’t cleared to play until shortly before start of final SMU game.
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Jeff Eisenberg
6 years
The arrest of IMG Academy's director of college entrance exam prep raises an obvious question: If Mark Riddell was taking tests for students seeking admission to elite universities, how can we believe he wasn't doing it for IMG athletes as well?
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6 years
It got overshadowed because of the job Chris Beard did at Texas Tech, but Scott Drew coached his ass off this season. Baylor, despite a thin, injury-plagued roster, is headed to the round of 32.
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8 years
Joshua Smith shed 56 pounds in two months before maybe his last NBA audition. Will it be enough? For @TheVertical :
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5 years
When they’re asked to explain how an eclectic group of new and familiar faces came together to make the Final Four, Texas Tech players usually point to the same thing: Their preseason trip to 'the middle of nowhere.'
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7 years
How wide open is this year's NCAA tournament? The teams on the committee's No. 1 seed line Sunday have lost a combined six games in the past eight days.
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9 years
How did Duke rally to win at UNC? The Blue Devils played to their strengths and the Tar Heels abandoned theirs.
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6 years
Nine straight NCAA tournaments for Cincinnati. Eight exits in either the round of 64 or 32.
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5 years
Ten years after his NCAA title, Tyler Hansbrough on the best part of winning at Duke, why his NBA career fizzled, playing in China and wanting no part of fighting Ron Artest.
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6 years
How Texas Tech plucked rising star Chris Beard away from UNLV three years ago, sending the Red Raiders soaring and the Rebels into free fall.
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4 years
"I’m a big Gregg Marshall fan. I don’t know all the parameters of what happened.” — Charles Barkley, college basketball analyst.
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6 years
I would rather watch Rick Pitino watch Louisville-Minnesota than actually watch Louisville-Minnesota.
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8 years
The only ACC team without a league win is 12-3 with victories over Purdue, Indiana and Kentucky. That's insane.
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A Houston victory would mean that every top-two seed would make the Sweet 16. That's only happened four times since the NCAA tournament bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. 2019 2009 1995 1989
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8 years
Purdue-Villanova at Mackey Arena beats the hell out of Purdue-Villanova at the United Center or the Barclay's Center.
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7 years
Bob Huggins tossed in Lawrence, perhaps for politely mentioning the 29-2 discrepancy in foul shots for Kansas and West Virginia.
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9 years
Don't care the rationale or who's responsible. Utah and BYU not playing one-another in basketball is flat-out idiotic.
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3 years
Tennessee on the 3 line and Duke on the 2 line is indefensible
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11 years
The 16 perfect brackets probably belong to lifelong North Dakota State fans who attended Mercer for undergrad and Dayton for grad school.
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7 years
The biggest misconception I see about ending amateurism is that it would require schools to pay athletes salaries. That's a needlessly flawed model. Just give athletes the right to hire representation and profit off their name and likeness.
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8 years
How did a 29-year-old man con his way into playing a year of high school basketball? I spent the day finding out.
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8 years
If UCLA and Kentucky hold on, there will be no teams seeded 13th or worse in the second round. The last time that happened was 2007.
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8 years
Multi-bid conferences through Friday night: Pac-12 5-0, SEC 4-1, Big Ten 5-2, Big 12 5-2, ACC 6-3, Big East 3-4, WCC 2-0, AAC 1-1, A-10 1-2
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5 years
In the past 24 hours, UCLA has: A. mistakenly assumed TCU would lower its buyout for no reason B. Bolstered the perception it's cheap by allowing a buyout to become a sticking point C. Made the job tougher for whoever it does hire, who will be perceived as Plan C at best.
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10 years
My mom just asked why SportsCenter was interviewing Snoop about Rajon Rondo's injury, and frankly I have no idea how to answer her.
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Greg Sankey's new foolproof plan: Double-elimination for the SEC, single elimination for everyone else
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6 years
Texas Tech had never been to the Elite Eight before last year. Chris Beard is taking the Red Raiders in back-to-back seasons. That's ridiculous.
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7 years
The SEC wins its challenge against the Big 12 without first-place Auburn even participating. Eight-bid SEC is very possible.
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6 years
At the risk of bringing up old wounds for BYU fans, watching Jimmer and Brandon Davies in TBT makes me wonder how far that 2010-11 BYU team could have gone had it been full strength in March. Davies has really blossomed into a great pro.
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Jeff Eisenberg
6 years
Eleven Pac-12 schools should send thank you notes to Arizona State. The Sun Devils have more quality non-league wins the past two years than the rest of the league combined.
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Jeff Eisenberg
6 years
What started the wild brawl between an AAU basketball team and referees? From as many eyewitnesses as I could reach, the story behind Sunday's violent viral video.
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8 years
How West Virginia's full-court press evolved from desperate experiment to the nation's most intimidating defense.
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4 years
Conference-only football seasons would make a lot more sense if most leagues didn't span three time zones after realignment.
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9 years
Final Four. Unbeaten regular season. Epic win over Kansas. Nine tourney wins. Take a moment to appreciate Wichita State's past four years.
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