Jeff Gordon laughs at the notion that sitting 14th in the point standings after five races means he’s off to a slow start, and he showed that he’s doing just fine by winning the pole at Martinsville Speedway on Friday. “Yes, turn things around. It has been a terrible year,” Gordon said in jest after [...]
If Dan Wheldon is going to win his fourth straight IRL IndyCar Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, he’s going to have to come from the rear of the field to do it. The Englishman, just back from a relaxing honeymoon in Bali, couldn’t get through IndyCar’s new four-lap qualifying format Friday night, slamming into the [...]
Marcus Ginyard remembers how the North Carolina locker room felt last season, when a second-half collapse sent Georgetown to the Final Four and left the Tar Heels wondering what went so wrong.The memories have stayed with North Carolina all season as it fought its way to the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed. Now the Tar [...]
Xavier forward C.J. Anderson remembers the first time he played against Drew Lavender, in a 16-and-under AAU tournament in Ohio.”That’s when I was like, ‘Who is this little guy?’ because he was scoring a lot of points,” Anderson said Friday. Lavender and Anderson eventually became teammates at third-seeded Xavier, which plays top-seeded UCLA (34-3) in [...]
While “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad” for Meatloaf, “Seven out of Eight” is great for Hookscenter as Texas, Kansas, and Memphis advance on in my bracket. The other game of the night didn’t matter in my bracket because I had Kansas State knocking out Wisconsin in the second round. I thought Michael Beasely would [...]
Pity those poor, vulnerable Memphis Tigers. You know, the ones who just made mincemeat out of yet another team that was supposed to end their stay in the NCAA tournament. This time, they took it out on Michigan State, embarrassing yet again all those naysayers who suggested Memphis was the most suspect of the top seeds [...]
Russell Robinson drove down the left side of the court and tossed the ball off the glass to Brandon Rush, who slammed home the carom. And to think Rush said it was a bad pass. “I wasn’t expecting that at all,” he said. But even when Kansas is off, its jaw-dropping talent is too much. Rush [...]
All those hours on the exercise bike, all those yummy desserts he skipped — it all finally paid off for Texas center Dexter Pittman.The guy with the wide body and the baby face used every ounce of his girth to pound and pester Stanford’s 7-foot Lopez twins, wearing them down like a boxer throwing body blows. [...]
On the red trim at the bottom of his shoes, Stephen Curry has written in black marker, “I can do all things.” Yes, yes he can. And because of him, Davidson is marching on. Curry scored more than 30 points for a third straight game, and the 10th-seeded Wildcats pulled off another stunner Friday night, rolling [...]
It’s like a broken record….It keeps repeating, over and over again….Just like last fall when Hookscenter (HC) made a lot of people free money on his NFL predictions, this spring is the same old song and dance as HC’s NCAA Bracket is bringing home the bacon. Hookscenter’s first half of his Elite Eight bracket is [...]
