Mid-Majority D.I.Y., Part 4 - Food
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- It's been a busy first few days on the road. Not the kind of busy that makes for compelling narrative, though. Much of what we've been dealing with since we left our Indianapolis headquarters are things like bad web hosting, long e-mails, old business, and a dry, scratchy, hacking cough that requires one bottle of DayQuil per day to keep lubricated.

Game! Of! The! Night! 3/4/2009 - Saint Louis at Duquesne
Last year's A-14 geosuperleague standings presented a big problem, you might remember: you had teams with high noncon content like Dayton and Rhode Island finding their .500 league records were good for one-way NIT tickets. Just the way the league office planned it. Here, tonight, are two of those.

Game 7-056 - Howard at Norfolk State
RICHMOND, Va. -- For most of recorded history, things that weren't paid for didn't happen. Take the Old West, for instance. You think saloons allowed tabs? As long as there were four-legged vehicles tied to the post out front, every customer represented a potential flight risk. Plus, there was always the chance that they'd be dragged out in the street for a duel to the death. Simpler times.

Game! Of! The! Night! Feb 26 - Iona at Manhattan
There are two types of people in this world: Ibby and anti-Ibby. When you're Ibby, you conduct your business with a calm dignity and dart-sharp exactitude. Why, being Ibby might make you the most efficient scorer in Division I basketball if you measure the highest effective FG% (64%) for ppg (19.1).

Epilogue, The Sixth - We Never Change
There were two days of return culture-clash, when our everyday decadence and indulgence appalled me to the point of sickness. But then, suddenly, I forgot about all those lofty and tearful promises. My heart hardened again, and I built my defenses back up. After three days back in the U.S.A., I was swearing too much, acting rude towards strangers, and being overly suspicious of people's motives.