Sympathy for the Content Monster
I was head cheerleader for BracketBusters once, long ago in another time and place. I earnestly defended the event against all the common lines of criticism. Does this really help mid-major teams? Doesn't this hurt mid-majors, because they're all playing each other and killing at-large profiles with losses? Would it be better to play low-level BCS teams instead? Isn't this bad, bad, bad?

T-Guide - Miami (Ohio)
Miami is here but for the grace of an opponent's missed free throw, and a backup guard's three-point prayer. That banked shot by RedHawk Doug Penno -- and a controversial situation which arose seconds before, when the clock didn't start after Akron's Cedric Middleton had missed his free throw -- brought about a bizarre 10-minute delay in the MAC title game in Cleveland.

Saint Mary's - The Beautiful Game
Down 68-65 with 1:16 left in regulation of a second round NCAA game at Providence's Dunkin' Donuts Center, Villanova called time out. We'll never really know exactly what was drawn up in that huddle, but what emerged was a play that only a team full of McDonald's All-Americans could ever execute.

30 Sports in 30 Days - Wrestling
Peel back the years of human sports history. Discard the drugs and the technological innovations of the past 50 years, the ballgames and amusements of the last hundred. Go past all the rules and point systems that turned survival mechanisms into breezy pastimes.

The Travelogue - Chapter 12
On the road, general well-being is a complicated mesh of karmic gears, all of which must be humming and whirring smoothly to ensure smooth runnings. For example, there's cop karma, rental car karma, WiFi karma, digestive karma and gas prices karma. Those are only a few.