There's a Basketball Game Today at 4 -30 PM ET
HOUSTON -- Bally and I won't be there in Salt Lake City today. We're still in Texas, in the expansive and quiet Reliant Stadium media room. There are so many moving logistical chutes and ladders with something like this, and there simply wasn't enough time to change course.

Game! Of! The! Night! Mar 10 - Holy Cross vs. Bucknell
One of the great clichés of Championship Week is that it's difficult to beat a team three times. And it's true that familiarity breeds a lot of game tape, but in today's only game featuring a black bid binder and net-cutting, it should be one of the easier trifectas to accomplish.

Stardate 71-20110117 - No Love's As Random
PEORIA, Ill. - Two years ago yesterday, on January 16, 2009, the news came down. I stared out the window for a little while, got a piece of a song stuck in my head -- it's all beginning/to feel like it's ending -- and wondered how it hadn't made it on to my 160GB iPod. I downloaded the MP3 from Amazon for ninety-nine cents, put it on repeat, and did what I did every day: write.

MMBOD Dec 05 - Clifton Lee - Northwestern State
It's a good time to be the Southland Conference. First you had Sam Houston State in the PNIT, then Northwestern State and Southeastern Louisiana taking beating turns on Mississippi State in Starkville, and now this. Last night NSU went into Storied Gallagher-Iba Arena and delivered a shock to the Oklahoma State Cowboys, ending grumpy-Gus Eddie Sutton's 44-game non-conference home winning streak.

L'infinito
During the first half, racers utilize the classic parallel technique. They torque their poles to generate forward motion, wearing long thin skis treated with gritty and tacky kick wax. Then, after a halftime pit stop, they're on shorter and stubbier versions invented in the 1970s, slicked with glossy glide wax, shuffling along like ice skaters. He also gave me zero upper body strength.