Proof
This is, perhaps, the only surviving film footage of the Carnegie Mellon Tartans closing and celebrating their historic victory at Princeton. Please enjoy this rare opportunity to watch a Division III team winning on a Division I floor. [Quicktime plugin required]

Logo Creep
In 1996, Nike sponsored two mid-level Kenyan distance runners, Philip Boit and Henry Bitok, but not in track events — in cross-country skiing. The company sent them to Finland, where they trained for two years. Nike was using a loophole in Olympic qualifying to create its very own Eagle.

The Incomplete Sentence
This one begins in mid-1920s Cuba. It was a quarter-century after a bloody revolution dislodged the Spanish, who had imported nearly a million African slaves to the island, from power. Events played before a backdrop of looming American imperial oversight of its lucrative sugar trade, including several temporary occupations to keep the economic status quo in stasis.

Game! Of! The! Night! Feb 09 - Northern Illinois at Ohio
With the sad state of the MAC West these days, I'm ready to declare Northern Illinois (13-7, 8-4 Mid-American) an honorary member of the East division. Their current four-game win streak echoes the West-beating runs of the right-siders' thumpings of the Ball States and Directional Michigans, so why not move them over? They'll all be seeded in straight numerical order come tourney time anyway.

The End
Actually, quite a bit. Your TMM Reliquary nomination, as presented, is just another couple seconds in the One Shining Moment highlight reel. We are not trying to redouble the effort of anyone, especially not David Barrett, who politely responds to us whenever we trash the song online and might be reading this. 💛