Good Morning Hoops Nation March 4
NASHVILLE -- They're the greatest two weeks in Hoops Nation, these. Conference teams are racked up in brackets according to regular-season performance, we determine a championship for each league on the court, and the ultimate winner gets to go all the way to March Madness, the kind on CBS.

Good Morning Hoops Nation - December 23
NATCHITOCHES, La. -- And so it's come to this. Folks are out there on the roads living like it's 2004, cramming their SUV's into parking lots and buying Christmas gifts from "brick and mortar" establishments. The third crazy night of Hanukkah is set to begin.

Good Morning Hoops Nation January 27
OMAHA -- It's been half a forever since we gave away a Bally. It's mostly due to a backorder situation, something that will be rectified when we head home for a couple of days next week. There are two people out there still waiting on their orange globular friends, and those will be forthcoming. Sorry for the delay on that.

Texas Southern’s Travels
Anonymous squads with odd names (many of which feature directional indicators) parade through their home buildings in their strange dark uniforms. The outcome of the contests are assured. The guests absorb crushing, staggering losses on the court, and then they disappear, shadowlike, into the cold night — as though they’d never been there at all.

The Mid-Majority Interview - Kyle Hines
PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- It's taken a week, but I believe we have all the entries in our Pop Loser contest, most of which took as much time as media mail to arrive because of e-mail clog on this end. And of our 22 entries, I had to eliminate 15 of them. It was about raw, naked honesty, it was about thinking Cindy was the one who said, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" .