Bubblefighters
INDIANAPOLIS -- What is the Sports Bubble? Can you see it? Would you recognize it if you could? Does it have a smell, touch, taste? Can its movements be tracked with GPS or radar? We know it exists, we know that. But in what dimension, on what plane of consciousness?

The Court and the Conference Room
Texas-San Antonio had already taken out the No. 3 and No. 2 seeds, and looked like they'd add the Southland's top dogs to its collection early on with 60 percent shooting in the game's first 10 minutes. But the Roadrunners' grasp on their first-half lead slipped at the six-minute mark, and Stephen F. Austin surged ahead out of the break to put itself on the brink of its first-ever NCAA trip.

Good Morning Hoops Nation - March 9
The inevitable shuttering of certain Mid-Majority segments is a small but subtle reminder that that little dot on the horizon line is in view and getting closer every day. There are no more Games! Of! The! Night!, no more Bally contests, one more Baller of the Week (in advance of the Baller of the Year presentation on Thursday), and only five more Good Mornings.

Good Morning Hoops Nation December 29
LOGAN, Utah -- Whenever I travel to this part of the country, the Tetris-stack of states that makes up the intermountain west, I feel a great sense of unease. This goes back to when I lived in western Oregon for seven years, and would occasionally come further inland, but my advancing age allows me to better articulate the feeling.

Ballyplicity
There's more than one Bally, and that's because we occasionally hold contests here and give away real-life versions of the cartoon buddy who goes everywhere with me on my travels. Like, for instance, our Hunan: Return Of The Phoenix movie treatment contest, which might be extended an extra day because the entries are so awesome, and we want more, more, more awesomeness.