Good Morning Hoops Nation November 17
PITTSBURGH -- When something like this happens, when 111-103 happens, when a little military school from western Virginia marches into venerable old Rupp Arena and runs the home team off its own floor, it's never about the victor. That's just the way these things work. The tale, as it's commonly being told, is about the failure of one, and not necessarily the accomplishment of the other.

Assistant Sports Information Director for a Night
Sports information is like electricity or water. When the power's on and everything's flowing regularly, nobody notices. Everybody takes these things for granted. But whenever anything goes wrong, people act like it's the end of the world. And they usually are perfect, spending their days in perfect anonymity.

Game! Of! The! Night! 1/17/2009 - Boise State at Utah State
There are a lot of "championship" banners and claims around the Western Athletic Conference right now -- since the conference split its title four ways last year at 12-4, nearly half the gyms and media guides have references to "2008 WAC Champions." As we learned in The Incredibles, if everybody is special than nobody is.

Flight 1205 · NRT to IKA
In the late afternoon of March 16, 1988, Sadaam Hussein's army launched an air attack on the Iranian city of Kermanshah, 15 miles east of the Iraqi border and 20 miles from Baghdad. In an Iran-Iraq War that had gone on for six years, this was far from the first time.

33. Casper - Hinterland (2013)
Unsurprising, then, perhaps, is the career of 30-year-old Benjamin Griffey, the son of a German woman and an American soldier. Born in the North Rhine, he grew up in Augusta, Georgia and returned to Germany, but not before he’d had a southern-fried childhood. Since 2006, he’s been a rap-rocker recording under the name Casper.