Stephen Curry Does All Things
If you write that in black ink on your red Nike sneakers and step out onto the floor at the NCAA Tournament, you’d better be able to back up words like that.

Epilogue, the Nineteenth -The Camera Eye
A blunt, cold gust swept into the vestibule. Behind the visitor's looming frame at the front step, dead leaves skittered along the concrete pathway under tight winds, struggled to loosen from a dying lawn. Beyond him, spindly reaches of oak trees against a a high pale sky, the gunmetal framework of city streets, the middle of October.

Final Four Chat Block No. 2
Bally and I are headed to the big Butler pep rally at noon on the square today! We'll bring back plenty of sights and sounds for you. There will also be another Chat Block at 3 p.m. EDT live from our headquarters here in Hoops Nation's capital city Indianapolis, so stop by to chat about the Bulldogs, the Final Four, coaching changes, the future, the past, anything.

Shooting The Shot
The tickets said "ESPN Bracket Buster Saturday," but there was no sign of the Worldwide Leader In Sports to be found. No television cameras, no Dick Vitale, no orange-and-gray logo stickers on the floor. Nobody held up "SportsCenter Is Next" signs. The pep band didn't even think to play the duh-nuh-nuh, duh-nuh-nuh theme song.

Game 7-053 Penn at Columbia
The last time there was a Chat Block, a loaf of bread cost a quarter. But those were only the loaves in the week-old bin, inedible by humans and only suitable to be crumbled up and given to birds. We're back on the Block after a 14-day absence, just as we embark on our final long road trip of the regular season. or anything else you can think of.