The Boubacar 1/14/2008 (Stripped to the Waist Edition)
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It's Monday, which means no cutesy-cutesy, no how-do-ya-do, no warm-up act jokes. Nearly every one of the 245 teams in Hoops Nation played over the weekend, and we're totally committed to mention at least two percent of those. It's all basketball today.

Game 7-078 - Metro Atlantic Championship
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Last week, I went to a late regular-season matchup between Rhode Island and George Washington. These days when I go to games, I sit in the front row wearing a suit and sneakers at a desk, with a touchscreen computer for dispatching short bursts of information to the internet.

Dribblings 1/6/2005 (Mad Scramble Edition)
Atlantic Sun: Gardner-Webb 79, Belmont 75 (story) - A gentleman from Florida recently asked me if I was "drunk" for picking G-Webb to win the A-Sun. So they're playing angry, and could slice their way through a soft conference which they've been granted eligibility to win. He's a physical 6-6 player with a feathery touch, and ended up with 27 points and 14 rebounds in this one.

Game! Of! The! Night! 1/10/2008 - New Mexico State at Boise State
OK, so what about the WAC?, you ask. It's a conference that started out very slow due to ill-timed up-scheduling (like you can schedule your scheduling around unscheduled crises anyway), sitting in the low-20's of the conference RPI for most of the first two months. Now the league is up to No. Somebody get Aggievision a budget!

RSBGT Day 1 - So It Begins
ANTIOCH, TENNESSEE - Nobody knows who the first person was who led a piece of journalism with a musical quotation. The question isn't even worth researching. Despite the risk involved, it can be a nice way to lubricate a reader's attention span for the long haul ahead, even if only a percentage of the audience knows the song well enough to hear it in their heads.