Good Morning Hoops Nation December 8
LOUISVILLE -- This week marks the one-month milepost of the 2008-09 season. Most of the action we've seen has consisted multi-team tournaments of questionable merit or importance, early league games, and power-conference teams beating the snot out of mid-majors.

A Brief History Of Guarantee Games
CLEMSON, S.C. — On Tuesday night, the purple and orange-clad fans filed into Littlejohn Coliseum to see undefeated and newly-minted No. 25 Clemson play. Only a few fans had ever heard of the evening’s opposition, the little winless school with the odd nickname struggling through its transition from Division II to I. Even fewer knew exactly why the North Florida Ospreys were there.

How Do I Make You Care · 50 Years of Olympic Films
Somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, I found an Ampex reel labeled Games of the XXI Olympiad at a garage sale, and I paid a wet dollar for it. Being able to unlock the tape ran a lot more than that. It was a viable brick-and-mortar service once, in the phone book under V for Video, alchemizing one form of media into another.

The State Of The Other 22, Week 5
EMMITSBURG, Md. -- All three Ballys from Finals Week were sent out by The Official Wife yesterday, and the two from earlier contests are on their way as well. Still heartbroken that you didn't get one? Well, here's your chance.

The Object Permanence
The game was originally scheduled for Reliant Arena, the tiny shoebox in the shadow of the grand old Astrodome. But due to Hurricane Ike, it was postponed for two days and relocated elsewhere. Packing sustained winds of 145 mph, Ike made landfall out of the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston on September 13.