MMBOD Dec 05 - Clifton Lee - Northwestern State
It's a good time to be the Southland Conference. First you had Sam Houston State in the PNIT, then Northwestern State and Southeastern Louisiana taking beating turns on Mississippi State in Starkville, and now this. Last night NSU went into Storied Gallagher-Iba Arena and delivered a shock to the Oklahoma State Cowboys, ending grumpy-Gus Eddie Sutton's 44-game non-conference home winning streak.

Dribblings 1/19/2005 (Dirty South Edition)
Mid-American: Ball State 86, Bowling Green 62 (story) - BSU went into the break with 49 points and a 12-point lead, and magically doubled the margin despite shooting 30% in the second half. The Ball State Basketball Cardinals (8-5, 3-2 MAC) executed their first-half battle plan perfectly, driving and dishing the plodding Falcons into an orange-colored state of flummoxment.

Game! Of! The! Night! 11/14/2007 - North Carolina vs. Davidson
Tonight marks the first of three remarkable opportunities for the SoCon favorite Wildcats: a trio of neutral-court shots at college basketball's elite. Later on, they'll play Duke on this same floor and meet UCLA in Anaheim, but tonight it's the Tar Heels.

Wenlock Against the World
In the classical sense, a mascot is a lucky talisman that happens to be a living thing — a being not quite as human as we are, one that can be obtained and possessed, but which has certain powers that far surpass ours. The first mascot, as in La Mascotte, was a magical mezzo-soprano farm girl in a 19th Century French opera.

L'infinito
During the first half, racers utilize the classic parallel technique. They torque their poles to generate forward motion, wearing long thin skis treated with gritty and tacky kick wax. Then, after a halftime pit stop, they're on shorter and stubbier versions invented in the 1970s, slicked with glossy glide wax, shuffling along like ice skaters. He also gave me zero upper body strength.