MMBOW #7 - Jeremiah Dominguez, Portland State
The holidays wiped out half the week's schedule (in a good way, of course), but some players made the most of the four-day week. And just to be clear, a shortened week does not mean that the award is less than 100 percent full strength, the same way that some fans tried to undercut the importance of the San Antonio Spurs' strike-struck 1999 NBA title. Not in the least.

30 Sports in 30 Days - Water Polo
But not so! A mere eight years after it was invented, a game the English initially called “aquatic handball” was added to the Olympic program. First held in 1900 at Paris, water polo would forever hold the distinction of being the first-ever team sport included at the Games.

The Boubacar 3/7/2008 (Fun in the A-Sun Edition)
NASHVILLE -- There is nothing in the world more fun that this fortnight, this extended Championship Week. Days full of games, wave after wave of cheerleaders, pep bands, student sections and players' moms. Every two hours new ones come along come, a blurry time-smear of orange, red, green, blue, gold.

A Very Mid-Majority Christmas 2
A whole three of you e-mailed me and asked if I was doing the holiday gift guide again. My first response was, "What holiday gift guide?" It's been five years and a day since I spent half an hour writing up the last one, and if people remember it, they either have been spending time in the archives or have actually been following us that long. It's the Lady Gaga rule.

The State of the Other 22, Week 1
The State of College Basketball is a ratings system that uses a lot of good basketball sense, per-game team performance ratings and degradation of older results to rank the teams from No. 1 to 344 (here's the long-winded version). For our purposes here, it gives the world's only hype-free, non-voting, computer poll of teams in the lower 22 and a half (we include the A-14) conferences.