Game 7-033 Cleveland State at Butler
Much of what passes for sports wisdom in enlightened 2011 is so linear and transitive. With so much information to sift and process, the human brain goes into panic mode. It must break matters down to immediate elements, get to core understanding as fast as possible and with the least amount of information necessary.

J.U.I.C.E.
Just a little over 98 years ago, Navy basketball was born. After a well-attended intramural scrimmage at the U.S. Naval Academy, played a mere decade and a half after the peach-basket birth of the sport, the local Annapolis newspaper trumpeted that "there is no question that the game made itself popular in one bound and will become one of the regular sports at the institution."

A Sorta Fairytale
Once upona time, someone got the bright idea to call upstart teams "Cinderellas." Every possible symbol of that classic bedtime story has been mined for metaphor - glass slippers, gowns, the Big Dance. To me, it would seem that this is proof that everyone involved is confident and secure in their manhood.

Epilogue, The Second
INDIANAPOLIS, Apr. 2 -- There are huge signs all over town -- on airport walls, strung over streetlights, over the main gate to the RCA Dome. They all read, "The Road Ends Here."

Horses on Drugs
The essential Complete Book of the Olympics, published every four years, documents all positive drug tests in the history of the Summer Games. This year’s 1,181-page version (available now) features all 68 in-competition doping violations, but two of the 11 listed for the 2004 Athens Games stand out. Two of the athletes aren’t human.