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Why do we wait for special events to clean up our city?
I've often talked about the dirtiest, most filthy city in America. It's not Detroit or New York; it's New Orleans. And now, because of the Final 4 basketball championships coming to town, we are all about cleaning it up. This happens every few years...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, New Orleans
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VCU, Butler bring welcome diversity to basketball's big stage
My prognosticator side detests this Final Four. VCU and Butler exited early on my bracket, Kentucky and Connecticut in the regional semifinals.
Ditto for 2006 when George Mason intruded. I had the Patriots losing to Michigan State in the first round....Tags: West Coast Conference, Butler Bulldogs, Colleges and Universities, Bill Russell, College Sports
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VCU the most improbable Final Four team ever
Call the roll of Final Four gate-crashers. Butler. George Mason. Penn. Indiana State.
Recount their upsets, harrowing finishes and, yes, miracles.
None matches VCU. Virginia Commonwealth University for the basketball-impaired.
The Rams on Sunday...Tags: Dick Vitale, Kansas Jayhawks, College Sports, Big 12 Conference, Multi-Sport Events
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VCU's March eerily similar to George Mason's run to the Final Four in 2006
The parallels were clear Selection Sunday. Two weeks later, they're downright spooky.
VCU 2011, George Mason 2006.
Colonial Athletic Association teams receive controversial bids to the NCAA basketball tournament after losing in the conference clambake...Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Rudy Gay, College Sports, Connecticut Huskies, Arts and Culture
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C.J. Woollum retires as basketball coach at Christopher Newport
The thought first entered C.J. Woollum's head not long after his name entered the record books.
As he stood in a confetti shower on a Tuesday night in late February after becoming the first Division III men's coach in Virginia to win 500 games, it...Tags: NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Colleges and Universities, Christopher Newport University, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Dallas Mavericks
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Butler's "Banner" Day
IndySportsNation.comCollege basketball season openers when Division-One Top 25 teams host NAIA opponents are not usually must-attend events. However, Saturday afternoon the eighteenth-ranked Butler Bulldogs hosted Marian University in a game that was a really big deal to...Tags: March Madness, Colleges and Universities, Entertainment, Thumbs, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Breaking down VCU-Butler — with a little help from ODU's Blaine Taylor
Anyone who's ever heard Blaine Taylor turn a phrase in his often off-the-wall vernacular knows the Old Dominion men's basketball coach has a unique perspective. In the case of Saturday's Final Four matchup between VCU and Butler, that perspective includes...Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Butler Bulldogs, Multi-Sport Events, Human Interest, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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BASKETBALL
Former Northern State men's basketball coach Don Meyer will be nationally honored during Final Four weekend in Houston. The now special assistant to the NSU president will receive the Guardians of the Game Pillar Award for Leadership from the National...Tags: Colleges and Universities, College Sports, John Wooden, Lifetime (tv network), Elections
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Past Highlights
March 30 1986 - Duke and Louisville reached the NCAA men's basketball championship with semifinal wins over Kansas and LSU. 1991 - North Carolina is to meet Kansas and Duke is to face UNLV in the NCAA men's basketball Final Four semifinal matchups....Tags: Miami Heat, National Invitation Tournament, Orlando Magic, Minnesota Timberwolves, College Sports
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UPDATE: Olathe Northwest Girls Coach Makes Impossible Shot
FOX 4 Web ProducerHe shoots, he scores. Sort of. Olathe Northwest girls basketball coach and science teacher, Joel Branstrom, was slated to be the center of a school joke, until he did the impossible and stunned the entire student body. NEW: An anonymous donor has...Tags: Television, Social Issues, Entertainment, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Charity
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Notre Dame, Brigham Young make the grades in 'March Madness of the Minds'
IndySportsNationThe NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament can be a frustrating experience for fans trying to predict the 65-team bracket. With 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 different combinations of results for predicting a perfect bracket (according to mathematicians), it's far...Tags: University of California, NCAA Tournaments, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, March Madness
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Hanging with Hagan: NCAA Tourney Expansion...No Thanks
IndySportsNationLots of talk lately about expanding the NCAA Men's basketball tournament from 65 to 96 teams. I would have to vote against such a measure even though expansion of just ONE team would have perhaps saved my beloved Mississippi State Bulldogs this year. By...Tags: Virginia Tech, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Football, Sports
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