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We're Back Baby! NBA Lockout Ends, Basketball Begins

Santa couldn't have brought a better present than he did for me this year. After what seemed like years, the NBA lockout ends and the regular season begins (only a month or so late).  In celebration on the regular season beginning, TNT network made this little video to show just how excited...

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Entire JV High School Basketball Team Suspended For Hazing

First off, where does a JV team get off hazing anyone? The JV team is usually made up of freshmen and sophomores, or all the kids that are too terrible to make it to varsity. They have zero business being the bully here. Looks like these kids are overcompensating for something. A group of five...

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SUMO Lunch Break: Moses Parts The Red Sea

Every high school thinks they have the most bad-ass cheering section in their devision. They paint their faces, come up with cleaver chants, yell and scream. High school was all about perp-rallies, fight songs and just loving your school way, way too much. Until this morning I had put all of these...

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Xavier vs Cincinnati Brawl: Yancy Gates Decks Kenny Frease

No. 8 Xavier is just 9.8 seconds away from a dominating win over Cincinnati when a massive brawl breaks loose. With a 76-53 lead over Cincinnati, Xavier had the game in the bag until all hell broke loose. Xavier’s Tu Holloway and Cincinnati’s Ge’Lawn Guyn starting trash talking with just under...

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Epic Trick Shots: International Edition

There have been countless videos of college students doing trick shots, from basketball, to football to soccer. Now we have the first international trick shot battle. America vs Australia - basketball vs frisbee. Trick shot videos are awesome. I'm a bit skeptical about some of these shots but I...

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The John Brown University Toilet Paper Tradition Continues

Many colleges are steeped in tradition, but this might be the best one I've ever heard. The students over at John Brown University take their annual tradition very seriously, that tradition being, to toilet paper the opening basketball game every season.  Accoridng to the schools website, "...

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Dallas Mavericks Ueber Alles

Ever since “The Decision” and the oh so vain LeBron James said, “In this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat,” he put a target on his back. That target was enlarged after a ludacris show a couple days later when the freshest face on South Beach, LeBron was asked...

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Male Cheerleaders Ruin Everything

Male cheerleaders.. you...are...the...worst. Not only do you ruin a perfectly good performance, but you also almost ruin entire sporting events, like this one.  Rick Pitino, you go right ahead and bring this "sport" to an end... bet nobody will care.

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When life gives you lemons…make beer?

<!--StartFragment--> With Judas leaving Cleveland some local brewers took it upon themselves to help everyone forget their basketball woes…click here for more.  

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