There’s no time to waste, let’s get to the top five stories you should have been paying attention to this week.
Shhhhhh, the commercials are on!  Well, it’s Super Bowl weekend and the hype has been surprisingly tempered leading up to this great match-up.  I don’t know if it’s because I’m blessed with the NFL Network [...]

It only took us 11 years, but the Big Ten has finally broken through in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge.  Finally a reprieve from articles and posts about how the Big Ten is so overrated after 6-to-5 losses in the Challenge, despite consistently impressive post-season performances.  Let the ubridled hype commence! 
Alright maybe not, but it still [...]

For ten straight years the ACC has beaten the Big Ten in an event that is only called a “challenge” for the sake of promotion.  Could this be the year though? 
The Big Ten certainly has the firepower to play with the ACC this sesaon.  Last year the all-conference first team featured all sophomores and they’re [...]

For three weeks every year the NCAA Tournament dominates the sports world.  This year the final game had to share the spotlight with baseball’s opening day, but for the most part it was all we cared about.  Taking a look back at some of the games, here are some tournament thoughts.

The Big Ten did, well, [...]

Who is Dempster giving an hj to?  Who cares, this GIF is hilarious. [Luol's Dong]
The Bulls split their 2 games this week, and it was not pretty. [Pippen Ain't Easy]
That “billionaire” who wanted a piece of D-Wade was really just some viral marketing campaign from Converse.  Still funny though. [NESW]
Reed Johnson’s blog is up and [...]

Last week I said that the general dullness of the first two round of the NCAA Tournament wasn’t such a bad thing.  I thought that since so many good teams won, the second weekend would be that much better than most years.  I was absolutely wrong.
The last four days were no better than the first [...]

Once again, if the early games turn out to be disappointing there is still plenty of hope for a great game at night.  First, Michigan State and Kansas will meet in a great coaching match-up among other things, then North Carolina and Gonzaga will finish off the Sweet 16 games.
(3) Kansas vs. (2) Michigan State, [...]

It’s hard to believe Arizona has made it to this point when I thought for sure they’d be on their way to Madison Square Garden for the end of the NIT by now. All you people who want to say the committee got it right because Zona made it this far need to settle down though. Not too tough to beat Utah and a 13-seed to get to the Sweet 16. I know the Wildcats have three future NBA players, but they’ll need every bit of that talent to beat Louisville. The pressure will literally be on Wise to bring the ball up against the Cardinals’ defense.

Hilarious fake story about Orton being offended by Bears interest in Cutler. [Blog Down]
Ohio State’s Mullens is making the jump to the NBA.  Don’t worry, white Big Ten centers don’t usually pan out in the big league. [Sun Times]
Are the Bears interested in Vick?  Nope, just the Trib trying to drum up some fake news [...]

I really didn’t think Mizzou would make it here. I saw something last week that said you’re better off not watching any games a team plays than you are watching one or two, because you acquire opinions of those teams that are skewed by those couple of games. This is definitely the case with me and Missouri. I watched them play once and they lost to Illinois by double digits.

The Hawks beat the Sharks in a shootout last night, 6-5.  That’s good, because if they had blown a 4-1 lead, then lost, I would have lost it.  [Sun-Times]
Bradley, after this buzzer-beater the other night, advanced to the final of the CollegeInsider.com Tourney last night.  How many of these tournaments are there? [Tribune]
Cuauhtemoc Blanco is [...]

Other than the fact that we know Western Kentucky has a sweet mascot, we really don’t know much else.  We also know they won a couple games in the Big Dance last year and bring back a hand-full of those players.  But what are they about this year and how do they stack up against [...]

The President gives a class on Barack-etology.  This is actually very amusing, the guy knows his stuff.  If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, at least go to the end where he has a message for his winner.  [Awful Announcing]
The Bulls beat the Thunder last night and Derrick Rose was perfect in the [...]

Here we are in Illinois’ bracket, where the North Carolina Tar Heels are the 1-seed.  Just like Illinois, North Carolina has an injury question at the point guard spot.  Last I heard Ty Lawson was doubtful for the Heels’ first round game. With Lawson, the Heels are the favorite to make the finals from this [...]

Pittsburgh honestly screws me in my bracket every season.  Every year I think they’re so tough, with at least one guard that can score and they lose to some awful team in the second or third round.  But this is the best Pittsburgh team of them all, right?  Fields, Young, Blair; they’re excellent and they [...]