Category Archives: Sports

Elite 8 live-tweeting, Day 1

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Heeeere we go again. My tweets, and any comments thereon, will appear in the first window below. Tweets from everyone on my college basketball list will appear in the second window below. You can join the dialogue either by clicking “Make a comment” on the top window, or by tweeting something @brendanloy, or by emailing 13909@scribblelive.com. GOOO BUTLER!!! BEEEEAT KANSAS… Read more »

The Mid-Majority, the Butler Bulldogs, Sports Bubble Stadium, and Fate

In 2005, basketball writer extraordinare Kyle Whelliston (seen at left with yours truly at the 2007 BracketBusters game at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse) caught ESPN’s eye with his 100 Games Project on his blog, The Mid-Majority. Impressed, the Worldwide Leader hired Kyle to be a freelance mid-major correspondent. Truth be told, it was always an odd pairing: Kyle is both an… Read more »

Can Cornell do it?

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With apologies to major-conference Cinderella Washington and mid-major non-Cinderellas Butler and Xavier, all of whom try tonight to pull off an upset and move within a game of an unlikely Final Four appearance (at home in Indy, in Butler’s case), this evening’s most fascinating Sweet 16 matchup has got to be Kentucky vs. Cornell. I say this not just because… Read more »

Ivey, Boeckler, Hiegel battle in NIT Pool

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Heading into the NIT Final Four, Josh Rubin still leads the Living Room Times NIT Pool — but he is mathematically eliminated from winning it. Regardless of what happens at Madison Square Garden next week, someone will pass Rubin in the pool standings. Rubin, Greg Kagan and Dan Port were knocked out of contention Wednesday when Rhode Island beat Virginia… Read more »

Josh Rubin leads NIT Pool; 7 still alive

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With the NIT quarterfinals halfway finished, Josh Rubin sits in first place in the 6th annual Living Room Times NIT Pool. Seven contestants, including Rubin, are still mathematically alive to win the pool. Anywhere between two and five more contestants will be eliminated tomorrow, when Illinois plays Dayton and Virginia Tech plays Rhode Island in the last two quarterfinals. After… Read more »

It’s late, it’s Tate, it’s great!

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Twenty years ago today, I became a college basketball fan. No, really. That’s not an exaggeration. The Sweet 16 game between UConn and Clemson in 1990, ending in the Burrell-to-George miracle shown above, was literally the first basketball game I ever watched in anything close to its entirety. As I recalled some years ago, tracing my history as a March… Read more »

NCAA Tourney Day 4 live-tweeting

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Rather than allow my homepage to be overrun by tweets again today, I’m going to funnel everything into this window. To comment, either click “Make a comment,” or tweet something @brendanloy. In addition to my tweets, any tweets from a bunch of Gonzaga bloggers, and other college-hoops bloggers, will also auto-post. P.S. Loyette says, “Go Zags!” UPDATE: I’m changing the… Read more »