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WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — More than 100 college presidents and athletic directors are urging NCAA President Myles Brand to re-examine the presence of alcohol ads on broadcasts of games, suggesting that college sports and beer advertising are a “bad mix.” The Center for Science in the Public Interest has said some of CBS’s game telecasts may have exceeded the amount of beer advertising allowed. In a letter sent yesterday, the presidents cited the amount of beer advertising during CBS’s broadcast of the “March Madness” college basketball tournament. “Beer advertising during the games continues to undermine the many positive attributes of college...

Responding to recent charges leveled against him, Nittany Lion basketball player Stanley Pringle told police he was touching his penis but was not masturbating in the Pattee Library stacks last Thursday. Pringle told police he has "a bad habit of putting his hand down his pants," and demonstrated for the officer by placing his hand down the front of his sweatpants, according to the complaint. "Why would I need to masturbate?" he told police. "This is how I chill, ma'am." Centre County District Judge Jonathan Grine signed a criminal complaint on Friday leveling charges of open lewdness and disorderly conduct...

4/6/2008 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- College basketball officials recognized the contributions of American servicemembers throughout the world during the men's NCAA Final Four weekend April 4 through 7 in San Antonio. Military members were present during college basketball's biggest weekend while singing the national anthem, presenting the colors, sitting in the stands and watching live from bases directly fighting the war on terrorism. The military was saluted throughout the weekend as officials of the NCAA saluted American warriors at festivities throughout the weekend. NCAA coaches and the public talked to and thanked troops serving on the front lines in...

Anybody watching this game? I am in 'shock and awe'tm at what Kansas is doing to UNC.

CBS-TV 6:05pm EDT San Antonio Memphis at UCLA pickum O/U 133 1/2 8:47pm EDT San Antonio Kansas at UNC -2 1/2 O/U 157

Tournament High lites: Duke, Georgetown, UConn, Pittsburgh notable eliminations. Thursday, March 27th, 2008 all times TBD West Regional , U.S. Airways Center (Phoenix, AZ) (12) West. Kentucky (28-6) @ (1) UCLA (33-3) (7) West Virginia (26-10) @ (3) Xavier (29-6) East Regional, Charlotte Bobcats Arena (Charlotte, NC) (3) Louisville (26-8) @ (2) Tennessee (30-4) (4) Washington St. (26-8) @ (1) North Carolina (34-2) Friday, March 28th, 2008 all times TBD Midwest Regional, Ford Field (Detroit, MI) (10) Davidson (27-6) @ (3) Wisconsin (31-4) (12) Villanova (21-12) @ (1) Kansas (33-3) South Regional, Reliant Arena (Houston, TX) (5) Michigan St. (27-8)...

FINAL: (7)WEST VIRGINIA 73 (2)DUKE 67 Somehow the sun seems to be just a bit brighter once Duke is eliminated. Congrats and thanks to West Virginia.

Could Barack Obama's NCAA championship pick have something to do with an upcoming primary? No, he was leaning toward North Carolina because of its 6-foot-9 star. The Democratic presidential candidate and avid basketball player selected North Carolina, Kansas, Pittsburgh and UCLA in his Final Four bracket, and is counting on North Carolina to beat UCLA in the championship game. North Carolina, with 115 delegates at stake, holds its primary May 6. During his short flight Wednesday from Fayetteville to Charlotte, N.C., Obama began working on his NCAA basketball tournament bracket. The campaign staff is competing in a $10 per person...

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Former NCAA tournament selection committee chair Gary Walters once called the too-good-to-be-true pairings that the bracket produces the "serendipity of the tournament." Roy Williams might use another word in three weeks. Roy Williams could face his former team in San Antonio. The dadgum fan might reach into his adjective repertoire from his interview with Bonnie Bernstein circa 2003 to describe the path his top-seeded Tar Heels are on thanks to serendipity. If the seeds hold, the national semifinal would pit No. 1 overall seed North Carolina against Midwest Region No. 1 seed Kansas, the team Williams had just led to...

North Carolina beat Clemson 86-81 for a record 17th Atlantic Coast Conference title.

Montell Watson had 15 points and Brett James 13 to lead seventh-seed Elon into its first Southern Conference tournament championship game with a 75-61 victory Sunday over the College of Charleston. The Phoenix (14-18) came into the tournament 11-18, but knocked off their second league heavyweight in as many days following a 60-57 defeat of second-seed Chattanooga on Saturday. . .

UNC wins the ACC regular season with a 76-68 victory over Dook.

Tonight is the night that March Madness ends in the National Championship Game between The Gators of Florida vs. The Buckeyes of Ohio State.

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George Mason University's basketball team broke into national prominence, going all the way to the NCAA Final Four matchup but losing to the red hot University of Florida Gators. The Patriots' stellar performance this season is emblematic of the entrepreneurship and risk taking that long has been a feature of the University. In 1980, when I left Temple University to join George Mason University's Economics Department, it was a little known school in northern Virginia. Dr. George Johnson, also from Temple University, was president. In an early meeting, to settle my dispute with one of the deans, I learned that...

Florida beat UCLA 73-57

Online video has arrived in a big way. CBS' March Madness on Demand offering, live streams of games from the NCAA college basketball tournament, has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that people are willing to go on to the Web to view live entertainment. CBS streamed more than 15 million live broadcasts of NCAA tournament games during this year's March Madness, numbers that exceeded the network's expectations. CBS streamed more than 15 million live broadcasts of NCAA tournament games during this year's March Madness, numbers that exceeded the network's expectations. According to figures from CBS SportsLine, the online...

By Pat Forde ESPN.com 1. Find the weakness in Florida. Go ahead. I'll wait 2. Billy Donovan has been here before. Ben Howland has not. 3. Banners don't win championships, players do Tradition is a valuable thing to have on your side in the banter between fans. But UCLA's 11 national championships won't help the Bruins one iota come tipoff Monday. 4. Florida has had the stronger tournament run 5. UCLA used up all its good karma escaping Gonzaga The Bruins' desperate scramble to score the final 11 points of the game and extricate themselves from near-certain defeat was the...

INDIANAPOLIS - UCLA used to be the most intimidating letters in college basketball. Under legendary coach John Wooden, the Bruins captured 10 national championships in 12 tournaments, won 88 consecutive games, the longest winning streak in NCAA history, and had four undefeated seasons. But since Wooden retired in 1975 after 27 seasons as the Bruins' coach, those four letters haven't meant as much in college basketball. UCLA has won only one national championship in the 31 seasons since Wooden retired, and the 1995 NCAA tournament title was tarnished when coach Jim Harrick was fired less than two years later for...

INDIANAPOLIS, April 1 — The George Mason band played "All I Need Is a Miracle" before its national semifinal game against Florida on Saturday, a plea to make the Patriots' charmed run through the N.C.A.A. tournament last two more days. But it turned out that the Patriots had exhausted their miracles, and will have to settle for the most improbable postseason run ever in college basketball.

"He Could Have Played Blind" ‘The radio was playing and the morning news was on. I was startled to hear that Pete Maravich, the basketball player, had collapsed on a basketball court in Pasadena, just fell over and never got up. I’d seen Maravich play in New Orleans, when the Utah Jazz were the New Orleans Jazz. He was something to see – mop of brown hair, floppy socks – the holy terror of the basketball world – high flyin’ – magician of the court. The night I saw him he dribbled the ball with his head, scored a behind-the-back,...

RAS AL KHAIMAH, United Arab Emirates -- There's a vague notion on this tiny satellite campus of George Mason University that basketball is played by bouncing a ball and tossing it toward a hoop. It's also starting to sink in that classmates on the other side of the world have done something remarkable. "Go, Mason, go," yells 19-year-old Mohamed Eltigani, who was born in Sudan. "Kun fi al-qimma," campus receptionist Khawla Yousef screams in Arabic, which means "Reach the top." Welcome to the real Mideast regional.

WASHINGTON -- Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage, the much-maligned NCAA Tournament selection committee chair, stood up to observe George Mason's on-court celebration Sunday afternoon and said, "Maybe we seeded them too low." He was kidding. But even if George Mason were a single-digit seed instead of a No. 11, that probably wouldn't matter for historical purposes. This was the greatest run ever to the Final Four. End of discussion. It's hard to gauge what this historic win has done for this university located just 20 miles from here, one that is named after one of the framers of the U.S....

-Snip- So without further ado, here are the awards for the 2006 Final Four Award Show... Best Afro Award goes to...George Mason's Jordan Carter. Throughout the tournament I never saw the 2nd year guard get into a game, but every game there he was being a catalyst as the cheerleader on the George Mason bench rooting his team on with that award-winning afro straight out of the '70s that blends perfectly into his forehead. While we are on the topic of hair here are two more for you... Worst Hairdo Award goes to...who else? Florida's Joiakim Noah. The 6-11 sophomore...

George Mason's Sammy Hernandez (50) and Tony Skinn celebrate their overtime victory over Connecticut during the fourth round of the NCAA basketball tournament in Washington, Sunday, March 26, 2006. George Mason defeated Connecticut, 86-84 to advance to the Final Four. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo) Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage, the much-maligned NCAA Tournament selection committee chair, stood up to observe George Mason's on-court celebration Sunday afternoon and said, "Maybe we seeded them too low." He was kidding. But even if George Mason was a single-digit seed instead of a No. 11, that probably wouldn't matter for historical purposes. This was...

    GoMason.com   WEB                     ROSTER • SCHEDULES/RESULTS • NEWS • ARCHIVES   2005-06 Men's Basketball Schedule and Results Day Date Opponent Location TV Outcome/Time Sun 11/06/05 ST. FRANCIS XAVIER (EXHIBITION) Fairfax, Va.   W, 99-70Recap | Box Score | Listen Thu 11/10/05 UC Irvine in Coaches vs. Cancer Classic @ Wake Forest Winston-Salem, N.C.   W, 79-56Recap | Box Score | Listen | Fri 11/11/05 Wake Forest in Coaches vs. Cancer Classic @ Wake Forest Winston-Salem, N.C.   L, 83-78 (OT)Recap | Box Score | Listen | Tue 11/22/05 CREIGHTON (Home Opener) Fairfax, Va.  ...

ok..this year is the year of "messed up brackets"

lsu 70 texas 60, OT ucla 21 memphis 11 7:21 first half

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Florida's Corey Brewer made one basket in the second half, and he made it count. Brewer's tiebreaking, falling-down shot and subsequent three-point play with 27.5 seconds left lifted the third-seeded Gators to a 57-53 victory over Georgetown Friday in the Minneapolis Regional semifinals. Florida (30-6) will play top-seeded Villanova on Sunday in the final, with the winner advancing to next weekend's Final Four in Indianapolis. Brewer and rest of Florida's super sophomores are erasing memories of the Gators' recent tournament failures. The Gators hadn't been past the second round since 2000. Joakim Noah had 15 points, 10...

It just keeps going on and on.......ARGHHH! kIlL mE noW!

NCAA Tournament Games TIME (ET) MATCHUP 7:10 PM ET No. 4 Boston College at No. 1 Villanova 7:27 PM ET No. 11 George Mason at No. 7 Wichita State 9:40 PM ET No. 7 Georgetown at No. 3 Florida 9:57 PM ET No. 5 Washington at No. 1 Connecticut

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Rodney Carney kept top-seeded Memphis from becoming another victim of Bradley's surprising NCAA run. Carney contributed on both ends of the floor Thursday, scoring 23 points and leading a stingy defense that gave Memphis an 80-64 victory and put the Tigers in the regional final for the first time since 1992 -- back when Anfernee Hardaway was the star. Darius Washington Jr. added 18 points and Shawne Williams had 12 points and eight rebounds as Memphis won the third round of the Oakland Regional, its seventh straight victory. Carney raised his arms in the air in...

1 2 Total (4) LSU 31 31 62 Final (1) Duke 27 27 54

NCAA Tournament Games TIME (ET) MATCHUP 7:10 PM ET No. 4 LSU at No. 1 Duke 7:27 PM ET No. 13 Bradley at No. 1 Memphis 9:40 PM ET No. 6 West Virginia at No. 2 Texas 9:57 PM ET No. 3 Gonzaga at No. 2 UCLA

Remember the earlier days of the NCAA tournament, before the days of the mega-conferences? As a conservative, I miss the old days, and I still find myself routing for the old nine-team Big East. I happen to like Pittsnoggle and the current West-Virginian team, but I’m not prejudiced towards them the way I am for the old Big East, and the way I sense many people root for given conferences. So, may I present to you, a fictional wrap-up of the NCAA tournament, the way it would’ve been with all these “newfangled, whippersnapper, Wal-Mart conferences.” (Imagine me saying that in...

There is a great line in the movie, The Madness of King George. It comes when King George III of England, who is has been confined for madness finds out that his son, whom he hates, is about to usurp his power from him. In order to prevent that from happening, King George must appear before Parliament in order to assure them of his sanity by SEEMING normal. When the crazed King George sort of pulls himself together (temporarily) just before making his Parliamentary appearance, he explains how he was able to manage it by saying, "I have remembered...

NCAA Tournament Games TIME (ET) 12:10 PM ET No. 13 Bradley at No. 5 Pittsburgh 2:15 PM ET No. 9 Bucknell at No. 1 Memphis 2:20 PM ET No. 11 George Mason at No. 3 UNC 2:30 PM ET No. 8 Kentucky at No. 1 Connecticut 2:40 PM ET No. 14 Northwestern St. at No. 6 WV 4:45 PM ET No. 10 N.C. State at No. 2 Texas 4:50 PM ET No. 7 Georgetown at No. 2 Ohio State 5:00 PM ET No. 8 Arizona at No. 1 Villanova

No fear: Braves fight on to Sweet 16 The MVC has a second team in the Sweet 16. Bradley, Oakland's 13 seed, shocked Pitt Sunday to advance.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- Most of these Kansas kids didn't have much to do with the "Bucknell Bummer." Now they have one to call their own. Marcellus Sommerville scored 21 points and made five 3-pointers, and 13th-seeded Bradley handed the fourth-seeded Jayhawks their second straight first-round NCAA Tournament exit with a 77-73 victory Friday night. The Braves made 11 3s to pick up their first NCAA Tournament victory in 20 years and advance to play fifth-seeded Pittsburgh in the second round of the Oakland Regional on Sunday. Unlike a year ago, when Wayne Simien missed a 15-footer at the...

March 17, 2006, 11:09 AM PST March Madness on CBS.com: it killed Posted by: Molly Wood CBS offering free streams of March Madness basketball games? I was skeptical, but it delivered--big time. In fact, it delivered a record 1.2 million streams in the first five hours and actually kept waiting, time-outs, and glitches to a surprising minimum. Oh, and it made a bajillion dollars on ads, too. Not too shabby, CBS. Not at all.

  Canteen Music Dedication  Click for our National Anthem!(remove your caps please!)Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists...

Today's schedule: 12:15 PM ET (15)Davidson (2)Ohio State 12:25 PM ET (14)Northwestern St. (3)Iowa 12:30 PM ET (9)Bucknell (8)Arkansas 12:30 PM ET (9)Wisconsin (8)Arizona 2:35 PM ET (10)Northern Iowa (7)Georgetown 2:45 PM ET (11)Southern Illinois (6)West Virginia 2:50 PM ET (16)Oral Roberts (1)Memphis 2:50 PM ET (16)Monmouth (N.J.) (1)Villanova 7:10 PM ET (12)Kent State (5)Pittsburgh 7:10 PM ET (11)George Mason (6)Michigan State 7:20 PM ET (10)N.C. State (7)California 7:25 PM ET (16)Albany (1)Connecticut 9:30 PM ET (13)Bradley (4)Kansas 9:30 PM ET (14)Murray State (3)North Carolina 9:40 PM ET (15)Pennsylvania (2)Texas 9:45 PM ET (9)UAB (8)Kentucky

Two #5 seeds go down in the same day. Gonzaga fighting back in the last minute to pull off the win. That GREAT GW-UNC finish last night. Tennessee needing a late 3 to beat Winthrop. Embrace the Madness!

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CBS Inc. (CBS) kicked off its first-ever free live showing online of the men's NCAA tournament, with more than 100,000 people either watching the video of the Seton Hall vs. Wichita game, or in a virtual waiting room, trying to get in. The live video streams were running 365 kilobits per second. Larry Kramer, head of CBS's digital operations, said he's prepared for at least 200,000 simultaneous viewers, placing the tournament Webcasts squarely among the top live online draws of all time.

Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet arrived. "A bomb-sniffing dog noticed something in a hot dog cart," Beresford said. "They got a...

San Diego NCAA arena evacuated on bomb scare 14 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. ADVERTISEMENT Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet...

Live Webcasts of NCAA tournament is 'watershed' moment By David B. Wilkerson, MarketWatch Last Update: 12:57 AM ET Mar 16, 2006 CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- CBS Corp.'s move to stream live telecasts of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship free of charge on the Web, beginning with this year's tournament, is a "watershed event" with vast implications for the television landscape, according to a former president of CBS Sports. Beginning Thursday, CBS (CBS) will offer live out-of-market broadcasts of "March Madness" games at NCAAsports.com. See related column by Bambi Francisco. "This is a watershed event," said Neal Pilson, president of...

Welcome to ESPN.com Men's Tournament Challenge! It's that time again! America's favorite bracket game is back. Men's Tournament Challenge returns for 2006. Can Duke win it all? Will UConn spoil the party? Who is this year's West Virginia? Fill out your brackets and watch the games and compete for great prizes, including $10,000! To make things interesting, I have set up a FReeper Challenge group, where FReepers can make their picks and vie for bragging rights for another year. Get in the action now with this link to the FReeper Challenge group: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/group?groupID=121035&password=jimrob You can also go to the ESPN.com...

NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PREDICTIONS 65 teams make “the Dance.” 31 spots are reserved for conference champions, 34 go to “at-large” teams chosen by the NCAA committee. Since about a dozen of the top teams will also be conference champions, the best 45-47 teams should go to the tournament. The “at-large” teams are selected on the basis of their winning records and, even more-so, the toughness of their opponents; since the quality of conferences vary greatly, winning percentage alone is not considered a reliable measure of a team’s excellence. A formula is used to rank teams, called the “RPI”; This...