For as impressive as Pittsburgh looked last night in getting its third straight road win, I'm going to have to pay more attention to the train that may be ready to come off the tracks.

A quick word on college football. While we all are forced to accept that Texas gets to play for a national championship, remember that today is the BCS Selection Show. Is there ANY anticipation? Of. Course. Not. Thirteen weeks from now, everyone will be giddy over the Selection Show and all the possibilities of matchups. College football, you fail us all. Yesterday was a great day for games, but the season ... Read More

Plenty pumped for tonight's double dip; more so than I was for the 24-hour thing, really. Will end up DVR'ing my 90-minute troika of funny TV ("The Office," "3o Rock," "It's Always Sunny ... ") and put that off until the weekend. Fran Fraschilla, whose value seems to rise each year, has handpicked a few of the players on display tonight and where their Draft lies. I think Ed Davis ... Read More

What a fantastic game played by two teams with their Tournament fates already secured. Before the incomparable Gus Johnson mentioned after James' foul on Wallace's 3 attempt, I kept saying to my roommates, "How much does this feel like a Saturday afternoon Tournament game?" Just watch and enjoy. The clip is nearly 10 minutes long, so just put the video on and turn the speakers up and listen to Johnson ... Read More

Whoops. That's not Kevin Stallings—That's Kevin from "The Office." Still, they're both bald and quite cerebral. Anyway, Tennessee travels to Vanderbilt tonight, and it seems as though many are predicting a letdown from the Vols, coming off the heels of that great win on the road against Memphis on Saturday night.  Kevin Stallings is one of those coaches that is slowly developing a better national profile as his Vanderbilt teams continue ... Read More

There were nine 3s made before the first TV timeout. Players were cramping up and crouching down. Dick Vitale (predictably) dressed up like Elvis. .Even Peyton Manning crawled out of his cave for a public appearance. Yes, if you weren't watching Tennessee-Memphis tonight, you better have had a damn good reason. Otherwise, you've stumbled upon the wrong website. And if you are doubting Tennessee's likelihood of getting a 1, think ... Read More

An announcement from athletic director Rick Greenspan is expected by Thursday, and most believe that Sampson is doneski, so will tonight be his last game patrolling the sidelines of a Big 6 school? You have to assume he'll eventually get another chance down the line, but will that chance be at a much smaller school or in the pros? So the question is: Does he go out with a win over ... Read More

Since Duke is near no ghettos, I can only imagine that a few Carolina fans had to burp that out of their system as the seats emptied last night. Duke was very workmanlike and you'd even think this was a Battier-led team, the way they handled themselves in the 89-78 win under the circumstances. But no, they are a bunch of undersized, overachieving kids that have their hateable qualities, but also ... Read More

Or something. And y'know, for all the reasons that Duke can be hateable, UNC fans (and their coach) have plenty of reasons to be mocked and ridiculed as well. (Need I remind you? Six second mark is what I'm referring to here.) As for tonight, Dickie V is back just in time from his vocal chord surgery to scream his lungs out over this one. C'mon, don't tell me that you ... Read More

The game is UCLA @ Stanford and it's on tonight @ 10:30 p.m. (ET) on Fox. Sports. Net.—it should be pretty good. What's the storyline that might come from the game? It could be Brook Lopez outplaying Kevin Love, so look for that. See, Lopez is extremely quick (while Love isn't) and has a lot of stamina (which Love doesn't), while also having longer range than the UCLA freshman. ... Read More

Sorry for the long headline, but I really wanted to get the message across. Take a second to glance at the athletic prowess of UCLA's Kevin Love, as it is depicted so well in the picture above. Yes, Michigan State will battle a Darren Collison-less UCLA team tonight at 10 p.m. ET on "the deuce" as they used to call it. It seems that Michigan State might be a little ... Read More