Oconee Patch: Freshman Goalkeeper Hopes to Follow Warriors' Legacy

In the team’s first six games of the season, Jeff Greenfield posted four shutouts, leaving little doubt that the coaching staff made the correct choice.

Read the rest of the story here.

Alex Trebek calls college football highlights

Another good one tonight. Hats off to the folks at Solid Verbal for the tremendous editing on this one.

LeBron dancing in Ellen's aerobics class

Try not to laugh at this one. How about taking your talents to the dance floor?

The Spanish Gus Johnson

Are you like the rest of us? Need a Gus Johnson pep talk to battle work traffic this week? Well, here's a little something for the pep in your step.

I don't know the name of this play-by-play guy, or frankly the teams involved, but enjoy the passion in his voice. I mostly took French and Latin in school, so I can't translate. But what I do know of Spanish, I would loosely translate parts of this to, "He hit the 3, now let's take it to the house!"

Who says white men can't jump?

Jimmer Fredette, one of the stars of the NCAA Tournament, is seen here against Gonzaga last weekend in a photo taken by Robert Beck of Sports Illustrated.

Fredette, who scored 52 points against New Mexico on March 11, is averaging 33 points in the tournament.

Here is a breakdown of Thursday's Sweet 16 games by Yahoo!, leading off with BYU-Florida.

One-legged Arizona St. wrestler wins NCAA title

It's difficult to not be enamored with a story like this: an Arizona State wrestler went undefeated this season, and won the NCAA championship at 125 pounds. And he did it with just one leg.

Like many people who exceed in life despite handicaps, Anthony Robles is helped by a strong grip thanks to using crutches to get around. It's also a recurring theme that someone like this, who inspires others, gets a reciprocal inspiration, in Robles' case, elementary school kids in Georgia.

Here are some old highlights of Robles in action.

2010 rewind: One Shining Moment

As The Dance officially gets underway Thursday afternoon, let's take a quick peek back to 2010, when the biggest upset was Northern Iowa over Kansas, and Duke captured the trophy again.

Of course, the controversy with One Shining Moment was the addition of Jennifer Hudson to sing One Shining Moment, much to the chagrin of most. Luther Vandross is the original and still the best.

The First Four games in Dayton already have cuts added to the One Shining Moment video editing file. What about the UT-San Antonio shot at the end of the first half? Guard falls down, tosses the ball to a big guy for 3 to beat the buzzer. Anybody surprised Gus Johnson was at the mic?

Why we watch The Dance?

This column by Yahoo's Dan Wetzel is the kind of thing that can be written annually, like those nostalgic stories you hear or read around the holidays. The names may change, but the experience stays the same. It's why we come back every year, and frankly, why they keep adding teams. America can't get enough of March Madness.

"It is an event so vast, so diverse and so enthralling that it brings an
entire country together – big city and small town – rooting for the same
improbable upset by kids they don’t know playing for a school they never heard
of possibly from a state they forgot existed."

Is it time to tipoff yet?

NCAA Final Four expert picks

	East	West	Southeast	Southwest
Jay Bilas, ESPN	Syracuse	UConn	Kansas	Florida
Hubert Davis, ESPN	Ohio St.	Texas	Kansas	Florida
Pat Forde, ESPN	Ohio St.	Duke	Kansas	Pitt
Andy Katz, ESPN	Ohio St.	SD St.	Kansas	Pitt
Jeff Goodman, FOX	Ohio St.	Texas	Kansas	Pitt
Dan Wetzel, Yahoo!	Ohio St.	UConn	Kansas	Pitt
Seth Davis, CBS/SI	Ohio St.	Duke	Kansas	Florida
Joe Lunardi, ESPN	Ohio St.	Duke	Kansas	Pitt
Digger Phelps, ESPN	Ohio St.	Duke	Kansas	Florida
Mark Schlabach, ESPN	Ohio St.	Texas	Kansas	Florida
Dick Vitale, ESPN	Ohio St.	Duke	Louisville	Pitt
Bob Kravitz, Indy Star	Ohio St.	Texas	Kansas	Kansas St.
Gregg Doyel, CBS	Ohio St.	Temple	Notre Dame	Michigan St.
Gary Parish, CBS	Ohio St.	SD St.	Kansas	Wisconsin

March Madness tip times

From CBSSports.com

Following are the tip times for the FIRST FOUR games, as well as the announce and production team assignments for the second-round games.

Tip times for the third-round games on Saturday will be announced on Thursday after the conclusion of the day’s games. Sunday’s tip times will be released after the conclusion of play on Friday.

Fans will also be able to access the games through NCAA March Madness on Demand. NCAA March Madness on Demand will provide live streaming video of every game of the new 68-team tournament as they are broadcast by CBS Sports and Turner Sports.

FIRST ROUND GAMES

TUESDAY, MARCH 15

6:40, truTV, Dayton -- UNC Asheville vs. UALR (Nantz/Kellogg/Kerr)

9:10, truTV, Dayton -- UAB vs. Clemson (Nantz/Kellogg/Kerr)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16

6:40, truTV, Dayton -- UTSA vs. Alabama St. (Gus Johnson/LenElmore)

9:10, truTV, Dayton -- Southern California vs. VCU(Johnson/Elmore)

SECOND ROUND GAMES

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17 (12:00 Noon-5:00 , ET)

12:15, CBS, Tampa -- West Virginia vs. UAB/Clemson (Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel)

12:40, truTV, Wash. D.C. -- Butler vs. Old Dominion (Tim Brando/Mike Gminski)

1:40, TBS, Denver--I Louisville vs. Morehead St. (Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery)

2:10, TNT, Tucson -- Temple vs. Penn St. (Kevin Harlan/Reggie Miller/Dan Bonner)

****

2:45, CBS, Tampa -- Kentucky vs. Princeton (Eagle/Spanarkel)

3:10, truTV, Wash. D.C. -- Pittsburgh vs. Asheville/Ark-LR (Brando/Gminski)

4:10, TBS, Denver -- Vanderbilt vs. Richmond (Lundquist/Raftery)

4:40, TNT, Tucson -- San Diego St. vs. Northern Colorado (Harlan/Miller/Bonner)

THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17 (6:30 -12:00 AM, ET)

(announce and production teams same as day games)

6:50, TBS, Tampa -- Florida vs. UC Santa Barbara

7:15, CBS, Denver -- BYU vs. Wofford

7:20, TNT, Wash D.C. -- Connecticut vs. Bucknell

7:27, truTV, Tucson -- Wisconsin vs. Belmont

****

9:20, TBS, Tampa -- UCLA vs. Michigan St.

9:45, CBS, Denver -- St. John’s vs. Gonzaga

9:45, TNT, Wash. D.C. -- Cincinnati vs. Missouri

9:57, truTV, Tucson -- Kansas St. vs. Utah St.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18 (12:00 Noon-5:00 , ET)

12:15, CBS, Tulsa -- Texas vs. Oakland (Marv Albert/Steve Kerr)

12:40, truTV, Charlotte -- Michigan vs. Tennessee (Nantz/Kellogg)

1:40, TBS, Chicago -- Notre Dame vs. Akron (Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel)

2:10, TNT, Cleveland -- George Mason vs. Villanova (Gus Johnson/Len Elmore)

****

2:45, CBS, Tulsa -- Arizona vs. Memphis (Albert/Kerr)

3:10, truTV, Charlotte -- Duke vs. Hampton (Nantz/Kellogg)

4:10, TBS, Chicago -- Texas A&M vs. Florida St. (Dedes/Wenzel)

4:40, TNT, Cleveland -- Ohio St. vs. UTSA/Alabama St. (Johnson/Elmore)

FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 17 (6:30 -12:00 AM, ET)

6:50, TBS, Tulsa -- Kansas vs. Boston U.

7:15, CBS, Charlotte -- North Carolina vs. Long Island

7:20, TNT, Chicago -- Purdue vs. St. Peter’s

7:27, truTV, Cleveland -- Xavier vs. Marquette

****

9:20, TBS, Tulsa -- UNLV vs. Illinois

9:45, CBS, Charlotte -- Washington vs. Georgia

9:50, TNT, Chicago -- Georgetown vs. Southern California/VCU

9:57, truTV, Cleveland -- Syracuse vs. Indiana St.

Bracket tips, strategy and advice to win your office pool

Before we get started, a hat tip to R.J. Bell at Pregame.com for the historical percentages below. (Twitter: @RJinVegas)

Don’t even bother with a No. 16 seed upset, they’ve never won in the Tournament. No. 15 seeds have only won four times, and No. 13 and No. 14 seeds win less than 20 percent of the time.

It’s fun to look like you’re a risk taker, but Thelma in accounting won’t even take those risks.

While we get started, go ahead and advance the No. 1 seeds to the third round. Sure, Kansas lost last year, and Kentucky in 2004 lost in the second round. But the odds are with you to go chalk here.

But pick out a couple No. 12 seeds. They’ve won at least one game in 20 of 22 years. Look at Richmond or Memphis as the best candidates here. Vanderbilt has lost early before, and Memphis turned it on late in the C-USA tournament. Go ahead and push those underdogs through to the second round. The No. 12 and 10 seeds win more than half of the time in the second round.

No. 9 seeds have won 54 percent of their games, so here’s another spot to pick out at least two possibilities.

Only once in 26 years have all 12 top seeds (1-3) made the Sweet 16. Along those lines, a double-digit seed has made 24 of the last 26 Sweet 16s. In this category, I like Missouri’s draw to beat Cincinnati and a UConn team that could have peaked in the Big East tournament. Also check out Utah State. The Aggies have only lost three times, the only team with that few losses outside of the top 10.

Don’t get too cozy with seeds No. 13-16, they win less than one percent of the time in the second round.

In the third round, more No. 1 seeds make the Elite 8 than No. 5 seeds who win period. This is where you get into the No. 10 seeds and better. Twenty four No. 11 seeds or worse have made the Sweet 16, and only one has advanced.

Pick one or two No. 1 seeds to the Final Four, because odds are that no more than two will make it to Houston.

No need to roll the dice after that. Only two of 104 Final Four teams have been seeded worse than No. 8. No team worse than a No. 6 seed has made the championship game in the last 25 years.

Need a tiebreaker in the championship? For 22 straight years, a No. 4 seed or better has cut down the nets.

Enjoy, and if Thelma beats you in the office pool, don’t blame me.

Big Dance Preview: Tidbits and Nuggets For March Madness

Selection Sunday is now behind us, and it’s time to brush up on your bracket tips, figure out when to reserve couch time and find little nuggets to impress your co-workers.

Forget the days when Greg Gumbel and the New York executives bounced you from regional game to national game. This year, all of the Tournament games will be shown as “national” games on CBS, TNT, TBS and TruTV because of a partnership between CBS and Turner. The companies spent $10.8 billion for the rights to broadcast the three-week tournament for 14 years

Big Dance Preview: Tidbits and Nuggets For March Madness

Welcome to March Madness, Gus Johnson-style

There are few games or people that usher in March Madness other than Gus Johnson and a buzzer beater. We were treated to the following this afternoon in the Pac-10 championship between Arizona and Washington. Isaiah Thomas and Gus do the honors. Enjoy.

SEC Spring Football Preview: West Has Plenty of QB Questions

For the second straight year, the SEC West was home to the national champion. And four of the six teams won at least 10 games, not including Mississippi State, which went 9-4.

This spring, every team but LSU is looking at a new quarterback, especially Arkansas and Auburn, who each lost one of the top four quarterbacks in the NFL Draft. There are a lot of areas to address this spring for every team.

SEC Spring Football Preview: West Has Plenty of QB Questions

SEC Spring Football Preview: East Has Work To Do

The SEC East had a season of firsts in 2010, from Florida’s unusual five-loss campaign, to South Carolina’s historic trip to the SEC Championship game.

This spring, the East has two new coaches in Vanderbilt’s James Franklin and Florida’s Will Muschamp. It also sees Georgia’s new strength and conditioning philosophy.

The bottom line is every team in the division had at least five losses last season, and four suffered at least seven losses. So there are a lot of areas to address this spring for every team.

SEC Spring Football Preview: East Has Work To Do

Texas coach gives birth, leads team to state | ajc.com

Texas coach gives birth, leads team to state | ajc.com

If you think you're tough, or busy, try this one on for size.

A Texas high school girls basketball coach coached her team to a win in a regional semifinal, then gave birth, then coached her team to another win.

Amber Branson of Lipan High, a school of 400 students 90 miles west of Dallas, even did it without an epidural. The state tournament game was too important to miss. She went back to the hospital after her team came from 15 points down to win, and later the team took a picture with baby Leslie.