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NCAA Tournament Expected to Show All Games in Entirety
By Evan Hilbert - AOL NewsTelevision has finally figured out how to broadcast the NCAA tournament. CBS and Turner Sports will announce Thursday that there will basically be basketball from noon to midnight at the start of the tourney, abandoning the lull in the early evening in the opening rounds. Instead of bunching the games together throughout the day, the four networks -- CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV -- will stagger the games so that each can be seen in its entirety. The now-defunct system only allowed a slight stagger so that only the endings of each game were viewable. So go the days of the cut-away and live ...
Camel Wrestling a Saliva-Soaked Tradition
By David Moye - AOL News(April 7) -- Tiger Woods may be the big thing at the Masters Tournament this week, but in rural parts of Turkey and Afghanistan, many of the locals are still more interested in camels. That's because folks from Kabul to Istanbul are big followers of the ancient sport of camel wrestling, which is as popular as the Masters or the NCAA Final Four are in America. Of course, animal rights supporters find the ancient sport deplorable. Mustafa Najafizada, AP Camels go hump-to-hump in this March 22 event in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Mostly a winter sport, camel ...
March Madness: A Hit Everywhere Except the Stands
By Jon Weinbach - AOL NewsSure, Thursday's first round NCAA Tournament games were incredibly entertaining and kept millions of viewers tuned to CBS's TV and online coverage. But when it comes to actual attendance at the arenas ... they were duds. Several venues, including the New Orleans Arena, the Ford Center in Oklahoma City and the HP Pavilion in San Jose, had huge swaths of empty seats, and at Kentucky's game against East Tennessee in New Orleans, the 17,000-seat arena was barely half-full. "Every game we've played on the road has been a sellout," said Kentucky coach John Calipari. "We've had no empty seats until ...
Sloan Is A&M's Rock as Aggies Roll
By Terrance Harris - AOL NewsAsk anyone in the Big 12 and they'll be quick to tell you the heart and determination Texas A&M senior guard Donald Sloan plays with is almost uncanny. Sloan will tell you he's learned from the best. He had the privilege of watching some of the most poised basketball players in the college game lead the Aggies during his first three years: Acie Law, Joe Jones, Dominique Kirk and Josh Carter.Sloan was there that night soaking it all up as Law fired the buzzer-beat 3-point shot against then No. 6 Kansas in Feb. 2007 that gave the Big 12 South its first win in Allen Fieldhouse."Those guys played ...
Regrouped Texas A&M Back On a Roll
By Terrance Harris - AOL NewsWell before the season began, it seemed like Texas A&M's year was going to be more about what the Aggies lost than what they had coming back, particularly with the early departure of emerging center Chinemelu Elonu to the pros. Things only seemed to get worse when the Aggies' best defender, Derrick Roland, went down with a career-ending severely broken leg in December at Washington. But instead of dwelling on what has been lost, A&M has more than made do with what has remained. And because of that, the Aggies (17-6, 6-3 Big 12) have become one of the most surprising teams in the Big 12 this ...
UNC Looms as Villain in MSU Fairy Tale
By Jay Mariotti - AOL NewsDETROIT -- Maybe it's his folksy arrogance, the Huckleberry Hound-with-an-attitude rub. Maybe it was the way he lectured TV reporter Bonnie Bernstein, saying, "I could give a (bleep) about Carolina right now" when she asked about his future plans after his 2003 national title-game loss. Maybe it was the Kansas button he wore last year, a weird show of allegiance for an ex-employer in the championship game after the Jayhawks had whipped his Tar Heels. Or maybe America simply is growing weary of North Carolina, the powder bluebloods who dominate April like azaleas at Augusta and fools on the ...
Plenty of Motivation for Spartans, Heels
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- Somewhere on the Road to the Final Four, which once it finally gets to this championship round is called The Road Ends Here, should have been some guys holding placards that read: "Hooping for a Cause."They should've been wearing Michigan State green and North Carolina blue. They should've been Spartans and Tar Heels led by Tom Izzo and Roy Williams. They should've been the two teams that survived to Monday night's title game.Most survivors to the championship game are motivated simply by the title of champion at the end of the journey. These two teams are as well. What They Have to ...
Tough Carolina Digs Its Heels In
By Kevin B. Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- If you really think about it, to call the North Carolina basketball team Tar Heels has always been more of an oxymoron. Michael Jordan. Walter Davis. Bob McAdoo. Vince Carter. James Worthy. On and on. You think of them and you think smooth. You think finesse. You think of a pretty way of playing.It isn't that Jordan and Carter and lots of other North Carolina basketball players weren't tough, but you don't think of them as the 19th century North Carolinians who burned trees into black muck, or tar, that they then spread on the bottom of boats. You don't think of them as part of that ...
Tough Carolina Digs Its Heels In
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- If you really think about it, to call the North Carolina basketball team Tar Heels has always been more of an oxymoron. Michael Jordan. Walter Davis. Bob McAdoo. Vince Carter. James Worthy. On and on. You think of them and you think smooth. You think finesse. You think of a pretty way of playing.It isn't that Jordan and Carter and lots of other North Carolina basketball players weren't tough, but you don't think of them as the 19th century North Carolinians who burned trees into black muck, or tar, that they then spread on the bottom of boats. You don't think of them as part of that ...
Green Dream Soothes Ailing City, State
By Jay Mariotti - AOL NewsDETROIT -- On command, when a local kid named Durrell Summers lifted off and nearly decapitated Stanley Robinson with a vicious dunk, a moving wave of green-swept humanity rose and rocked. Yes, your honor, this was a ridiculous homecourt advantage, a home-FIELD advantage of about 45,000 local crazies in a 72,500-seat football stadium, an advantage in ways freakishly unprecedented in the fiercely neutral extravaganza known as the Final Four.Ford Field is guilty as charged.And not a soul with a conscience should complain about it. Final: Michigan State 82, UConn 73 | Final: UNC 83, Villanova 69 ...
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