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  • April 11, 2013
    The Man Who Mistook Mitch McGary for Shaq, or Meet Your Classical Bracket Achievers Champion — The Clog

    Joe Karas works in a laboratory in Boston and doesn't watch much college basketball. But he knew enough to dominate this year's Classical Bracket Achievers contest. Get to know your college hoops overlord.

  • April 9, 2013
    Better Ingredients, Better Hangover: Checking In With Louisville Superfan Papa John Schnatter — The Clog

    A lot of people were happy when Louisville won the NCAA Championship on Monday night. Some of those people presumably had some drinks to celebrate. Papa John Schnatter was one of them.

  • April 9, 2013
    The Jeremy Lin Book Club

    A little over a year after it took over New York and induced a month-long high-five orgy, we're still trying to figure out Linsanity. Robert Silverman and Jim Cavan, two of the authors of the new book "We'll Always Have Linsanity," may not quite have figured it out, but they did enjoy themselves (and learn some stuff) in the process of looking back.

  • April 8, 2013
    Slurve On: Michael B. Dougherty On Leaving Political Journalism For Baseball — The Clog

    Michael Brendan Dougherty has written about politics for a long time. Long enough that he's now decided he'd rather get up at 4am every day to write about baseball.

  • April 1, 2013
    Yakkin' About Baseball: Lucas Duda and the Infinite Sadness

    It's Opening Day: a day to summon hope where possible and delusion where necessary, bust on Shane Victorino out of reflex, and try not to make eye contact with the Arizona Diamondbacks. A hugely digressive and mostly useless season preview, in dialogue form.

  • March 26, 2013
    Yakkin' About Florida Gulf Coast University: The Movie — The Clog

    The very term "Cinderella Team" is a reminder of the cinematic aspect that's inherent to NCAA Tournament upstarts. But in the case of Florida Gulf Coast University, an epic upstart with a beachfront location, casting the movie adaptation is almost too easy. The hard part is traveling back in time to 1985 to make it.

  • March 25, 2013
    Time Traveling with Doug Gottlieb — The Clog

    In loving memory of the strange, short-lived ghost Twitter feed of supremely opinionated CBS Sports basketball commentator Doug Gottlieb. File under: MAJOR SCOOPS.

  • March 21, 2013
    ...Like a Dolphin Needs a Helmet — The Clog

    There's no real reason why the dolphin in the Miami Dolphins logo needed to be wearing a football helmet. But that doesn't mean there's a reason for the Dolphins' new logo to take that helmet off. Will no one think of the aquatic mammals?

  • March 21, 2013
    Our Giant: Yakkin' About Sim Bhullar, Doleful March Madness Galoot

    Sim Bhullar is 20 years old, 7-5, 355 pounds and plays with a unique and persistent sleepiness. He is maybe the weirdest and certainly one of the most bizarrely watchable players in the NCAA Tournament. In short, he's someone worth talking about.

  • March 18, 2013
    Prognostication Station: Classical Bracket Achievers Is Back — The Clog

    Join us, won't you, in the annual college basketball-related bracket humiliation ritual? You just might learn something about the limits of your knowledge and the futility of information in the face of college basketball-related randomness. But, like, in a fun way.