Sports By Brooks points us to this story that was featured in the Greensboro News & Record, detailing the ACC's reluctance to openly embrace its gay female fan base. The story, written by Robert Bell, ran Sunday (even though the women's ACC tournament was held March 5-8th — Maryland won, btw) ...

TALLAHASSEE, AP–Bobby Bowden appealed to the NCAA to include wins from his past before. He may have to do it again. Florida State will appeal the NCAA ruling in an academic fraud case including the vacating of 14 wins, but should the University lose the appeal Bowden will likely try a new tack...

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap Cleveland State upset 16th-ranked Butler 57-54 for the Horizon League title. Cleveland State hasn't appeared in the tournament since 1986, so they're just bursting with Viking pride...

Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

Selection Sunday is ... Sunday! That means we must begin the time-honored tradition of Deadspin's patent-pending NCAA Tournament Preview Capsules. Once again, we would like to showcase three interesting tidbits about each school participating in the men's basketball tournament that begins ... holy c...

I know phrases like "four-year probation" and "vacated wins" sounds really bad for Florida State, but the truth is that their punishment is a weak response that doesn't fit the crime. Let's look at what penalties they got from the NCAA: • Public reprimand and censure. Oh no! Your words sting m...

Thumbing through the 800-page, recently passed-in-the-middle-of-the-night American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as the Stimulus package, I wanted to see if I could find some of those 9,000 earmarks it supposedly contained. (Don't worry--I didn't read the WHOLE thing, but again, nei...

Another award winning Fantoo Girls podcast is ready and waiting for your ears to arrive. And nestled within is the NCAA Bracket Bet reveal. Come the end of March one Girl will have to go where no Girl should. Take a listen…but before you do please weigh in our lofty goal of convincing Roger Go...

March Madness is less than a month away, and sports fans are snapping up tickets to watch men’s and women’s NCAA basketball teams battle their way to the Final Four. Projected brackets are going online, with speculation about likely picks and the prospects of finding a Cinderella team in the fie...

Problem: Texting has been banned between coaches and athletes by the NCAA since 2007. Solution: Twitter. I was working on something completely unrelated and it just occurred to me that Twitter would be a really powerful tool for recruiting scholarship athletes at major colleges. It might even be mor...