Subject: National Collegiate Athletic Association

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• The early days of "Psycho T" Tyler Hansbrough in Poplar Bluff

  March 26, 2008

• The early days of "Psycho T" Tyler Hansbrough in Poplar Bluff

  March 26, 2008

• Larry Hughes: URL All-Star

  January 8, 2008

• Female Final Four Frolics

  April 1, 2009

• St. Louis Eliminated from Final Four: 2012-2016

  The NCAA announced this morning the cities that will host the Final Four from 2012 to 2016, and St. Louis isn't one of them. From the press release: The committee received bid proposals from 10 cities – Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, North Texas, Phoenix/Glendale, San Antonio and St. Louis, all of which were named finalists. March 30, 2005 RFT insert. The last time St. Louis hosted the final rounds of the men's college basketball tournament was in 200

  November 19, 2008

• Local College Hoops: A Rundown on The Rundown

  So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushover like "Lugnut Tech State A&M."Working off a combination of Lunardi's projection, the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, and pure speculation, here comes the first ever Rundown ranking of the top ten l

  January 13, 2009

• Wash U. Bears Return to Div. III Tourney as Reigning Champs

  bearsports.wustl.eduCoach Edwards takes Wash U. to another Div. III tourney.With all the noise being made these days about the Mizzou Tigers, Blues hockey and Cardinals spring training, arguably the best sports team in St. Louis is wrapping up its season virtually unnoticed.The Washington University men's basketball team scored a 72-49 victory over University of Chicago last weekend to conclude its regular season. The team next faces Lawrence University (19-6) this Friday night in the first roun

  March 4, 2009

• Short Cuts

  March 24, 1999

• Thursday, March 5: Morning's Newz

  Clooney chaos continues in St. Louis! The actor and crew filmed parts of "Up in the Air" last night in a downtown office building.In other news...St. Charles police have busted several bars on the city's historic Main Street for serving underage patrons. Bouncers routinely allowed a 19-year-old police informant to enter nightclubs without checking her ID. Across the other river, in East St. Louis, police are investigating the burglary of the home of the late choreographer Katherine Dunham. Thiev

  March 5, 2009

• Mizzou and SLU: Ending On a Low Note

  Over the weekend, both the Missouri Tigers and the Billikens of Saint Louis University closed out their regular seasons in ignominious fashion. The Billikens blew a commanding lead en route to a heartbreaking loss, while the Tigers just came out flat against a Texas A&M squad that was as jazzed as I've ever seen a basketball team. 

  March 9, 2009

• Men and Women's Wash U. Bears Headed to Final Four

  wustl.eduMen's coach Mark Edwards celebrated his 500th career win earlier this season.The Washington University men's basketball team knocked off the Nos. 1 and 3 seeds last weekend in the NCAA Division III tournament to advance to the semi-finals. This year's trip to the Final Four marks the third straight season in which the men's team has survived to the final rounds of the touney. Last year's team won the championship. The Bears, seeded No. 2, take on No. 23 Guilford College on Friday at 4 p

  March 18, 2009

• Obama Predicts Early Exit for Mizzou, Illini in Tourney

  Wikimedia CommonsIn perhaps the biggest sports media coup in history, the worldwide leader got the leader of the free world to post his March Madness bracket on ESPN.com rather than the site for NCAA tournament sponsor CBS.Obama agreed to the deal way back in October during an interview with ESPN's Andy Katz and there's there's no denying that reading the president's hand-scrawled bracket, complete with indecisive strike-throughs on a few picks, is fascinating.By now you probably know that the m

  March 18, 2009

• Humane Society: Missouri Among "The Five Worst States for Exotic Pets"

  http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/white-tiger-swimming.jpgWhile the Missouri Tigers are busy clawing their way through the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Humane Society of the United States says that when it comes to keeping your neighbors from housing real, live Tigers as pets, the Show-Me State is a dangerous place to be.In a press release issued earlier this week in the wake of the high-profile chimpanzee attack in Connecticut, the organization said that Missouri, along with

  March 20, 2009

• The Dish: Hardee's Western Thickburger

  Today on the Daily RFT, my colleague Chad Garrison discussed the rather racy new Hardee's ad in which model and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi expresses her love for Hardee's Western Thickburger. Here's the commercial, which aired many times during this past weekend's NCAA basketball action: So is the Western Thickburger really so good that you want to lick dribbled sauce off your own calf?

  March 30, 2009

• IT'S THE SHOES, IT MUST BE THE SHOES

  December 22, 1999

• DECEMBER MADNESS

  December 22, 1999

• Wednesday, April 7: Morning's Newz

  Mayor Francis Slay easily won a third term yesterday, collecting 60 percent of the vote and defeating Independent challenger Maida Coleman who garnered just 30 percent of votes.In other election news, maverick Town & Country mayoral candidate John Hoffmann lost handily to incumbent Jon Dalton. Though my favorite election results occurred up in Lincoln County. That's where the dead guy trounced his challenger by a margin of 9 to 1 in the mayor's race in Winfield. Former St. Louis Fire Chief S

  April 8, 2009

• From Downtown!

  March 4, 2009

• Downtown Takedown

  March 19, 2008

• The bench empties at controversial Milestone Christian Academy

  February 20, 2008

• The Loss Within

  March 13, 2002

• Big Man on Campus

  October 17, 2007

• Arch Madness

  March 1, 2006

• Get Pucked Up!

  April 4, 2007

• Alley Cat

  Somebody forgot to tell Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies

  September 21, 2005

• Masked men seem to be a real fetish in Mexico.

  March 14, 2007

• Bracketology

  Two SLU professors say they’ve solved the world’s most challenging math problem: your office NCAA pool

  March 22, 2006

• Bet on Black

  Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

  January 11, 2006

• Full Court Pressure

  January 4, 2006

• Bench the Billiken

  August 17, 2005

• Unreal Fouls Out of the Final Four

  The beer-drinking, the game-watching, the east-side partying: We took it all in so you wouldn't have to

  April 6, 2005

• Classic Cosmopolitan

  An American Place, 822 Washington Avenue; 314-418-5800

  March 30, 2005

• Events

  March 30, 2005

• Finally!

  No tickets? You can weep outside the Edward Jones Dome -- or you can take our advice for Final Four fun.

  March 30, 2005

• These Are the Wurst of Times

  And that's the best of times

  March 16, 2005

• Fly Like an Eagle

  To Alton

  December 29, 2004

• Return of the Taller Ballers

  SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

  November 3, 2004

• Best College Athlete

  September 29, 2004

• Tallboys

  The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

  September 1, 2004

• Kickin' It

  The Street Soccer Cup USA is taking it to the, um, streets

  July 14, 2004

• Bobs and Weaves

  You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

  March 24, 2004

• Some Strings Attached

  Gateway Kite Club flies again

  March 17, 2004

• Underdogs

  Hoop dreams die hard for coach John Campbell and his Sanford-Brown Indians

  October 29, 2003

• Best College Athlete

  Brad Smith
  University of Missouri

  September 24, 2003

• Feed the Beast

  Everybody wants Hazelwood Central's Kalen Grimes and St. Louis' junior class of hoopsters. But recruiting in the city is a courtship dance and a high-maintenance affair.

  December 4, 2002

• Penalty Kick

  Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

  June 19, 2002

• What Is the Most Attractive Part of Your Anatomy?

  August 9, 2000

• Ballpark Figures: Just How Big a Cash Cow is the All-Star Game?

  flickr/photos/kwmcnuttHard to believe, but once upon a time in America the All-Star Game was a one-day affair. There was no State Farm-sponsored Home Run Derby, no Gatorade All-Star Workout Day, no FanFest, live concerts, or celebrity softball games, where ex-Hall-of-Famers flail around the old ballyard with has-been actors. Best of all, fans didn't vote, the manager of each team didn't give a rat's petunia about getting everyone into the game, and the damn thing was played

  May 7, 2009

• Memphis Basketball Fans Watched the Birth of the Pastner Era Last Night in St. Louis

  Last night at the Scottrade Center, University of Memphis basketball fans watched the birth of the Josh Pastner Era.Memphis played Kansas in the regular season game (and rematch of the '09 NCAA championship), with the Kansas edging the Tigers 57-55.Kansas was supposed to crush a scorched Memphis team, which has no John Calipari as head coach, no bench-depth and no big-name talent with a no-name coach. But the end of the game, Kansas head coach Bill Self had nothing short of relief in his eyes, a

  November 18, 2009