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Wash U's Dylan Richter Drafted by Harlem Globetrotters

He helped the Washington University Bears win the 2009 NCAA Division III National Championship, was named the University Athletic Association Player of the Year and is a DIII All-Star. Now Dylan Richter has a new distinction: He's the latest member of the Harlem Globetrotters. The basketball team ... More >>

Billikens Baseball Scores National Ranking

It's already been a pretty good year for the Saint Louis University Billikens. For the first time since 2000 the basketball team made a trip to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Men's Division I National Championship tournament and, for good measure, upset Memphis in the first round. Now ... More >>

March Madness Game Preview: SLU Billikens vs. Memphis Tigers

​I wrote a print edition article this week, looking at the brackets in the NCAA Tournament, doing some complaining about the selection committee's seeding choices, and previewing the road the Missouri Tigers will have to travel -- through the first couple rounds, at least -- if they want to get th ... More >>

St. Louis Novice Golden Gloves Tournament Results

It's fight week. Just five days until Devon Alexander and Marcos Maidana square off at Scottrade. But one shouldn't just jump right into the spectacle when the robes are off and the bell rings. Big time prizefights are best enjoyed with due time, heavy lead-ups to build up the hype and sufficiently ... More >>

Attorney General Sues Gridiron Fantasy Sports; Company Operated in Chesterfield

Dustin Ashby ran fantasy leagues while working as UMSL's golf coach.​Attorney general Chris Koster today filed suit against Dustin Ashby, a former golf coach at University of Missouri - St. Louis, and his company, Gridiron Fantasy Sports, for allegedly defrauding Missouri consumers by failing to p ... More >>

It's the Independence Bowl For the Tigers

Sorry, I don't know what an Advocare 100 is either. Go ask your mother. ​The NCAA football bowl schedule has been set, with LSU and Alabama set for a rematch of the dullest, ugliest game you've ever seen in your life to determine which school gets to have their championship trophy taken away in an ... More >>

Frank Haith Has a Problem (And So Does University of Missouri)

Frank Haith in his Miami days, which just might be coming back to haunt him. ​There's one hell of a giant situation brewing in South Florida, where the University of Miami is currently dealing with some very serious allegations about some very serious NCAA rules violations. See, there's this ... More >>

Fahey Is First D-III Coach to Be Inducted Into Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Danny Reise/Washington University​We've been big fans lately of the Washington University women's hoops team, which has dominated the NCAA's Division III National Tournament for several years. This week, the team's coach, Nancy Fahey, earned some well-deserved props when it was announced that ... More >>

Webster Vies For D-3 College World Series Bid

Conference Player of the Year Anthony Gemma​The Webster University baseball team pulled off an upset this week in the 2011 NCAA Division III South Regional Championship tournament by knocking off No. 1 seed Christopher Newport, the No. 2-ranked team in the nation by D3baseball.com. After dropp ... More >>

Jacob Tucker: Kid From Illinois College Is Slam Dunk Phenom

The Post-Dispatch today has a nice profile on Jacob Tucker, a student at the Division III school of Illinois College who recently won the NCAA's slam dunk contest. Here's a video that the five-foot-eleven-inch Tucker and his friends made that got over four million YouTube views and earned him an inv ... More >>

At Last, Playoff Hockey

Break the Ice

Dribbling Down the Road Well Traveled

Study: Black Mizzou Hoopsters Graduate FAR Less Often Than Their White Counterparts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkhansen/ / CC BY 2.0Graduation rates for white vs. black players = out of whack​Here are some alarming race-related stats, released this week, to keep in mind as March Madness invades your thoughts and the entire universe. According to a study of 64 teams in the men ... More >>

Sweet! The Sixteen Best Player Names in the 2010 NCAA Tournament

​Let the Madness begin! Mizzou is dancing (despite their stumble in the Big 12 tournament) but unfortunately the slipper did not fit for the SLU Billikens, who were pummeled by Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 tournament and left out of even the lowly NIT, where they could have faced an Illinois te ... More >>

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 ar ... More >>

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. T ... More >>

Female Final Four Frolics

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 poli ... More >>

From Downtown!

The MVC Men's Championship

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/Glend ... More >>

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

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

Downtown Takedown

The bench empties at controversial Milestone Christian Academy

Big Man on Campus

Sit back and marvel as Rick Majerus hoists SLU basketball from the morass of mediocrity. (Just don't let him near your pizza.)

Get Pucked Up!

Masked men seem to be a real fetish in Mexico.

Are we supposed to be turned on?

Bracketology

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

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season college hoops smashed the color barrier

Full Court Pressure

College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight.

Bench the Billiken

Unreal seeks divine inspiration at the Pulpit Masters audition and laments the pending prohibition of the SLU Billiken. Plus, our newest feature: Somebody Buy my Crap!

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

Classic Cosmopolitan

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Finally!

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

These Are the Wurst of Times

And that's the best of times

Return of the Taller Ballers

SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

Kickin' It

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

Bobs and Weaves

You gotta have style at Spring Bling '04

Some Strings Attached

Gateway Kite Club flies again

Best College Athlete

Brad Smith
University of Missouri

The Loss Within

Before stunning defeat, Wash. U.'s Robin Lahargoue blew out a knee, ending solitary sacrifice for a team that defines gender difference in athletics

What Is the Most Attractive Part of Your Anatomy?

Published the week of August 9-15, 2000

IT'S THE SHOES, IT MUST BE THE SHOES

In college athletics, the kids live under the rules and the coaches and shoe companies rule

DECEMBER MADNESS

College "scandals" expose hypocrisy of NCAA cartel

Short Cuts