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But the end is already on its way, it will arrive no matter what. The end is black, all-consuming, relentless, and it is undeniable. The end will come despite therapy, over-the-counter medications, herbal teas, breathing exercises, whistling in the dark, or meditative visualizations that don't in......

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Thank you, Davidson players, coaches, staff, students and fans. It was a ride that was both sweet and elite. We'll close Season 4 with an epilogue on Tuesday. ...

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"Just Balls" could very well have been drained all of its magic on Friday night, I realize that. But in order to bolster its power, I will be wearing it with a dark green pinpoint oxford shirt to commemorate Kryptonite, the verdant hue that George Mason wore all the way to the Tournament's last w......

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Two days later, I wore the tie to the second round. George Mason clinched a spot in the Sweet 16, with a 65-60 win over North Carolina, the previous year's National Champions. It was the first inkling that the tie was some sort of talisman, so I strapped it on when I moved on along with Mason to ......

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*** As you've heard by now, or saw on TV, LeBron James was seated behind the Davidson bench. He was placed in a seating corridor between the press and the general public. Everybody else in that row had the dark blue "AA" all-access tag supplied by the NCAA and distributed by the colleges to thei......

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Differences in Overall Athletic Expenses $72,774,942 - [3] Wisconsin ($81,401,728) vs. [10] Davidson ($8,626,786)$44,100,958 - [1] UCLA ($61,309,668) vs. [12] Western Kentucky ($17,208,710)$41,054,952 - [2] Tennessee ($92,557,528) vs. [3] Louisville ($51,502,576)$40,578,788 - [5] Michigan State ......

Original Story: http://www.midmajority.com/2008/03/ncaa-mo...

Oh, there he is. It's easy to get lost in such a ginormous building. These padded-back chairs were added on the endlines on two risers, and will cost people $150 per session. This here is what will be the Davidson section. If you're a student there, you won't have to pay nearly as much. Tha......

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In front of the arena that bears his name, Edgar Allen Diddle forever waves his signature red towel (dyed so that missing ones could be easily identified as stolen elsewhere) that has become the school's logo. Diddle coached at Western for 42 years. Hey, there's Bally! If you need a history le......

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There had been talk of a one o'clock alumni celebration at the airport, but that was scrapped when the cheerleaders and band couldn't be coordinated. I called as many locals as I could (at roaming rates), and nobody knew anything. So I sat in the student union, in front of a bookstore where a shi......

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And he really didn't. Welmer has not worked a Division I game since last Wednesday, when he called an NIT first-rounder in Florida. Check the chart -- he's nowhere to be found in the NCAA Tournament so far, and my pair of games on Sunday gave me a two-game cushion heading into the regionals. Even......

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In retrospect, I wish I could send a message back to that slightly younger self... Tampa, you idiot, Tampa! But it doesn't work like that. I had no idea that I'd be walking into chalk, the lowest-attended subregional of the eight as well as the only one where the higher seeds won all six games. O......

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As for us, we continue on... the movement will not be stopped. We will be traveling to Bowling Green to take part in the celebrations and heroes' sendoff, and then we're on to Detroit to cover the Midwest Regional. There'll be plenty of thoughts, observations, pictures and Bally sightings during ......

Original Story: http://www.midmajority.com/2008/03/two-thr...

As for Gonzaga, that school we once offered backhanded respect to with a five-letter acronym, one that hasn't had a losing record in the NCAA Tournament since Dan Monson led the Zags on that miracle 1999 run to the Elite Eight (out of a No. 10 seed, you'll remember), their second straight first r......

Original Story: http://www.midmajority.com/2008/03/dave-an...

Differences in Overall Athletic Expenses $82,321,690 - [2] Tennessee ($92,557,528) vs. [7] Butler ($10,235,838)$42,885,269 - [6] Purdue ($54,322,400) vs. [3] Xavier ($11,437,131)$42,031,172 - [3] Stanford ($63,834,192) vs. [6] Marquette ($21,803,020)$41,783,728 - [3] Wisconsin ($81,401,728) vs. ......

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