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GoDaddy Spokesman and occasional auto racer Danica Patrick is seen below, learning about the differences between IndyCar and NASCAR fans.

I’ve descended upon Las Vegas for what is one of the best weekends in sports, and one of the biggest weekends in Sin City. There’s more energy coming from the sportsbooks then you’ll find in any of the arenas hosting tournament games.

The only place in America that probably had more people on the feet screaming in celebration when Murray State’s Danero Thomas’ buzzer beating jumpshot landed, knocking off 4-seed Vanderbilt, was where ever the hell Murray State is.

I’m being told it’s Kentucky. Murray, Kentucky.

People like rooting for an underdog, but they really like rooting for an underdog when they’ve thrown some cash on them.

Along with Murray State, the Monarchs of Old Dominion also pulled off a first round upset, beating Notre Dame 51-50. Villanova was able to avoid what would have been the biggest surprise of the tournament, needing overtime to beat some guy named Robert Morris.

You know what underdog didn’t provide a scare? The one I bet recklessly on — North Texas. Read the rest of this entry »

For a change of pace, someone in baseball got caught for drugs that are not formally classified as performance enhancing. Texas

"You! Get me some coke!"

Rangers manager Ron Washington apologized yesterday for using cocaine last season, something that did not do anything to help energize the team to an AL West victory.

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Exclusive video showing the reaction of CBS and ESPN executives upon finding out that Tiger Woods will return at the Masters.

This has nothing to do with sports. It’s just the weirdest pic I’ve seen all day. Enjoy. Please don’t.

Michael David Barrett, the guy who peephole recorded Erin Andrews in the nude, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. He will spend that time forced to peephole record Chris Berman taking a dump.

There will be plenty of time to speculate on how to win your bracket, faced off against the guy with seventy different sheets and or the one who picks based on the pre-war slightly racist mascot (St. John’s isn’t in). But for now, let’s just talk about the beginning, crafting your final four.

Pick Duke and don’t pick Kansas.

The Jayhawks were the number one overall seed, and were rewarded with the most difficult bracket to deal with. The number two seed could have been a number one and features arguably the best player in the country in Evan Turner. The number three seed nearly won the Big East. The number four seed co-championed the ACC. The number five seed is coached by Tom Izzo.

The Blue Devils don’t have the same kind of talent that KU does, but get the following draw: Villanova, who has been falling apart as of late, Baylor, who finished third in a schizophrenic Big 12, and Purdue, who lost their best player and is playing with house money at this point. No one else is good.

And yes, it’s a conspiracy.

Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras were on the court again but this time it was for charity. Just a meaningless doubles match alongside Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. No need to bust out their competitive spirits and bring up personal issues, right?

Sure, these guys are rivals and all but come on, it’s for Haiti. It’s going to be a great time, lots of laughs and will definitely won’t get ugly out there, right?

Actually it did get ugly. Sam Cassell ugly.

Eight tennis greats got together in Indian Wells, CA Friday night in an event dubbed “Hit for Haiti.” The event brought in a sold out crowd and $1 million for the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund but will best be remembered as “that charity game where Sampras fired a serve at Agassi’s head” or “that time when Agassi and Sampras got really personal during an exhibition tennis match.”

Along with admitting to using Meth and wearing a wig in his autobiography, Open, which was released last year, Agassi also revealed that his rival was a bad tipper. Andre decided that a charity event for a third world nation nearly destroyed by an earthquake would be a fantastic time to, once again, mention Pete’s cheapness.

Sampras reportedly, wasn’t too happy about the book and judging by the ball he aimed at Agassi’s dome, he wasn’t all that thrilled with his gratuity habits being brought up in front of 16,000 fans either.

Thanks to YouTube, we can all sit back and watch, or at least try to watch. It’s pretty painful at times.

Want more on the Agassi/Sampras exhibition gone awfully wrong? Fanhouse’s Greg Couch, who I hear is a fantastic tipper, has you covered.

The most commonly heard phrase at DUI checkpoints is undoubtedly, “I swear I’ve never done this before.” Most cops, judges, and AA sponsors will agree that most people who get caught are driving while hammered quite routinely, setting up a glorious ‘matter-of-time- situation that those more religious than myself would call fate. The same is true of drug overdoses. If you follow the wise words of Dr. Drew Pinsky on one of his several hundred rehab shows, you’ll know the deaths of Brittany Murphy, Heath Ledger, and Len Bias were probably not their maiden forays into chemical fun-times.

Is the same true of rapists?

The Ben Roethlisberger story has implications so far reaching that it’s still too early to truly examine all of them. But we’ll start with what we already know.

Ben’s kind of an idiot, dense as lead to warning signs and close calls. We knew this after he smashed the hell out of his face after getting tossed off a motorcycle and he immediately said through tons of gauze, “I don’t think its as much of a risk as people make it out to be” and vowed to continue riding sans helmet. So it’s within his insane judgment to, Nevada accusations still fresh, put himself in a similar position. That’s the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is after getting nearly busted for rape (despite Harrah’s attempts to cover it up), he decided to rape somebody else.

If this is true, then it’s his second time. That sort of erases the “in a moment of weakness”/ “bad judgement” defenses reserved for one-time offenders. If guilty, Roethlisberger is a rapist. That’s what he does. Not a guy who made a mistake, but an honest, card-carrying sex offender who enjoys his craft.

The next element is his excuse, and it’s not a great one. He admitted sexual contact with his accuser. ‘There was sexual contact, but not intercourse.’ He apparently went to the Bill Clinton Memorial School of Innuendo. And then stated that the victim fell down and hit her head. He moonlighted at the Battered Wife From The 50s Academy for Poor Excuses and Needlepoint. He trotted out two Pittsburgh area police officers, who were not there in an official capacity but as friends and fellow partiers of Roethlisberger. While this may have worked as a character stunt, neither one of them saw or could recognize his accuser. But Ben already said there was some contact. So what’s the point of bringing up character witnesses who didn’t see something that has been confirmed as happening?

Finally, Roethlisberger has hired big shot defender Ed Garland, the same guy who famously defended Ray Lewis in the 2000 murder trial of the same name. Here’s the trick, you don’t hire a guy like Garland if you’ve done nothing wrong. Ray Lewis didn’t commit murder, but he was definitely there when two of his buddies did. Roethlisberger was alone in a bathroom with his accuser; how’s the third man defense going to work here, Martin Vale?

There aren’t charges yet, but Ben’s got a prominent defense attorney and ESPN, who steered clear of the previous allegation for fear of losing access to Roethlisberger as a spokesman and interviewee, is all over this as well. We won’t know for a while what actually happened, but Adam “Pacman” Jones was suspended from the league for far less than this, and he wasn’t charged either. Stay tuned, because one accusation wasn’t enough to stop Roethlisberger from cruising. Maybe he’ll go for the hat trick.

Angels center fielder Torii Hunter who says he “doesn’t have a racist bone in my body” is trying to spit his foot out of his mouth after a USA TODAY roundtable discussion where he confirmed to the public that he’s an idiot.

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