Twitter: Championship Fortnight begins today with first-round action in the Big South, Ohio Valley and Horizon League. w00t! March Madness, baby!
Twitter: It’s a huge week on the men’s NCAA bubble, including Wednesday’s UConn-ND clash at the Joyce Center: http://bit.ly/czuQig.
The UConn women’s basketball team routed #6 Notre Dame at the Joyce Center tonight, 76-51, earning their 69th straight victory — all of them by double-digit margins, even though the Huskies routinely play Top 10 teams — and finishing their second straight undefeated regular season. UConn will tie its own record for longest winning streak in women’s NCAA history (70)… Read more »
Turns out the guy in those Old Spice commericials used to play football for the Sun Devils. (Helmet tip: Ted Miller.)
Twitter: Putin: Olympic failures are “not cause to throw up our hands, wear a sackcloth and ashes or beat ourselves with chains” http://bit.ly/cUQNKq
Do you think Canadians are a little bit excited about aboot their big hockey win yesterday? If the moving scene of an entire stadium singing “O Canada” at the top of its collective lungs wasn’t enough to convince you, here’s a look at some of today’s newspaper front pages, via the Newseum: More after the jump.
NASA has released a pair of spectacular full-globe images of the Earth, updated versions of the famous “Blue Marble” shot from Apollo 17. These are “the most detailed true-color images of the entire Earth to date.” Awesome. (In the literal meaning of the word.) Eastern Hemisphere after the jump.