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When I think of outstanding basketball coaches, names such as Bobby Knight, Gerry Tarkanian, John Thompson, and Mike Krzyzewski immediately come to mind. These were the names synonymous with legacy from my generation in the...

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0.95 percent. According to ESPN Stats & Info, that’s the percentage of ESPN’s 8.15 million brackets in which Florida Gulf Coast University was selected to reach the Sweet Sixteen. Less than one percent, yet here...

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After nearly 33 years of covering the University of New Mexico basketball team, beat writer and Loboland.com editor Dennis Latta has had enough of the team’s losing ways. The recent upset to No. 14 Harvard...

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The Madness Continues

March 23, 2013

March is fever month for college basketball. The first round featured the nation’s top 64 teams competing for the NCAA title game in early April, where one of four teams will win it all in...

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Who’s to say that the leader of the free world can’t take a moment to have a little fun? President Barack Obama has recently unveiled his March Madness bracket for the fifth consecutive year as...

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Angry Welker Fans Burn Jerseys Last week after LA Dodger Carl Crawford finally opened up about his adversity with the media while working in Boston, one  main question was asked: “Are Boston fans too tough...

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Selection Sunday has passed and we now have a full list of matchups for the 2013 NCAA tournament that will begin on March 19 and end on April 8. There are some big matchups this...

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Back in 1982, then-21-year-old Dale Dunbar was down on his luck. Dunbar had played one season of college hockey at Boston University, but a family tragedy had Dunbar feeling sorry for himself during his freshman...

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Forty years. That’s 40 different Boston University hockey teams, 40 years of incoming freshmen who probably didn’t know what they were getting into and 40 years of graduating seniors who probably wished they could play...

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The UMass-Lowell River Hawks are Hockey East champions only two years removed from a four-win season. How they engineered such a turnaround. ...

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