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Neon Waters Run Deep

adidas's new college basketball uniforms are just a dumb thing to look at and crack some jokes about. But the only compensation the athletes wearing them get is the enjoyment of the enhanced comfort provided by the breakthrough wicking polymers. Full story

Twenty-Four Straight Hours of College Basketball Destroyed My Mind

An endless parade of crimson-lipped cheerleaders and reptilian coaches began to bleed together, and all the games merged into a single, massive, all-consuming monstrosity of competition whose sole purpose was to wear me down. Here, in the cruel light of day, the spectacle of 24 s… Full story

This Week in Balls - April 9, 2012

Tim Tebow drew 15,000 people when he spoke at a Texas church on Easter Sunday. There is no word yet on whether he turned water into wine. Full story

Olive the Hairless Cat Picks March Madness - The Final Four

Look, we've got this hairless cat and these items representing mascots of the final remaining teams. What else are we supposed to do with them? Full story

This Week in Balls - March 26

Balls are on the tip of everyone's tongue this week as March Madness widdles down to the final four and Tim Tebow becomes a Jet. Full story

This Week in Balls - March 19

There are big balls to discuss this week. We look at March Madness upsets, Italians overrunning the NFL, and the Net's shiny new arena. Full story

The Mercy Rule

The Good Kind of Bad

March Madness is not the sort of thing that can be reasoned with, or through. You fall into it, like a David Lynch movie, or a conversation, or a bad habit. Full story

Olive the Hairless Cat Picks March Madness Winners, Part 1

Some media outlets enlist entire staffs of college basketball experts and “bracketologists” to pick NCAA tournament games. We hired a hairless cat. Full story

The Mercy Rule

The Old College Try

The NCAA Tournament is often terrible basketball, but even bad basketball is better than anything else when it is played by emotional teenagers from the boonies, chasing a futile dream. Full story