Your NCAA Champion Kansas Jayhawks [NCAA Championship]

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 Your NCAA Champion Kansas Jayhawks [NCAA Championship]
You have to admire a national championship game in which most of the final possessions late in regulation are fast breaks. In a relentlessly entertaining national championship game, the Kansas Jayhawks win their first national championship in 20 years. Bill Self gets his title, and Mario Chalmers secures his place in highlight shows until the end of time. What a freaking shot. Last week, ... [link]

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THREE PARTING THOUGHTS ON ONE SHINING MOMENT 2008
Published 4/8/2008 by eirishis at Thirtyfive Seconds
... bloggers vs. MSM war, but last night’s game provided a perfect example of how it is often a blogger who gets the story right. Every where we looked this morning, writers zoomed in on Memphis’ notoriously terrible free throw shooting as their raison de la mort. Gary Parrish at Sportsline? Free throws. Andy Katz at ESPN? Free throws. Weintraub and Feinstein? Inter alia, free throws. Even usually top level blogs, like Deadspin and Rush the Court, fell for the party line. We aren’t saying that ...

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