Video - Mascot Fight at the 2008 Summit League Championship

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Butler Wins Horizon: How High Will the Bulldogs Be Seeded? (w/ Bonus Mascot Fight)
Published 3/12/2008 at FanIQ Blog
Jim Boeheim can breathe easy for at least another 12 hours. No bids were stolen last night. Butler 70, Cleveland St. 55 Bulldogs make it official and give the Selection Committee an awful lot of reasons to make them a 3-seed. 29-3, 18 RPI is very solid. Big negatives: lost to Drake at home, and totally blew their one storming the court opportunity. I realize they've been here before, but embrace the moment. What was that like 20 people at center court with 2/3 being male cheerleaders? Weak, Butler, weak. I suspect they end up as a 4-seed in North Carolina's bracket. Oral Roberts 71, IUPUI 64 ...

Butler Wins Horizon: How High Will the Bulldogs Be Seeded?
Published 3/12/2008 at FanIQ Blog
Jim Boeheim can breathe easy for at least another 12 hours. No bids were stolen last night. Butler 70, Cleveland St. 55 Bulldogs make it official and give the Selection Committee an awful lot of reasons to make them a 3-seed. 29-3, 18 RPI is very solid. Big negatives: lost to Drake at home, and totally blew their one storming the court opportunity. I realize they've been here before, but embrace the moment. What was that like 20 people at center court with 2/3 being male cheerleaders? Weak, Butler, weak. I suspect they end up as a 4-seed in North Carolina's bracket. Oral Roberts 71, IUPUI 64 ...

Summit League Mascots Take No Prisoners
Published 3/12/2008 at The Sporting Blog
By Spencer Hall Laugh all you like, but beneath the costume fur and smiles, the savage heart of a competitor beats in every mascot. And like some competitions do, an innocent dance contest between Eli from Oral Roberts University and Jawz from IUPUI broke out into ruthless violence at the Summit League Championship last night. Jawz came prepared, executing a hybridized o-goshi judo throw on Eli to score points and win the scorecards for IUPUI. Points should also be awarded for the men pulling the mascots apart not breaking into gales of laughter on court. HT: FanIQ ...

Oral Roberts Beats IUPUI in Summit League Title Game, Mascots Ejected for Fighting
Published 3/12/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
Filed under: Mid-Majors Basketball, March Madness, NCAA Basketball VideoOral Roberts beat IUPUI 71-64 Tuesday night to win the Summit League and advance to the NCAA Tournament, but the highlight of the game came when the mascots got into a fight: (Via Fan IQ) Jawz the Jaguar, IUPUI's mascot, has a Facebook page, but I've always been partial to Eli the Eagle, who was hatched out of a papier-mache egg before a basketball game in 1993, symbolizing a new era in Oral Roberts University athletics. Both mascots were escorted off the court after ...

Summit Mascot Fight!
Published 3/12/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
IUPUI lost to Oral Roberts in the Summit League Championship last night, but that's not where the battle was. Let's play the feud! Oh my god! That's Jawz the Jaguar's Music!!! And the belly to belly suplex! Butler Wins Horizon: How High Will the Bulldogs Be Seeded? (Fan IQ)

Another mascot fight: Jawz the Jaguar vs. Eli the Eagle
Published 3/12/2008 by PostmanR at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
This video (via FanIQ) doesn’t show the whole fight between IUPUI’s Jawz the Jaguar and Oral Roberts’ Eli the Eagle from OR’s NCAA tourney-clinching win against IUPUI last night, but the fight in its entirety is not the point here. The point here is to display the horrors of mascot violence, in an order to put an end to it. We asked for peace here; we still have not gotten in. It’s time for a bed-in or perhaps some bagism, people.

When men in giant-headed furry costumes attack
Published 3/12/2008 at The Dagger
Continuing with today's mascot theme, Oral Roberts' Eli the Eagle and IUPUI's Jawz the Jaguar got to scrappin' last night. Easy, ladies. One of you is going to break a nail.  These two are a disgrace, compared to the majestic Big Red of WKU. Big Red's way too classy to get involved in a scuffle like that, and if he had, he'd have murdered either of these sock-chewin' punks with one big red paw tied behind his back. I wonder what started this thing. On one hand, I have noticed that people named Eli have had such an arrogance and a sense of ...

College Basketball Tournaments Are Awfully Tense
Published 3/12/2008 by Chris at Intentional Foul
Just ask the mascots from Oral Roberts and IUPUI. Apparently, the drama unfolding during the game was just too much for these caricatures to handle and so they decided to let off some of the built up steam. On each other. To quote Rich Eisen, we’re playing the feud: As indicated earlier, Oral Roberts wound up beating Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (WTH kind of name is that for a school? Are you trying to confuse your students?), 74-61. However, it looks like the ORU mascot, Eli the Eagle, took the worst of that particular dust-up. H-T to ...

MASCOT FIGHT!
Published 3/12/2008 at With Leather
Last night the Summit League [the what? -Ed.] Championship was played between IUPUI [the where? -Ed.] and Oral Roberts [rabid Christian guy, right? -Ed.], and things were so contentious that even the mascots mixed it up.  Here we see Jawz the Jaguar ruining Eli the Eagle's shit... further proof that only nonsectarian eagles are tough enough to cut it on the sidelines; born-again mascots just don't have that same edge.  WARNING BAD PUN AHEAD Or, put another way: birds of prey > birds of pray! [FanIQ via Sporting Blog] 

When Mascots Go Bad
Published 3/12/2008 by josh q. public at josh q. public
Jaws the Jaguar Vs. Eli Eagle It’s all fun and games until somebody gets suplexed: Peace out homies. Six Two and Even! Tags: Jaws, the, Jaguar, Vs., Eli, Eagle, Video, Mascots, Fight Share This

Mascot Dance Off Goes Horribly Wrong
Published 3/12/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
IUPUI’s Jawz the Jaguar and Oral Roberts’ Eli the Eagle were participating in a friendly dance contest at the Summit League basketball championship when something went awry, and the two mascots suddenly began an all-out brawl with each other. We don’t have video of the whole fight, but we do have footage of Jawz opening up a can of whoop ass on Eli, courtesy of FanIQ: Nice! For those keeping score at home, that move is called the German Suplex…and although the IUPUI mascot didn’t quite pull off the move to the skill of Kurt Angle, he still got the job done. Unfortunately for Jawz, though, ...

MASCOT VIOLENCE ESCALATING OUT OF HAND
Published 3/13/2008 by The Realests at THE REALESTS
This doesn't bode well for Oral Roberts in the NCAA Tourney. That Eagle got WORKED CT-style: Note: Will these ever get old? Doubtful.

Mascots throwing down: ORU defeats IUPUI but who cares, the mascots were fighting
Published 3/13/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
Oral Roberts beat IUPUI 71-64 Tuesday night to win the Summit League and advance to the NCAA Tournament. Congrats but the real highlight of the game came when the mascots got into a fight. They were both ejected from the game and lol, this looks like a real fight. Benny the Bull could use some tips from these guys, LoL! Tags: iupui, oral roberts, mascot fight

Jawz The Jaguar Vs. Eli The Eagle: This Isn't Over! [Mascot Fights Make Baby Jesus Cry]
Published 3/13/2008 by Rick at Deadspin
What started off as a friendly dance-off between a jaguar and an eagle -- which you see so often in the wild -- turned grim and frightening on Wednesday during a break in this Summit League Championship basketball game. IUPUI's mascot, Jawz the Jaguar, grapples with Oral Roberts' Eli the Eagle, and it would have been to the death, if not for these brave security guards. Following are a few more of my favorite mascot fights, including the Coast Carolina Chicken getting in a cheap shot on Duke the Dog of James Madison, and of course the famous Oregon Duck beatdown of the Washington State Cougar. ...

Eli the Eagle is grounded
Published 3/13/2008 by Reid Cherner at Sports Scope
Eli the Eagle is grounded According to the Tulsa World , the Oral Roberts University student portraying mascot Eli the Eagle who got involved in a fight during the ORU-IUPUI basketball game Tuesday afternoon, will not be allowed to continue his mascot role for the rest of the season. The scuffle of mascots started as a dance contest then a shoving match and then a wrestling match. Here is some video with Eli and Jawz the Jaguar. Posted by Reid Cherner at 05:25 PM/ET, March 13, 2008 in College Basketball | Permalink

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Published 3/13/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
• The NEW YORK TIMES relishes the sight of Michael Strahan driving the new Oscar Mayer Mini Wienermobile . • JOE SPORTS FAN makes some new friends, as they create MySpace pages for Erin Andrews and Tony La Russa . • SIGNAL TO NOISE notes that former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer wants to share his talent with the sports world . • 100% INJURY RATE finds a poor soul whose girlfriend won’t let him enjoy the on-court show . • After calling Brett Favre a woman, WTMJ in Milwaukee learns that Laura Ingraham said she’s sorry for the comments . • Speaking of #4, PACKERS NEWS hops on the casting ...

This is What Happens When You Get Two Drunk Students And Dress Them Like Animals
Published 3/13/2008 by Dave at Sports Blog - football, basketball, and baseball
See for yourself. I’m shocked it doesn’t happen more often, given, you know, that most people in those suits are hammered and experienced a good bit of drunken rage.

The Morning Shotgun/Throwdown (3/14/08)
Published 3/14/2008 by Charley West at West BY GOD Virginia
Welcome, By-Godders, to the Big East semifinals edition of the Morning Shotgun/Throwdown, presented by mead. Why Mead? Well, that’s what they drank way back in the day, back when the original Alexander the Great was conquering the world. It’s also what I’m drinking these days as the new Alexander the Great is conquering ...

Friday Video Blowout
Published 3/14/2008 by Simon at SimonOnSports
Everyone needs something to keep them occupied on Friday afternoons so the Friday Video Blowout was born. Spend your next few minutes, laughing, crying of laughter, pissing your self, whatever, but mostly wasting your companies time. ...