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Cram Session: Basketball is here, but surprises are not
The Dagger — Today is ESPN's big college basketball kick-off marathon, and in between screaming shots of students and well-edited specials about the Barack Obama-Craig Robinson connection you've already grown tired of, there was actual basketball played last night. Nothing surprising happened. A quick compendium of the results: Stephen Curry, right from the start. Last year's Big Dance darling (and JoePo's Sportsman of the Year) is going to have an adjustment to make this year: Rather than sneaking along all season, waiting to ambush teams with his incredible, and still unknown, talent, people are ...

Fresno State frosh Paul George is dunktacular
The Dagger — Very early Tuesday morning (too early for any human to be awake, as far as I'm concerned) I was recapping Monday night's basketball action, and across my TV flashed a red-and-white specter of dunkness. I turned up the volume, found out it was Fresno State's Paul George, and that in the midst of the Bulldogs' loss to St. Mary's Monday he did something vicious and borderline despicable to a couple of young, innocent defenders: > Oof. Initially, I couldn't find the evidence of the dunk, but there it is, on the internets, right beside this dunk over two hapless, nameless players. Unfortunately that's the extent of ...

Paul George dunks on some white guy naturally trying to take a charge
Sports Crackle Pop — Fresno St Bulldogs’ Paul George has the early lead for dunk of the year after he hammered home a slam right on and over Mickey McConnell of St. Mary’s. Don’t feel bad Mickey as this isn’t the first time he posterized someone. And you guys did win the game! (Video of previous highlight reel dunk after the jump)