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• NBC Sports' Bob Costas comments on the Paterno family's lawsuit against the NCAA, the latest controversy at Rutgers, whether there are attendance issues in MLB, Pacers-Heat and more. Costas • ESPN CBB analyst Jay Bilas shares his thou...

While a prep athlete in Tulsa, Okla., Matt Reynolds strongly considered playing college basketball instead of baseball. A point guard, he received interest from Iowa State as a walk-on as well as from Butler, Furman and "a little bit" from Kansas. ...

Did you notice what happened to those who dared to criticize or voice their discomfort with Jason Collins' announcement? They're the ones who found themselves isolated, under attack and pressured to remain silent.

What happens over the next months and years will say more about American society and its boundaries of acceptance than it ever could about Jason Collins or Kirk Walker or Kevin McClatchy or Martina Navratilova.

Is pain a means to grace? To clarity? Is it an "instrument for perfecting" ourselves? Where's the line between the instructive and the destructive? What are sports meant to teach?

Leave it to Metta World Peace to top a severed goat's head for lunacy. Elsewhere, Spike Albrecht's tweet to Kate Upton surely is lost on Vin Scully in this week's "The Buzz That Was."

Colts QB Matt Hasselbeck shares his thoughts on Andrew Luck, joining Indianapolis, the evolution of offenses in the NFL, his future and more. Hasselbeck ESPN CBB analyst Jalen Rose comments on whether Michigan has underachieved in college basketbal...

Hard to believe, but it's true: 20 years have passed since Chris Webber made his most infamous play, calling for a timeout with none left in the 1993 national championship game between Michigan and North Carolina. So, to "celebrate" the 20th anniv...

Colin will be joined by ESPN NBA analyst Kurt Rambis (10:45 a.m. ET), ESPN CBB analyst Dick Vitale (11:15), former MLB 1B Eric Karros (12:15 p.m.) and Basketball Hall of Famer Jerry West (12:45) on Tuesday. As always, email the show (theherd@espnrad...

ESPN CBB analyst Seth Greenberg covers the Orange's zone defense, Kevin Ware's injury, Wichita State-Louisville, Michigan-Syracuse and more. Greenberg ESPN MLB analyst Curt Schilling shares his thoughts on the Yankees' injuries, his expectations fo...

Steelers S Troy Polamalu talks about Pittsburgh's locker room, missing the playoffs, his health, recent rule changes in the NFL and more. Polamalu ESPN CBB analyst Jay Bilas dishes on whether UCLA is still one of the top destinations in college bas...

Greeny, Golic and Jay Bilas welcome ESPN CBB analyst Bruce Pearl (8:00 a.m. ET), ESPN MLB analyst Orel Hershiser (8:30), Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim (9:00), Marquette coach Buzz Williams (9:15) and ESPN MLB analyst John Kruk (9:30) to the show on Frid...

In ESPN The Magazine's column "Katz Korner," Andy Katz goes one-on-one with Miami coach Jim Larranaga.

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- For many sports fans, all eyes will turn toward men's college basketball beginning Thursday when the annual tournament to determine a new champion gets underway. March Madness has become a national phenomenon, largely because o...

The most perfect thing in sports looks like a pair of identical ant trails. It looks like the War of the Stick Figures. For 23 days -- from mid-March to early April -- we are under its spell wholly, happily and willingly. When it comes to crowning a sporting champion, the NCAA tournament bracket has no rival.

Chad Millman solicits bad beats from his readers, discusses the NCAA tournament and offers the final college basketball Sweat Barometer.

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