basketball

It's every fan's dream: you get picked to take one shot from the middle of the court, and if you make it, you win ... something pretty great. But in this glorious age of online video, you also win eternal glory.

You may have to Zapruder the video and look in the backround when the shot is replayed. If he steps over the line he doesn't get it. The insurance company has stepped in to make a final look at the shot.

For the first time in the Don Mulhern coaching era at UW-Superior, the Yellowjacket women’s basketball team in nationally ranked. Yep, #25.

Roll Tide! The BCS National title football game was played Monday night, and it was all Alabama as they won 42-14 over Notre Dame.

Just in case you were wondering, there is no such thing as a tie-game in the NBA playoffs.

Obviously both teams wish this never happened, but anyone who has played sports knows physical games like this seemed to be can turn ugly in a hurry.  It's tough to tell from this video who threw the first punch. Georgetown's tour through China turned ugly Thursday when a game between the Hoyas and the Bayi Rockets, a Chinese professional team, ended in a bench-clearing brawl. Mex Carey, Georgetow

Shaquille O'Neal TWEETED his retirement this week.  TWEETED!  Can you believe that?  He's a fantastic basketball athlete, with his career starting way back in 1992 with the Orlando Magic.  He has too many accolades to his name to mention and instead of a press conference, or official announcement....he tweeted it.  I guess it's a sign of the times. He's powerful on the court and famous for his dun

This reporter from Kansas is covering a story on a Coach who made an amazing half-court  shot, blind-folded.  Then, made one himself!  LOL!!!

Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler will meet Saturday in the most unlikely Final Four match up in NCAA Tournament history. Led by  Jamie Skeen’s 26 points, 11-seed VCU continued their impressive run of giant slaying with a surprisingly easy 71-61 victory over the one-seed Kansas Jayhawks...

Robert Kasmir, an accounting professor at George Washington University, was honored over the weekend before a GW men's basketball game for financial contributions he had made to the university's athletic department. After the ceremony he took a seat in the front row to watch the game, and ended up getting himself ejected in the second half for heckling the referee. As you can see for the video, Ka