Just a few weeks ago, Notre Dame had little to no chance in making the final 65.  With the loss of their big man, Luke Harangody, the Irish were coming off of a three game losing streak and it appeared that streak would continue to grow.  Somehow, someway, Notre Dame finished the regular season on a four game winning streak and made a deep run in the Big East tournament.  Rewarded with a six seed, the Fighting Irish will square off against the Monarchs of Old Dominion in the first round.
(6) Notre Dame Fighting Irish (23-11)  vs. (11) Old Dominion [...]

If you’re just tuning in, the Mississippi State Bulldogs are lobbying Congress to change the value of a minute to 59.9 seconds instead of 60.  If  it goes anything like the SEC championship game earlier today, MS State will once again, come up empty.
The poor Bulldogs were literally one-tenth of a second away from securing their second consecutive SEC tournament championship, when DeMarcus Cousins put back a John Wall miss that tied the game as time expired.  You could tell that after that shot, Mississippi State had less than a 0% chance of pulling the game out in OT as [...]

The orange, white and blue of the Netherlands may be fielding their strongest team to date for the 2010 World Cup and if the qualification stage was any indication, Holland should breeze through the group stage.  Paired with Denmark, Japan and Cameroon, the Dutch are favored to win the group and my personal dark-horse to advance to the semifinals of the competition.
Previous World Cup’s have not been very kind to the Netherlands and the tradition of world-class football is not nearly what it is for some of the other high-profile teams competing.  Much to my surprise (I’m only 25), Holland [...]

An odds on favorite to win the World Cup this year and every year, Brazil will field a relatively untested and inexperienced 2010 World Cup team.  Just because they are inexperienced, don’t think that they are any less capable of winning it all because if you sit down and talk with Brazil soccer fans, this squad has more talent and potential than soccer has ever seen.  The only thing holding them back might be Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri, better known to the world as Dunga, Brazil’s head coach.  Did you know that the translation of Dunga is “Dopey”, one of [...]

This guest post comes from Michael, a contributing editor of the Dough Roller, a personal finance and investing blog, and Credit Card Offers IQ, a credit card review site.
If you have been following the NBA season this year, you are well familiar with the futility of the NJ Nets.  Their current record of 1-19 has allowed them to set the NBA record for the worst start to a season and just last week they fired their arguably excellent coach in Lawrence Frank.  With the team spinning completely out of control, president Bruce Ratner has put together a plan of action to save [...]