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Poll: How Much of ESPN's 24 hour Tip-Off Marathon Will You Watch?

November 17th, 2008

ESPN's 24 Hour Marathon Starts Tonight

November 17th, 2008

The Story: ESPN is featuring its first annual College Hoops Tip-Off Marathon starting at 11:59 pm tonight (Nov. 17). The marathon will start with UMass at No. 12 Memphis and it concludes with tomorrow night's game of Kentucky at No. 1 North Carolina. The new initiative attempts to highlight the beginning of 2008-09 men's college basketball season.  During this marathon ESPN programs will include a game from five different U.S. time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, and Hawaiian.

Memphis-UMASS To Kick Off ESPN Hoops Marathon

September 24th, 2008
Memphis

The UMass at Memphis basketball game will be the first in a bonanza of 14 games on the ESPN Networks as part of the College Basketball Tip-Off Marathon on Nov. 18. The game at the FedEx Forum pits new UMass coach Derek Kellogg against his mentor and friend John Calipari, the former Minuteman bench boss. The game will begin after ESPN's Monday Night Football (Buffalo Bills at Cleveland Browns) and starts 23 hours of coverage.

Poll: Who is the Best Team in the BracketBuster Pool?

September 8th, 2008

Poll: What is the Best Game on ESPN's College GameDay Schedule?

September 2nd, 2008
Florida

ESPN College Basketball "GameDay" Schedule Announced

August 28th, 2008
California

AUSTIN, Texas -- On Wednesday, ESPN announced the eight sites for ESPN's weekly "College GameDay Driven by State Farm" men's college basketball series and the "Saturday Primetime" game-of-the-week telecast.

Kellogg Replaces Packer as CBS/Final Four Announcer

July 14th, 2008

NEW YORK(AP) -- Billy Packer is out after 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS, making way for Clark Kellogg.

Kellogg has done game and studio analysis for CBS for 16 years. He will partner with Jim Nantz on his first Final Four in April. Packer did 34 consecutive Final Fours.

Unsubstantiated Speculation: NBA Draft Links & Rumors

May 27th, 2008
MarquetteNothing about the NBA Draft makes any sense. GMs intentionally lie about who they want to confuse the rest of the league, agents pull players out of workouts to manipulate their value and the Milwaukee Bucks continue to pretend they are trying to win. Mock drafts are always way off, the rumored trades never go down and the ones that do are always out of left field. There is no rhyme. There is no reason. And that is exactly why it is so great. Sports fans love to speculate, and the NBA Draft is 90 percent speculatastic. So in