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sports

NCAA Charges Non-Refundable $9 Fee To Enter Ticket Lottery

Here's another reason to be glad you don't like college basketball—the NCAA charges a $9 fee for the privilege of maybe getting tickets to next year's basketball tournaments. More »

4:12 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Meg Marco
2,925 views, 19 comments

annoyances

Big Ten Network Continues To Annoy Consumers

So, apparently there is this sport where people try to throw a ball through a hoop that's suspended above a "court." It's quite popular, says the Chicago Tribune. Colleges have teams and there is even a brand new cable station that shows games from just one conference:
Stop us if you have heard this one before: Comcast and the BTN still don't have a deal. Nothing has changed since the football season, when many fans were upset at not being able to see the Wisconsin-Ohio State game, which aired on the BTN.
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1:35 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Meg Marco
2,677 views, 28 comments

Latest by stre: @Buran: the big ten is a sports conference of 11 colleges in the NCAA (i know, it doesn't make sense more »

customer service

Huffy Gets Basketball Right

We remember Huffy for their bikes. Those first, off-the-rack bikes given by a grandfather hefting one down from the K-mart rack. He puts it down and says, take this for a ride and see how it does you, sport. Eagerly we climbed on, not knowing of course at that tender age that we would later mock the very transportation device for its middling charm, simplicity and inability to traverse mud splattered boulders. More »

1:47 PM on Mon May 15 2006
By popkin
736 views, 5 comments

Latest by AcidReign: .....We were scared of Huffy bikes as kids, being Schwinn snobs! But the kids in the rented house who had more »

cbs

CBS Live-Stream of March Madness Only Leads to More Madness

Lars writes, More »