The NCAA is like a Big Dick

It likes screwing players. In explanation, they denied (former) Cincinatti quarterback Ben Mauk a sixth-year of eligibility, which I firmly believe he should have gotten. Mauk enrolled at Wake Forest in 2003 and was redshirted, then played the next two years for Wake. In his first game of 2006 he had an injury that practically destroyed his throwing arm, forcing him to sit out the rest of the season while he healed. After the '06 season he took advantage of a now defunct NCAA rule that allowed ... read more

scored 38 to lead his team to victory over St. Mary’s, American’s Garrison Carr was trying his damnedest to do the same thing. He tied the game at 40 on back-to-back three pointers with 11 minutes and change remaining. He finished with a heroic 26 points, single-handedly keeping his team in the game, giving two hours of memories to a school and a fan base that had never tasted March hope before. While Tennessee – one of a handful of teams with realistic national title aspirations – began its...

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was DUs most valuable player this season. Mannino led the Pioneers with a 25-14-1 record, 2.27 GAA and .917 Sv%. Mannino started 40 of 41 games as DUs first No . 1 goaltender since Adam Berkhoel in 2003-04. Mannino allowed two goals or less in 22 of DUs 26 wins this season, including six shutouts. Mannino finished tied for first nationally in shutouts, sixth in minutes (2,301:49), ninth in winning percentage (.638), 20th in goals against average and 24th in saves percentage. He was second in the...

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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish had a fantastic year. Sure, the football team went 3-9 and the men’s basketball team was embarrassed in the second round of March Madness. But the unexpected success of the hockey team makes it all worthwhile, right? Notre Dame’s hockey history isn’t the stuff of movies – the Irish didn’t even bother to ice a team between 1928 and 1968. But under the watchful eye of coach Jeff Jackson, the Irish reached their first-ever Frozen Four last month. Then on Apr. 10...