We remember the Alamo, but forget to bribe Alamodome security.
• SbB is in San Antonio this weekend to take part in the fun & frivolity of the Final Four!

• Fresh off the Ernie Banks crisis, another sports statue has been punctured for punctuation problems.
• If a Browns cornerback can’t outrun the cops, how’s he […]

Sure, the NCAA will gladly grab money from any corporate entity willing to fork over the dough. Even ads for Hooters (starring college b-ball’s favorite son Dick Vitale) have made a good run during March Madness coverage.

But when it comes to the buxom restaurant chain & the NCAA, what’s good for the tube apparently isn’t […]

Just got back from some of the team *practice* sessions at the Alamodome. We watched Kansas and Memphis go through half-speed shootarounds. Thankfully, the cheerleaders and pep bands were there, which probably doubled the attendance in the building.

(Not the first time tripods erected behind the Memphis cheerleaders)
We were a little surprised by the lack of […]

A lawyer for Rich Rodriguez says his client’s legal battle with West Virginia University is similar to a slave trying to buy his freedom.

As Michigan’s new football coach fights the school over a $4 million buyout, the CHARLESTON DAILY MAIL picks up a quote from Marv Robon, one of Coach Rod’s attorneys, who equates the […]

Toronto Raptors coach Sam Mitchell says he wouldn’t be afraid to sing the Canadian national anthem - if the money was right.

The TORONTO SUN reports that Mitchell would be willing to belt out “O Canada” before a Raptors game, but he would want a performance fee of $25,000. However, he’s not being as greedy as […]

• BUGS & CRANKS learns that Bill James believes the Minnesota Twins’ World Series titles may have been helped by steroids.

• HOME RUN DERBY warns baseball fans not to get caught by the cameras in the all-you-can-eat section.
• Jay Posner of the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE catches up with Jeanne Zelasko, as the Fox Sports baseball […]

David Chalk of BUGS & CRANKS connects the dots like Donald Sutherland in JFK and realizes the Tampa Bay Rays will hand out the award for best rookie in spring training for the year on the day the Yankees come into town for the first time since their spring training battle.

(We will break you. […]

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS reports that Final Four teams lose six-figure sums of cash every year due to onerous fees and forced purchases while losing the chance at the best seats in the house, while the NCAA gives those to a ticket reselling Web site and splits the profits with the Web site. Thanks […]

MMA posterboy and former UCF light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell has cast himself in the role of “dismissive established star” in the real life movie of the ascent of Kimbo Slice. Apparently Liddell isn’t keen on sharing the limelight with the popular upstart, bemoaning in an interview with THE SUN that Slice “hasn’t done anything” […]

We’ve been tooling around San Antonio this morning, drinking up the town’s legendary sites, like The Alamo - cool!

(Why we’re here: The Alamo and officially licensed Memphis mouse pads)
When we turned on the radio this morning, here’s the first thing we heard a morning host on a local station say: “I think maybe it’s […]