Jay Sanin
UAlbany women's basketball enjoyed unprecedented success this season, including an perfect season in America East play and an NCAA Tournament berth. It nearly culminated in a historic upset, but the 14th seeded Great Danes fell to 3 seed North Carolina in today's NCAA Tournament first round game.
LeBron James has been playing some of the best basketball the world has ever seen recently, helping his Miami Heat reach 24 straight wins with a dramatic comeback victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night. He has also unveiled a new celebratory dance move over the last few nights.
President Barack Obama is back on ESPN for another four years of his Barack-etology segment, in which he fills out his NCAA Tournament bracket with Andy Katz. This marks the first time that President Obama has been in office for a UAlbany Great Danes NCAA Tournament appearance, making this the perfect time for him to pick our local team to pull off the ultimate upset.
WWE play-by-play announcer, and I use that term loosely, Jim Ross has become the center of an awesome phenomenon recently. People have been using his voice to dub over some of the best plays in sports. First, it was DeAndre Jordan's dunk over Brandon Knight. Now it's LeBron James' dunk over Jason Terry.
LeBron James had quite a night for the Miami Heat, changing the momentum of their game against the Boston Celtics with a thunderous alley oop dunk, then hitting the game winning shot to push the Heat's winning streak to 23 games.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat are currently locked up in a tight game with the Boston Celtics, with their 22 game winning streak on the line. Boston was up big earlier, but Miami closed the gap with plays like this ridiculous alley oop from Norris Cole to LeBron James in the second quarter.
Coming into Selection Sunday, the Albany Great Danes were unsure as to where they were going to be playing and as what seed. Now they know, as the selection committee has chosen them as a 15 seed and the opponent of the 2 seed Duke Blue Devils in Philadelphia in the midwest region.
By now you know that the UAlbany Great Danes are going dancing. You also know that they had to beat Vermont to get there. And from those two things, you can probably infer that Great Danes fans went nuts once they got the job done, as evidenced by this fan shot video of the celebration.
Wes Welker signed with the Denver Broncos yesterday in a shocking move that left many New England Patriots fans wondering "who in the world is Tom Brady going to throw the ball to besides his tight ends?"
In an attempt to answer that question, the Patriots signed former Rams receiver Danny Amendola to a five year, $31 million deal that includes $10 million in guaranteed money.
Yesterday, I broke down the America East men's championship game between the UAlbany Great Danes and Vermont Catamounts. Now it's time to take a look at the women's title game between the Great Danes and Hartford Hawks.