American Eagle Outfitters Names Funniest College Student in America (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. today announced the winner of its search for the funniest college student in America. Hundreds of thousands of AE customers cast their votes on AE.com using March MadnessŪ-style brackets to select Billy Horrigan of the University of Rhode Island....more...Burgess expects interview (Roanoke Times) The former Radford star confirms his old school has contacted him about the vacant basketball job. Just as one former Radford University player and assistant coach revealed that he hopes to be a candidate for the school's vacant men's basketball head coaching job, another former Highlanders player and coach said he'd been invited to interview. ...more... No Cavalier Sentiment (Hartford Courant) Virginia's Leitao Knows The Pain Of Missing The Big Shot The scene is familiar. A missed shot at the buzzer. A coach who consoles his player, no doubt with words of how he has endured similar hardships. ...more... Runner, Off Glass (Hartford Courant) Washington Lifts Hokies; Jayhawks Roll Virginia Tech waited 11 years - and most of its first-round game against Illinois - to win another NCAA Tournament game. ...more... Highlights (Washington Post) More college hoops on Day 2 of the NCAA Tournament: Virginia vs. Albany (Channel 9, 12:15); Notre Dame vs. Winthrop (Channel 9, 2:35); Virginia Tech vs. Illinois (Channel 9, 7:10); and Kentucky vs. Villanova (Channel 9, 9:30). ...more... Tupper: Weber, Guenther get thrashing from media, fans (The Pantagraph) CHAMPAIGN - By the time Friday night wound its way into Saturday morning, you'd think there might be a merciful chance for closure to an Illini basketball season that put coaches, players and fans through a gauntlet of tests that shredded their emotions....more... Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba Is Research Goal (Newswise) Dennis Hong is designing his Whole Skin Locomotion (WSL) mechanism to work on much the same principle as the pseudopod -- or cytoplasmic "foot" -- of the amoeba. Preliminary experiments show that a robot using the WSL mechanism can easily squeeze between obstacles or under a collapsed ceiling. It can use all of its contact surfaces for traction....more... Television movies for the week of March 18 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Read this article ]...more... Salukis: `Mid-Major' Not Big Enough (Hartford Courant) Don't use the hyphen around Southern Illinois. ...more... |