Every now and then we like to throw down a mention about sports cards and trading cards.
Pay attention to Upper Deck 2008-09 Basketball, if you’re a fan of that side of the hobby. Whole boxes are coming out dirt cheap. It’s a 200-card base set without many bells and whistles — great for a younger [...]

EA retools their college backetball line, but did they finish the job?

For the first time in NCAA Tournament history, all four number one seeds advanced to the final four. While most are commending the selection committee for their brilliant seeding this year, I view the glass as half empty. This is the only time since 1985 (first year with 64 teams) that the selection committee got [...]

South Region (Houston, TX)
Summary of the first two rounds:
The South region, similar to the East region, only had one game where the higher seed advanced past the lower seed (higher meaning higher number) when (5) Michigan State defeated (4) Pittsburgh 65-54 in the second round. The Spartans also won their first round game by 11 [...]

Check out Off The Record’s Day 1 recap right here.

Ok, everyone, it’s Tourney time. It’s time to fill out your brackets and get ready for two of the best days in sports (Thursday and Friday of the NCAA’s are always phenomenal). Click here to play in the Blast Magazine Tourney Pool. It’s free and Perry and I are going to come up with [...]

March is easily one of the best months of the year.
Few things in sports, if any, can measure up to what the NCAA Tournament brings us. The only things that are close are the conference tournaments the weekend before the Tournament begins. This year, we got to kick off the month of March by [...]

The state of Tennessee plays host to the NCAA’s regular season game of the year Saturday night for the 1-2 showdown at FedEx Forum, home of John Calipari’s Memphis Tigers (26-0).
The second ranked Tennessee Volunteers (24-2), coached by Bruce Pearl, are traveling across the state in attempt to repeat their 76-58 win over the Tigers [...]

The Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey Nets seemed to have finally reached an agreement which will send Jason Kidd to Dallas.
Malik Allen will join Kidd in Texas in exchange for Devin Harris, Jerry Stackhouse, DeSagana Diop, Maurice Ager and Devean George.
I firmly believe the Dallas Mavericks just became the team to beat in an [...]

Blast’s Posterboy Sports Blog has the R-rated trailer of Will Ferrell’s new sports comedy movie “Semi-Pro.”
The movie also stars Woody Harrelson and André Benjamin and comes out on leap day, February 29.
Check it out!

Play five on five online with 10 human players.
Electronic Arts released the free downloadable feature called Online Team Play for NBA Live 08 that lets 10 people on 10 consoles anywhere in the world play with and against each other. The new feature is automatically available on Playstation 3 when connected online, EA said Monday. [...]