Diehard Sport should be back in the beginning of May with a new site, writers, content and features. Expect the unexpected….

According to the report, Annette McCullough, a senior at Lewisville High School in Richburg, S.C., was charged with third-degree assault and battery for attacking an opposing player from Chester High School during a match on Monday.

From the video it appears that McCullough was barely pushed over.  Obviously, McCullough’s actions were not warranted and the assault charges she faces seem reasonable.  The name of the victim was not reported, but thankfully she only suffered minor injuries from this frightening incident.

On Saturday night at Scotiabank Place, a Toronto Maple Leafs fan named Alicia stood on the ice during the second intermission wearing a blindfold. When it was removed, she looked up at the video scoreboard and read a message from her girlfriend, an Ottawa Senators fan named Christina.

Schmaltzy music played. Out walked Christina. They embraced and had a brief conversation, as the crowd began to wise up to what was about to happen.

Christina dropped to one knee while holding Alicia’s hand. The fans roared. She slid the engagement ring on, they shared a kiss and the Senators mascot proudly raised a sign that read , “SHE SAID YES.” Just another night at the rink, eh?

 

Conklin wasn’t the first NCAA Tournament participant to get tearful following a loss. Kansas State’s head coach, Frank Martin, broke down over his best player, Jamar Samuels, being held out of his final game of his college career for taking $200 from his former AAU coach.

Obviously, this is a passionate time for these coaches and players. The stakes are high and the emotions even higher. There still are more games to be played, and therefore, more teams will fall out of the tournament and certainly more tears will be shed.

#2 Seeds: Kansas, Ohio State, Duke, Missouri

#3 Seeds: Baylor, Florida State, Marquette, Georgetown

#4 Seeds: Michigan, Indiana, Louisville, Wisconsin

#5 Seed: Wichita State, Vanderbilt, New Mexico, Temple

#6: Murray State, San Diego State, UNLV, Cincinnati

#7: Notre Dame, Gonzaga, Florida, Saint Mary’s

#8 Seeds: Memphis, Creighton, Kansas State, Iowa State

#9 Seeds: Connecticut, Southern Mississippi, Alabama, Saint Louis

#10 Seeds: Virginia, Purdue, West Virginia, Xavier

#11 Seeds: Colorado, Texas, North Carolina State, Colorado State.

#12 Seeds: Long Beach State, California/South Florida, VCU, Harvard

#13 Seeds: Montana, New Mexico State, Davidson, Ohio

#14 Seeds: South Dakota State, Saint Bonaventure, Belmont, BYU/Iona

#15 Seeds: Lehigh, Loyola, Norfolk State, Detroit

#16 Seeds: Mississippi Valley State/ Western Kentucky, Long Island, UNC Asheville, Lamar/Vermont

As if the Colorado’s student section (C-Unit) needed another reason to celebrate the team’s Pac-12 Conference Tournament title after beating Arizona on Saturday night, the student section stormed the local In-N-Out Burger on athletic director Mike Bohn’s tab.

According to this article by Yahoo! Sports, not only did Bohn fly 50 C-Unit students out to the Staples Center for the Pac-12 Tournament games, he spent $600 for the kids to chow down on burger and fries.

Colorado was seeded sixth in the Pac-12 tournament, finishing the regular season 11-7 in the conference and 23-11 overall. The Buffaloes earned an 11 seed and will face UNLV in the NCAA Tournament.

Make sure to fill out your bracket with some upsets; it’s more memorable when you can say you picked VCU in the Final Four or Syracuse being upset by Vermont. It’s more fun to have upsets rather than all four #1 seeds making it. (Sorry, this isn’t happening; NC is falling to Michigan (or at least that’s my dream)). I’m also picking the 15 seed, Detroit, over 2 Kansas.  There will be a 12 seed beating a 5 seed somewhere, though I’m not sure if this year’s Vanderbilt team is different from the previous teams that were ousted in the first round.

Every year there’s a team that has a reaction that warms you up. This year it’s NC State, who I might add barely snuck into the Tourney and no thanks to Kendall Marshall’s push off in the ACC tournament.

According to the article, the 29-year-old Zoricic died as a result of “severe neurotrauma,” the federation said in a statement.

Zoricic is the 2nd Canadian skier who has died the last few months, after Sarah Burke was killed in an event in Utah back in January. Our thoughts go out to the Canadian Ski team and the family of Zoricic.

As if you needed another reasons to love Jeremy Lin, there is now a strain of pot that will take you into the LINosphere.

Rapper Rick Ross came across the Lin Sanity OG as he was doing some shopping. He snapped a picture of the bud.

This may be the beginning of all the strange things that will be attached to Lin’s name. I’m looking forward to his new designer cologne, cavLIN kLINe por homme.

HT: Last Angry Fan