What’s the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
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Teammates shouting at each other in the timeout huddle may be one thing — but towel fighting?
On Saturday, as Michigan State was on its way to a win over Memphis during the NCAA Round of 32, Spartan teammates Derrick Nix and Keith Appling got into a spat. Words were exchanged and towels were snapped. Cameras caught Nix, who slammed a towel at his seated teammate, then Appling attempted a response.
The confrontation seemed nasty but this was towel’s play compared to the lowlight moment between former Trail Blazers Rasheed Wallace and Arvydas Sabonis.
During a mid April 2001 game, Wallace grew heated — as he often did during his career — and tossed a towel in the face of Sabonis, who remained composed throughout the embarrassment. The Blazers suspended Wallace for a game and shockingly, that wasn’t even his first suspension that season for towel wielding. Months earlier, the NBA had delivered Wallace a two-game banishment for tossing a towel that grazed a referee.
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Any nuggets coming from the Harvard University Band, during their team’s brief but charming run through March Madness, will read like punch lines from the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
No. 14-seeded Harvard upset its way to a third-round matchup against No. 6 Arizona on Saturday. And though their guys missed 13 consecutive shots to begin the game, that did not stop the Harvard band from showing spirit — and, well, being nerdy.
According to Christian Caple, a reporter from The Spokesman-Review (Wash.), the crimson-clad musicians chanted while Arizona worked through offensive sets: “Repel them, repel them! Make them relinquish the ball!”
