One thing that really needs to die is automatic timeouts every four minutes PLUS coaches timeouts. In the NBA, the automatic TV timeout is nullified if there was a previous coaches timeout. In the college game, you can have a coaches timeout, the ball lost out of bounds 1 second later, and another TV timeout…

I'm not racist, but is anyone surprised these Indians are giving their support and then taking it back?

Thanks for the summary, Tad, and my condolences to UAB for the loss of their football program to the bullshit that streams out of Tuscaloosa.

You forgot Southeastern, Nichols, Northwestern, Grambling, and Southern. Granted they're all FCS but so is McNeese

"The night school doesn't need a team."

This snide, superiority-complex-laden comment renders everything else you wrote meaningless. UAB has almost 20,000 students and, with it's extensive research arm, arguably contribute far more to the state of Alabama than the school in T-Town.

And your Florida and Georgia…

Well, worse things have happened because of an incompetent son's daddy complex

Partly that, partly because the late Gene Bartow (the man most associated with UAB athletics) had troublesome relations with the parent campus, accusing then-UA basketball coach Wimp Sanderson of cheating, and also floating some rumors that Bear Bryant was maybe not the deity that the state thought he was.

Kind of like that thing in 2001 that Pete Carroll will never forget.

To anyone wondering how this affects academics: UAB is the state of Alabama's largest employer. UAH is a research university with a huge impact for its smaller size. Both these schools are run exclusively by the Board of Trustees of the parent school in Tuscaloosa. Out of 18 trustees, zero of those went to UAH. …

Ten minutes later, his Frosty was ready.

Pitino might actually want to watch the film and take some notes given that Savannah State was able to hold out for 15 minutes before scoring.

Stand up for Michael Brown...by stealing a forty. I hate this element. They don't give two shits about Michael Brown or any of the bigger issues here. Instead, they chose to vandalize minority owned businesses and to loot.

Nobody rioted when you made this comment.

Somewhere Bill Cosby sleeps well tonight knowing he has moved from page 1 to page 10.

Sports fans have rioted over winning. Rioting has nothing to do with good, bad, winning, or losing.

On an additional note, last night over a dozen buildings were set on fire, which means dozens of people lost their business, and I surmise many don't have the appropriate insurance to cover it. So, what do you tell these folks? That it is okay to burn the place to the ground and ruin more lives because of it? …

An overview of tonight's coverage:

But then the tree wouldn't be named Tom.

Born out of an explosion of joy? Aren't we all?

Honestly surprised about this mascot. With the games being in Brazil, I'd expect a hairless cat.