Butler U Mascot, Butler Blue II, Social Media Top Dog

Final Four-bound Butler's mascot, Butler Blue II, not only has his own Twitter handle (@ButlerBlue2), but he just unleashed the 2011 Butler Blue II Final Four mask. Both are spectacular.

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Yinzers Take Excuses, Belly-Aching to Facebook

Before Pitt's Gilbert Brown shot his free throws following a foul called with 1.4 seconds left in the game, Butler's Shelvin Mack made some chit chat with Brown. According to Mack academics, not basketball was on his mind: "I asked him where he was from, simple questions, talked to him a little bit, he responded back," Mack said. "There was no trash talk or anything like that. Yeah, I told him I was from Lexington [Ky.]. I had a 3.0 [GPA], just stuff like that."

After the game's end, Facebook chatter in Pittsburgh was quite different. Pitt fans seemingly forgot that their team had a shot clock violation, gave up a lay-up, and then missed a free throw for the win win. Indeed we now know that refs may call a foul with 1.4 seconds left, but not with 0.8 left.

Yinzers took to Facebook immediately after the game to complain about Pitt being robbed, much to the delight of many commenters.

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Preserving History: Bulldogs Feel the Blues

After each major sporting event, HHR takes a look at how it is portrayed in news print in some of the nation's leading dailies. Part out of curiosity, and part to preserve the dying medium.

Despite being a competitive championship game throughout its duration, Duke's victory was lost on most of the major dailies throughout the country as Opening Day and Tiger's presser dominated most front page sports headlines outside of Tobacco Road and Indiana.

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