Steve Pinone Jr.

Iowa falls to Illinois in Houston, and with that, now FORTY ONE years and counting, the 1985 Villanova Wildcats are STILL, the lowest seeded team to win a National Championship. The legacy of the greatest underdog story in college basketball history continues.

On this day 17 years ago: Scottie Reynolds sends Villanova to the Final Four.

Let's roll.

Cinematic moments 🎥

Most dominant half I've ever seen -- 191 yards and a long game-winning TD on fourth down with less than 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

The Goo Goo Dolls played this concert on July 4, 2004. There’s a strong case to be made that—down to the exact day—it represented the peak of American history. Post-9/11 unity still defined our social ethos. The country was finally overcoming the shock of the horrifying attack, but it was still thought about, discussed, memorialized daily. The war in Iraq, though divisive, still looked winnable (at least possibly, by some). George W. Bush and John Kerry were running in a contentious election, but their campaigns would end up looking positively gentlemanly compared to anything that would follow beginning with the Obama era four years later. The stock market had recovered from the dot-com collapse, and the housing market was still booming. The Global Financial Crisis that would bring ruination to countless retirees and permanently set back the earnings potential of millions of millennials remained years ahead. Nobody outside Wall Street had ever heard the term “subprime mortgage” or “collateralized debt obligation.” Facebook has recently launched, auguring the age of social media. But its usage was still confined to a few thousand early-adopting users at selective colleges; it would be months before it became a household name, years before its algorithms turbocharged cultural—and political—division, incentivized the mass production of digital slop, and fried the collective dopamine receptors of mankind. The first iPhone was just a sketch on a white board in Cupertino. Text messaging and mobile email barely existed; office workers could leave their cubicles and not think about work until the next morning. Music was purchased on CDs, movies were rented at Blockbuster, homework was turned in on paper. MTV still played music videos. Kids could be kids. Reasonable adults could have reasonable debates about reasonable political differences without crashing out or canceling relationships. Culture wasn’t defined by irony, discourse wasn’t consumed by political polarization. The world wasn’t yet digital; it was governed by people—our logic, our emotions, our human hearts—not by algorithms in distant data centers. It was all still authentically human. It was all still real. And the Goo Goo Dolls went up on stage in Buffalo, New York, on the Fourth of July, with nothing but raw spirit, and absolutely crushed Iris in the rain. We didn’t know it at the time—wouldn’t realize it until years later—but that was the zenith for us. The peak of America’s exceptionalism, the apogee of unbridled Americana. That was the top. I will always love this video.

Tom Coughlin. An absolute New York Giants legend, delivering in the clutch, one last time.

Go do it John. Let’s Go Big Blue

FCS has become the purest form of football. @mostlysports

A season we’ll never forget ✌️ Thanks @NovaFootball for a great season, and thanks Nova Nation, for being there every step of the way! 💙

Standard raising season for this great program. Until August!

This program deserves it. Please come out to Villanova Stadium this Saturday.

THIS. IS. VILLANOVA. FOOTBALL! CATS MOVING ON!!!!!!! SO PROUD OF THIS PROGRAM!

CATS! GUTSY W!!! Congrats to this group! Onto the next!

CATS! Let’s Go To Bethlehem!

25 Years Ago Today November 22, 2000 FASSEL'S GUARANTEE Days after a home loss to Detroit to fall to 7-4 and second place in the NFC East, #Giants head coach Jim Fassel "shoves his chips to the middle of the table" and guarantees a playoff berth. The team then wins seven in a row en route to Super Bowl XXXV

When the Giants defeated the Eagles in 2006 thanks to the first and only career walk-off Touchdown from Plaxico Burress and Eli Manning.

@JonRothstein Bar Coastal would have had the feed working Jon

We’ve got an ABOMINATION going on right now with the live stream for the Auburn/Oklahoma State Exhibition Game in Birmingham. Gates of Hell level brutality for the college basketball junkies.