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The Boston Celtic faithful were none too pleased when the team traded for forward Jeff Green earlier this season. This wasn't so much of a reflection on Green; he's a perfectly adequate NBA role player. Instead, Celtic nation was bummed that the price for acquiring Green included popular center Kendrick Perkins.

Kobe Bryant wasn't happy when referee Bennie Adams hit him with a technical in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the San Antonio Tuesday night. In fact, after Kobe had taken a seat on the bench, TNT's camera caught him directing a gay slur at Adams.

HOUSTON -- The only thing that could stop Kemba Walker and Connecticut's amazing run was the final buzzer.On a night when the massive arena felt like a dusty old gym, UConn made Butler look like the underdog it really was, winning the national championship Monday night with an old-fashioned, grinding 53-41 beatdown of the Bulldogs.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s storybook run from play-in game to Final Four ended Saturday night, as Butler will be crashing the NCAA’s title game for the second year in a row. Shelvin Mack paced the Bulldogs with 24 points on five for six three-point shooting, and Butler downed VCU 70-62 in a hard fought battle that was closer than its final score...

It's been a pretty wild ride to this year's NCAA Basketball Final Four in Houston. Lots of drama, lots of upsets, and the most unlikely group of teams to ever survive all the way to college basketball's last weekend. Here are some photos, from the 2011 edition of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, which will help you relive all the excitement...

Virginia Commonwealth University and Butler will meet Saturday in the most unlikely Final Four match up in NCAA Tournament history. Led by  Jamie Skeen’s 26 points, 11-seed VCU continued their impressive run of giant slaying with a surprisingly easy 71-61 victory over the one-seed Kansas Jayhawks...

Brackets blew up all over the country as an unlikely foursome came out on top -- Butler, Connecticut, Kentucky and Virginia Commonwealth, the Cinderella team of this year's NCAA college basketball tournament.

The first week of the NCAA Basketball Tournament has been put to rest.  Here are the highlights:

The Big East snagged a record 11 spots for the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, including a one seed in the Southeast region for Pittsburgh, who had been the Big East's  regular season champions. Rounding out the top seeds were the defending NCAA champions Duke Blue Devils in the West, Ohio State in the East, and Kansas in the  Southwest...

The Yakima Valley Yaks (23-7) took care of business Tuesday as they defeated the red hot Walla Walla Warriors (22-7) in front of large and loud crowd filled will fans from both local area schools.