In college basketball, when the home team wins a big game, possibly even an upset, the student section storms the court in celebration. It’s one of those unique college basketball traditions that bring the fans and players together in a moment of spontaneous jubilation. The students love it. The TV cameras love it. The winning players love it. It seems like everyone loves storming the court — except me. I don’t want to be a scrooge, but it’s time to put an end to one of the most sacred myths in college basketball.

A few weeks back we told about the Benefits of Working In A College Town, Morgantown, W.Va, home of West Virginia University to be specific. Morgantown has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the U.S. — just 3.9% — and the university itself has about 260 job openings, from nurses to professors to programmers.

Are billionaires born or made? What are the common attributes among the uber-wealthy? Are there any true secrets of the self-made? Forbes Magazine gets these questions a lot, and decided it was time to go beyond the broad answers of smarts, ambition and luck by sorting through their database of wealthy individuals in search of bona fide trends…

NFL teams will need to lower their expectations overall this year as they evaluate the realities of supply and demand related to the 2009 draft class. Thanks to an infusion of talented underclassmen — who are among five of the top 10 and 15 of the top 32 overall prospects…

A little brother can be a pain in the neck, but thanks to his, Tim Ahmed is now taking his first steps toward style stardom. Ahmed, an 18-year-old freshman at Baruch College, won an online contest his kid brother told him about. The contest called for designs for this year’s Rookies vs. Sophomores Game, all part of NBA All-Star weekend in Phoenix next month.

Boston Has Banned Tobacco Sales At All Area Colleges
The Boston Public Health Commission has just banned the sale of all tobacco products at colleges. Not high schools. Colleges. Anti-smoking activists are ecstatic. “Boston has taken another step that puts it in the forefront in the United States in protecting people against secondhand smoke,… Click to read more

According To Vegas Odds USC Would Win Hypothetical Playoff
Leave it to Las Vegas to sate all our needs. Even those we didn’t know we had before. (I’m looking at you midget escort service.) Everyone knows that the idea of a playoff is so awfully complicated that it would require a Manhattan Project-level commitment before anything could happen.… Click to read more

16 Year-old Gets Degree From UT in 2 Years
A teenager graduates from the University of Texas this weekend at 16, an age when most students have yet to receive their high school diplomas. Andrew Brisbin of Denton, Texas, entered North Central Texas College at 14 and transferred to the university a year later, the Austin American-Statesman reported. He comple… Click to read more

Who Is The Big Brand On Campus?
Among college kids’ favorite brands: Facebook, Nike, iPod — and Time magazine. Those were among the findings of this year’s Anderson Analytics fall survey, which since 2005 has posed a series of open-ended questions to college kids about their favorite brands and activities. This year more than 1,000 stu… Click to read more

Stephen Curry Scores 0 Points, Davidson Still Wins By 30
By the third possession, Davidson’s Stephen Curry had figured it out. Loyola (Md.) was double-teaming him. Everywhere, on each possession, no matter what the scenario.
So Curry decided to test the triangle-and-2 defense taken to the ultimate extreme. He went into the corner and two defenders… Click to read more

Playboy Seeks Student Sportswriter To Cover The 2009 Final Four
The first line of Playboy’s advertisement immediately caught my eye: Do you think you have what it takes to be the next Rick Reilly? Oh, do go on! America’s favorite ensconced-in-plastic magazine wants your help again, and they ain’t looking for commenters this time.
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The Biggest Pranks in Geek History
Harvard and Yale’s annual gridiron face-off on Nov. 22 is a big deal for more than one set of storied college rivals. In the decades-old prank-off between archrivals MIT and Caltech, disrupting “the Game” has long been a particular point of pride. It’s not their only pranking outlet, of course: t… Click to read more

College Students Started One of the California Wildfires
A group of college students who lit a ridge-top bonfire is being blamed for accidentally sparking one of three ferocious wildfires that collectively destroyed about 1,000 homes and blacked more than 65 square miles. An anonymous tipster told police 10 students gathered a week ago near an abandoned… Click to read more

College Mascot Power Rankings
Sports Illustrated On Campus put together a list of the country’s best mascots. Georgia’s Uga VII made it, did your school make SI’s list of best college mascots? Click to find out…[SI On Campus]

Nick Saban Has Emotions, Dammit!
Nick Saban is tired of people thinking he doesn’t have emotions. He does… Click to read more

Obama Outlines His College Football Playoff Plan
For the second time in two weeks President elect Barack Obama has said he wants to see a college football playoff system enacted.
“I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this,” Obama said. “So I’m going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it’s the right thing to do.… Click to read more