Just a short time ago, 64 teams entered into the March Madness tournament filled with hopes of NCAA basketball glory. But after a lot of sweat, tears and bracket-killing upsets, we’re down to the lucky bastards of the Sweet 16. And we could think of no better way to celebrate this than, you guessed it, cheerleaders! (What else?) Regardless of whether you’re team made the cut, Cheerleaders of the Sweet 16 will get you back in the game.

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As of Friday afternoon, everyone is at 0-0 (almost, sorry Baylor, you got hammered). With the openning day kick-off less than 24 hours away, let us put Obama/McCain on hold and turn our attention to young men being given free educations in exchange for engaging in the controlled violence that we in the U.S. call NCAA College Football.

Check out College Football’s Week-One Top 25: Cheerleader Edition after the jump! (more…)

High School B-Ball Phenom Lance Stephenson’s Choice Down to Three Schools

Lance Stephenson, the only junior on USA TODAY’s All-USA Boys Basketball Team, has narrowed his college choices to three schools, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via Zag’s Blog.

A 6-foot 5-inch star from Brooklyn, N.Y., Lincoln will decide between USC, UCLA and Kansas.

Check out the entire 2007-08 USA TODAY’s All-USA boys team. [USA Today]

Student Loans Start to Bypass 2-Year Colleges

Some of the nation’s biggest banks have closed their doors to students at community colleges, for-profit universities and other less competitive institutions, even as they continue to extend federally backed loans to students at the nation’s top universities.

Citibank has been among the most aggressive in paring the list of colleges it serves. JPMorgan Chase, PNC and SunTrust say they have not dropped whole categories, but are cutting colleges as well. Some less-selective four-year colleges, like Eastern Oregon University and William Jessup University in Rocklin, Calif., say they have been summarily dropped by some lenders.

The practice suggests that if the credit crisis and the ensuing turmoil in the student loan business persist, some of the nation’s neediest students will be hurt the most. The difficulty borrowing may deter them from attending school or prompt them to take a semester off. When they get student loans, they will wind up with less attractive terms and may run a greater risk of default if they have to switch lenders in the middle of their college years. [New York Times]

College Baseball World Series 20 Team Preview

With two-time defending champion Oregon State sitting on the bench, the College World Series is wide open. No. 1 Miami and the other seven seeded teams own 11 of the past 20 titles, but the road to Omaha is always full of upsets and drama. As the tournament gets under way across the nation, UWIRE has the inside pitch from the reporters who have been covering the teams all season – who’s hot, who’s not, players to watch and more. [UWire's Inside Pitch]

Sure if the sexiness of a team’s cheerleaders guaranteed championships then the UCLA basketball team wouldn’t have been knocked off in the Final 4 and there’s a good chance they could defeat a bipartisan McCain-Obama ticket to take the White House this November – in other words… UCLA has the sexiest cheerleading squad in all of sports.

With that said Kansas and Memphis will square off tonight in the NCAA Basketball Championship Game so lets take a look at how their “spirit squads” match up.

Check out “Cheerleaders of the NCAA March Madness Championship Game” after the jump! (more…)

The search for the missing college student turned internet porn model appears to be over.

The body of a young woman matching the physical description of Emily Sander, aka Zoey Zane was uncovered late this afternoon amongst the tall grass alongside Highway 54 , about 50 miles outside of El Dorado, Kansas.

Sander was reportedly last seen last Friday, leaving an El Dorado bar with Israel Mireles, 24. Suspicion of foul play was confirmed when a large quantity of blood was found in Mireles’ hotel room. A nationwide manhunt for Mireles is still underway.

Rumors began to surface earlier this week suggesting the 18 year-old was living a double life as internet porn starlet ‘Zoey Zane’. The rumors were later confirmed as fact by her older brother Jacob. Authorities do not believe there is a connection between her ‘naked‘ past and her disappearance.