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Enter for a Chance to Win Tickets to the First LSU Game of the Season & 2014 SEC Basketball Tickets With BC Powder

Justin Massoud — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:22:05 +0000

We’re rocking March Madness in Shreveport-Bossier City, so BC Powder is bringing its fast pain relief to the fastest conference in sport: the SEC. To make it even better, they are teaming up with The Rock Station 99X to offer some amazing prizes. Simply guess which LSU Basketball player will score the most points in the SEC [...]

Watch a Free Throw Fail

Steve King — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:55:00 +0000

Appalachian State University has a lot of be proud of. Good school with a Top 25 ranking (#22) with Mid-Major school basketball program. However, center, Brian Okam is probably not feeling so hot, as he put the school on the national radar for the wrong reason.

It's Basketball vs. Frisbee in an Epic Trick Shot Showdown [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:21:14 +0000

The extremely accurate foursome of Dude Perfect are pioneers of the trick shot video genre, and hold what is believed to be the world record for longest basketball shot.

In their latest effort, they challenge frisbee wizard Brodie Smith to a trick shot showdown.

Steve Nash Makes Amazing Trick Shot for Chinese Commercial [VIDEO]

alex staub — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:41:21 +0000

Trick shot videos are popping up all over the internet these days and Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash makes a pretty unbelievable one that combines both his basketball and soccer skills (he was a footie star as a youth, FYI) in this ad for Chinese athletic apparel company Lu You. This definitely isn’t a guy you’d want to play in H-O-R-S-E.

Now the question is, did he make it in one take?

Awkward: Basketball Star John Wall Botches First Pitch at Nationals Game [VIDEO]

Andy Scott — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:29:50 +0000

As millions learned Friday, there’s a reason John Wall plays basketball and not baseball.

The Washington Wizards point guard had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at Friday’s game between the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles.

Unfortunately, his skills on the field weren’t nearly as good as they are on the court, resulting in one of the more awkward first-pitch moments in recent memory.

Congrats to Eddie Gallier and Chris Stansell

Kayla Keys — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:18:21 +0000

99X and Hebert's Town and Country want to congratulate our winners of Make 4 for the Final Four! Eddie Gallier and Chris Stansell each won tickets and hotel for the NCAA Final Four Championship Game Monday, April 4, 2011 at Reliant Stadium in Houston Texas.

Robot Seal Is a Basketball Sharp Shooter [VIDEO]

Kayla Keys — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:18 +0000

I'm sure with our Make 4 for the Final 4 contest coming up, you wish you had theses skills. Taiwan isn't exactly a basketball power, but that could all change if the rules of the game are amended to allow giant robot seals onto the court.

For some reason, Taiwanese engineers have constructed a robotic seal that can throw a basketball through a hoop with 99 percent accuracy from ten feet out.

The video is below the jump (and begins where the robot seal starts hitting two-pointers).

Caltech Ended a 26-Year, 310-Game Losing Streak! [VIDEO]

Kayla Keys — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:00:14 +0000

Caltech . . . in Pasadena, California . . . is more like a brain factory than a school. With less than 1,000 undergraduate students a year, 31 Nobel Prize winners it has been the breeding ground for some of the best science and engineering minds in the history of America.

It also proves the point that super smart and super coordinated don't go together. In fact, Caltech doesn't give out athletic scholarships, so anyone who plays on their basketball team has to get into the school the hard way . . . by being a super genius/gigantic nerd.