Josh Jones leads the team circle before a game in January. (Getty Images)PHILADELPHIA – For many, March Madness is an adrenaline rush, a thrill, a tension they crave all year long.

For Josh Jones, March Madness can be terrifying.

The Creighton playmaker had to quit the game of basketball in December because of a heart condition known as an atrial flutter. But even though he's not playing anymore, he lives in constant worry that his heart will start to beat too fast and he won't be able to do anything to stop it. That fear creeps up on him during every close game, and Friday's second-round, 67-63 win over Cincinnati was a very close game.

"My greatest fear," Jones said after the final horn, "is dying suddenly. And nobody being able to help."

On December 6, while warming up for a game at Nebraska, Jones got dizzy and found himself experiencing tunnel vision. He passed out at midcourt. Doctors said his heart was pounding at 200 beats per minute. Twelve days later, he underwent a procedure to correct it, yet he was told not to do any strenuous activity

PHILADELPHIA – The sky hook is suddenly back in style, and every team in Duke's path to Atlanta should be afraid.

Blue Devil center Mason Plumlee is tough enough to defend, with his muscular 6-10 frame and his quick feet, but on Friday in Duke's 73-61 second-round win over Albany, it looked like he mastered arguably the most indefensible shot in hoops history.

"Plumlee did the best Kareem Abdul Jabbar imitation I've seen in a long time," said Albany coach Will Brown. "He hit three sky hooks. I haven't even seen somebody attempt that shot in my 12 years at Albany, and he hit three of them."

Plumlee scored 23 points Friday, mostly on dunks and layups, yet it was his bit part as Captain Hook that turned the most heads here. Plumlee's version is a running hook, where he scoots across the lane, leaps and lets it go. It's certainly a tricky shot, yet when he has a handle on it, well …

Mason Plumlee scored 23 in Duke's win over Albany (AP)"His running hook, when he hits that, it's impossible to defend," said Albany center Blake

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are caught on Kiss Cam at a basketball game. (Getty Images)Kiss Cam usually gets some laughs at arenas and stadiums around the nation, as a camera locks in on a couple in the stands and encourages (shames?) them into lip-lock. But a long-time Jacksonville Jaguars fan noticed something on Kiss Cam that irked him. On Monday, he decided to do something about it.

If you've seen Kiss Cam, you know this trick: After a series of shots of men sitting next to women, Kiss Cam will sometimes frame a pair of players of the opposing team on the bench. Dave Uible, who is gay, saw this gag and didn't think it was funny.

"I think I saw it, maybe two years ago," Uible, 47, said by phone Tuesday. "Then I saw it this year. The thing is they have this section at Jags games for honorable kids. Some are definitely going to be gay. It gives a negative angle. I just don't think it's necessary. It just seems out of place to me."

Uible decided to write Jags owner Shad Khan about Kiss Cam on Monday after reading a story in the New York Times by Judy Battista

Chase Fieler's dorm room looks onto a beach at Florida Gulf Coast University. (Courtesy of Chase Fieler)This year, Cinderella could be wearing sandals to the Dance.

Every March, a host of directional schools nobody's ever heard of are thrust into the national consciousness, if only for a weekend, until they're bounced out of the NCAA tournament. The South region presents a perfect example: 15th-seed Florida Gulf Coast University. Easy win for Georgetown, right?

Brett Comer (0) works against Mercer's Langston Hall in the Atlantic Sun championship game. (AP)Well, maybe not. Stat wizard Nate Silver, who predicts just about everything correctly, gives FGCU a 10 percent chance of advancing to the Round of 32. That's tiny, of course, but it's the highest of any 15 seed, and not without reason. FGCU has already beaten a No. 2 seed – Miami – by 12 points this season.

FGCU has one of the most unique stories in the tournament. The university has only had students on campus since 1997, has been eligible for the tournament for only two years, lost 20 games in 2010-11, and has a head coach, Andy Enfield, who had only ever been an assistant before arriving on campus two seasons ago. And

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – One of Jeremy Foley's favorite stories about Billy Donovan dates back to when the Florida basketball coach was 29 years old. Foley, the long-time Florida athletic director, had just hired Donovan and took him and some friends of the program out to a huge Italian family-style meal in Huntington, West Virginia, where Donovan had been the coach at Marshall. They all stuffed themselves and then at the end, when the plates were scraped and the napkins were folded up, someone gave Donovan a challenge.

Could he go to McDonald's right now and eat two Big Macs?

Donovan said he could. Foley interjected and asked why on Earth he would want to go to McDonald's after such an enormous meal.

The new Gators coach answered right away: "I don't like it when someone tells me I can't do something."

It's a vintage Billy The Kid story. He's young, aggressive, scrappy – a regular New York-bred point guard wearing a tie and pounding the floor boards in front of the bench. Foley

TAMPA, Fla. – At 7:03 p.m., the man who is likely the last to wear a single digit for the New York Yankees turned to his teammates and yelled, "Come on! Let's go!"

Derek Jeter then charged up the dugout steps and led his team onto the field for the first time since breaking his left ankle in the playoffs last October.

In his first game back in the field, he kept talking pretty much throughout the four innings he played. He yelled to starting pitcher Andy Pettitte to cover first. He faked anger when Kevin Youkilis cut off a grounder and fired to first. ("I had that!" he would say later.) He barked something to reliever Cody Eppley after almost every pitch.

"Nice pitch," Jeter would say.

"Attaboy!"

Pettitte smiled after the game. "He was mouthing the whole time out there," he said.

Derek Jeter (2) talks to pitcher Andy Pettitte (46) during Jeter's first game back in the field. (AP)Jeter was anxious. It's tough to blame him, considering he's been unable to work out on his injured leg all winter. He ran in his usual straight-up stride, yet he looked just a little tight.

University of Utah president David Pershing has ordered an independent investigation on allegations of abuse during the tenure of suspended head swimming coach Greg Winslow.

In the wake of a Yahoo! Sports report detailing Winslow's alleged abuse, which ranges from forcing a student-athlete to swim with a long PVC pipe taped to his back to ordering another student-athlete to swim with a mesh bag over her head, Pershing has directed two lawyers – Michael Glazier of Kansas City and Alan Sullivan of Salt Lake City – to lead the investigation.

Greg Winslow"This past week, public reports of alleged misconduct by a former swim coach and of the University of Utah's response to those allegations, have called into question the university's processes and our commitment to our student-athletes," Pershing wrote in a statement. "Though I cannot comment on specific allegations, I can state unequivocally that any conduct by a staff member or student that jeopardizes the safety and well-being of any student,

For years, student-athletes and their parents approached the University of Utah athletic department with multiple allegations of abusive behavior by head swimming coach Greg Winslow, and yet the university never disciplined Winslow until it became aware he was the focus of a police investigation into the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old girl.

Greg Winslow began coaching at the University of Utah in 2007. (University of Utah)Accounts included swimmers blacking out in practice, needing emergency treatment poolside, one being transported to a hospital, buying an underage swimmer beer, an inappropriate relationship with a female swimmer, screaming at student-athletes, as well as kicking swimmers off the team without a detailed explanation.

In one incident, Karson Applin, an African-American, jokingly asked out of practice because it was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. According to Applin and other witnesses, Winslow responded by taping a long piece of PVC pipe along the length of Applin's back, then bound the pipe to his outstretched arms and ordered him back into the