Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day: March 24, 2015

This is your daily links roundup of our favorite sports and entertainment posts on the web for March 24: 

• The cheerleader matchups of the Sweet 16.

• Dirk Nowitzki's classic Tweet about Steve Nash provides an excuse to use the classic photo you see above.

• Crying Villanova piccolo girl's 15 minutes included appearing on Fallon and sitting in with the Roots. That's a productive 15 minutes.

• Ron Hunter made a graceful Twitter exit from this year's tournament.

• A couple of soccer teammates had a shoving match over who should take a penalty kick.

• This is an amazing story: Michael Graham went from feared and hated mid-'80s Hoya, to hoops washout, to troubled loser, to lottery-winning restauranteur. Only in America.

• Watch Jon Gruden break down the Battle Royal field.

• Greg Maddux once solicited advice from an ump during an at-bat.

• Old Dominion's NIT game provided this fat guy a perfect excuse to take off his shirt.

• Things are getting chippy in the John Chavis-LSU lawsuit.

• A Dolphins beat writer accidentally tweeted out a porn link.

• Watch Bubba Watson get a pie in the face from January Jones on Fallon. That's a random assortment of people.

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