The Drake men's basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament without its live mascot, Griff II, a six-year-old English ...

Griff stole the hearts of basketball fans everywhere earlier this month when he was heavily featured on TV coverage of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in St. Louis.

Sorry, Drake fans ... but the NCAA isn't budging on its stance against live mascots at the Big Dance -- the org. tells TMZ ...

Dogs don't really understand the concept of "rivalry." So when two mascots from opposing college basketball teams — a Bulldog ...

China has long had a rich cultural tradition, but the country has been out of the art picture for a century or more. Times are changing, and now that Wal-Mart has turned the place into an economic ...