The Morning After: March 24, 2011
After three excruciating days without tournament basketball — no, the women’s tournament does not count — we get back in the groove today with San Diego State-UConn (7:15), Florida-BYU (7:27) and a...
View ArticleSo I Went to a College Football Game on Saturday
A couple of months back, a good friend of mine bought tickets to the Minnesota/Wisconsin game in November at TCF Bank Stadium (aka The Bank). Now to get these tickets, he also had to buy tickets to one...
View ArticleBruce Pearl . . . Master Recruiter
Jordan Adams, of Oak Hill Academy, is one of the top 50 recruits in the nation. Although Adams was recruited by many, he eventually chose to play at UCLA. That’s not the interesting part of his...
View ArticleThe media sucks at predicting stuff, but you already knew that
The following is the 2011-2012 SEC men’s hoops preseason media poll (notice who’s picked to finish in 11th): Now, compare that with the actual final regular season standings (notice who finished in...
View ArticleSyracuse bettors got a lot of help from the refs
If you don’t think the referees in a basketball game know the betting information, you’re kidding yourself. Refs know everything going on in a game, and outside the court. They know the spread. They...
View ArticleThe battle for the Bluegrass State
John “Mushmouth” Gallagher is the foremost expert on rivarlies. He is a Yankees fan and obviously knows all about the media hyped rivalry with the Sox. But he is also a Kentucky Wildcat. The level of...
View ArticleHappy Hour – So Long VCU and ODU, Hello Battle of the Beltway
The CAA was rocked this week by the announcement that two of its three most promient members, VCU and Old Dominion are leaving the conference. VCU has elected to join the Atlantic-10 immediately, while...
View ArticleReport: Man allegedly provided Kansas basketball players with marijuana
The headline really says it all in this case. A prosecutor in The US District Court in Kansas has alleged that Samuel Villeareal, along with others, conspired to distribute more than 1,000 kilos of...
View ArticleFlorida recruit declares for NBA draft, before enrolling
Chris Walker fully intends to enter the NBA draft after one year with the Florida Gators, and he made that very apparent to the Panama City News-Herald. It has never really been a secret. Guys like...
View ArticleNO VIDEO: Why must we replay Kevin Ware’s injury?
[Ed Note: You will see a couple of posts on this same topic. The reason for this is that we have two writers that chose to write on the guesome Kevin Ware injury following the reaction from the...
View ArticleMetta World Peace offers wisdom to Marcus Smart
If there’s one person who knows what Marcus Smart is going through today, the day after Smart went into the crowd during an Oklahoma State basketball game and got into an altercation with an opposing...
View ArticleHate-watching the NCAA tournament
My beloved Georgetown Hoyas are in the NIT and my alma mater’s squad, CSUN Matadors, blew a late lead in the Big West Championship Game to give Cal Poly SLO a play-in date (and a tournament victory) so...
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