The brackets have been announced and we now know who the top seeds will be. We aren’t going to dig into the whole NCAA Tournament right now, but we did want to make a couple of points: -The #1 seeds are Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse. Syracuse has a squad but got bounced early from [...]
New Mexico men’s basketball head coach Steve Alford tells BYU’s Jonathan Tavernari what he thinks of him after a game. Aren’t head coaches at schools supposed to lead by example and never engage in this type of behavior? Alford gets into a pissing match with him and calls him “an asshole.” C’mon, dude.
The third-ranked Purdue Boilermakers got some bad news today when they found out forward Robbie Hummel tore his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. PHOTO CAPTION: Big Ten basketball is awesome The injury occurred during the first half of Wednesday night’s game against the Minnesota Golden Showers Gophers. Purdue won the game 59-58 in [...]
Dommanic Ingerson, a former player at the University of Michigan, tried to escape police recently by jumping into Oakland’s Lake Merritt. That would have been a brilliant idea if the authorities weren’t waiting for him on the other side some 35 minutes later. When he jumped in he had black shorts on, but when he [...]
The Record reported last week that the New Jersey Nets’ number one target for a possible coach and/or general manager for next year was Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. PHOTO CAPTION: Coach K has a great coaching strategy, yelling at the refs to get his way On Saturday, Coach K addressed the rumors. “The guy’s Russian, [...]
The #2-ranked Orangmen of Syracuse have now seen their 11-game winning streak come to an end at the hands of the Louisville Sluggers Cardinals. Samardo Samuels threw in eight points during a late surge as Louisville took down Syracuse 66-60 on Sunday. ”We did a very good job of moving the basketball, taking smart shots, [...]
New Jersey Net’s president Rod Thorn is in the final year of his contract and is hoping to sign a new contract with owner-in-waiting Mikhail Prokhorov early next week to stay with the Nets. Thorn has been with the Nets since June 2, 2000 and was named NBA Executive of the Year in 2002 after [...]
BYU (13-1) rolled into the McKale Center on Monday night and absolutely smoked the Arizona Wildcats (6-6) 99-69 behind Jimmer Fredette’s 49 points, 7 rebounds, and 9 assists. Fredette’s 49 points broke the McKale Center record of 45, previously held by Providence’s Eric Murdock in 1990. PHOTO CAPTION: “Is that named after me?” Who is [...]
This is great. Doesn’t matter how old they are in Philly, the fans begin acting out douchebaggery at all ages.
Hall of Famer and part-time pot stirrer Jim Brown has unloaded on the NFL and the NCAA. “The NFL, with the players association, have been an embarrassment, because the legends of the game who have run into hard times, medically and economically, have been deserted,” Brown said. “It’s a crying shame that an organization like [...]
Michael Jordan, who can’t get enough of smoking his cigars, has a son named Marcus Jordan who is currently a freshmen at the University of Central Florida. Stop right there. Central Florida? Apparently, Marcus Jordan is not as good as his father was. Well, hardly anyone is, so let me rephrase that. Apparently, Marcus Jordan [...]
Kevin Laue will be the first one-handed Division I basketball player to take the court. The 6-foot-11 center from California is a freshman for the Manhattan College Jaspers. He was born without his left hand, but he has overcome insurmountable odds and has earned a scholarship to play D1 hoops. “It’s to my advantage,” said [...]
On Friday evening, Michael Jordan was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. He was arguably the best basketball player to ever play the game. The question of whether or not the NBA should retire the number 23 in honor of Michael Jordan has surfaced. If my math is correct, there are 10 players [...]
The 2009 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs Cancer revealed their 12-team schedule on Tuesday. On the first day of the regional round, head coach Isiah Thomas’ Florida International University will take on the Tar Heels of North Carolina. Or maybe not. Florida International is threatening to pull out of the tournament in November if [...]
Thanks to Chad for tipping us off on this one. The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions has ruled that the Memphis Tigers its 2007-2008 Final Four run and 38-2 record because a certain someone didn’t really take his SAT’s. And when we say “a certain someone” we mean Derrick Rose. Rose was not named by name [...]
So yeah, some broad is accused of trying to extort money out of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, who she claimed raped her at a restaurant back in 2003. The coach told police that she approached him at a restaurant back in August of that year and then they later had consensual sex. Two weeks [...]
In 2006, Gonzaga lost to UCLA in the final seconds of the NCAA tournament. Immediately following the game, Adam Morrison broke down in tears and collapsed on the court. A moment in time that will be remembered by every single sports fan on planet earth. Three years later on February 7th, 2009, Morrison was traded [...]
Davidson guard Stephen Curry (son of Dell Curry, who founded the huge computer company) was awfully impressive on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden, where he worked out for the New York Knicks. We think this might be a bit overrated. Did they have him playing against current Knicks players? Because if they did then of [...]
