The San Diego State Aztecs could sneak up on some people in the upcoming March Madness, but not on the Oklahoma Sooners though. They can definitely see them coming. “San Diego State is a tough team. Steve Fisher does a great job. We battled him a lot of years at UNLV,” Oklahoma Sooners Head Coach [...]
The VCU Rams once made a magical Final Four run that captivated the nation. As a Virginian? I loved it almost as much as the George Mason Final Four run. It was a ton of fun to watch They will not get past the third round of the tournament this year and it is for [...]
UK Athletics recently tweeted that their star center Nerlens Noel tore his ACL and will be shut down for the year. This puts Kentucky’s season in peril, because Noel is currently leading college basketball in blocks. In an ironic and painful twist, it was on a successful block attempt that Noel tore his ligament. Nerlens [...]
Loyola-Chicago basketball coach, Porter Moser is reporting that former Saint Louis and Utah head coach Rick Majerus has died. He was 64. This was then confirmed through Ben Weixlmann of Scout.com. Moser’s tweet was “@PorterMoser: RIP to my friend and mentor Coach Majerus. I learned so much about the game and life. We lost a [...]
Well, this definitely isn’t your grandfather’s Atlantic Coast Conference anymore. In the wake of Maryland leaving for the Big Ten, Louisville will be taking Maryland’s place in the conference. “When you look at Louisville, you see a university and an athletic program that has all the arrows pointed up — a tremendous uptick there, tremendous [...]
After the North Carolina Tar Heels lost 4 players in the first round of the 2012 NBA draft, then you could definitely say that someone else will have to pick up the slack this year. Roy Williams has some options for sure; he has Dexter Strickland coming back from an ACL tear and Strickland looked [...]
Jabari Parker made his top 10 list of schools earlier this summer and it did not include the University of Illinois. Parker’s list is BYU, DePaul, Duke, Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, North Carolina, and Stanford. The Illini’s coaching change definitely had a factor in Parker’s decision. “It’s the timing,” his father, Sonny Parker [...]
The greatest and worst days of Austin Hatch’s life happened less than two weeks apart. On June 24th, a plane piloted by his father crashed and killed his parents and one of his two dogs; Austin suffered a sever brain injury, a punctured lung and rib injuries. Less than 2 weeks before, Hatch had committed [...]
A week after Michael Haynes was shot, his potential killer is currently being held in suspicion for the crime. Cinque Lee was arrested Tuesday July 31st in connection to the death of Haynes. “He was an innocent victim, very loved by everybody,” Haynes’ cousin, Kandice Blouin told the Chicago Sun-Times. “He was our meal ticket. [...]
In sad news, gun violence has been rampant in Chicago all summer, and it just took the life of one of the city’s best young athletes, Michael Haynes, right before departing for his bright future in college basketball. As confirmed by the Chicago Sun-Times and New York Daily News both confirmed that Haynes was killed [...]
