Mid-American Conference Notebook by Adam Trumble The Mid-American Conference’s West Division can simply be described as the Wild Wild West. Bowling Green was the leader heading into last week, however the Falcons (5-3) are now one game behind Central Michigan and Northern Illinois (5-2). In the East Division, Kent State […]
Month: January 2003
Atlantic Sun Notebook
Atlantic Sun Conference Notebook by Kristy Shonka Surprising Knights on Hot Streak The University of Central Florida men’s basketball team was picked to finish second-to-last in the Atlantic Sun Conference’s South division this season, but someone forgot to mention that to the Golden Knights. Kirk Speraw’s team currently sits atop […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Tuesday, January 28, 2003 by Adam Shandler Okay, here’s one of those SAT type word problems for ya. A bunch of Longhorns are stampeding into Lawrence, Kansas, with a ranking of No. 4 in the nation. A flock of Jayhawks, ranked sixth but mostly defeathered after […]
Touring the Northeast
Touring Around New England by Phil Kasiecki Slow Starts Leave Eagles on Edge – Season’s Edge, That Is The problems Boston College has are numerous this season: no proven shooter besides Troy Bell, a lack of depth and especially with Uka Agbai out for the season, and perhaps most notably, […]
Tommy Amaker
Good Things Happen to Good People by Kevin Reilly Don’t look now, but the Michigan Wolverines have risen from the early season ashes by winning 13 consecutive ballgames. Tommy Amaker’s beleaguered crew lost it’s first six starts and seemed destined for college basketball’s scrap heap. In one of the game’s […]
Conference USA Notebook
Conference USA Notebook by Zach Van Hart Joining the party Entering last week, three C-USA teams remained winless in conference play. Well, the party has now officially begun, as these last three squads all cracked the win column during the course of the week. While all three wins could be […]
Mountain West Notebook
Mountain West Notebook by Bob Thurman The Rivalry Heats Up This past week, fans of the Mountain West got a chance to watch a great game between the league’s biggest rivals. Utah and BYU have split the 32 previous contests, so this game would give one team the slightest edge, […]
Ivy League Notebook
Ivy League Notebook by Jason Haslam Yale Grieves For Fallen Athletes At approximately 5 a.m. on January 17, four Yale students were killed and five seriously injured while driving back to their campus from New York in their SUV, when they slammed into a flatbed trailer that had veered into […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Monday, January 27th, 2003 by Andrew Flynn The lead story from yesterday – save for that football game in San Diego, was continued streaking. No, I’m not talking about the Nike Soccer commercial with the streaker, I’m referring instead to the Cowboys and Wolverines. No. 15 […]
Morning Dish
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 26th, 2003 by Phil Kasiecki There are several cliches that could be applied to Saturday’s prime matchup in Lawrence between No. 1 Arizona and No. 6 Kansas, but instead, we’ll cut to the chase. After a turnover-filled first half where they also allowed Kansas […]
