The 2007 Spring and Summer, Part One: Players and Teams by Phil Kasiecki The spring and summer travel team period has come and gone. While there are still a handful of travel team tournaments in the next couple of months, none are live for college coaches and history tells us […]
Month: August 2007
Lehigh: Mountain Hawks Find Coach in Their Nest
Mountain Hawks Find Coach in Their Nest: Lehigh has promoted associate coach Brett Reed to succeed coach Billy Taylor, who left the Mountain Hawks to take the Ball State job. Reed has been with Lehigh for five years after working at High Point for two seasons. Taylor established a winning […]
St. Anthony’s Takes On Visitors
Visitors Find Out How Good the Friars Are by Ray Floriani JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The name “St. Anthony’s” is nationally synonymous with high school basketball excellence. Now that reputation is going across the pond. St. Anthony’s defeated Bolwek Eiffel Towers Den Bosch 108-64 at Golden Door Charter School. The […]
UNLV: Kruger Has Bypass Surgery to Clear Blockages
Kruger Has Bypass Surgery to Clear Blockages: UNLV coach Lon Kruger had open-heart surgery Aug. 3 to remove blockages from his heart. The four-hour procedure was successful, and the hospital released Kruger Aug. 6. Kruger, 54, has been the Rebels’ coach for three seasons and has a five-year deal through […]
Basketball Is Life – Is That a Good Thing?
Last Thursday evening, I arrived back in the office fresh from a good four-mile run on a hot and humid day to be greeted by shocking news. Not long after he went for a run of his own, Wake Forest head coach Skip Prosser passed away earlier in the day. […]
New Mexico State: Aggies Dismiss Nelson
Aggies Dismiss Nelson: New Mexico State senior forward Tyrone Nelson is off the team after he pleaded out of robbery and bribery charges. Nelson avoided trial by pleading no contest, which qualifies as an admission of guilt. The university’s rules call for the dismissal of any player who pleads or […]
Harvard: New Crimson Coach Hires Another Assistant
New Crimson Coach Hires Another Assistant: Harvard head coach Tommy Amaker has completed his coaching staff with the hire of Brian DeStefano as an assistant coach. DeStefano was most recently a graduate assistant and the head team manager at Duke, where he graduated in 2005 with a bachelor of arts […]
