Crowd Control by Adam Shandler Indulge me as I recite this anecdote. I posed on the sidelines like a track star, shoulder-to-shoulder with all the other co-eds, counting down the seconds to Hofstra’s America East Championship win over Delaware in 2001. When the timer read 0:00, I ran like a […]

Tourneys, Tourneys, Oh My Stars! by Adam Shandler Seems like the college hoops season starts earlier and earlier every year. Pretty soon, you’re going to have to bring your kids back just a little earlier from trick or treating just to see that first game. This Thursday, November 14, the […]

Putting the Major in Mid-Major by Adam Shandler Peel back the layers of all those “Games of the Week”, All-America Teams and “Most Likely to Be an NBA Lottery Pick” votes, and you have a whole mess of exciting mid-major players that you won’t hear of until March. Some of […]

All New York-Area Team by Adam Shandler New York is an all-rear-round basketball city, but it really comes alive during the college hoops season. The Big Apple hosts the Preseason NIT Semifinals and final game, as well as the Coaches versus Cancer Classic and the MSG Holiday Festival. But when […]

While You Were Sleeping Offseason Coaching Changes by Adam Shandler Hey, the college hoops off-season is a long one, and while you were preoccupied with baseball, the World Cup and co-ed beach volleyball, stuff happened. Here’s what how it went down on the coaching circuit — who’s in, who’s out, […]

Post-Graduate Basketball by Adam Shandler Perhaps you’ve flipped through the media guide or program of your favorite college team and noticed that one of its star players graduated from two high schools. Let it be known that these fellas weren’t looking for a master’s in auto shop or a PhD […]

Avoiding a ‘Roid (Out)rage by Adam Shandler A Cautionary Piece On How Performance-Enhancing Drugs Might Affect College Hoops I hope I don’t have to write a follow-up to this column. Consider this particular piece not an attempt at whistle-blowing or paranoia or rabble rousing. It’s merely a heads-up to all […]

Fantasy Hoops by Adam Shandler For Fantasy Sports participants, the end of summer is a crossroads. Baseball is winding down, so owners scramble to make that decisive 7-player trade for Pedro. Fantasy Football is in its gearing-up phase with sports web sites dishing out the spam like an Army mess […]

A League For All Reasons by Adam Shandler Welcome to a Night at the Nike ProCity Basketball League. It’s 6:18 on a Tuesday night in the Hunter College gym. Ten minutes from now there should be a tipoff, but a few of the players are either just coming in or […]

Old School Gear: For Those who Want To Be Like. . .Wes? by Adam Shandler Everything old is new again, at least on the sports apparel front. What, you don’t believe me? Did you happen to check out Kobe at the postgame conferences of every playoff game? The Lakers’ Number […]